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If you are an author your goal is to spend quality time on social media to build your reach and engage with potential fans. The one thing commonly felt by most authors is that they lack the time to do quality engagement. Time is the one most valued commodity that you MUST invest when building your voice and image. It is your responsibility as an author to ensure that your authentic voice and image is represented accurately and consistently. Not some of the time, but EVERY time. In the case where you are unsure of where to start there are plenty of branding, social media, and marketing firms like Eyeology INC that are more than capable to assist you in the creation of that unique voice and specified image. This is however the first step to marketing and must not be taken lightly. Again, your first impression must be your BEST impression because your fans will forever define your Brand by it. #bookstrategy #business#marketing#coaching#lifecoaching#businesscoaching#brandcoaching#lifestrategy#businessstrategy#brandstrategy#socialmediaidentitycreation#socialmediastrategy
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Are you an author, writer, blogger, book promoter, book marketer, book coach, or publisher? Drop in weekly on the Motown Writers Network site where Eyeology INC will post snippets, tips, videos, quotes, and Q/A’s to bring value to whatever it is that you do.
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At Eyeology INC, we believe that Innovation Necessitates Creativity and our main goal is to help you reach the world NOW!
Are you an author, writer, blogger, book promoter, book marketer, book coach, or publisher? Drop in weekly on the Motown Writers Network site where Eyeology INC will post snippets, tips, and Q/A’s to bring value to whatever it is that you do.
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A.) First things first, we want to commend you on all of your efforts! It’s not as easy to create brand recognition as you’re probably making it look but you’re doing a great job! Being human, many of us want a return on our investment immediately but it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes it takes quite some time to build brand awareness. The keys however, are consistency and patience. While you’re working those keys here are a few things for you to think about while building your social media presence. Create a story for your brand. Your brand’s story gets potential clients and customers involved and invested in your company because they know “the history” and “the why” your brand exists. Also, be sure to send clear and concise messages about your brand; as it takes time to build your brand’s credibility. Your mission is to be sure that every aspect of your brand coincides. The goal is to build a relationship of trust between you and your potential clients/customers. Hope this helps! #branddevelopment#brandreconstruction#brandstrategy#brandawareness#brandrecognition#socialmediastrategy#socialmediacreation#coaching#brandcoaching#businessgoals#businesscoaching#businessstrategy#eyeologyinc
At Eyeology INC, we believe that Innovation Necessitates Creativity and our main goal is to help you reach the world NOW!
By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
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By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
#Michlit talks w/Poet, One Single Rose about writing, publishing & marketing poetry, upcoming events and MORE! Listen!
Rosemarie Wilson a.k.a. One Single Rose is an award winning poet, writer, playwright, singer, actress, and a staunch advocate of integrity and fidelity. Her insistence that every day presents an opportunity to live, learn and love positively allows her to motivate others when living throws curves at our existence. Since March 2009, the official release of her first self-published collection of poetry “One Single Rose . . . Poetry Blossomed from a Rose Core,” she has been dubbed an inspirational poet. Her second collection of poetry entitled “One Single Rose…Out of Darkness Into Light,” and her first erotic chapbook “Pearl’s Plays” were released for her birthday in March 2012. One section of Out of Darkness Into Light collection focuses solely on poems requested by her readers.
By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
By 2020, the independent book industry is due to make billions.
In a few years, mobile technology is due to make billions for small businesses.
Did you know at least 70% of new customers find products and services through their mobile devices?
Yet to understand how to make this money, businesses & authors need to learn the technology.
In one to two hours, Social Media, Publishing & Internet Marketing Empowerment Coach, Sylvia Hubbard can give your participants a deeper understanding, power and passion to bring their business, products and services to the emerging Web 3.0.
Get Your Questions Answered:
How will technology affect my business?
How can I set up online without breaking the bank?
How can the e-book technology profit me when I’m not an author?
What is Social Media and how can I use it to generate more customers to buy my product, service or book?
Other Workshops Available
Time Management & Social Media
After the Book Marketing in the 21st Century
How to Make Time Being a Good Mother & Running a Business
Come with us as we spotlight yet another great Michigan author, Do Haeng (Michael Kitchen).
Michael Kitchen is a writer who practices law, or a lawyer who writes. Whichever way you look at it, Kitchen has been writing for numerous years with a list of varied credits from a comic book story to church newsletter articles to hockey articles.
Kitchen is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, and obtained a Business Administration degree at Eastern Michigan University. He co-authored “Down Through the Years: The Memoirs of Detroit City Council President Emeritus Erma Henderson” (Authorhouse, 2004). His short fiction has appeared in “Written in the Mitten 2013” (Heron Bay Books) and Legends, Summer 2013 (Grey Wolfe Publishing). He won the 2009 Michigan Bar Journal Short Story Contest.
If not in court, Kitchen enjoys writing, reading, wandering and/or shopping in a book store, bowling, or watching soccer.
Where are you from?
I grew up in Plymouth, MI. I currently reside in Chesterfield Township, MI.
Tell us your latest news?
My daughter and son-in-law began foster parenting three kids in August making me a foster grandfather.
When and why did you begin writing?
Back in college, I worked at the Greyhound Bus Station. The manager was a comic book fan and could draw, and he encouraged me to write. I was more the math/science type, but in my first English Comp class at EMU the professor told me the essays I wrote were of the quality he read in newspapers and magazines. The bus station manager and a friend of his started a comic book fanzine and I became a contributor to it.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
Thirty years out of college, I’m still wrestling with calling myself a writer. I grew up in a practical family background. Reading was not encouraged by my parents (it wasn’t discouraged, it just wasn’t part of their lives), so the thought of going to school for a degree in literature or writing would have been frowned upon, whereas an accounting degree was more in-step with parental expectations. Also, because it is not a full-time profession for me, I stumble in acknowledging myself with that title. Even though I had one short story published in a commercial magazine in 1993, even though I won the 2009 Michigan Bar Journal Short Story contest, even though I’ve co-authored a self-published book and had my first novel published with a hybrid publisher, I don’t think I’ll actually consider myself a writer until I see that traditionally published novel sitting on the shelves in bookstores across America. That will be the day that I’ll say that “I made it!”
What inspired you to write your first book?
I saw the movie “The Razor’s Edge” starring Bill Murray in 1984 when it was released. I was in the early stages of exploring my writing skills and fell in love with the story. I later read Somerset Maugham’s novel that the movie was based on, and saw the 1946 movie starring Tyrone Power. My desire was to be able to write that kind of story. Fast forward to 2007 and that’s when I decided to write something inspired by the novel/movie, making it more contemporary.
Do you have a specific writing style?
I try to keep it simple. I don’t like reading a paragraph that describes a blade of grass blowing in the wind, so I do my best not to write that way. Nor do I want my reader to have to have a dictionary sitting next to them. However, I hope that whatever I write has an underlying purpose or theme.
How did you come up with the title?
I didn’t have a working title until I got to the point where one of the characters revealed it to me while writing the first draft. That’s when it all came together.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
The underlying theme is that life is a question to be lived every day. Question everything.
How much of the book is realistic?
All of it. Current events in American history gave my characters the elements necessary to propel them. In “The Razor’s Edge,” World War I, the Roaring 20’s and The Depression affect the characters significantly. I use The Battle of Seattle, the New Millennium, and 9/11 to influence my characters.
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
Not exactly. Are there characteristics of people and events within it? Definitely.
What books have most influenced your life most?
“The Razor’s Edge” by Somerset Maugham; “No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America” by Ralph Nader inspired me to go to law school. “Writing Down the Bones” by Natalie Goldberg and two of Lawrence Block’s books on writing; “Telling Lies for Fun & Profit” and “Spider, Spin Me a Web: Lawrence Block on Writing Fiction”. “Taking the Path of Zen” by Robert Aitken and “Stumbling Toward Enlightenment” by Geri Larkin regarding Zen Buddhism.
If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Unfortunately, I have not had the fortune to have a mentor. Cima Starr was my editor in the correspondence course I took in the 1980’s who started me off. I learned a lot from Lawrence Block’s writings about writing.
What book are you reading now?
I just finished reading Book One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle.” I’m also reading Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” and Charles Baxter’s “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.”
Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest?
Angela Flournoy and Ottessa Moshfegh are two that immediately come to mind. I’ve read their short fiction published in current issues of The Paris Review and have both of their first novels on my to-read list.
What are your current projects?
I’m working on my next novel which is going through its second revision as I battle test it with my writer’s group. Got a few short stories circulating, too.
Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members.
Early on it was definitely Detroit Working Writers. They had some awesome conferences back in the 1990’s when I was developing my writing skills and learning about the profession.
Do you see writing as a career?
I would like it to be. But for now it shares time with my law practice.
If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book?
No. As writers we grow and change over time. That novel is written from my experience and knowledge during those six years. If I had to write it over again, I’m a different person and the novel would likely be written differently than how it currently is.
Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?
Probably from playing Dungeons & Dragons in high school. I had always read comic books, but the creation of characters and settings and conflicts that came from playing D&D with my friends sparked the interest. I was also inspired by television characters who were writers – Ron Harris (Ron Glass) of Barney Miller and Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) of The Night Stalker.
Can you share a little of your current work with us?
It’s a literary novel about two young men who fall in love for the first time. They meet their first loves while in jail. Thematically its about the mental jails – both good and bad – that we create for ourselves.
Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing?
Everything. Through grade school I was not strong at all in English and Literature classes. I always had an active imagination and could piece together a good story. It’s the execution of putting it down in a proper way and to avoid charges from the Grammar Police that is a challenge for me.
Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?
Lawrence Block. I took a correspondence course back in the 1980’s after graduating college. This was the old days, where assignments and critiques were done through the US Mail. I believe I used a typewriter, too. Anyway, the editor that had been assigned to me said that based on my writing style I should read Lawrence Block. I’ve been reading him ever since. He tells a story straight without the flowery description and uses language that doesn’t require a dictionary to be near at hand.
Do you have to travel much concerning your book(s)?
No. Would I love to? Sure!
Who designed the covers?
I did. It was from a photo I took at the FDR Memorial in Washington DC.
What was the hardest part of writing your book?
The time it took to write it. And the point of view. The first version was first person from Darryl’s POV. Then I tried third person, but that didn’t work. I went back to Maugham’s novel and found it was written first person from Maugham’s POV. That’s when I created Mac, Darryl’s cousin, to tell the story. He was perfect for the job.
Did you learn anything from writing your book and what was it?
There comes a point where you have to say it’s finished. I feel like I could keep revising it, but then it would never make it to book form. I had to accept that there isn’t a book out there that’s perfect, and each reader is going to have their own impression and experience of it. It taught me to approach writing like a practice, like Zen practice and law practice. There will be good moments and bad, but no sustaining and constant perfection.
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Know what your vision is for your writing. If you have dreams of being published traditionally, know that it is extremely difficult, and that you not only have to write but read a lot and learn a lot about the business. And develop a thick skin because you’re going to need to battle test your work with other writers, some of whom, if they are honest, will pull no punches in order for you to develop the piece your working on to be the best that it can be. If you’re going to self-publish, you better be prepared to put as much effort in promoting and marketing the book as you did writing it.
Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?
Many many bows of gratitude to those who have taken the time to read my work. There is so much out there to read (I know, I have shelves of books that I may never get to in this lifetime), to watch, and to do that I am truly honored. My hope is that what I’ve written was worth your time.
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I’ll be doing an ebook workshop for lunch and then social media consults throughout the rest of the day.
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If you are an author your goal is to spend quality time on social media to build your reach and engage with potential fans. The one thing commonly felt by most authors is that they lack the time to do quality engagement. Time is the one most valued commodity that you MUST invest when building your voice and image. It is your responsibility as an author to ensure that your authentic voice and image is represented accurately and consistently. Not some of the time, but EVERY time. In the case where you are unsure of where to start there are plenty of branding, social media, and marketing firms like Eyeology INC that are more than capable to assist you in the creation of that unique voice and specified image. This is however the first step to marketing and must not be taken lightly. Again, your first impression must be your BEST impression because your fans will forever define your Brand by it.
Come with us as we spotlight yet another great Michigan author, Do Haeng (Michael Kitchen).
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