A few examples include Joe Konrath, Vincent Zandri and John Locke.

John Locke has written about his experience as an Amazon best-selling author, and you can get your own copy by following the link to the left.

Konrath earned $100,000 in just three weeks on Kindle sales.

Zandri sold 75,000 copies of his books in 5 weeks.

And Locke sold 1 Million ebooks in 5 months time, becoming one of only eight people to hold the coveted title of selling one million copies in the Kindle marketplace alone and the first to do so as a self-published author.

Get his book, so that you can learn from one of the best in this industry how to market books online.

People are always asking if I have a mailing list where I share my marketing knowledge with others, and the answer is “YES, several of them.“

Most of my mailing lists are only accessible by those folks who have bought something from me, but this mailing list is accessible to anyone who has an email address and a heartbeat.

When you subscribe, I will give you in the first email the download page for my “63 Free Productivity and Marketing Tools” Report AND a link to my “Marketing Sizzle” Report.

Once you subscribe, I will send you daily marketing tips, articles and links to a products that I think may be helpful to you in your business.

Submit your email address below, then verify your subscription to the KarmaMktgTips (Karma Marketing Tips) list, so that we can get started on our journey together right away.

I look forward to seeing you on the other side.

Bill Platt

Each year in November, they air Punkin Chunkin, which is a sporting event held every November in Bridgeville, Delaware.

The goal of “pumpkin chunking” is to build a machine that will launch a pumpkin further than the competition.

There are several categories of Punkin Chunkin machines, which includes: Air Cannon, Centrifugal, Trebuchet, Human Power, and Torsion.

The current pumpkin chunking world records are listed here.

If you have never seen the Punkin Chunkin competition on the Science Channel, be sure to tune into it on Thanksgiving Day. It is becoming a Thanksgiving Day tradition around my house. It is even more important than Thanksgiving Day Football games.

Marketing News: 100,000 people attend each year at $10 per person… Just in ticket sales, they are pulling $1 million per year… Chunk On!!!

The Lady In Blue Is Hotter
Than The Punkin Chunkin

The point of this post is not pumpkin chunking, but rather the new Punkin Chunkin commercial. It flat rocks!!

LOL “Chunk It, Chunk It Real Good!!” And best of all, it is all redneck-style…

The lady in blue doing the line dance is smoking hot!! I melt every time I see her!! LOL

Most of the guys in the commercial are punkin chunkers… I bet she’s one too, or at least she is with one of the teams… Just guessing…

People keep asking, “Who sings that song in the Punkin Chunkin Commercial?”

For those who are interested, this Punkin Chunkin 2011 Commercial is based on the song, “Push It” by Salt-and-Peppa:

If this trip down memory lane inspires you to buy this album click here…

If you would prefer to grab a quick download of the MP3 file for the song, “Push It” by Salt and Peppa, then click here…

The game rules…

Sell the audience on obscure products – in 250 words or less.

I’ll post up an image every now and then and you come up with the engaging and unique sales copy to sell this to market in 250 words or less.

Be as engaging or witty or clever with words as you like…

The first picture posted in the thread was this one:

By the time I got into the game, the picture had changed twice and the current working picture was this one:

This sounded fun, so I made my first entry to the game…

I even opened my entry with these very important words:

Don’t Get Mad…. This Is A Copy Writing Game For FUN!!!

To no avail… Some people are just humorless bastards… My entry was deleted from the forum when someone reported it… LOL

Lucky for you, I am going to share it here:

Are You Feeling The Pain Yet?

Obama Has Only Been President for 3 Years…
And He Is Getting Ready To Ask For Your Vote AGAIN!!!

Ask yourself this…

Are you better off financially today than you were 3 years ago?

Our candidate is a turkey, and he was touted as Ben Franklin’s idea of “the bird that Americans should have chosen” as our national bird…

If you don’t have a job and your unemployment insurance about to run out, and you are sitting in your soon-to-be-repossessed home trying to figure out how you will keep your family warm this coming winter, our candidate has a plan that is better than Obama’s plan…

We don’t really need to show you “our plan” for you to know that OUR PLAN IS BETTER!!!

If you pick our guy, you can choose America’s two favorite birds (our turkey and your middle finger) to send your message to those that occupy Washington D.C. today…

You only need to see Obama’s plan, and you will know which turkey to vote for in 2012…

Here is Obama’s plan for keeping your family warm this winter…
 

 

Keep the Beans Nearby

 

OR

Say NO to Obama!!!

Vote For Our Turkey
in November of 2012!!

 
Aren’t you glad I saved this for you? LOL

Until Next Time,

Bill Platt

p.s. Beginning in August 2011, I am offering Live Article Marketing Training and Article Writing Training at my new site: ArticleMarketingExpertTraining.com

Click Here to Learn More.

Beginning on June 29th, 2011, Sam England and I will be hosting our monthly Marketing Mentor Workshops inside GoToWebinar, where we invite you to ask the questions important to the future development of your business.

We have set aside two hours for each Live Q&A session. We will record and archive each session in this Workshop series. If you cannot attend a session or if you would like to listen to the sessions again, you will have the recordings available to you.

Between Sam England and myself, we have more than two decades operating successful businesses — online and offline.

During the Marketing Mentor Workshop Series, we will be answering questions related to:

• Product creation;
• Affiliate marketing;
• Social media marketing;
• SEO;
• Article marketing;
• Link building;
• Branding;
• Email marketing;
• List building;
• Website maintenance and design;
• E-commerce;
• Video marketing;
• Webinars;
• Networking;
• Outsourcing;
• Customer service;
• And much, much more…

We will also discuss the importance of having “the right mental mindset” for success.

The Marketing Mentor Workshops series has been designed to give you the opportunity to ask the questions you need to ask — to find the answers you need to grow your business.

The format is a Live Q&A, with a no-pitch structure.

This Workshop series will be held on the last Wednesday of every month (tentatively), beginning on June 29th, 2011 and ending on January 25th, 2012.

In addition to the 7 months of Live Q&A Workshops and the 7 session recordings for $7, we are also including our 11-page report titled, “The Newbies Guide to the Galaxy“, which details “7 Key Elements of Operating a Successful Business“.

Sam England and I may be two of the ugliest men on the planet, but we do have the experience and knowledge to help you go where you want to go with your business.

Sign up for the monthly Marketing Mentor Workshops here for ONLY $7.

I will look forward to seeing you on the other side…

Until Next Time,

Bill Platt

Because I am close friends with so many people who did make the journey, I have been getting the opportunity to see many of the pictures taken at the event.

It seems our friend Caliban Darklock had been telling everyone that he would not go to the Warrior Event, because he needed to launch his new product before going…

He must have had a change of heart. It looks like he decided to go to the event without telling anyone…

As I was looking through someone’s picture collection, I stumbled upon this image:

I was a bit surprised, after Caliban had been so adamant saying that he would not make the trip…

p.s. I saw the picture of Caliban taking a dip in the pool with Tim Castleman, but I won’t post that here… In the picture, it certainly does look like Caliban Darklock and Tim Castleman, but it was dark… I will just leave that one to your imagination… LOL

There is more good news today…

The Warrior Event 2011 was such a huge success that Sam England and Brian McLeod have already set the wheels in motion for the Warrior Event 2012. Sign up for the mailing list, so that you can keep up with the future announcements of the event.

p.s. Russ Rufino was at the Warrior Event 2011, and he has posted some very useful notes about the event:
http://www.russruffino.com/warrior-event-2011-day-one
http://www.russruffino.com/warrior-event-2011-day-two

Fortunately, it did lift up, but they sounded the tornado sirens in Stillwater.

I took my three boys to the storm cellar to ride out the storm. We stayed in the cellar a block from our house for about 45 minutes.

When we were in the cellar, we were getting reports from the radio of debris falling from the sky on the south side of Stillwater.

I had thought that the storm would pass on the west side of town, based on the tornado’s original track. But the original tornado had lifted about 20 miles away and dropped a new F1 tornado just south of town.

I was curious how close we had come, so I followed the news reports to find the tornado’s path across town.

Here is what I came up with:

Just one mile away…

Phew…. That was close…

If you don’t have one, you must spend the other.

When you have no money, you must spend time.

When you have money, you have the option of spending money to buy other peoples’ time to gain more time and/or money for yourself.

People make this IM thing too hard.

You must figure out how to offer other people “value” that they are willing to pay for. And you must figure out how to move the money into your accounts, and how to deliver the real value to your customers.

The hardest part about the opportunity is figuring out what kind of “value” you are capable of giving to others. And then how much to charge for those things you are giving to others.

You have time to figure out the answers to these questions. And if you do figure out the answers, the Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity to any person willing to exchange value for money.

Down the road, as you gain more experience, you may just find that you don’t always have to exchange time to make more money, but you always have to offer “real value“.

Bill Platt

p.s. If you are looking for an opportunity to build a real business that can provide you a lifetime of rewards, consider the Offline Marketing & Consulting Goldmine, presented by Sam England and myself.

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This training is actually really in-depth covering 11.5 hours of video, a 63-page PDF document providing a 12-Month Step-by-Step Local SEO Plan, 4 additional documents (including 2 questionnaires to use with local business owners, a marketing contract template, and guide for how to build a SEO-Friendly blog), and lifetime access to our private Offline Consulting Goldmine members area.

The program is currently available at our website for its retail price of $197. But for the next couple of weeks, you can save over 90% of its cost by purchasing it during the short time it will be available as a WSO here.

This program will cover all of the nuts-and-bolts of building a real offline business that has the very real potential of generating a six-figure per year business.

Explore this topic further and get your copy of this program. You will not regret doing so.

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One such story is this one: “Police Device Used To Steal Your Cell Phone Data During Traffic Stop“.

This qualifies as a “shocking story” that has garnered a lot of attention from the public-at-large.

This small story was posted less than two days ago, and it already has 5,427 FaceBook Likes and 2,156 comments on the thread.

Interestingly, we are not seeing a bunch of spam comments on this thread, but rather people are lining up to comment on this 136-word story. If one had tried to post the same story to EzineArticles.com (EZA), the article would have never passed the editorial standards at EzineArticles, yet its limited word count does not detract from the story being told.

The one factor that has driven this story further than most stories on the web is that it addressed an interesting topic about technology, but it also veiled the conversation in an emotion as strong as “fear”.

Are the cops really abusing our rights when they utilize this technology to download the content of our telephones? I doubt it.

I doubt it because I seriously doubt that the cops are using the technology to snoop on “everyone”. Rather, they are most likely using it in conjunction with arrests on drug complaints and other felony arrests, etc.

So the headline pulls us in with a suggestion of wrong-doing by police officers and an implied threat that our personal, private information is not safe from the prying eyes of law enforcement.

The story also mentions the ACLU, which always implies that our civil rights are under threat.

The only police agency mentioned in the story is the Michigan State Police, yet by reading the title of this story, it would seem that our local police agencies are probably using this tool also.

Once you dig into the story, it does not offer much information, beyond what the technology is capable of retrieving from our cell phones.

So in all honesty, it is mostly a footnote in the news.

I am more impressed in the story, due to the success the author had in getting eyeballs and inbound links for his blog post, and less about the story told.

I think if we take the time to break apart some of these viral stories, we will learn better how to duplicate its successes in our own businesses.

Consider how powerful your blog could be if you followed the lessons learned from this post, rather than having filled your blog with auto-content.

You are in the drivers’ seat. We can develop our own viral marketing skills, if only we take the time to study those who are more successful than we are at finding a large audience.

When I see something with this much viral power, I take the time to study it to see how I can employ the basic concepts in my own marketing. I hope you will too.

Bill Platt