Crazes come and crazes go.

Flip Flops are still around.

Croc shoes barely.

Could Kharawon Wooden Slippers be next?

Spotted them here ….

Hilary Niederer’s Stitchwallah blog.

http://stitchwallah.com/2009/11/27/khrawon-wooden-slippers/

Hilary Niederer having worked on set for films below now has a blog to show her exploits and finds in searching the world for fabrics for films.

Visit Hilary’s blog at http://stitchwallah.com/

Here are some of the films Hilary has worked on …

1. Kingdom Come (2010) (in production) (costume buyer: India)
2. Fair Game (2010) (completed) (assistant costume designer: international unit)
3. Star Trek (2009) (key costumer)
   … aka Star Trek (IMAX DMR version) (Hong Kong: English title: IMAX version)
   … aka Star Trek: The Future Begins (Malaysia: English title)
   … aka Star Trek: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
4. Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) (costume supervisor)
   … aka Last Blood (Japan: English title)
   … aka Rasuto buraddo (Japan)
5. The Vintner’s Luck (2009) (costume supervisor: New Zealand)
6. Luck by Chance (2009) (costume supervisor)
7. Fool’s Gold (2008/I) (costume buyer)
8. The Kite Runner (2007) (key costumer: China)
9. The Ten (2007) (set costumer: Los Angeles)
10. The Namesake (2006) (assistant costume designer)
11. You, Me and Dupree (2006) (costumer)
12. Nacho Libre (2006) (set costumer: re-shoots)
13. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) (crowd costume coordinator: Train Station scenes) (uncredited)
    … aka The Chronicles of Narnia (International: English title: short title)
14. River Queen (2005) (costume researcher) (as Hilary Neiderer)
15. Kidnapped (2005) (TV) (assistant costume designer)
16. Kinsey (2004) (assistant costume designer)
17. The Last Samurai (2003) (crowd costume coordinator: Westerners)
    … aka The Last Samurai: Bushidou (USA: poster title)
18. Swimfan (2002) (wardrobe supervisor) (as Hillary Niederer)
    … aka Swimf@n (USA: alternative title)
    … aka Tell Me You Love Me
19. Just a Kiss (2002) (wardrobe supervisor)
20. Kate & Leopold (2001) (wardrobe assistant)
21. Dead Dog (2000) (wardrobe supervisor)
    … aka The Dog Killer (International: English title: DVD title)
22. Desperate Remedies (1993) (wardrobe assistant) (as Hilary Neiderer)
23. Braindead (1992) (wardrobe assistant)
    … aka Dead Alive (USA)
    … aka Dead-Alive (USA: DVD box title)

In marketing information products your customers often want to assimilate it in different ways.

Some people like to watch and listen to the info.

Others want to just listen.

They are the ones todays posting is about.

Some people would much rather get more information by listening to it when they are on their morning jog or their morning drive.

Now lots of people have folmed their seminars and sold the discs.

You can also lift off the audio products and make them in to another product.

Gold Coast Disc Copy are doing this for their DVD Duplication clients.

You just send them the DVD’s and you get back the Mp3′s.

At this stage there are a number of choices as to how the information can be delivered.

From a CD with the MP3′s on them you and/or your customer can:

- Play the MP3 CD in their “Mp3″ equipped CD player in their car.

- Import the Mp3 tracks to iTunes so they can listen on their iPod

- Drag and drop the tracks to their Mp3 player

- Use the Mp3 tracks to buils a Podcast series

- Sell the CD’s as a new form of content.

Find out more about how to do it here …   Audios from Mp3′s

I always try to highlight people’s view on making moneu blogging.
From earlier posts you will know that I’ve managed to do that but us always interesting to learn of ways others are making money from blogging.

Spero News | How to make money from a blog as a marketing tool

“Can I make money from a blog?” and “How do I make money from a blog?”

Those two and other similar questions have appeared repeatedly both on blogs and my email inbox for some time. The fact that so many people are asking those questions implies that there is quite a bit of confusion, especially for those who are new to a blog or blogging.

More has been written about ‘La Petite Anglaise‘ today and it is all good!

(about an English ‘Bridget Jones’ blogger bringing an
employment test case in France after allegedly being sacked because of
her internet diary.)

Great to see collaboration between bloggers and journalists.
The two may very well morph in to one and other in the end game.

I liked this quote …

“It shows that by joining ‘the conversation’
with our readers we can display a human side that sometimes fails to
come across in print.”

“Mr Randall claimed he was able to break the
story because two individuals from quite different generations – he and
Catherine – were brought together by blogging.”

News and jobs for journalists :: Telegraph goes blog crazy

Here’s a story about “La Petite Anglaise” who got the sack even though she did not reveal her name or her employers.

Telegraph | News | Wrote blog and got the sack. V bad. Will sue

That got me thinking. I wonder how many of us actually have a blogging policy?

Check out this excellent blogging policy here.

Corporate Engagement: Australian law firm urges clients to adopt employee blogging policies

Here is an excerpt to get you started.

“The suggested policies include:

• outline who is entitled to blog: whether all employees may blog
  or only specified personnel (for example, those in certain positions or
  who have attended appropriate training sessions);
• Ideally, the policy should require the employee to use a disclaimer on the blog to this effect;
• inform employees of the relevant authorisation processes for the publishing of blogs (particularly marketing blogs);
• notify employees of any monitoring of the blogging of employees
  that the company will carry out in accordance with the Workplace
  Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW);
• provide that the company’s confidential information must not be disclosed;
• provide that employees must not make use of the company’s intellectual property without obtaining authorization;
• require employees to ensure the accuracy of any information published;
• make employees aware of the law of defamation and prohibit
  employees from making defamatory statements and/or statements that are
  contrary to the strategic and commercial interests of the enterprise;
• prohibit employees from making discriminatory comments; and
• prohibit employees from using blogs to engage in illegal conduct.”

On tour, writing, The Green Bay Packers keep in touch with their fan base!

Packers.com » News » Stories » 2006 » 07 » 11 » 2

Dell gets plenty of comments about their blogs!

Adotas » Dell Launches Corporate Blog, Receives Backlash

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I’ve often marvelled at the niche the Da Vinci Code is pitched at.
(and this post is worth gold to a budding author!)
(or exactly how we wrote our book)

Having read several books on the subject before the Da Vinci Code I was really interested.
The books I read were fairly heavy on the subjecyt and often the author was pushing a particulay band wagon.
- Jesus’s body is buried in France
- The bloodline still exists
- The cult Jesus belonged to
- What did the Catholic Church really know and what was covered uo.

Eoin Purcell’s blog post ….

Eoin Purcell’s Blog » Blog Archive » Its all about marketing

puts a lot of this in to a good context.

The niche that Dan Brown took was writing something that put many non-fiction books in to a context and language that many people could understand. Of course many serious scholars had covered this niche, and lots of non-fiction writers but there are millions of people that dont need all the cross references and lengthy support of circumstantial co-incedences.

The message is just as Eoin says …

“You can have a book that to the elite appears predictable
and clunky but raises the pulse of the majority of readers.”

“if you cannot create a reason for a book to be bought then
there will be no sales.”

Dan Brown put in to context for me a lot of the books I had read thqat now sit on my book shelf probably never to be read again because they are all a small part in the puzzle.

As a result of Dan Brown I also uncovered a niche ….
and published an eBook together with a scholar.

We set up a web page that people reached via a google advertisment like the following …

On this page we had a question like ….

What is the one major question you had after reading the DaVinci code?

People could enter their question and boy did they do that …

… thousands of them

Look at the stats …

The advertisment appeared on 1,684,102 pages.
People reached these pages after seqarching for things like “opus dei” “priory of sion” “mary magdalene” etc

Once they reached the pages our advertisment was on 33,644 of them CLICKED on our advertisment and went to the questionaire page.
… and hundreds of them asked questions.
Questions like ….

So once we received these questions we wrote the book …

The DaVinci Answers “Facts Behind the Fiction”

So … following on from Eoin’s statement …
“if you cannot create a reason for a book to be bought then
there will be no sales.”

We had the questions people wanted answering and went out and wrote them.

That is how we wrote the book!

We sold thousands of books as a result.
This was long before the Da Vinci hysteria and the film.

If any budding authors want to receive the full blow by blow of how we got 1,683,102 adverts for our soon to be written book in front of people, extracted hundreds of questions and sold thousands of copies then leave a comment on this blog entry and I’ll get back to you.

This will work for any niche that people need questions answered.

All will be revealed!