Our regular readers will know we are big fans of Mark Joyner and his free simpleology 101 online course. In fact before I forget to mention it, this seems like a good time to remind you that the simpleology blogging course is also still available free of charge to anyone who blogs about it!
In the last two or three months simpleology has branched out from its beginnings in self development and internet marketing to embrace the arts. Initially came the simpleology Jacque Fresco Teaches Drawing course, which is purely about teaching an artistic technique. More recently two new simpleology courses have been announced, which combine the arts with internet marketing. If you can already write and/or make music, these two new courses will teach you how to promote yourself and your art. They will teach you how to turn your passion for writing or music into an income, if that is something you want to do.
If you are passionate about writing the course to look at is: Will You Be the World's Next Best Selling Author?
If you are passionate about music check out the music promotion course instead: Online Music Fame!
This is a gross generalization, but often creative people are not terribly good at promoting themselves and their work and have traditionally had to rely on (and pay handsomely!) others to do this for them. Now, however, the internet allows artists to dispense with the agents, the managers, the record companies, the publishers, the gallery owners and the media moguls. These new simpleology courses show you how to promote your art directly to lovers of that art throughout the world.
An integral part of the "art of promotion" in 2008 is the internet video. If you are a writer a simpleology competition has just started. To enter the Best Selling Author competition simply make a 2 minute video and upload it to YouTube before midnight on February 26th. Mark Joyner and Richard Webster will give live speed writing training to every entrant, and the 3 lucky competition winners get a whole bunch of goodies, including having their work promoted to Mark Joyner's 250,000 strong list!
Here at the World Wide Web Gurus we do have some experience with internet videos. Here are a couple we did for up and coming British band De Larje in the simpleology Online Music Fame Competition, for example. I suspect most writers are less comfortable with the idea of appearing in a YouTube video than musicians are with making a music video. However, if you would like to give the simpleology Best Selling Author competition a try, but are unsure about the ins and outs of getting your video made and up on YouTube (and maybe a few other places too!), then please do get in touch with us via our contact form, and we'll help in any way we can.
P.S. For the internet marketers amongst our readers, I clicked the "Publish" button for this post at 13:00 GMT, then I went to make a sandwich and a cup of tea for lunch. By the time I checked Google at 13:40 GMT we were already at number 6 in the natural search rankings for the keyphrase simpleology online music fame, and number 20 for simpleology best selling author.
Filed under The Arts by on Feb 14th, 2008. 4 Comments. 
On January 4th we drove to Putsborough Beach on the Atlantic Coast of North Devon to check out what the forecasts suggested would be some excellent surf. We also took along our Sony Handycam to see how it performed when trying to film moving targets. You can see the results in the video below.
We also happened to catch on film Ralph Freeman, bassist with local band The Universe Inspectors, arriving and then catching a short ride on his trademark yellow board. Nothing unusual about this you may think, but Ralph is no ordinary surfer. He is not generally to be found sharing a modest beach break with my kids and I, along with several dozen other hardy souls. More often he can be seen being towed into giant waves such as Oyster Falls off Downend Point at Croyde, which had been working nicely earlier that same day . Ralph is also reputed to be the first person ever to surf the reef just past the point from Croyde, which is named Ralph's Reef in his honour.
The other unusual thing is that the summer before last Ralph broke his neck whilst surfing Croyde at low tide, and was initially paralysed. It's great to see that a local legend has apparently made a full recovery from his injuries.
Many thanks to Ralph for giving us permission to share this extremely rare footage with you.
Filed under Surfing by on Jan 29th, 2008. 1 Comment.
The sequel to our Traffic Heaven video is now available on YouTube (or just scroll down a bit to see it!). We have given it the title "Traffic Heaven is in Your Mind".
There are a couple of reasons for this. In our efforts to be on the first page of Google for our own brand name we find ourselves competing with lots of sites selling the 1968 first album by the British "psychedelic rock" group Traffic – Heaven in is Your Mind. This came as something of a surprise to me because in Britain the LP was entitled Mr. Fantasy on its UK release in December 1967! The album only achieved cult status in the US at the time, but the original Rolling Stone review was prescient in declaring the album "one of the best from any contemporary group".
The second reason is that, as regular readers of our blog will know, in our view success at internet marketing is largely in your mind.
The video includes more musings from the Traffic Heaven secret headquarters on how Frank Kern managed to get a completely free trial to Traffic Geyser to promote the relaunch of his Mass Control marketing system, and a plea for Michael Koenigs to give us one too. After all, our need is much greater than Frank's! We also entertained a completely unexpected visitor. Take a look:
Many thanks to Liz for allowing us to include the conversation we had about the absurdities of starting a business with no cash on top of a hill at Christmas.
Filed under Audio Visual by on Jan 20th, 2008. Comment.
