Brummet's Conscious Blog

Maintaining our media page is an annual task that has a lot of nostalgia for me. I like to, at this time of year, highlight some of the ones that had an impact on me. I hope you enjoy this one too, where   Brenda, of ASwiftt Radio, asked me:  "Why do you think people Fail when it comes to marketing? "   A lack of tenacity and organization, I think to be a successful author you have to tenacious and passionate. Having a realistic view of the writer's life and put your business hat on. You want to have your succession plans and contingency plans and how you will be marketing this book in a realistic way with your unique situation and break it down into annual and then monthly plans that you can follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R76HiB_pmJ8   ~~~   Discover the Brummet's Books on Amazon :  https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0845RLK1X  Find Them Online via :  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~...

Truly Engaging on social media  * Written by : Pamela Wigglesworth (CSP) is an international marketing consultant, speaker and the CEO of Experiential Hands-on Learning based in Asia. She is the author of "The 50-60 Something ™ Start-up Entrepreneur" and works with organizations across multiple industries to help them increase brand awareness, increase leads and ultimately increase sales. visit: http://www.experiential.sg Many businesses get one very basic thing about social media engagement wrong. The average entrepreneur thinks about engagement in terms of single interactions. A post that gets a lot of shares and likes is not really engaging the audience. It's only when there is a long-term relationship that you really start engaging. Think of it as a real-life engagement. Consider that every single interaction is a date with your customers.You get to know each other on these dates. You tell them what you're about and they tell you what they like and what they ...

-- Quote of the Day --  I had the chance to read David Thoreau's book - Walden or Walden's Pond (I think it was published under a few other titles as well) and came across this quote I'm sharing below where he shares his passion for nature. I found his writing style so very poetic, so descriptive, and jealously devoured every chapter of his book. I'd not had the chance to experience his writing before and while sometimes difficult to read, it was a sincere pleasure to say the least.    “Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples or like fleets at see, full-rigged, with wavy boughs and rippling with light – so soft and green and shady, that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood… where the trees, covered with hoary blueberries, spiring higher and higher are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper...