3 posts from day 07/11/2009

Things I Don’t Know

I have lived on this planet for 31 years now and yet there are so many things I barely know anything about.Today, for example, I was browsing information on camper/RV rentals (a pending adventure I'll get to in some future post) and was of course blown away by random industry-factoids that I couldn't have guessed at to save my life. For example, did you know that even the little po-dunk motorhome dealers, whose establishments more closely resemble bait shops than car lots, sell motor homes that ...

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Prison City Eats

Here's the previously-mentioned contact list for chain restaurants in Prison City (Jackson, Michigan)--many of which are found in cities across America.  I'm also throwing in (free of charge) a couple talking points, straight from your local bovine's Christmas list, that you might want to touch on while talking to Ronald MacDonald himself. Or you can just scream and make a bunch of threats you can't back up. Whatever works for you. ;)Talking Points:Ask chains to give purchasing preference ...

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In Case of Blogging Failure, Please Blame Mike

My publisher assigned me this marketing guy, Mike…He tells me to blog. Blog regularly. Blog at least three times a week. I say, “About what?”And Mike says just write about anything. To blog about my job, about what I’m reading, about my new life as the indentured servant to a six month old baby… oh and blog about writing. People like to read about writing. What the process is like, how you do it.“But shouldn’t it be interesting?” He laughs. It will be to them.I’m not sure I ...

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