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Aug.10.2010
In the new drama series “Covert Affairs” on USA Network, Piper Perabo stars as Annie Walker, a 28-year-old CIA trainee yanked from her training at “The Farm” for a critical mission in D.C. and then kept at CIA headquarters rather than finishing her training.
What makes this spy thriller believable...
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Aug.08.2010
The free HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO INCREASE YOUR BUSINESS tips booklet is available now with 70 social media tips from 14 different businesses.
The concept of tips booklets is the brainchild of Paulette Ensign at www.tipsbooklets.com
Here are the social media basics tips from Miller Mosaic Power...
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Aug.19.2009
I'm the co-host of the BlogTalkRadio show YourMilitaryLife.com with Nancy Brown of YourMilitary.com. Nancy and I have the opportunity to interview an amazing array of people both in the military and people who support the military.
Yet we always try to make clear to people that our BlogTalkRadio...
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Aug.12.2009
The "received from on high" wisdom in Hollywood is that action/adventure films with a female protagonist don't do well at the box office.
Of course, this requires discounting the ones that have done well and highlighting the ones that haven't. Plus, as there are so few recent films...
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Aug.05.2009
My addiction started very simply. My novel MRS. LIEUTENANT was a 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist and we were each given a page on Amazon. One author had something I didn't -- a blog (in January of 2008 I didn't even know what a blog was).
Not to be outdone, I said to myself: I...
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Jul.29.2009
I have an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and I conducted a marketing campaign to be accepted to the program back in the late 70s. Thus I should have realized that I needed to start my book marketing campaign BEFORE my book was published and not when it was published. Growing a book fan audience...
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Jul.02.2009
Getting started on social media can often be deceptively simple – What’s the big deal? You sign up. – or intimidating – Why am I being asked for my date of birth? – or overwhelming – How do I find people to friend or follow?
The truth is that this is a world of official and unofficial rules. It...
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Jun.30.2009
Book authors sell their books -- the fruits of their writing labor. Thus it may seem counterintuitive to recommend that, for online book marketing success, book authors must be willing to share abundant free content.
Why is this?
On the Internet people are usually looking for relationships (...
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Jun.24.2009
Whether you have a fiction or nonfiction book, there’s a lot more gold in that tome than you may realize.
Let me show you what I mean:
We’ll start with a nonfiction book we’ll call 15 WAYS TO START AN ONLINE BUSINESS. And we’ll agree that:
• The book has been published (whether from a...
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Aug.26.2008
I started blogging in March with two blogs and added a third blog in June. During those months I posted my blog here because I wanted to share my information with other online people.
And then the Web 2.0 bug bit me: I've just started an online company - Miller Mosaic, LLC - to provide online...
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Aug.08.2008
The "Tell-Your-Own-Story" military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com in connection with Lifetime TV's Season 2 of ARMY WIVES has announced the contest winners. Their names and the winning essays can be read at www.YourMilitaryBlog.com.
Here are winning essays by two of...
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Aug.07.2008
The "Tell-Your-Own-Story" military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com in connection with Lifetime TV's Season 2 of ARMY WIVES has announced the contest winners. Their names and the winning essays can be read at www.YourMilitaryBlog.com.
Some contest essays are especially...
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Aug.06.2008
Some of the winning essays in the military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com on the occasion of Season 2 of Lifetime TV's ARMY WIVES mentioned the FRG. And although I'd heard the term FRG on the show ARMY WIVES, I wasn't clear exactly what that term meant. (It wasn't a term I heard...
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Aug.05.2008
YourMilitary.com has announced the winners of the "Tell-Your-Own-Story" military spouse contest in connection with Lifetime Television's series ARMY WIVES. The winners' names and the winning essays are featured on www.YourMilitaryBlog.com and www.YourMilitarySpace.com.
Story...
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Aug.05.2008
I asked Anna Horner, who blogs at www.diaryofaneccentric.blogspot.com, to write a guest post after she talked about her father in the review she did of MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL on her blog (http://tinyurl.com/6z9cn6. I particularly appreciated her description of visiting the Vietnam...
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About Phyllis
I'm the co-founder of the marketing consulting company Miller Mosaic LLC and the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks. Visit my author site www.PhyllisZimblerMiller.com
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Causes Phyllis Miller Supports
Soldiers Angels (www.soldiersangels.org) -- "May No Soldier Go...
Phyllis’s Favorite Books
These are only a few of my favorite books: THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing A ROOM OF HER OWN by Virginia Woolf MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf THE HOURS...