In the Fishbowl... with Buck P Creacy

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Comment by Ramona King on April 29, 2008 at 12:13pm

Buck: I'm planning on setting aside a weekly or daily routine to communicate with the group. I'm working on an e-package. I'd like to see how others are doing this. What I've been doing in the past has been tedious and long. Catch you on the next comment. RK

Comment by Oel Castner on April 24, 2008 at 8:32am

Good morning group.... this sounds like I 'm addressing a class room. I enjoy telling to all ages, and I do. Often folks will ask me how to find audiences to talk too. I try to find organizations, i.e., speakers groups, comittee's, ect.to get involved with. I am a member of many groups. The more I tale the more invitations i revieve, your audience is everywhere. A good example, is civic club's, tell at a local club, if your good, they will invite you to tell a a larger group, say, a state group. In other words, you audience will get larger and larger. I do schools, I have developed a character (old cowboy). I tell about 6 to 8 hours a week. I suggest that you try this and I assure you that your audiences will grow and you will tell more.

Comment by Oel Castner on April 23, 2008 at 4:34pm

Howdy, to all of youngster, i was looking thru the NSN directory and I noted that they had me tagged as ELDER....NOW IN MY BOOK, elder is a leader in the church. my mother used to talk about the elderly, but since i was little I really did not know that that meant "old". I am ol' storyteller, and sometime I am not sure,that always good. I started to join up with a couple of the other groups, but I noticed in the discription part, they said they were 20 to 35. Now, someway, that seems, as though they were not looking for some "geezer". I am not sure that a word.
I seem to remember, that Buck said he used to live in Texas. Lat me tale you there as those who are from Texas and those who are from West Texas. In West Texas, if you don't have you clothes on the line early, by ten o'clock, they will start turning, a muddy sort of red. Red dirt is the hallmark color. Krayola has really not captured the color of those West Texas farmlands. I was a young boy during WWII, and that is were my story begins, today. All of us kids, would dig caves, actually they were more like trenches. I would dig me a little, 2 x 3 foot hole in the dirt about 2 feet deep. I put up a cardboard windshield, my control panel would be two or three "KERR" lids, get me a stick, off of the only wildplum tree in the county. In fact, we did have another tree, it was on the courthouse square. Back to my story, I would sit in that hole and fly my P-58, for hours, I shot down enemy planes, as long as they came at me. Being a air-ace is not easy because they come, time and again. i shot down plane after plane......oh!my! arn't memories wonderful.....It's been fum....over and out....roger,roger......keep to telling....yours, truly...oel

Comment by Glenda Bonin on April 19, 2008 at 4:39pm

Thanks for sharing the progress of your post card. I certainly identified with the steps and editing you went through to finally have a product that works! Most of the time my trash can overflows with re-writes. It's nice to be in such good company.

Enjoy the day!
Glenda

Comment by Lynne Pope on March 31, 2008 at 8:07am

The day I joined someone said to look in the fishbowl and marketing. I love the fishbowl images along with this whole site. I am a fan and getting more serious about where and how to self publish my stories as well. I plan to find the nearest place to go to meet some of you. Pasadena or Long Beach. We may decide to show maps of meeting places.I'm in Redondo Beach California. I have family in Arlington, Rockwall, HoustonTexas and Tampa,Florida.

Comment by Patricia Kjolhede on March 28, 2008 at 4:29am

Just a quick thank you note before I head off into my busy day.. I've been checking the "fishbowl" for a few days now and I'm excited by all of the activity and folks who are willing to share with those of us who may not be as experienced as many of you. I think I am probably speaking for others when I express my gratitude for your willingness to be so open and free with your conversation in marketing with postcards or just promotion in general. I hope to make some serious changes on my marketing strategies soon. It inspires me to share with others the way that you so openly share with us. Bless you --especially Buck!!!

Sincerely
Tricia

Comment by Buck P Creacy on March 27, 2008 at 10:35pm

I was playing with the idea of doing it too. Here is my thought... if you are on someone elses site and they buy your stories... you will have to pay the other site... and keep the rest of the money.... hmmm what a nightmare! Seems to me to be a good thing. I hope to make lots of money this way... let someone else sell it... give me money.. they keep some... cool.

Buck

Comment by Tim Lowry on March 27, 2008 at 2:03pm

Buck and Group,
Are you all familiar with iTales.com? I am considering joining and marketing downloadable stories through them. It looks like a good place to gain more internet presence. I wondered if anybody had experience with the company.

Comment by Karen Dietz on March 27, 2008 at 7:50am

Hi Buck -- I am glad you are considering an electronic and/or on-line press kit. I find in my work with organizations that having electronic promotional pieces is THE way to go. Clients really prefer them. On my new website (to be launched soon, I hope), all promo materials will be down-loadable.

Comment by Buck P Creacy on March 25, 2008 at 3:39am

Thanks Jennifer

I am going to publicly build a new promotional package next.

This should be fun.

Buck

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