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JOIN ME SATURDAY JULY 19th/08 at 3:00 pm EST, NOON Pacific On the ANNE MARIE EVERS show

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Hey Guys, The AFFIRMATION QUEEN has asked me to join her on her weekly show THE ANNE MARIE EVERS SHOW.. To tune in and listen LIVE, just go to the link below..

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THe Unstoppable Doug Martin

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Douglas Martin is an incredible man. He is the marketing genius behind Smile VINO, those folks who every FRIDAY send you a positive inspiring Message and one of the coolest guys I know.

Doug GETS IT..whatever IT is. He has that je ne sais qua quality and panache that makes him popular with both the guys and the girls. He has a big heart and is generous to a fault. Well almost..

Join Douglas and Frankie on Mission Unstoppable, Tuesday July 15th at 9:00 pm est..www.blogtalkradio.com/missionunstoppable

IF you are an Entreprenuer or someone who owns a business and you want to know how to take your business out into the STRASTOSPHERE, then this show is for you.

Biography of Douglas Martin

“Imitate or Innovate. Choose one of those paths Martinsan” was the directive bestowed upon Doug at the age of 16 from Akio Morita, founder of Sony. “One path promises riches, the other fulfillment” were his final words as he moved to his next conversation. Doug grew up in a corporate environment, his father being the Canadian president of Sony of Canada. Exposed through this connection to the wisdom of the East, soothed his restless soul. He chose innovation.

An entrepreneur at heart, Doug’s first significant venture was buying an Ultra light aviation distributorship in 1980. It was here, after losing his entire investment that Doug learned his most valuable lesson in marketing. More people wanted to look at airplanes, than buy them. So he rallied what little he had left and began producing air shows exclusively for this new category. Within a year, Doug and his partners were producing the largest shows of their kind in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Vancouver and San Antonio. Rather than trying to sell aircraft for thousands of dollars, Doug sold thousands of tickets for $5. But giving the Show Program rights to a publishing company, who sold patrons a guide to the show for $10.00 plus they sold advertising space to the shows exhibitors taught him yet another lesson. Publishing was to become Doug’s next and longest venture.

What! Magazine launched in Canadian high schools in September of 1987 becoming the centerpiece of a 20-year publishing history with teens from coast to coast. As advertisers began embracing this new vehicle for teens, a void became apparent for creative advertising development for clients who wanted to reach the market, but didn’t know how to do it. A sister company was established as an advertising agency and began attracting attention outside the teen marketing community for the new approaches that were been taken to build brand relationships by Doug and his creative team. Soon Doug was been asked to lecture on his brand building and ultimately, Relationship Building platform. A staunch believer in the fundamentals of relationship building either corporately or personally, Doug articulated the Four core Foundations and created a formal seminar and publication entitled; EPIG™ Building and Maintaining Long-term Customer Relationships. The course follows the four basic principals needed to create positive, mutually beneficial relationships. Doug has brought this seminar forward through many University environments and corporate sales teams across North America.

Although much accomplished, Doug’s Crowning Jewell was created in February of 2005. SmileVino. A wine launched from the rolling hills and valleys of California’s best wine country. SmileVino was developed from the ground up with the sole intent of using Doug’s trademarked EPIG™ program. Apart from the captivating flavor of SmileVino Merlot and Chardonnay offerings, are several unique ways for consumers to engage with the SmileVino experience. Doug observed that the wine industry spent in inordinate amount of time and resources making the wine, all about them, and very little time recognizing that, to a consumer….it’s not about the wine at all, but about the occasion in which it is consumed. “Wine is an emotional libation” Doug recently stated, “ almost every bottle consumed is surrounded by a story, and a smile. The universal symbol of contentment”. “It about people. The moments they share, the love they exchange, the feeling and emotions which flow” SmileVino captures those moments through profiling 12 different women on each case of product and then stimulating an emotional moment for the drinker through an empowering hidden reveal behind the front label. Connecting emotionally with SmileVino drinkers is continued through a variety of involvement components ranging from short story contests to becoming featured on an upcoming label. But for Doug, the most spectacular connection is through the FridaySmile, a powerful graphic motivator sent to millions of subscribers for free each week to give pause, encouragement, reflection or fortitude to women around the world.

A remarkable product, a remarkable man. Buckle up.

THE RIGHT TITLE or WHAT’s in a name

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Bret Burquist ,00ps Burquest, the 11th Sage wrote this sagely piece about the importance of being Ernest or in other words..Is a NAME really all that important? I tend to think so.

I AM the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso. It wouldn’t have as much panache if I were the Break down and Cry Coach would it? Well Read On..Bret has an incredible sense of humour. He even made me smile more than once….smile..Frankie

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK was the title of a best-selling book back in the 60’s. Being a novice at life at the time, I bought a copy. When I finished reading it, I knew as much about sex as I did before I read it, which was about as much as I knew about brain surgery.

A good title is very important. It should compel a potential reader to open the book and glance at the first paragraph, which is equally as important. If a book has a good title and a good first paragraph, there’s actually a chance the reader will go on to read the second paragraph.

Many authors have problems coming up with the right title.

For example, Peter Benchley’s editor rejected every title the author presented for his first novel, including GREAT WHITE, THE SHARK, LEVIATHAN RISING, and THE JAWS OF DEATH. Finally, out of sheer frustration, Benchley told his editor to just call it JAWS because nobody reads a first novel anyway.

Joseph Heller had a different sort of problem with the title of his first novel, CATCH-18. Doubleday had a new novel coming out called MILA 18, by Leon Uris, so they objected to Heller’s title. Simon & Schuster, Heller’s publisher, agreed to change the title to CATCH-22.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a novel titled TRIMALCHIO IN WEST EGG. Apparently, an advisor to Emperor Nero named Petronius wrote a satire a couple thousand years ago titled SATYRICON which contained a character named Trimalchio. Fitzgerald assumed everyone would make the connection. However, Fitzgerald’s publisher did not have similar rocks for brains and chose an alternative title, THE GREAT GATSBY.

Margaret Mitchell wrote a rather lengthy romance novel about the south during the Civil War. She called it PANSEY. But romance novels require lusty titles, so it was eventually changed to GONE WITH THE WIND, thereby attracting readers who lust for windy days.

Jacqueline Suzanne wrote a steamy novel of lust and betrayal in the wonderful world of show business titled THEY DON’T BUILD STATUES TO BUSINESSMEN. They don’t build them for writers either, especially ones with lousy titles. Later, it became VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

MOTH was a play written by Tennessee Williams. It had nothing to do with moths. Even though it was eventually changed to A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, it had nothing to do with streetcars either.

As the author of four novels, I know how important a good title can be. I still wonder if I made the right choices.

My first novel, THE DOGMAN OF TOPANGA, started out as DOGMAN OF THE CANYON. It wasn’t much of a title change but it did pin down the exact location of the canyon.

My agent advised me that GOOMBA IN MONTANA wasn’t such a good title because most people wouldn’t know goomba from gumbo. I tended to agree but kept it anyway, mainly because I don’t like pinheads messing with my creativity. It’s a lot more enjoyable writing a novel than dealing with agents and publishers.

A BAD RUN OF FATE was originally titled THE KING OF CONGRESS, but my publisher thought it was misleading because it referred to the town of Congress, Arizona, rather than a house of politicians. Sometimes publishers are right. I reluctantly changed the title and vowed to someday rule the world.

My fourth novel, THE ELEVENTH SAGE, is a metaphysical journey from an unfathomable present into a famous past life while simultaneously creating the destiny of a precise future being pre-lived subconsciously. And if you can figure it out, you’re smarter than the author.

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Quote of the Day – "Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." Groucho Marx

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THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

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On a clear night, depending on your location and ability to scan freely from horizon to horizon in all directions, the average person is able to view approximately 3,000 stars with the naked eye.

On July 26, 2002, CNN News reported that several witnesses in the Washington DC area saw bright orange and blue lights in the sky. Two F-16s were scrambled out of nearby Andrews Air Force, but the unidentified objects disappeared before the planes could intercept them and mysteriously vanished from radar.

Then the announcer added, with a smirk on his face, that there were no sightings of little green men.

On July 22, 2003, CNN News reported that astronomers announced there are 70 sextillion stars in the visible universe. A sextillion is a 1 followed by 21 zeroes.

That’s 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 known stars in the universe. That’s more than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the entire Earth.

This is not the total number of stars in the universe — it’s the number within the range of present day telescopes. The true number could be a zillion times higher.

There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet; that’s 10 trillion known stars for every human being on Earth.

For every single person, there are 10,000,000,000,000 known stars in the universe.

Each star could have multiple planets within their system, just as we have multiple planets in our own solar system. Numerous planets have already been discovered in the closer regions of space.

Plus, many theoretical physicists believe there are other (parallel) universes and multiple unperceivable (parallel) dimensions as well, all of which could possibly contain intelligent entities.

If only one out of every million known stars (solar systems) has just one planet with intelligent life, there would be approximately 70,000,000,000,000,000 planets with intelligent life in our known universe.

To assume human beings on Planet Earth are the only intelligent life-forms in the universe is preposterous.

In fact, to assume human beings are an intelligent life-form is also preposterous.

He who smirks at the unknown is a fool.

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Quote for the Day – "Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein

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THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

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