Winter Carnival..

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Two things...

The first weekend in March I will be away from this box for a few days as I travel up and over the mountains to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for the Winter-Carnival of Magic.

Michael Finney and Jeff McBride are two of the scheduled performers/speakers at this years event. I hope to get enough information from each to put together a couple of interviews for eMagic Deluxe..

I have spoke with Oz Pearlman this week and he will be doing an interview also, as soon as I can get the questions together. Should be published in mid-March.

I would also like to thank Steve Pellegrino of MagicRants.com for his assistance in getting my humble blog 'out there'.

As some of you already know, I leave the heavy stuff for guys like Steve, and I concentrate on marketing-related items for magic-related sites. Actually, anyone can find a few tidbits here..

I'm not afraid to jump on a soap box from time to time and buck someone I feel is holding themselves up as a self-proclaimed 'expert'.

In 2001/2002 a few of the internet marketing 'big dogs' decided to put together a very expensive list of the top 250 internet marketers on the net.. Marketers were paying upwards of a thousand bucks for this 'secret treasure chest of marketing guru's".

Somehow, someone saw fit to include me, without my permission, and I was totally swamped with offers, joint ventures, propositions- you name it. I let the internet marketing guru's know exactly how I felt - and it wasn't grateful.

I was willing to sell a large ezine I had built from scratch to a publishing company in Washington DC, and turn my back on the experts.. but NOT before putting up a couple of websites letting everyone know what I thought of the people who betrayed my trust and exposed my 'secrets'.

See.. I have been known to 'pitch a fit' every now and again.... Stay Tuned