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1st Turning Point Co-Captain Jacquie Rogers hosts the Meet the Parrots show the second Thursday of each month on Passionate Internet Voices World Radio.  (See info on PIVWR below.)

Next show: Topic TBA soon!

When: August 12, 2010
Time: 6pm to 7pm Pacific Time (9pm to 10pm Eastern Time)
Where: Passionate Internet Voices World Radio

Guests: (check back in a few days)

Meet the Parrots is an hour-long round-table discussion on topics related to promotion and marketing for authors, musicians, and artists, by those who learned from experience.  Here are our previous shows:

Previous Shows

Media: Pick Your Selling Tool
July 8, 2010

Guests: Theresa Meyers, Norman W. Wilson PhD,  Lillian Cauldwell, and Ann Charles help us understand the needs of television, radio, ezines, and websites–how to get a booking, how to prepare, how to focus your efforts.

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Marketing Approaches: All About Audience
June 16, 2010

Guests: Norman W. Wilson PhD, Amber Scott, Lillian Cauldwell, and Ann Charles talk about the changing market and how to sell books in today’s market by targeting your book’s niche market.

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Your Website: The Essentials
May 19, 2010

Guests: Deborah Schneider, Wendy Delaney, April Rickard, and Ann Charles give pointers to help authors appeal to readers, booksellers, librarians, editors, and agents. Does your website serve your career to its fullest potential?

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Blogging Your Way to Book Sales
(April 21, 2010)

Learn about different ways to blog, or not to blog, and how it can promote your career and your books from Christina Arbini, Amber Scott, and Ann Charles.

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Meet the Parrots: Status Update–Effective Social Networking
(March 17, 2010)

Amber Scott, Eilis Flynn, Norman Wilson, Ann Charles, and Lillian Cauldwell join host Jacquie Rogers and discuss how authors and artists can benefit from social networking, how each author on the show uses the internet for this purpose, and how each chose the type of activities to best represent themselves.

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Co-Promotion-If One’s Good, Is Two Better?
(February 17, 2010)

Eilis Flynn, Jacquie Rogers, Wendy Delaney, and Ann Charles discuss their various co-promotion efforts and how each of their careers has benefitted from it, and special guest, marketing expert John Klawitter provides them a critique.

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Booksignings For Fun and Profit
(January 20, 2010)

John Foxjohn, Deborah Schneider, Shelli Stevens, and Ann Charles tell how they organize successful booksigning events.  This  has been a very popular show because our guests are well known for planning and presenting fabulous book events!

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You’ve Got It, Now Flaunt It: Creating Website Content
(December 16, 2009)

Rowena Cherry, Robert W. Walker, Ann Charles, and Jacquie Rogers discuss how they determine the most beneficial content for their websites as they go through various stages of their careers.

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Platforms: How to Build a Platform Even Though You Don’t Have a Leg to Stand On
(November 18, 2009)

November’s edition of Meet the Parrots is a discussion of how not-yet-published writers and small press authors can build strong platforms in preparation for The Call. Guests include co-captain Ann Charles along with 1st Turning Point Crew Wendy Delaney, Chassily Wakefield, Lillian Cauldwell, and Amber Scott.

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Taglines: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent
(October 14, 2009)

October’s show focuses on author tag lines. Listen as Jacquie, co-captain Ann Charles, and crew members John Klawitter, Rowena Cherry, Eilis Flynn, and Lillian Cauldwell talk about tag lines—why they have them, how they came up with their own, and to what purpose they use them.  As a marketing man, John Klawitter has an interesting take on each guest’s tactic.

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Rowena Cherry’s
Crazy Tuesday: The Good Guys of Romance
(October 6, 2009)

Rowena Cherry hosts Crazy Tuesday’s show, which focuses on the generous authors in the romance writing world who are helping other authors along on the road to success. This podcast features some thoughts from 1st Turning Point co-captains, Ann Charles and Jacquie Rogers (as read by Rowena); as well as discussions and information from Lillian Cauldwell and other guests. Airtime donated by Rowena Cherry. (Thank you, Rowena!)

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Listen to the 1st Turning Point crew
(July 7, 2009)

1st Turning Point Co-captain Jacquie Rogers hosts her partner, Co-captain Ann Charles, 1st Turning Point Crew members Lillian Cauldwell, Amber Scott, Judith Laik, Shelli Stevens, as well as Jacquie’s publicist and 1st Turning Point reviewer, Mercedes Christesen. Airtime donated by Rowena Cherry. (Thank you, Rowena!)

Contributing columnist Lillian Cauldwell owns and operates a highly regarded radio station. When we asked her to tell us about her station, she wrote:

Passionate Internet Voices World Radio

Passionate Internet Voices World Radio prides itself on providing quality programming and content rich programs to the world. Our talk radio station is built upon three principles:

Based on these three important platforms, PIVWR has earned a reputation in the field as a quality niche station that offers consistent and effective programs to the world. We aren’t competing with other internet talk radio stations in popularity, celebrity authors and/or guests, or even world famous people. PIVWR stands for helping people achieve their goals, dreams, aspirations, and learn life skills so that everyone has a chance at helping themselves, each other, and the world.

Quality comes first!

Thank you, Lillian!