What Short Shall I Make?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHWZoW8_kE

First of all, you have to be actually AWAKENED and somewhat WILLING to do the work, and clearly, if you’re reading this, you’re ready. I’ll assume so, and give you what I’ve got so far:

  • IT DOESN’T BLOODY MATTER — the substance of your video is entirely immaterial. You can make a short about ANYTHING and, as long as it’s around 15 seconds long, it will do well.
  • YOU CAN’T SCREW IT UP — There’s no way to actually bung-up the works. You can’t possibly make a mistake and if you do, it will be counted as a feature, so get your head out of that particular cloud and just do whatever seems like it might be FUN to do and, yes, I did say “fun” — Fun is an ESSENTIAL part of the “Shorts” exercise.
  • LOOSEN UP — Take it easy on the thinking, and let the EMOTIONAL CENTRUM come up with some whizz-bang doozies for a change.
  • BE REAL — Look for the positive and find the goodness about it, and DON’T focus on yourself, focus on the SUBJECT.

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A Safe, Fun & Nonviolent INSPIRATIONAL Video Game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8SJk9sJWY

Safe, fun, nonviolent and yet interesting enough to capture the attention for quite a while — that was the goal of this videogame created specifically for young children.

It has all sorts of experiences and fun treasures to get, surprises from elves, fairies and other beneficent characters found throughout the land.

How can a video game without at least SOME sort of violence possibly be interesting enough to capture the attention of a very young child? Continue reading

Who Likes #short #shorts???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoJPa-shyI&feature=youtu.be

The answer is, of course, “We like short-shorts”, to complete the song lyric from the doo-wop days when Dick Clark was King, but much stuff has flowed under the thing since then.

I’ve spent the past few days and nights trying to load around 100 #shorts onto youtube in a number of different channels, notably ejgoldguru, gorebagg, gorby’s shorts — and I’m planning to put a bunch of sci-fi #shorts on galaxyezine when I get the chance.

Some of my #shorts have gotten two thousand views, most get nothing or just a few nibbles, but the night is yet young, and we shall see what happens after a few days of hanging around.

I’m not sure any of them have made the “short shelf” and I really don’t care — it’s enough to know that one or more of you in our work circle will hit the million-mark.

That’s the game, or should I say, that’s The Game. Continue reading

New Way to Market Books!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmC99FUIBaw&feature=youtu.be

Yep, I’ve stumbled on a new way to market books, but first, you have to try to understand that the #shorts are what make this world go around at the moment.

#shorts get the crowd, get plenty of views, far more than ordinary landscape videos, and surely more than the over-sixty-seconds group of videos, which is most of them. Continue reading

Belly-Busting Gags for the Day Ahead…

Here are some real zingers, that I intend to use in my comedy run of #shorts on youtube. Each joke gets its own #short, of course. That way, I get more Clicks, which is the whole point, to build up the channel, grow the response list and get more subscriptions.

In a way, that mirrors the Great Work. Actually, it IS the Great Work. The whole idea behind my #shorts Work Campaign is that youtube is in desperate ambition to utterly destroy tiktok, so they tend to back any creator who comes up with shorts — it’s only been three months since they kicked off this strategy of having their own brand of short videos. Continue reading

How to Market a Video Game

Your total job is to make people aware of our Work. Period. How you do this is entirely up to you and to the luck of the draw which creates your specific place in the world.

One way to make people aware of the Work is to put them right into it, and one of the best ways to do this is to introduce them to the world of spiritual gaming.

Okay, let’s say that you have in your hands the world’s best, most amazing, astounding, incredible and fantastic video game and that playing this game offers a PORTAL into the spirit world, and you can prove it and you have thousands of testimonials testifying to that fact.

You have in your virtual hands the Perfect Spiritual Video Game. But there’s a problem. Nobody wants to even LOOK at it, let alone download it and play it and join a LIVE community of avid players and tell all their friends about it on twitter and facebook and instagram and all those other social media networks.

Yes, you have it right there in front of you, and nobody wants to play your stupid game. So what are ya gonna do? Where will you go? What will you do?

Frankly, my dear, no one gives a damn. Continue reading

GoddGames is Back

Massive Steel Sculpture was something I crafted up in Godd™.

Like America, goddgames.com is back — with a vengeance. We’re taking the 21st century challenge, producing games with a difference.

The look is retro — that’s not a misteak. We like the retro look of our engine, and we work hard to make it function as well as any modern engine, but to LOOK like an engine that’s about thirty years old. The porch could use some dusting.

All the lessons we learned in miniature railway layouts led to the look we’ve achieved in our video games, and we cherish that look and strive to maintain it in the face of widespread indifference. Our games are all produced with one idea in mind — Good Gaming. That’s the entire goal, the whole purpose, the entire plan, so let me roll out six of our hottest back titles first, to let you in on what’s happening here: Continue reading

New-Found Power

Mwahahahahaaaahaa! That’s a jungle-ish sound made by Tarzan when he has had a stunning realization or a big win over a dead lion.

With me, it’s the former. I just did something that I didn’t think was possible — I promoted an item, a game download page in fact, that delivers “SlimeWars” in a playable package for only $6.95 — but how to market it for no money down, no payments, ever??? Continue reading

You Were Chosen

Co-Stars EJ Gold & Bill Shatner 1969 — Courtesy Universal Studios

Dear Sir or Madam,

You were chosen to represent my book, “The American Book of the Dead”. I am already a famous author — check me out on google to verify this — and at the age of 79, I want to “pay back” society for my continued good fortune and high-volume book sales.

I have appeared at many author’s awards ceremonies and onstage with many of my co-writing friends, such as Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, and photos abound of me with many hundreds of other celebrities.

The American Book of the Dead has already sold well over a million copies, and is often found in university libraries. I have delivered lectures on the subject on panels with Dr. Claudio Naranjo, Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. John C. Lilly, Venerable Thich Thien-An, Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche, Ven. Chogyam Trungpa, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert de Ropp and many others, and in fact, we publish some of their books and produce tape recordings that feature us onstage together.

The American Book of the Dead appeals to a wide audience, and you should have no trouble finding traffic that’s looking for this popular and readable volume.

I’m a big fan of marketing, although I stay strictly in the creative area myself, and I’m actively looking to help deserving youngsters like yourself, and that’s why I’m allowing myself some time to work on this project.

Looking forward to working with you, I remain yours truly,

ej gold (member of SFWWA since 1976)

 

 

Links um die Ecke

Promotion

Here are some good “target urls” that could be made into landing pages, selling pages, productive pages.

ask hives — This could be made into a gallery where you could buy signed and numbered prints on fine art paper, at a mere $50 apiece, for instance, for the small ones — 5″x7″ — and more for larger prints, of course. An enterprising person could add framing, which is where all the profit is in print dealing. You’ll sell anything just to get the framing job, and that’s a great side-hustle in itself. Continue reading