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New Novel Explores Holistic Healing Ideas

Posted by on May 10, 2012 1 comment

New Novel Explores Holistic Healing Ideas











Bellmore, NY (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

After reading Louise L. Hay’s “You Can Heal Your Life,” Linda Amato embarked on a journey to change her life. She became a Reiki master, a holistic healer and a counselor. Hoping to pass on some of the insights she gained in her transformation, Amato delivers her new inspirational novel “Making Believers: Connect to the Light Within” (published by Balboa Press).

“Making Believers” is the story of Gracie and her daughter, Amanda. As a child, Gracie suffered abuse from her mother. Rather than breaking the cycle, Gracie repeated the pattern of abuse, inflicting the same pain on Amanda. But Amanda is blessed with the strength and belief that unconditional love is the key to helping others. Putting aside her own pain, Amanda becomes an ambassador for compassion and understanding, allowing her to come to terms with her traumatic past and her mother’s actions.

A holistic health counselor, Amato believes fear is the greatest of demons to people who suffered from physical or emotional abuse. This belief permeates through “Making Believers” and is a guiding principle in her life. “In learning all I could by reading Hay House authors and others, I was capable of transforming my life as a wife, mother of four children and caretaker of my dad who was alcoholic/manic-depressant for 30 years into a story of unconditional love.”

Amato applies her experience as a counselor to the characters in “Making Believers,” showing readers techniques for transforming their lives. She is steadfast in her conviction that all forms of abuse – alcohol, drugs, mental and physical – must stop immediately, and she hopes her book will help to lead the charge against these patterns.

About the Author

As a certified holistic health counselor, Reiki master and metaphysical practitioner, Linda Amato has been helping clients heal the spiritual and emotional scars of their past for seven years. She has cared for her father – who suffered from manic depression – for 30 years, and she formed many of her core beliefs about healing and transformation while working with him. Amato has been married for 40 years, and she is a devoted mother and grandmother. Bellmore, N.Y. has been her hometown for the past 24 years.

Balboa Press, a division Hay House, Inc. – a leading provider in publishing products that specialize in self-help and the mind, body, and spirit genres. Through an alliance with indie book publishing leader Author Solutions, Inc., authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages the self-publishing model. For more information, visit balboapress.com. To start publishing your book with Balboa Press, call 877-407-4847 today. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter.

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TST Media Acquires Wisconsin Sports Network (WSN)

Posted by on February 4, 2012 1 comment

TST Media Acquires Wisconsin Sports Network (WSN)











The Wisconsin Sports Network is the destination of choice for more than 85,000 student athletes in the state.


Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) February 03, 2012

TST Media today announced that it has acquired Wisconsin Sports Network (WSN) from TDS Telecom. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, WSN is the online media destination of choice for over 85,000 student athletes participating in high school athletics in the state of Wisconsin every year.

The Wisconsin Sports Network is an integrated publishing company with a focus on these student athletes, their communities, families, friends, fans and coaches. Founded in 2002, WSN has successfully integrated both print and online mediums to give their audience a unique and highly popular variety of quality content.

WSN will continue to provide unrivaled Wisconsin prep sports coverage and professional level journalism, now with the backing of TST Media resources and cutting-edge technology.

“Over the past 10 years, WSN has grown to become one of the largest and most highly trafficked properties of its kind in the country,” said Justin Kaufenberg, TST Media CEO and co-founder. “The passionate audience that the WSN team has built is nothing short of amazing, and we are very excited to have them in the TST Media family. In the near future, Wisconsin prep sports fans can expect to see the exciting results of this transaction as data becomes available in real time, via mobile and on the new WSN website. In the years to come, we will work to connect the entire state in a powerful network to ensure access to incredible sports information and data.”

WisSports.net is the most popular high school sports site in Wisconsin. In addition, the site is one of the top five independently run high school sports sites in the nation. Since its initial launch in 2002, WSN has accumulated: 300+ million page views, 1,000,000+ unique IP addresses and been bookmarked over 2,000,000 times.

“We have been honing our content model for close to ten years and to pair that with the great technology of TST Media is very exciting,” said Nicholas Kartos, President & Founder, Wisconsin Sports Network. “Not only is the NGIN platform amazing, but all the potential that mobile and tablet apps bring. Furthermore, the company culture and future plans are a great fit for WSN and our employees. This is a big win, not only for WSN, but for the players, coaches, fans and sponsors of high school sports in Wisconsin.”

“It is our goal to continue pushing the envelope by offering a unique and valuable combination of full-time editorial coverage and timely statistical data. We will continue to work tirelessly to make WSN one of the premier online high school sports destinations in the country,” added Kaufenberg.

About TST Media

TST Media is a highly skilled team specializing in the execution of world-class sports content strategy, design, marketing and technology. The company is a collection of talented and passionate sports and tech minds working to continuously revolutionize the way leagues, teams, players, scouts and fans interact with high-end athletic brands. TST Media crafts unique experiences that build brand awareness and encourage engagement while striving for excellence and effectiveness. The company preaches that “digital” is not just a marketing add-on, but instead is the core of powerful brand communication and community.

The company is best known as the team behind the NGIN (pronounced “Engine”) website platform. NGIN is a proprietary data platform that powers over 2000 leagues and sports organizations around the world. Engineered by the developers at TST Media, NGIN features a complete suite of powerful tools that help organizations and their audience connect and interact online.

http://www.tstmedia.com

About Wisconsin Sports Network

Over 85,000 student athletes participate in high school athletics in the state of Wisconsin every year. The Wisconsin Sports Network (WSN) is an integrated publishing company with a focus on these student athletes, their communities, families, friends, fans and coaches. Founded in 2002, the organization has successfully integrated both print and online mediums to give their audience a unique and highly popular variety of quality content.

http://www.wissports.net

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An Online Site Dedicated to Market and Sell Self-Published Books

Posted by on July 31, 2011 1 comment

An Online Site Dedicated to Market and Sell Self-Published Books











Patrick Cox


Birmingham, AL (PRWEB) July 22, 2011

Selfpublishedbookstore.com was founded in March, 2011.

http://selfpublishedbookstore.com, is a website that helps self-published authors market and sell their books. Many self-published authors are frustrated that they cannot sell their books. This site gives them a voice and an opportunity. We are dedicated to market and sell self-published books.

Before John Grisham became a famous novelist whose works have been read by millions, he struggled to get publishers interested in a book called “A Time to Kill.” He was rejected by 26 publishers and so he self-published. J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected by nine publishers. Dr. Suess’s first book was rejected by 27 publishers. John Henry Toole committed suicide after many rejections, but his mother persevered and “A Confederacy of Dunces” was published and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Publishers make mistakes. Several best-sellers have started out on the self-publishing route, including “The Shack,” “What Color is Your Parachute?” and the initial “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”

One author is writing a series called “VerseryRhymes” that translates the New Testament verse by verse into rhyme. He has completed Matthew, Mark, John, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, James and Revelation.

Another author from Germany has written a three-part science fiction series.

One of our authors has already sold 51,000 copies of her self-published book “All We Like Sheep”.

From personal experience, we saw a need for a site to help self-published authors find a market for their books. Many self-publishing book companies will teach you the nuts and bolts of self-publishing, and print and sell your books through their website for a hefty percentage. What they won’t do is market your books or feature your books unless you pay a high fee. This site is a place to bring all self-published authors together to sell their books. We will feature each book at various times throughout the year. We will also market the books.

There are over 100 books and ebooks already on Selfpublishedbookstore.com. The books are being marketed in many ways on the web, through the social media and email. We also market with signs, cards, postcards, at book fairs and trade shows. Selfpublishedbookstore.com represents many wonderful authors. There are books in many genres.

Selfpublishedbookstore aims to be a community where author and customer can meet. Authors can list up to 10 different books for $ 20 per year (not $ 20.00 per book) and pay Selfpublishedbookstore.com 15 percent of sales. Selfpublishedbookstore.com is not a publishing company, but sells and markets such books for other authors.

Authors can sell their books on our site for whatever price they choose. While some self-published authors are discovered by large publishing companies, many of them are proud to be on their own and want to remain that way. “The Shack” is still self-published.

Self-published authors write good books that they believe in. They just need an avenue to get them to customers. That is where selfpublishedbookstore.com comes in.

We have been reaching out to self-published authors encouraging them to consider selling their books on the site. We have been promoting selfpublishedbookstore.com on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, social networking sites, the same sites will be used to market books for clients.

Since Selfpublishedbookstore.com started in March, it has had over, 14,000 visits and 183,000 hits from computer users in 22 countries.

REECE SHERMAN

Company:Selfpublishedbookstore.com

Founder: Reece Sherman

Phone: 205-213-2620

Website: selfpublishedbookstore.com

e-mail:reece(at)selfpublishedbookstore(dot)com

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Publisher Ad Network Offers Fixed Rate CPM for Web Publishers

Posted by on July 31, 2011 1 comment

Publisher Ad Network Offers Fixed Rate CPM for Web Publishers












Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) July 20, 2011

Publisher Ad Network (PAN) — a fast-growing, global online advertising network — has unveiled a low-risk, fixed-rate model for publishers. Unlike advertising networks that offer revenue share and other variable rate solutions, PAN allows Web publishers to collect a fixed rate based on the amount of traffic to their site.

Online publishers who collect revenue based on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) model have a major challenge in monetizing traffic and lining up advertisers. The current trend with most ad networks is to pay a variable rate based on the number of clicks or number of conversions an ad placement gets. This leads to an unpredictable monthly payout.

PAN locks in a CPM rate for a publisher’s entire inventory, stabilizing expected profits. This protects the publisher from rate variability and allows total returns to be projected. It is an important part of the company’s commitment to lowering publisher risk.

“A fixed CPM approach creates a win-win scenario for publishers and advertisers,” said Patrick Hare, senior optimization manager at PublisherAdNetwork.com. “For publishers, we take the risk of unfilled inventory out of the equation. At the same time, advertisers can lock in exposure without having to constantly bid on ad placements.”

PAN’s intelligent approach creates a revenue model for site publishers, which aims to maximize the profitability of their Web presence.

Visit http://www.publisheradnetwork.com for more information and to get started.

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