March 2025
In middle Tennessee, it’s blooming and becoming green. The official start of spring was a little over a week ago on March 20, and at least where I am and at least this year, the spring season was evident by then. Every day here more begins to bloom, and the days seem brighter. Maybe that’s not just wishful thinking, since...
March 2025
By last Friday, a week ago today, the 2025 NRB International Christian Media Convention had ended. Many folks departed Thursday afternoon after the exhibits and Press Center closed. By Friday morning, most of the rest of us were heading home. The annual NRB convention, now described by its organizer, the National Religious Broadcasters Association, as the leading global convention and trade show...
February 2025
Since we are working on our participation and that of our clients, from where I sit it seems like everyone is going to NRB, that trade show that starts in 10 days in Dallas for Christian media. If you are an author going to NRB for the first time, and getting ready to pack, about now you might have some questions. So,...
February 2025
Let’s keep talking about interviews. Here are a few thoughts especially for those of you preparing to attend CPE or NRB tradeshows, both of them coming up in February. That is, the Christian Product Expo in Tampa February 16-18 or National Religious Broadcasters Convention, February 24-27 in the Dallas area. If you are representing yourself without a publicist at a trade show it...
January 2025
It’s getting to be the time of year when some of you are looking forward to having some interviews in advance of or in connection with an industry trade show that Christian media will attend.There are two such events coming up in February.So, it seemed like a good time to talk for a couple of weeks about working with journalists.Most...
January 2025
It’s still the New Year to me, all the more with having a snow day today, so as we get going on the year 2025 and our own businesses, it’s giving me pause to reflect a bit on my own behavior and experiences with customer service received and provided, as well as those times when calling it service is a...
December 2024
Today, on the first Friday in December, we’re going to encourage you to consider some decisions to make this month for action now and in coming months. And we’ll start our list of ‘three to get ready” with the announcement of a coming brand-new opportunity. December for January: Refreshed Christian Media special opportunityAlthough we don’t talk about it very often, our sister...
November 2024
A few weeks ago in the Buoyancy community weekly email, we wrote about book awards and suggested you check them out if you are an author or are writing a book. Winning a book award, or even an honorable mention, can be a helpful element in the marketing program for your books, new as well as not-so-new, to help boost sales...
November 2024
Guess what, there’s continuing good news about Christian book sales. Religious book publishing revenue has been going up for a while now, and something I read this week suggests the experts expect it to continue in this vein. According to a story this week in Publisher’s Weekly (PW), “religious press sales continue to be the fastest growing segment of the trade publishing business.” This...
November 2024
Every once in a while, Campbell’s minestrone soup appeals to me, so I like to keep some on hand. It was likely decades ago when I was first introduced to it. Not something to which I have given much thought. Until recently. Turns out in my smaller Tennessee town, neither Kroger nor Walmart now carry minestrone. Fortunately, when I made this discovery, my...
