Hey guys, just an update.  I’m actually out of town right now on a Business Meeting for Blogging The Movie.  There is going to be lots of changes this October.  A mass marketing campaign will be release.  The 9 top bloggers are almost assembled and exciting this are about to be released.  So stay tuned.

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• Derrich talks about Google’s 9th birthday.
• Derek Semmler talks about the sacrifices to reach your goals.
• Roman Dock found some free advertising on Gadgettastic.
• YouTube announces a non profit program from 501(c) (3) nonprofits to generate more income through opening their own channel. Pretty interesting, it’s nice to know this mega site is giving back to the community. Go there to Broad Cast Your Cause.
• The King Kong Blog talks about how John Chow gets punished by Google.

Sidenote: I will be traveling out of town this weekend for a business meeting for BTM. Big things are happening. However I cannot release any information until the time comes. I will try to update as much as possible for this weekend. Get ready October is going to be NUTS!

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The dream team of the 10 bloggers for the film is 7/10 assembled. I will do a release sometime within 2 weeks. I need time to do a little bio about all the bloggers I intended to film. There are currently 2 spots left that I’m currently try to find right now. The last 10th spot is reserved for one lucky newbie blogger, you can check the casting page to be part of the movie. The other 9 will be seasoned veterans to bloggers that have made an impact in the blogosphere in a short amount of time.

Great News

• The bloggers that are casted are some of blogging favorites.
• You are in for a treat. stay tuned.
• A new design is on it’s way.
• An additional PR rep has been added.

Media News Flash

• Blogger and Podcaster magazine confirmed that they will stop by my booth at Blog World Expo.
• I’m waiting to hear from Pajamas Media.

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• Blogozine wrote an article about Blogging the Movie asking if we can do it. Answer is yes, we can.
• Samanathon helps fix 404 errors with his recent article on 404 Notifier.
• Local.com plans to give an iPhone everyday for 30 days.
• MC and Hip hop heads can go get their daily fix of beats and rhymes on Dope Tracks dot com.

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A blog post was recently written by Jim Turner from Convention Insider. He notes that our marketing tactic is a unique way of paying for a convention booth. He loves the idea of our car sponsorship benefits.

This is a different way of procuring a booth at a convention and obviously will not work for everyone, but if you are a small guy that needs to gain publicity and wants to get into the convention as an exhibitor it certainly is a cool way to do it. - Jim

While reading this article it seems that conventions are a bigger business than I realized. Convention Insider is the world’s leading online resource for convention, tradeshow, and conference planning that generates about 5 trillion dollars in Las Vegas alone. Maybe that’s why the VMA’s were held there. I’m beginning to feel like Las Vegas is finally going back to the golden days. The days where people of money and success, venture off to the desert to handle their business and pleasure.

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I will be on the radio in 3 hours with the Keeler Show. This is a New York radio station broadcasting on KISS FM and they will bring great media attention to this documentary. I’m not really sure what to expect as I live in California and the timing would be 4:45AM PST. Which means I will have only slept for a few hours. Now as I kick off this media craze, I want to expose BTM the right way. I hope that they can share my vision that Blogging is a community that is changing the way we consume information.

A documentary is meant to shed light on a discourse community. Blogging has to be one of the biggest communities in this generation. People might feel that bloggers would not be an interesting topic to film. However, everyone has a story in life, and out of the millions of bloggers I want to showcase 10 that I believe are extraordinary. As a true believer in the power of positive thinking, my goals in life will always challenge who I am. For now, I want the world to know that it is still possible for one to change the lives of many. Am I that one? This is too early to tell, but if I can go about my life to impact just one person in a positive way then everything will have been worth the journey.

Side note | Reviews

The reviews will be posted from Monday through Thursday for higher traffic exposure. The review will come in batches and they will go in order of purchase. The reviews will cycle itself through all 500 bloggers.

Update: They called me at 4:45AM to let me know that they would call me tomorrow “because something came up in the city?” Yet all I hear currently is some plug for some website.  Something came up in the city? Is this just an excuse that New Yorkers use?  Hmph. Show Business.

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John Chow Review

Was the John Review worth the $400? You’re damn right is did. I made my money back in a record 57 minutes. Currently, we already raised $2k of our $50k goal for our Free Car marketing campaign. Here are some highlights that have happened so far.

• An article was recently written by Deborah Ng from About.com
• Darren Rose from Problogger.net commented that he would be interested to film if he won the poll and if the price was right.
• John Chow confirmed that he would be interested to film if he wins the poll between Shoemoney, Problogger, and Dosh Dosh.
• A radio morning show has set an interview with me. Oh don’t you just love this sneaky game? Muahah. Blogging the Movie will be on the radio with The Keeler Show on Monday 9/17 at 745 am EST. Click here for the details.
• Over 2k of the 50k has been raised.
• BTM is getting a booth at Blog World Expo.

Why do I love John Chow readers? Because to me, they have the strongest opinion. They can make or break your idea extremely quickly. They will give an honest opinion of an idea. And to some this idea of having a movie about bloggers seems to be the craziest. The free car giveaway will go down in history as the most ridiculous prize.

Blog World Expo Booth

Congratulations to all the bloggers/companies who have signed up to become a sponsor. The current size of the booth is 10 x 10. The cost of this booth is $2500 if we sell all 500 sponsorships in time we will try to get a 10 x 20 booth and showcase the car. So here’s what to expect at the booth for right now.

• T-shirts - Front | Blogging The Movie Logo / Back | All the names of the sponsors as of 10/20
• Printed Material - Business Plan, Marketing Plan, Car Sponsors as of 10/20
• Signups for the Email Newletters
• Signups for car sponsorships
• Film Crew doing interview of Blog related companies
• Filming top bloggers
• Filming random bloggers
  • Click here for more info on Blog World Expo

If you are going to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please let me know, maybe we can get you a cameo.

• If you would like to learn more about becoming a sponsor to receive some publicity click here.
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Blogging the Movie will be Live on The Keeler Morning Radio Show in New York 97.9/105.5 KISS-FM. The set interview will be on Monday 9/17/07 at 7:45 AM EST, so if you’re in California or Vancouver that would be at 4:45 AM. The best part of the it is, they will run the interview live at movaradio.com. It is extremely early. Hopefully I can get the full interview on mp3 so that I can post it on this site at a later time.

Are you serious? Crazy ideas, get crazy attention! Trust me this is only the beginning and things are looking great!

I will post a sample of the T-shirt designs this weekend. We are going with a simple logo on the front and all the domain names on the back of the t-shirt. If you would like a spot of the t-shirt please check out the car page to become a sponsor. 500 t-shirts will be given away at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas.

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That is right! Sin City November 8th and 9th. Blogging the Movie will be in Las Vegas filming at Blog World Expo 2007, the first Blogging Expo of this size. From my recent email with Blog World Expo, they gave me the green light to film the documentary. So if you are going to the expo let me know maybe you can have a quick cameo. They have lots of sponsors at this expo, lets see if BTM can get them put some sponsorship in the movie.

• Fast Company
• Yahoo!
• TTLB Media
• One by One Media
• Podando
• Sports Blogs Nation
• Pajamas Media
• Townhall.com
• Campaigns and Elections
• Military.com
• IBNMA
• Blogger & Podcaster
• B5 media
• Feedburner
• GodBlogCon
• Newstex
• BusinessWire
• Mochila
• PRWeb

Light Bulb! To some, a light bulb might have just clicked in your head as to how I will be going about getting sponsorships. Now lets put yourself in the shoes of a Marketing Executive from one of these companies at the Expo. Who wouldn’t want to be part of this movie? The main sales tactic is fear that someone else will take this opportunity if I don’t. Haha.

Another Sneaky Bastard moment. This is what I mean by Sneaky Bastard. It’s using Game Theory in my marketing tactics. I don’t hide my tactics; I’m an honest Sneaky Bastard. It brings joy to my day when I can come up with a great idea.

Marketing at Blog World Expo

My PR rep and I camp up with an idea to give a bonus to all the sites that buys a Car Sponsorship by 10/20/07.

As a bonus I’m putting your domain name on the back of the T-shirts. Currently I will make 500 shirts. Maybe more depending on the budget.

Filming

The film crew will be there filming me meeting other bloggers, companies, executives, and most of all networking. We will be doing short interview, so if you are interested hit me up!

Booth?

Right now with the current budget we just going as attendees. We will get a booth for 2008. However if for some reason I actually sell all my ads in time, we will buy a 10k booth and showcase the car with the domain names. It would be nice, however that is dependant on you the reader. If you have not bought a sponsorhip and would like to learn more click here.

Update | With only 2 days after the John Chow review we have had some exciting news with the press.

About.com | Has an Article about BTM by Deborah Ng

KeelerShow | We received an email from the KeelerShow - My name is Mark Piersma I’m the producer for the Keeler in the Morning Show in NY I was looking to set up an interview about the Blogging Movie, which
I may say is a great idea. I’d love to get you on the show thanks

- Let’s see how this turns out? Why will media grab this story?? Because it is newsworthy. It’s never been done like this before. It’s exciting and fresh. So if other media outlets would like to interview me or if any bloggers wants to ask me 5 questions to make a blog post interview. Shoot me an email to bloggingthemovie [at] gmail.com

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Let me re-introduce our film crew Paper Plane Productions. Their recent work includes filming the behind the scenes footage for The Rebel - the most expensive Vietnamese blockbuster movie to date. Paper Plane Productions also edited the trailer seen below. Enjoy!

Film crews for documentaries are dramatically different from full on movie productions. The crew has to be small enough to travel all over the world with me, yet their must have top of the line equipment to capture the best quality. Paper Plane Productions has experience working in extreme weather conditions of the Vietnamese jungles, so filming bloggers all over the world will be a nice vacation.

FAQ: How can you possibly afford a film crew with such a small budget of $50k from the car?

Well for one, we plan on using a trailer for Blogging The Movie (which is currently in progress) to get investors and sponsors involved. There’s one other thing and it’s called “Royalties”. They will be sharing percentages of the profits when a major distribution company picks up the movie. Once that happens the money will pour in like passive income. That’s why they will be fighting even harder to make this movie a success.

Just like how I know that once this is a success, the cash will flow in to this site. Imagine Blogging the Movie dot COM being branded as a resource center for millions of people that are starting off. Imagine the traffic that the site will get. Imagine the affiliate programs trying to buy ad space on this site. Imagine the traffic the 10 featured bloggers will get. Imagine the media of giving away a free car through blogging.  Imagine being branded as a 1 of the 500 sponsors for the free car giveaway.

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