When can you be better than the best

Some kind words I found in my inbox.

From: Donna Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:38 PM
To: Tracy Repchuk
Subject: Tracy, You're Better than the Best!

Tracy, you're better than the Best, and I'm the Best!

Better in the sense that you take your genius to it's height, and I haven't yet. But, I will!

I love you Tracy Repchuk for the person you are.

You don't realize the magnitude of how you helped me.

You've helped me to the height of the help I needed to allow the genius within me to escape the bondage of my mind, by allowing me to express suppressed thoughts filed in my mind under the title To Be Recognized.

You've helped me to accept the realization that I had potential

--Thank you Tracy Repchuk--I will always be your biggest fan!

I am forever willingly indebted to you, until the day comes that I am your equal in genius.

Tracy, I believe it was your energy which attracted my energy where your Genius discovered my undeveloped Genius.

May Love, Peace
&
Serenity
Be With You Always

Donna Thompson
Foresta Gump
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Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs A Must See - Review

Well I just got back from a pre-release preview of Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs and it was amazing.

I'm going to break this down into categories because there is so much to talk about.

Graphics

This movie was in 3D and the imagery was fantastic. It was so real, the fur on the squirrel, on Manny, the snow as it fell, the ice, the snow in general, the leaves, the flapping eyelashes, almost everything was so detailed I can't imagine how much effort went into the smallest amount of shadowing.

3D Effects

In general the movie was visually spectacular and 3D was a bonus. No matter what element or scene you were watching, there was such a subtle 3D effect that it didn't seem seperate as they most often do - movie, then 3D, the integration was so seamless, it all seemed to pop off the screen.

Hilariously Funny

- When the female squirrel Scratte ripped the fur off of Scrat the guy squirrel and it shows a naked chest, that looks real (reminded me of Steve Caroll in The 40 Year Old Virgin when he was getting his chest waxed)

- When Sid tried to milk a bull thinking it was a female

- When Sid made faces on the eggs he adopted, reminiscent of the Wilson Volleyball in The Castaway

- The transitions between both squirrels as they switch from fighting over the nut to wanting each other

- When Diego couldn't catch the gazelle, and it came back to taunt him. Character had very similar attitude to Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock) in Madagascar.

- When Scratte got thrown off the cliff by Scrat as they fought over the nut, and Scrat jumped off to help her, only to discover she was a flying squirrel and could easily fly to safety, leaving Scrat to hit the ground in Wily Coyote fashion.

Story

They took a simple concept, and kept you engaged, delighted, sad, happy, and totally connected at all times. They took you from Ellie and Manny planning on the arrival of their first child and how that affected the tribe, to needing to rescue Sid who had been taken back to a lost land of dinosaurs because he stole eggs and adopted the dinosaurs which hatched as his own. From the way the lost land was found, to the roller coaster ride they would take you on as you traversed the land on snow and ice slides, it was believable and exciting. The last comment I have here is the great subtle references to other movies, and scenes, and icons that you immediately get when you see it, that takes it from another typical movie to a well written, well thought out not just sequel, but movie that can completely stand on its own.

Character Development

By now the characters of the Ellie, Manny, Sid and Diego are pretty well established, and you can see the consistency that continues. Each character has been taken to one more dimension with Manny's emotional connection, Sid's desire to be a parent and take care of someone, to Diego's degredation of his vitality and energy and how that affects his self worth.

But this time life was brought to the nut. It wasn't just an object the squirrels fought over, it had an intimate connection to Scrat, and like a persona type poem, was given emotion and believability.

Even the new comer Dino Momma was given enough emotion to care for the always annoying Sid who stole her babies.

The Cast

Ray Romano is of course back as Manny, and does a perfect job. It's a new age for an Eeyore type character.

Queen Latifah - Great as Ellie, and I love how her character was always willing to do anything for tribe, family, and the sake of adventure, even while pregnant.

Sid - John Leguizamo - I can't imagine how difficult it was to keep up the slurring sounds of his character, yet pull of massive tone changes.

Overall - A+

This was the best animated cartoon movie I have seen to date. Prior to this my choice was Coraline, which seemed to hit a new level of 3D techniques. This however exceled in story, writing, graphics and it had all the emotions which the audience celebrated and journied with all the characters.

No matter what you're age, you will enjoy this movie. If you have to pretend to have kids, just do it.

I know that I really liked a movie when I'll go again to see it at the theatre, and buy the DVD, which is the case for Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Tracy Repchuk
Marketing Makeover Maestro

Internet Marketing and Poetry

Internet Marketing and Poetry

Now this may seem like an odd combination, but since my entry into the Internet Marketing arena, I have found many uses for using these skills in my life as a poet, and as a person who is the president and founder of the The Canadian Federation of Poets, and Founder and president of Poetry Canada Magazine.

And knowing this has made my life much simpler. Since I just completed running an event at the Artists for a Better World Festival this past weekend, it had me thinking about how I use technology for non internet marketing businesses as well.

Examples of where these skills have been applied has been to:

1. Managing members and the database of poets. For me, without the online technology of autoresponder systems such as Autoresponse Plus managing the many different databases I manage would be unbelievably difficult.

For example here are the lists I have to manage just for this one thing:
1. Paid Members
2. Ezine subscribers
3. Anthology submissions (this is 10 separate lists)
14. Poetry Canada subscribers
15. Poetry Canada online subscribers
16. Poetry Canada contributing poets, artists and photographers
17. List for poets who want internet marketing advice and guidance
18. List for poets who want book selling advice

That is just one of the companies I run. Can you imagine if I didn't have a system in place to organize and coordinate all of that. It allows me to create one email, that can go to every person on a specific list. But more importantly, having this online in a system, prevents issues regarding spamming and increases the significance of my success rate for emails that arrive.

The other thing which is very important, is the emails are personalized, increasing the relationship you have with your list.



2. The ability to run and organize large events, such as what I just did this past weekend with the Artists for a Better World, as part of their festival. Within the festival I ran a very successful poetry event, that contained some big name poets and actresses from the Los Angeles area. Gathering bios, confirmations, invitation to participate acceptances, all of this was automated as much as it could be. Which meant while I was in the UK making my presentation at Britpack Live, doing what I needed to be doing, messages were getting sent making sure the poets were ready, bios were in, times and dates, directions, order of appearance, everything was coordinated, because if it wasn't, the lack of communication causes chaos and confusion, which spills over into the event. Over the next few days I will add some testimonials as they come in (by automatic request), and post them here for you to enjoy as well.

So my point really is, no matter what your industry or interest, chances are internet marketing can automate it, because the 3 successful actions any business can take is:

1. Systemize - get a process that works and repeat it
2. Automate - get software or systems automated that run the systemization
3. Monetize it - didn't apply to this event because it was a charitable function, but from a fundraising or monetization viewpoint, you need your ideas to make money for you, so always look outside the box or copy what someone else is doing that works...

because "Success Leaves Clues."

3. A poetry anthology is a difficult task of organizing and communicating with the many different poets that submit, plus the organization of their submissions. Because of Internet Marketing, I am experimenting with mass anthology calls, in fact there is a 10 Book Poetry Anthology Call on right now for any aspiring poet readers (which I know are out there, because the number of closet poets I encounter in business is staggering). Because I have been able to systemize and automate so far, things like this can happen, and will give poets a big opportunity to get published, and really take their poetry careers into affluence with multiple acceptances in one year (providing your work is good of course, internet marketing will not help you improve your poetry, unless you read how to guides online).

Have a wonderfully poetic day.
Pictures and more testimonials will be coming soon.

Testimonial:

"Tracy, It was truly an honor to be a part of this incredible line-up of poets, and it was wonderful to get to meet them and encounter the brilliance of their work. I appreciated the diversity of the performers and reveled in the sheer brilliance of the art form of poetry. I found the theater as well as the precious space of nurturing created mainly by you and your delightful and gorgeous family a privilege to play in.

I feel very blessed to be included in your sphere of light.

God Bless You..I look forward to more endeavors together."

Tamsin Rothschild - www.tamsinrothschild.com

Tracy Repchuk
Bestselling author of 31 Days to Millionaire Marketing Miracles
and The Poetry of Business
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