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Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Fiction writers canâ??t be trusted. They make things up.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.