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The first items are obvious ones -- make good music, play live anywhere and anywhere you can for exposure, get friends and family to spread the word, put up flyers for your shows around town and promote by doing live interviews with any radio station, local newspaper, or local TV station that you can get on for an interview (you might be surprised at how often they are willing to do this, to fill some morning news time with a local interest piece).But social networking online is a huge, HUGE factor that can't be ignored. Facebook lets you become friends with hundreds of people very quickly, and then you can directly send a short message and link to them all every day. That's the kind of free advertising you can't find anywhere else. YouTube is another such outlet, and knowing how to cross pollinate between them is key. Record a few great videos of your best songs, upload those videos to YouTube, and then send a Facebook update with a link to that video and telling everyone it's your new video and you'd really love it if folks would let you know what they think.But don't simply use it to self-promote constantly through the day, or you'll lose friends online fast. Be nice and remember that these people have lives and don't want you to only talk to them in order to get them to buy your music. Send other updates with really funny links -- nothing crude or vulgar, since you don't want to offend -- to things like an article in The Onion for example, or a popular hilarious YouTube video of a real-life "blooper". Everyone appreciates a good laugh they can watch at work and share with their friends and family, so provide that once a day and you'll be a person whose updates they read and whose links they click on.Also, maybe once every week, send along a nice note reminding everyone of an upcoming holiday or to set their clocks back for daylight savings or some other helpful tip like that. Or weather warnings are always appreciated -- if you happen to see that there's a bad storm in Wisconsin or a flooding in Mississippi, send a Facebook update message with a quick heads-up in case someone isn't watching the news/weather, and wishing everyone well and hoping they're safe.I'm not trying to encourage you to be disingenuous -- I don't mean "be a sociopath who pretends to be nice in order to exploit people", what I mean is that Facebook is quite simply, when used in conjunction with YouTube, a tremendously valuable tool, but that you can't abuse it and you have to think about the people you are talking to and be nice to them as well. If you're going to become online friends with hundreds of people and send them your music, then be responsible and leave them better than you found them, so to speak. That means being considerate, offering a kind word and a helpful tip now and then, and you'll find it makes you more appreciative of people and friends in real life as well. It will in fact shape your real attitude in a very positive way, which is good for everybody!MySpace is still apparently a workable option as well, and you need to use every workable option you can find. So use it the same way you use Facebook, but on MySpace you can publish your events calendar and your music -- and providing free music and asking folks to pass the song around is great advertising. I'd say that on all social networking sites, publish photos from your gigs, not just of you playing but of the audience having a great time, of you hanging out talking to fans after the show, of you signing a tee-shirt or CD of your band for a fan, that sort of thing. Show people that everyone has a blast at your shows, and that you are cool to your audience.Every time there's a public event at which you could perform, try to get a gig there -- even if you have to perform for free. Your city has a Race for the Cure event to raise money for breast cancer? Volunteer to perform, and to give 10% of your CD and tee-shirt sales to the cause as well. Free music and free money is what they get, and you get exposure and some sales you'd otherwise miss, and you add an extra element that might bring out more people to a worthwhile event.Always photograph and record these things, post the photos and video of the performances on your site and on every social networking site that allows it (and on the ones that don't, post a link to your YouTube page and MySpace page etc). Have free download stickers and iron-ons (I know that sounds dumb, but you can print out images on iron-on paper that is sold at just about any computer equipment store etc like Office Depot, and then iron it onto a blank tee-shirt -- hipsters love iron-on shirt stuff, I swear, because it's cheap and cool and you can basically literally make a homemade shirt of anything, so provide that).Give out free copies of your CD at colleges and high schools if you can, and at malls and events. Just a few free CDs here and there are good exposure and promotion, and you put your YouTube and Facebook etc links on the disc.Real-world exposure helps build your online exposure, which in turn feeds back into your real-world exposure etc. But, although of course we hear about the rare occasional case of this guy or that girl who posted a video of themselves on YouTube singing and became an overnight sensation and a big star, the truth is that the odds of that happening are very low -- real success for probably 99.999% of people doing music depends on performing in the real world, and doing it as often as you can. Book gigs, play everywhere and anywhere you can, hand out flyers and CDs and shirts, and tour -- yes, tour, get a friend with a van or a bus and book gigs in the states surrounding the one in which you live.Hell, book gigs in New York and California if you can, and then go there and play once or twice. Having photos and video of your band at gigs in clubs in New York and Los Angeles will be helpful, I promise you, in convincing a new person to give your songs a listen. If you already live in one of those cities, go do a show on the other coast, do a show in Detroit, do a show in Florida -- touring means you are able to get jobs playing around the country, and that people listen to your music everywhere. It sends a message, real or imagined, that is invaluable.Build real-world fans locally, tour and build fans around the country, and then use the Internet to promote all of that real-world fandom and real-world performances, augmenting it with videos and shirts and other things, and always always ALWAYS be nice and cool to your fans, show them respect and offer them plenty of reasons to stay in touch with you and to click the links you send them.

What are your college tips for an incoming freshmen?In response to your question, I like to share with you a slew of proven efficient and effective strategies for becoming a college success, and yet still have time for fun.To me, navigating the college journey with success is just a matter of strategy and discipline!Here we go:1) First and foremost, have FUN and ENJOY your academic journey to the full tilt;2) Think about your career aspirations in the longer term, and also look at your interests and hobbies, and explore how they can mesh together to help you reach your fondest dreams;3) Set long-range goals and objectives – broken down into short-term, medium-term, and long-term perspectives and covering the most important areas of your life, with naturally academic pursuit as your top priority, followed by career aspirations, physical health, financial wealth, mental development, family relationships, social networking, recreational ventures (including hobbies, interests, sports, vacations, etc.), and spiritual development (including contributions to society, volunteering, etc.).This is to ensure that you have the motivating image of your ultimate success achievement right in front of you, to serve as your personal driving force, so to speak;4) Learn and embrace proven effective study techniques, like SQ5R, 6W1H questioning toolkit, Cornell Method, Index Card Strategy, graphical methods of note-taking and note-making like idea-maps, cluster diagrams, graphic organisers that you can readily use to navigate your more intensive school subjects with ease and ace;5) Make a quick study the nature and structure of each of your academic subjects so as to determine their significance, i.e. understanding why you are studying them, and why they are important, in tandem with the auspices of your career aspirations.Once you have this forward-looking mental grasp, your studying becomes a total breeze for you;6) Understand that studying at college or university level is a different ball game. It's a deliberate and disciplined process, and it involves ten inter-connected, inter-dependent and interactive stages:(i) setting goals and attaining goals;(ii) managing priorities and executing tasks;(iii) reading actively and selectively;(iv) gathering information and generating insights;(v) taking notes and making notes;(vi) organsing information for fast recall;(vii) revising and rehearsing lessons;(viii) preparing for test/exam;(ix) writing logically and creatively;(x) managing stress and increasing energy;7) Because your memory retention and recall is a critical aspect of your ability to negotiate your academic journey through college or university, make sure you pay attention in class [this explains why goal setting is important, because life goals and priorities direct your attention, like precise commands present into the flight plan of a Tomahawk cruise missile homing onto a predefined long-distance target!].In reality, this is the most critical, as it is the first stage of your information intake, which science calls, " schema acquisition". Preferably, during the night before class, you should run through the new lesson on your own to get a gestalt feel or bird's eye view.This is because, when you are learning something new, your prior knowledge will always come into play to make connections and create linkages. More schema, more understanding!8) Also, make sure that you thoroughly understand the content of all your class lectures; if not, you have to ask for clarification or elucidation from your lecturers or professors.To me, the acid test for understanding something new is your ability to explain the new concept to someone else, like your kid brother or even your grandma. No puns intended;8a) A tip for you: at the end of a class lecture, always do a quick recap, review and reinforce, preferably with mnemonics (I call this the 3R's strategy).Science says 80% of your information intake is lost if you do not execute this initiative within 24 hours!Then, in your periodic lesson review/revision, which science calls “spaced and distributed practice”, repeat it in this fashion: next 7 days/next 30 days/next 60 days/next 90days/next 180 days until your final test/exam time.The rationale behind this powerful process is to help you to circumvent the deadly impact of the infamous Ebbinghaus Effect, or better known as the forgetting curve!9) Before you proceed to study/revise each academic subject, learn to segregate them into:(i) concept-based/memory-dependent;(ii) problem-solving;(iii) interpretation/prediction based;so that you can do a mix-up so as to allow you to be more energy-efficient and also to concentrate better, especially during your periodic lesson review/revision;10) Also, with the aid of your subject syllabus as well as exam syllabus, learn to identify and segregate "core material" from "elaborative material".Drawing on Pareto's Law: About 80% of your exam questions are likely to come from your "core material", and so you know what and where to focus first.This is not to say "elaborative material" is not important, but once you have the intellectual grasp of "core material" in the first instance, "elaborative material" will naturally falls into place - in your memory banks;11) Learn to master the 100+ test (or instruction) verbs often used in test/exams, as well as in essay writing;12) Always remember [I hate to say this, but it's a harsh reality], tests/exams are a form of game, and you got to learn to be an excellent game player.First of all, a test/exam is always a game of PRECISION and SPEED.No matter how you look at it, examiners are only interested in your ability to answer questions PRECISELY and EXPEDIENTLY, all within the prescribed time limits. They don't like any fancy stuff from candidates.Now you know why (11) is significant for you!So, to beat them in the game, you got to learn to master the technique of doing a "surgical cut" of the exam questions at first glance, no matter how they are phrased.Award-winning educator from Madison, Wisconsin, Doug Buehl, calls it ‘Question Dissection Protocol’.13) To up your ante in exam mastery, you should also learn how to use global spaced and distributed practice, reciprocal questioning and testing, and the "divide-and-conquer" strategy via a buddy study group.The latter will also help you to garner multiple perspectives on a given academic subject, which are necessary to expand your mental horizons;14) By the way, I forgot to mention this important point earlier:Generally, for a student pursuing an academic subject, the note taking and note making process is as follows:preliminary notes upon previewing your new lesson the night before class; you may have "gaps" and "questions", that's OK, and so you leave a lot of blank spaces in your notebook;pay attention in class, and following your lecturer or professor's explanation or elaboration of the new concepts, you jut fill in the blanks in your notebook; that's to say your class notes are now integrated into your preliminary notes;there may be handout of lecture notes from your lecturer or professor;notes from class discussions or group-work as assigned by your lecturer or professor;notes from your lab experiments and/or fieldwork;notes from your additional readings or research in the library or from the Internet;At least for every semester quarter, or a couple of weeks prior to your final test/exam time, you need to sit down to build global, consolidated and summarised study notes, on a subject by subject basis, as part of your test/exam prep from all the written notes you have accumulated.This elaborate initiative becomes part of your global revision/rehearsal strategy.If you have followed the spaced and distributed revision/rehearsal practice as illustrated earlier, your study of notes then becomes a breeze.From the tactical standpoint, memory retention and recall of whatever you have learned is no more a hassle for you.15) I have in fact written an extended piece on Quora about lesson revision and rehearsal, originally intended for high-school/junior-college students in Singapore, entitled:THE ART & DISCIPLINE OF REVISION STRATEGYHere's the web- link:THE ART & DISCIPLINE OF REVISION STRATEGY16) Last but not least, especially if you are interested, acquire a copy of Adam Robinson's 'What Smart Students Know' and Ronald Gross' 'Peak Learning', and do your best to read as well as digest them. Definitely, you will be amply rewarded!I take this opportunity to wish you a pleasant and successful academic journey, and may all your fondest dreams come true.[2016_College Success]

I haven't knowingly saved a life. I have been thankful enough to not have had a disease that I needed to beat. Those, and many more answers here I'm sure, are above and beyond what I've accomplished in my life.Now, I'm a proud father of two boys. I believe that I'm a great husband and father. Those are my most proud accomplishments. That goes without saying.But there is one that stands out. It is one that many don't get the chance to accomplish in their lives.I made a dream come true.I'm a screenwriter, among other things. And anyone with a basic knowledge of the film industry knows that being a screenwriter is a tough racket. There are literally thousands of hopeful screenwriters out there any given day. Tens of thousands. And out of those tens of thousands, maybe 1% of them ever become WORKING screenwriters. And out of those working screenwriters, maybe 1% of them ever see their screenplays produced with a name cast and big production company.I struggled for years. I started learning the craft of screenwriting in 1996. I moved to L.A. with my wife (then fiance) in 1999. As I honed my craft, I worked jobs in retail, and then in studio security, which lead to a desk job at a major studio, and then into development as a script reader.When my first son was born, I left the studio job (still read for them part time) to focus on my own writing full swing. I had quick success in getting a manager and nabbing meetings with nearly all major studios. Success that would prove to have come too quick, as I only had one notable script.And anyone who knows the film industry understands that the first question screenwriters get in meetings is, "What else do you have?"So I wrote. And I wrote. And I wrote.I managed to nab a Lionsgate deal with one of my scripts, garnering my first paycheck and becoming an official working screenwriter. That's an accomplishment in itself to be sure. And I'm proud of that.But nothing was produced.We screenwriters don't simply write for paychecks. Well, we do, but damn if it wouldn't be nice to see our work as intended... on the big or small screen with a name cast.I moved back to my home state of Wisconsin in 2006 to raise family close to home. It was a risk for my career to be sure. Ironically, my Lionsgate deal (i.e. my first paid gig) came soon after moving back.The Lionsgate deal came and went. Nothing beyond a paycheck.The next couple of spec scripts didn't entice anyone, despite some good word of mouth.Then next thing I knew, it was 2010. I was ready to quit. I had a family to support.A chance email connected me with an L.A. producer who happened to be a Wisconsin native. I forwarded some scripts of mine. He read them and loved the writing. Suddenly, I was hired for an assignment.That assignment came and went. Again. Nothing came of it.Then he pitched me a concept that was presold in foreign territories. They had a script that didn't work, but they needed to deliver something on the concept. Fast.I pitched my take on it, telling them that it would need to be a page one rewrite, essentially starting from scratch.He liked what he heard and offered me the job. The catch was that they needed the first draft in two and a half weeks.Now, this was for a miniseries. A four hour miniseries. Which is double the length of the features I was used to writing. Instead of roughly 120 pages for a feature length script, they needed 250 pages. In two and a half weeks. Starting from a blank slate.Well, after a LONG two and a half weeks of not seeing my family very much, writing in Barnes and Noble and the local University's 24 hour library study halls, I handed in a 250 page script for a miniseries.And it was good.But I had had good scripts before that went nowhere. Good isn't enough. Great isn't either.So when I handed in this draft, I had to wait for the producer and his boss to read it. I expected the worst, make no mistake. Like water off a duck's back. I was used to rejection.My producer called."Ken. Read the script..."Hours ticked by in my head before his next sentence."... and we're pretty happy!"I can't explain how those words felt after years of utter rejection."We took a gamble on you and you delivered big time, man."Wow.Now it all didn't come together right then and there. That was just the beginning.I waited and waited as the production was delayed for months. It was dead in the water for awhile until I got a call that Anne Heche had just signed on. And Eric La Salle. And Bruce Boxleitner (Tron!). And Sean Patrick Flanery (Young Indy himself). And Billy Zane. And James Brolin.And then production began. And then I was invited to be on set, which would mark my first return to Los Angeles in 2011, five years after I thought I was leaving a good portion of my dream behind. That week back in L.A. was amazing as I heard the words I wrote months previous spoken by actors. As I saw that a whole backlot was created for my action sequences and settings.The miniseries debuted overseas in territories like Europe, Latin America, New Zealand, etc. It was a top 20 show.Sadly, it hasn't debuted in the states here yet. However I do have a copy.One of my scripts was produced with a name cast. A dream that tens of thousands would kill for.That is one of my biggest accomplishments in life.Note: The other writers I've never met. I know at least one was the production writer that did the rewrites for production. Perhaps the other was the one who wrote the original script that they tossed, beyond keeping the core concept and some characters.The end product isn't all I hoped for. Some changes were made that made me scratch my head (likely budget related). But a majority of it is my stuff. And for that I'm proud because I defied the odds and watched as a dream came true.