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'One Minute With Dec'

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30 Seconds With Dec - Number 2
But how will we fare with WI-Fi?
More proof that 'How To Make A $Million from your Music' Works with a vengeance?
Support other One Minuters?
The Eight Search Engine Optimisation tip
The Visual Laugh
Success Stories
Charts
Chart Comment
Subscriber's Section
The Gags

30 Seconds With Dec - Number 2

I have an immortal statement to make....

- Anyone who tells me that it is easy to run an Organisation like The Serious Writers Guild from a lap-top in any country of the world I will cheerfully punch them in the face! -

Okay, the staff still run everything perfectly from our headquarters in the UK...but all the personal stuff I do, like answering questions from members and answering 'one question only' from non-members is quite a nightmare. Oh, I love answering the questions and giving advice, but trying to attend to 300+ Emails a day is simply horrendous. Oh yes, a lot of the Emails are simply 'Subscribe' Emails from guys wanting 'One Minute With Dec' ... and then enquiries plus very simple questions which I can answer in ten seconds ... but the biggest problem is actually sending out 'One Minute With Dec' ... which is freshly written and full of up to date stuff each week.

Each trip I do overseas I dream up more sophisticated methods ... but still I get so frustrated ... there is no easy way.

But how will we fare with WI-Fi?

In a few years we should all be able to access the Internet on a lap top in almost every country, even in the street ... all working on wireless technology [Wi-Fi]. Somehow I feel it still won't work as simply as they say.

Already, Amsterdam has the system in place and a couple of USA cities are just about up and running. Various airports [Gatwick in the UK] have the system in place. Oh please, please, please whoever is the 'All-powerful' of the Wi Fi world...please hurry up and get it going so that Dec can stop worrying about folk receiving 'One Minute'....please?

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it" - Alistair Cooke

More proof that 'How To Make A $Million from your Music' Works with a vengeance?

Couldn't resist a book in a record store right next to the new Queen album, the album with Paul Rodgers replacing Freddie Mercury. It is titled 'Queen, The Early Years' by Mark Hodkinson ISBN: 1.84449.012.2

I am lucky to count Brian May among my friends and we have recently been in touch re. a project which involves a Queen track.

The book is an amazing insight into the hard work and particularly the modus operandi of creating and designing the band which eventually became 'Queen'. Every single thing they did and every method they employed could be lifted straight out of 'How to Make a $Million From Your Music'. It is quite amazing how the methods I give to guys, desperate for success in this great business, are precisely and exactly the same down through the years. In fact, strangely, the reasons for not having success are so obvious to guys like me. Reading Mark Hodkinson's book was like a diary of the method for success which all guys who have actually 'made it' have followed.

It fascinated me to see that the main slowness in their rise to fame was caused by "EMI's head of A&R Joop Visser felt they needed to improve their live show" .... something I say over and over to music guys who simply do not understand that success is 80% visual and 20% music.

"Bohemian Rhapsody took three weeks to record and in places featured 180 vocal over dubs" - Mark Hodkinson on 'Queen'.

"I normally take 3 weeks to record a track and my record is 100 vocal tracks" - dec cluskey

Isn't it amazing the way so many of the successful record makers think the same? So why do so many guys struggling for success want to make a record in a day? And only have one vocal?

Support other One Minuters?

I love hearing success stories....Fat Cats are now touring world wide!

News and Gig pages have been updated at www.thefatcats.net, including pics of our recent tour with cheeky chaps Once Over....

Over the last couple weeks we've been getting some good support from Mike Davies at the Lock Up on Radio 1. We've been played several times and thanks to all of you who emailed the show. You can pester them some more at thelockup@bbc.co.uk to request Fat Cats tunes and sing our praises. We will love you forever if you do...!

See you soon,
The FCs

Sun 20 Nov. Liverpool, The Flute,
35 HARDMAN STREET, L1.
The Swing Ball - Benefit for Cancer Research UK.
Other bands include - The Klopeks, Zatopeks, Buzzkill, Blue Demon, The Kobrakai, Action Hank and The Longshots.
All Day event, advance tickets £6 - 0151 707 6485.

December
Wed 7 Bahrain....Thurs 8 Oman....Fri 9 Dubai

"We are all manufacturers: making goods, making music, making trouble, making excuses."

Will you help a special needs kid at Christmas?

I am in the middle of organising a 'Christmas Party of a Lifetime' for 400 special needs kids at The Atlantis Nightclub on Eastbourne's pier.... 3.30pm-7pm. Monday 5th Dec.,

The club has given us the venue free and we have Beckets Newspapers sponsoring. You may know I am the Patron of 'Lark in The Park' Charitable Trust and we intend to give the kids a day to remember.

We have 100 taxis organised [provided free by the taxi drivers] also coaches and two Dotto fun trains ... we have stilt walkers, magicians, jugglers, music, great acts, Santa Claus.

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young,

but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity" - harvey ullman

The Eight Search Engine Optimisation tip:

For those with Music Web sites. Whoops I gave the wrong link in the mailing last week .... should have read: "To do keyword research you need to visit a few websites and the very best way to do that is to go to http://www.goodkeywords.com "

First tip I gave you was to link to successful sites relevant to what your site is hoping to achieve. You can do no better than link to us at our three sites: www.makehits.com/addurlcom.htm www.makehits.co.uk/addurl.htm and www.liveperforming.com

Many have done that ... you will notice the change in your search engine positions.

A little word about 'page ranking'....w

I will send a separate Email with details of how you can help ... but basically it will cost £25 to provide this party for each Special Needs Child plus an attendant carer.

hat is it?

Page Rank is Google's way of giving a specific value to how popular your website is. It is based on the number of "votes" other websites cast for your website. A "vote" is simply when another website places a link on their web site that is pointing to your website. Generally the more "votes" or links you have pointing to your website the higher your Page Rank [PR] will be. Page Rank is one of the many factors that Google takes into account when ranking websites.

In order to see your own website's Google Page Rank, as well as others, you must have the Google Toolbar installed in your computer. You can get this free from: http://toolbar.google.com

" There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. the second is fear." wally amos

The visual laugh

We all like a laugh, so each week I will give you a 'visual' laugh, just mouseclick on the link [don't forget to come back?]. This one is hysterical.

www.makehits.com/BBCCopsUndies.wmv

"Great men are said to have four things in common:

They speak softly, have a capacity for hard work,

a deep conviction for their cause,

and a consuming belief in their ability to do it." john d. hess

Success Stories:

Go to www.makehits.com/testimonials.htm also www.makehits.co.uk/applause.htm for stories that will amaze you and fill you full of hope for YOUR future.]

"I've been arranging a 4 and a half minute medley of music from the "Band of Brothers" TV series to be used in the next Tattoo. Including fanfare trumpets, pipers (ugh!) and choir. It's cooking! You don't need anyone to refer you - you're a legend!" Richard Barriball

"A record deal, however, is not a panacea, but merely another fight for a band, a different kind of fight" mark hodgkinson

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Charts:

USA [my thanks to Charles in the USA for supplying this]

(1) Gold Digger, Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx [Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam]

1) Westlife - 'You Raise me up'

Download Chart [now the most important chart in the UK]

1) Madonna .... Hung Up

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen

Subscriber's Section:

Only in 'One Minute'

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Only in 'One Minute' ..check out www.makehits.com/archive2.htm

"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank
$100 million, that's the bank's problem." - JP Getty

Regards

Dec

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The gags: [Manchester Evening News Story]

"Manchester Evening News (AP) - A seven-year-old boy was at the centre of a
local courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who
should have custody of him.

The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge
initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and
regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree
possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more
than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her.
When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy
cried out that they also beat him.

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning
that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge
took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have
custody of him.

After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child
welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to Manchester United
Football Club whom the boy firmly believes are incapable of beating
anyone."

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