Show #40: The Double Trouble Wrap-Up
While traveling north on Interstate 95, The Sarge and Captain Kiwi look back on the epic-sized promotion that was Double Trouble. Beginning with the promotion of 08.08.08, giving a few nods to the oddball billboards roadside, and expressing opinions made and lessons learned, Tee and Pip pass the time in their return to Virginia with their look back on THE 2008 EDITION of Double Trouble…
00:00 — Intro
- The Sarge is back, and ready to get cooking again with the podcasting!
- A quick review of The Survival Guide and why I’m running with this for Show #40
- Current read: Digital Magic (and a cracking good read at that!)
- Recorded live from the road…
04:15 — Phase One: The Amazon Run
- Full results of the 08.08.08 rush can be found here.
- So how does someone get Boing-Boinged?
- Note #1 for Double Trouble 2009: Wear Lower-Cut Blouses (Pip) and Tighter Jeans (Tee)
- Lessons learned in the promotion push
- Shout-out to Mur Lafferty for her Playing for Keeps promotion!
- Pip’s lesson on what doesn’t work in audio…
- Special thanks to Dragon Moon Press for making this all work!
08:50 — Phase Three: The Pennsylvania-Maryland Micro-Tour
(Yes, we told this out of order…we get to Phase Two a little later…)
- First Stop: Watch the Skies
- Note #2 for Double Trouble 2009: Do not drive and perform sound checks!
- Good times in Camp Hill
- Good times in Bethlehem…more for the company than for the sales at Moravian Bookshop.
- Note #3 for Double Trouble 2009: Find Ruder Americans
- Pitching ourselves to Sheer Brick
- Constellation Books: A rousing success for Dragon Moon Press
- Constellation loves the podcast authors!
17:02 — Phase Two: The 2008 New Media Expo
- “So this is what our books look like!”
- Note #4 for Double Trouble 2009: Avoid marking books (Tee) while liberally marking books. (Pip)
- Meet-up’s at the New Media Expo
- Note #5 for Double Trouble 2009: Stop Making Promises You Can’t Keep (Tee).
- Note #6 for Double Trouble 2009: Avoiding the “Explicit” Tag is a real pain!
- Positive things from the New Media Expo
- Distracting road signs
- How was Las Vegas?
- Star Trek: The Experience & Quark’s Bar
- The interactive trip into Roddenberry’s world
- Warp Core Breaches…nom!
- Geek Nirvana
- The Rat Pack is Back
- Zumanity
- Star Trek: The Experience & Quark’s Bar
- Wasn’t there a new media expo happening there, too?
- Note #7 for Double Trouble 2009: Stock up on water when in the desert.
- Opinions on the new direction of the NME
- Note #8 for Double Trouble 2009: The ass-riding begins in October.
40:20 — Phase Four: Dragon*Con
- Driving down in a convoy and taking a break with Poison
- The nice thing about not having a booth at Dragon*Con
- A few problems with panel scheduling and Tee’s blood sugar…
- The Parties
- Pimps & Hos II: The Wrath of Bone
- Hosted by Scott Sigler’s cousin, Soupbone
- Mur, Pip, and Christiana being objectified…but working it.
- Pimps & Hos II: The Wrath of Bone
46:54 — Promo
49:48 — Phase Four: Dragon*Con (continued)
- Guest Bumper: The Dead Robots Society
- A word from The Sarge: This isn’t the last Double Trouble to be had…
- Continuing from the D*C 2008 Parties…
- Pimps & Hos II: The Wrath of Bone
- Mur, Pip, and Christiana being objectified…but working it.
- Note #9 for Double Trouble 2009: Just say “No” to flasks.
- Books & Blackwell I
- A joint art show and book signing with Pip, yours truly, and J.R. Blackwell
- A good night for Captain Rafton, even with Macha giving him attitude.
- When things turned uncomfortable at Books & Blackwell…
- Pimps & Hos II: The Wrath of Bone
- The people we met at Dragon*Con
- Note #10 for Double Trouble 2009: Steampunk. That is all.
- The 2008 Parsec Awards
- A good time, even with some of the last-minute SNAFUs
- The Case of The Singing Sword makes a surprise win!
- Captain Kiwi pays the Sarge…a compliment?!
- Even KrakenThief made an appearance…
- Missed the Parsecs? You should be on Twitter!
- Losing track of the time and space at Dragon*Con…
- The Podcast UN
- The Brigadoon Effect of Dragon*Con
- Random flashbacks and opinions on the visit to Atlanta over New Zealand sweets…
- Make sure you track with Dragon-pod.com in order to support and develop the Podcast/New Media track.
1:20:39 — What is coming up for Philippa Ballantine?
- Erotica ala Carte
- Weather Child
1:25:00 — The Big Finale: SOUTH OF THE BORDER!
- Shopping chatchka
- Hustle in the parking lot from the 20-something redneck and Black Snake Moan
1:28:27 — Was Double Trouble 2008 worth the trip?
- Note #11 for Double Trouble 2009: Do not take Pip to see Equus, even if it does star Radcliffe.
1:29:54 — The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Moment
- The Podcast Peer Awards: What Were They Thinking?
- An award for podcasters, by podcasters, and ORGANIZED by podcasters
- What happened?
- A-U-D-I-O is the correct spelling of “audio”
- PowerPoint presentation for the nominees and presentation, I get…but why create the slides in Photoshop?
- C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N-A is the correct spelling of ONE OF YOUR WINNERS!
- M-O-R-E-V-I is pronounced “More-AY-vee” but if you wanted to crack the joke Rob Sawyer made in 2002, it’s “More 6″ not “More 4″!
- Take a moment to seriously review the details. It separates the wanna-be’s from the pros.
1:36:54 — Closing
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