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For a limited time, we're GIVING AWAY copies of our Celebrity Black Book 2007!
Why? Because there are a bunch of 2007 copies sitting in our warehouse -- we have to move them out before we can start working on the new 2008 edition.
So to speed things up, we'll send you one free if you claim your free copy before Monday, September 3rd (Labor Day).
All you pay is a small shipping free ($9.95 U.S. or $19.95 International).
Get your free copy here:
Like millions of others, I watched Tammy Faye Messner's last interview Thursday night on Larry King, then woke up Friday to the news she had passed away.
Luckily, Tammy Faye was able to spread her message of hope and bravery in the face fo death to millions of people just hours before cancer took her life.
I started to wonder how many people die every day without having the ability to spread their message to others.
When I started Contact Any Celebrity, Corey Rudl of the Internet Marketing Center was the expert and mentor I turned to for advice.
Corey later invited me to speak on two panels at the last Internet business seminar he gave in California before he was killed in a car-racing accident.
After Corey's death, I had to find a new mentor, so I turned to Dan Kennedy. Not long ago, Dan was almost killed the same way, except this time it was horse racing instead of car racing.
What's my point? That we must learn as much as we can from experts while they're with us, because they could go at any time.
Which is why I'm excited to announce I've just acquired the rights to Corey Rudl's last interview, so I can continue spreading Corey's message even after he's gone.
In this interview, Corey and Dan Kennedy discuss the best ways to start or expand a business both online and offline:
Click the link above to listen in...
P.S. If you're thinking about starting or expanding a business, you MUST listen to this once-in-a-lifetime interview with Corey Rudl & Dan Kennedy:
Here's something exciting...
I'm on tight deadline to finish up my new business book, tentatively titled "Celebrity Leverage: How to Harness the Power of Celebrities To Make Your Business Famous."
And you can be part of it!
If you've got a success story about getting celebrity endorsements or simply using celebrities in your marketing and publicity, I might feature you and your Web site in the book.
(It doesn't have to be because you used Contact Any Celebrity. That would be nice, but I'm looking for all success stories).
I'm really going to promote this book, so you'll be sure to get some good publicity out of it as well!
I'll also award the 5 best stories with my upcoming Celebrity Leverage Toolkit, which will be a $995 value.
Here's an example of what I'm looking for:
"I'm a jewelry designer and I use your service to get my product into the hands of the hottest celebrities. So far I have received personal thank you notes from Courteney Cox Arquette, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry... that was out of 5 gift baskets sent. My work has been included in the SAG Awards gift basket and also in one of the Oscar Awards post show events. Because of this, my jewelry has appeared on some of the hottest celebrities in
Hollywood! I'm always recommending your site to other designers."- Amy Peters, Amy Peters Studio, Pismo Beach, CA
(By the way, this is a real testimonial from a Contact Any Celebrity Member!)
That's it -- just a simple 1-2 paragraph description of what you did to get celebrity endorsements and how you did it will do the trick.
Just email it to me here.
Please include your name, email address and phone number so I can let you know if I include it in the book.
P.S. If you want to see more testimonials of how businesses and entrepreneurs have used Contact Any Celebrity to get valuable celebrity endorsements and more, visit:
Happy Fourth of July! To help celebrate your independence, I wanted to let you know about this exercise from Tim Ferriss, author of the instant New York Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek...
As soon as Tim's book came out, it skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. As I write this it's #14 on Amazon.com, and it's been out since April!
Did I mention he's a longtime Member of Contact Any Celebrity, and that he actually recommends us in his book... twice?
So here's the exercise Tim Ferriss recommends to help boost your independence from page 161 of The 4-Hour Workweek:
COMFORT CHALLENGE:
Call at least one potential superstar mentor per day for three days. E-mail only after attempting a phone call. I recommend calling before 8:30 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. to reduce run-ins with secretaries and other gatekeepers. Have a single question in mind, one that you have researched but have been unable to answer yourself. Shoot for "A" players -- CEOs, ultrasuccessful entrepreneurs, famous authors, etc.--and don't aim low to make it less frightening. Use http://www.ContactAnyCelebrity.com if need be, and base your script on the following:
Unknown answerer: This is Acme Inc. [or the office of Mentor X"].
You: Hi, this is Tim Ferriss calling for John Grisham, please.
Answerer: May I ask what this is regarding?
You: Sure. I know this might sound a bit odd, but I'm a first-time author and just read his interview in Time Out New York. I'm a longtime fan and have finally built up the courage to call him for one specific piece of advice. I wouldn't take more than two minutes of his time. Is there any way you can help me get through to him? I really, really appreciate whatever you can do.
Answerer: Hmmm... Just a second. Let me see if he's available. [two minutes later] Here you go. Good luck [rings to another line]
John Grisham: John Grisham here.
You: Hi, Mr. Grisham. My name is Tim Ferriss. I know this might sound a bit odd, but I'm a first-time author and a longtime fan. I just read your interview in Time Out New York and finally built up the courage to call. I have wanted to ask you for a specific piece of advice for a long time, and it shouldn't take more than two minutes of your time. May I?
John Grisham: Uh... Ok. Go ahead. I have to be on a call in a few minutes.
You: (at the very end of the call): Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. If I have the occasional tough question--very occasional--is there any chance I could keep in touch via e-mail?
Timothy includes lot of footnotes with supplemental tips about getting past gatekeepers and contacting celebrities, but to get those you'll have to buy the book :)
He recommends Contact Any Celebrity again on page 203:
CELEBRITY FINDING:
Contact Any Celebrity
It is possible to do it yourself, as I have done many times. This online directory and its helpful staff will help you find any celebrity in the world.
Want to learn how to get celebrities to endorse your book and give you a quote you can use on your book's cover?
If so, keep reading to find out how you can get a free copy of my new audio CD!
I just finished interviewing my friend Jacqueline Marcell, a self-published author who got over 51 big-name celebrities to endorse her very first book (and she had 0 connections).
In this interview, Jacqueline reveals exactly how she did it, including the step-by-step system she developed and the secrets she learned along the way.
Now you can easily get celebrity endorsements for your own book!
And the best part is, I'm giving away a limited number of these interviews on a real audio CD you can listen to at work, in your car, or put on your iPod.
I can't give you this CD totally free, but since you're an author I'll send you one if you'll just help me out with the low cost of $5.72 to rush it to you.
Click here now to claim your free CD!
Why am I giving these CDs away?
Because I want to share Jacqueline's secrets with authors who are serious about getting celebrity endorsements for their books and making it a success.
To help make up for the shipping fee, I'll also include a free 3 month test-drive of my Contact Any Celebrity Private Membership Web Site and Exclusive Online Database, so you can get the contact information for over 54,565 celebrities worldwide and start contacting them yourself for book endorsements and more.
(We update this online database every day -- it's the best source of verified celebrity contact information anywhere).
But hurry, I only have a limited number of CDs to give away, and they're going fast!
Click here now to claim your free CD!
P.S. With the amount of books coming out every day in the publishing world, it's more important than ever to make your book stand out. Having celebrity book endorsements will do just that.
This free audio interview CD will reveal the steps you need to take, and the free 3 month Contact Any Celebrity Membership will give you all the celebrity contact information you need to get them!
I recently spent several hours with photographer Annie Leibovitz as she gave me a personal tour of her latest exhibition: "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005" at the High Museum of Art...
Two loves have greatly influenced Annie Leibovitz's work: her mother (a dance instructor) and writer/essayist Susan Sontag (her "lover"), who died of cancer in 2004.
It's obvious Leibovitz truly loved Sontag, as she gets a little choked up every time she talks about her. In fact, there are almost more photos of Sontag in the exhibition than there are of the celebrities Leibovitz is best known for shooting.
Although Leibovitz's work mostly reflects life, she clearly doesn't like to take photos of people with smiles. In fact, you'll be hard pressed to find any of her subjects in the exhibition smiling.
"You have to understand, my family was the kind that always smiled for pictures. I just thought it was kind of... fake. In the portrait I took of my mother, she's not smiling. She thought she looked old and didn't like the photo. But at an exhibit once all these people were gathered around asking for her autograph, so she kind of liked that."
(Pondering photos of lover Susan Sontag undergoing chemotherapy.)
"I've recently started looking for a cemetery, which is sort of like looking for a good apartment in New York City. People are afraid to talk about death. So before my dad died, I made sure to talk to him about... those kinds of things. But I promise there's more to this exhibition than just death," she says with a laugh.
"The great thing about this photo is if you love George Bush, you love this photo. And if you hate Bush, you hate this photo. I only had 45 minutes to take it, which was a LONG time."
When asked why she thinks she's become such an icon, she says, "A lot of hard work. It's all about the work. Also I don't think of myself as a photographer. I think of myself as an artist who uses photography."
Leibovitz has been under contract as a landscape photographer with "Conde Nast Traveler" since 1993. Other contracts include "Vanity Fair," "Rolling Stone", and "Vogue."
And what about that famous "Vanity Fair" cover of Demi Moore nude and pregnant 1994? "I had worked with Demi a lot, and did her wedding pictures when she married Bruce Willis. I told her then that I was interested in photographing a pregnant woman, which I had never done before."
"I shot some close-ups of Demi Moore for the magazine, and I said, 'you know, we should do some nudes just for you.'"
"Demi called me when she was pregnant with her first child. Bruce was working on a film in Kentucky, so I stopped there on the way back to New York from Los Angeles. Then three years later, when Demi had a movie coming out, 'Vanity Fair' asked me to take a picture of her for the cover. As I was shooting I said, 'You know, this would be a great cover.
'Vanity Fair' decided to go with it -- I didn't quite understand the
impact it would have on people."
"I photographed Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino standing next to each other in my studio, but I had to cut them into two separate photos because they couldn't be together."
In 1994 her most shocking photo at the High Museum was Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub filled with milk. This time around she's got Chris Rock donning "whiteface" and Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland. Clearly some things haven't changed, but a lot has, like getting to finally photograph Queen Elizabeth II. Leibovitz is the first American honored with taking her portrait.
(Brad Pitt, Las Vegas, 1994. Courtesy of "Vanity Fair.")
"They gave me 30 minutes to photograph her. She said she remembered me asking if I could photograph her years ago, and she felt bad for turning me down. The photos were good, but they were more like a document. I did a lot of research; they sent me books of her clothes and jewelry I could choose from.
I wanted to include everything, so we did the shoot at Buckingham Palace. She was a little feisty because she had to wear the whole outfit and everything -- it was a bit like photographing your 80-year old aunt. But she was great. At the end I told her I had made a bit of a mistake and needed her to come back so I could do something else, and she did."
"I got rid of my studio. It was becoming a burden, so now I prefer to shoot in the great outdoors. I'm also using a lot of digital, which I love. If I want to make it look like film I can, and it gives me a lot of leeway with color. For instance I used to not be able to shoot a subject in front of a green tree, because green looks black on film. But now I can do that. I first started using digital when I shot Barack Obama, because I wanted it to look like 'now.' It looks sort of like television."
So what advice does Annie Leibovitz have for budding photographers? "The thing I tell artists now is to make sure they preserve their work. Put it into a book. It doesn't have to be published, but put it into something."
(Contact Any Celebrity President Jordan McAuley (far right) with Annie Leibovitz, friend Matt Burkhalter and a High Museum representative.)
- Annie Leibovitz's newest book is "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005." Her exhibition by the same name runs through September 9th at the High Museum of Art.
(Story: Jordan McAuley, Photos: Matt Burkhalter)
There's nothing better than reading a book and suddenly discovering that you're mentioned in it!
That's exactly what happened to me this week...
I was reading Timothy Ferriss' new book The 4-Hour Workweek (reviewed in the Money section of today's
USA Today) when I came upon not one... but TWO mentions of Contact Any Celebrity!
Here's a mention from page 203:
"Want a celebrity to endorse your product or be a spokesperson? It can cost a lot less than you think, if you do it right. I know of one clothing endorsement deal with the best pitcher in Major League Baseball that cost just $20,000 per year...
It is possible to do it yourself, as I have done many times. Contact Any Celebrity's online directory and its helpful staff will help you find any celebrity in the world."
Cool, right? It's also nice to know the author is a Contact Any Celebrity Member.
If you want to escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich (this is the book's subtitle), I highly suggest reading it.
More Tim Ferriss & "The 4-Hour Workweek":
Paris Hilton's latest book find is Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now. In fact, she's been snapped by the paparazzi carrying it on several different occasions, night and day...
Apparently Paris is using it to get through her time in prison. That's good news for Tolle, because his book has shot to #176 on Amazon as of my writing this.
I noticed Tolle's publishing company even had a photo of Hilton with The Power Of Now displayed on their booth at BookExpo this past weekend.
(Learn how to write a book and get it in the hands of celebrities here).
Want to write Paris Hilton in prison? Here's her address:
Paris Hilton #9818783
Century Regional Detention Facility
11705 S Alameda Street
Lynwood CA 90262
More Paris Hilton:
Today I returned from Book Expo America in New York City, where our "Celebrity Black Book 2007" was on display...
I always love visiting New York, as I have a lot of friends there. The first night my friend Craig and I went to a bar to watch R.J. Helton from the first season of "American Idol" perform. We couldn't figure out why everyone looked like they were about to go on vacation to Miami, until R.J. said "see you on the ship!" and we realized everyone was... it was a bon-voyage party for a cruise set to leave the next morning!
But I had my own fun the next couple of days hanging out with friends and associates. I got to see my friend who's a producer on the "Today Show" and another who works at Comedy Central. I also managed to fit in time to meet with the editor of my upcoming book "Celebrity Leverage" and even meet actress Julianne Moore at Book Expo (she was signing her new children's book).
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" spoke at the PMA Conference I was attending (they asked me to teach next year about How To Get Celebrity Book Endorsements, so that will be fun). Book marketing guru John Kremer was there, who invited me to run over to Javitz Center so he could introduce me to Mark Victor Hansen (the creator of all the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books. And I ran into Tsufit, who interviewed me a while back about "How To Contact Celebrities" you can listen to the two-part interview in the Contact Any Celebrity Member Lounge.
On Sunday, Rosie O'Donnell was the Master of Ceremonies and talked about her new book "Celebrity Detox." She had just left "The View" a few days before. Exactly one year before, I was in New York having lunch with four of the producers from "The View" the same week she was hired, so it was like deja vu all over again!
"Writer's Digest" has just reviewed our new "Celebrity Black Book."
Here's what they had to say...
"The Celebrity Black Book" lives up to its billing as a massive compendium of celebrity contact information.
It has a truly impressive amount of listings for celebrities of all sorts (musicians, actors, athletes, politicians, etc.) as well as for a myriad of companies active in those fields.
This information is conveyed in a very simple, straightforward manner and easy-to-read visual format. The time taken to research, compile, and maintain this resource must be staggering.
- Writer's Digest
