Today and Celebrity Fame The ease of Internet Branding

When I got home last night I picked up the remote and turned on a cable news program. I was busy in the kitchen and could not see the screen, but I heard a voice that I remembered always sent chills down my spine. I went into the living room and sure enough, I looked in my face the swastika on the forehead, cigarette in hand, Charles Manson was further "the same brand." "By Jove," I thought, "Andy Warhol has promised 15 minutes, and this rift has been 50 years!"

I had a Double-Take. I would not be so surprised that the media had given yet another Andy Warhol 15 minutes, I worked in the media for almost two decades before saying "enough is enough", as I see it going in a direction that precious camera was once delivered to the infamous rather than the famous and often the famous had worked hard and was productive throughout his life to get where they were. In other words, the hype was winning out over good broadcasting. I'm not saying that the stories of these celebrities should not be mentioned or remembered. It 's important to remember the Holocaust. It is important to remember Hilter, and for obvious reasons. It serves the educational process. The mass media can have a powerful effect on the teaching of a government, a nationality, an entire nation on how to avoid repeating past mistakes.

So I said, "Okay, maybe it's time for Charlie to show his mug to remind us what we do not want to be. The problem I had was with the program was given a full hour of nothing, but his expected trips. He was having a blast. media was showing to the world: "Look, do something crazy like people brainwashed to kill other people, and you two, half a century later, can still be a big celebrity." And This is exactly what was happening.

Manson would have been driven by fame. Did you know (and Steven Stills) and 60 tried out for the band "The Monkees" when you were forming?

I do not think that's what Andy Warhol had in mind with his theory of "15 minutes of fame."

Do not you want your 15 minutes? Do not you want fame? Freud said something to all units. Maybe not fame. Maybe it's money. Maybe he's doing good in the world. Perhaps it is having the money and do good in the world with it. Whatever it is, probably, you are willing to work for it.

As a cartoonist and writer, I got more than my 15 minutes, and I am grateful for that. I was able to help other people, animals and environmental causes, and do things I never dreamed I could do.

What were the steps?

Having a dream. A dream can come true if there is a dream to begin with.

Act on that dream. Write it down. Make a plan. Look for the right people to help make it happen. Use the Internet to speed up that dream. Andy Warhol and his friends Marilyn Monroe and many others did not have the luxury of the Internet. Norma Jean has never had a blog and Andy did not do social networking. You can. You can learn about article marketing. Do it. Do not stop with just a few items. Find the top Ezines and remain to this.

Find a product or service with which you want to be involved, to offer better, faster, more accessible, more unique, and every other corner to make a customer your customer (or fan) instead of someone else. It 's really that simple .......