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A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe tells the story of a pine tree who wants to be a Christmas tree but to no avail as no one seems to choose him when they pass by. His wild forest friends tried to cheer him up and try everything they can to make him a Christmas tree.

Do you know what happens to Christmas tree, after Christmas?

Exactly! They get thrown away! This pine tree finally learn the importance of being appreciated all year round instead of only the quick few days of Christmas.

Expect lots of great illustrations, especially how the forests friends are brought to life. Nothing short of excellence.

The touching story and the illustrations will make this a worthy collection to have. The children will love it!

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This is the classic Grinch story of How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss, published all the way back in 1957! I’m a little surprised myself that this book is still available for sale, after 27 years!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas is about Grinch, a mean old man who wants to stop Christmas from arriving so that people will not be happy. So, he went on to steal all the Christmas presents from the kids, thinking Christmas will not come, since everyone will be sad and won’t be in celebration moods.

Christmas came of course, and the Grinch finally understood the meaning of Christmas after a series of events.

This is a very popular book and even movies have been made, starring Jim Carrey, too! If you don’t have a copy yet, grab one now from Amazon, you’ll treasure it for a long time.

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We’re all familiar with the Christmas Reindeers Story. In fact, most of us grew up with it. Olive, The Other Reindeer is a classic Christmas Children Book that tells the story of a dog who thinks she is reindeer and thus she went to North Pole looking for Santa to help him as one of his reindeers!

The deluxe edition is larger than the original one published in 2007 and it comes with flaps to lift, spots to scratch and sniff, and a pop-up grand finale! This would definitely make a great Christmas gift for children who loves to read. Capture the spirit of Christmas with this meaningful story of Olive.

On the reviews side, you can be assured of the quality of this Christmas book for children as it has received raving reviews all the way from 2007! This is one Christmas book you can be guaranteed of in terms of quality and “entertainability” lol.

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In response to mounting threats of real-time search capabilities offered by social networks like Twitter and Facebook, Google has just launched (today) a ‘past hour’ filter search results capability. With this feature, you can now search for the latest results based on relevancy to your keywords. In a world where most keywords are dominated by high ranking sites like Wikipedia in a regular Google search, you can now filter your results to find the latest (past one hour) results.

This feature really opens up quite a lot of possibilities to help you find the latest and freshest of information online. For example, if you search for “digital marketing” in a regular search, you get Wikipedia’s link at the top spot. While according to Google that is the most relevant result, it most likely (or in this case, definitely) is not the latest.
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The Nielsen Company has recently released a study on the usage of social media among Americans. Guess what, the usage has tripled! Interestingly, here’s a chart on the amount of advertising/marketing dollars spent. As you can see, when advertisers are cutting overall marketing budgets, spend on social media marketing has increased for all industries.

While there’s a lot of hype surrounding social media marketing as the new rules of marketing, including written books on social media marketing such as the one written by Tamar Weinberg, there are also skeptics with different views calling social media marketing as the biggest fad.

I believe social media marketing is indeed the next big thing (if it isn’t already) and it’s here to stay for a long time. What might potentially kill social media marketing are those who treat it as a one-way advertising channel, instead of a channel to build relationship, engagement and most importantly, conversations.

What say you?

If you’re interested in learning more about social media marketing, here’s a great book for you to read.

Cheers!

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When the world is going online more and more, Dentyne in Canada launched an ad campaign telling us to spend less time online, and more time to be with friends offline. They call it the Dentyne, Make Face Time. Developed by advertising agency McCann Erickson, this campaign is witty, relevant and reminds us how important it is to actually connect with others – physically, not just via Facebook or whatever social network you’re on.

Besides the interesting visuals and spot on copy writing, I love the fact that this campaign has highlighted how online we all are in this world at the moment. See it for yourself!

Just a short note, I think this campaign speaks loudest to those who are single and online all the time. When was the last time you did the things as mentioned in the ads?

Been a while huh, plug off and go make face time!

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There has been a lot of buzz over the last few years that there will be more and more entrepreneurs in the next 5-10 years. In as early as 2005 in the United States, one in ten people were already involved in some forms of internet businesses or making full time or part time income online. By now, I’m sure the numbers have increased tremendously and you would’ve heard of countless stories of successful digital entrepreneurs, for example:

1. Mark Zuckerberg, the (at time of writing) 25 year old founder and CEO of Facebook
2. Alex Tew, the 21 year old dude who brought you his Million Dollar Home Page back in 2005 (imagine making a million bucks, just by selling pixels in one homepage!)
3. Carl Ocab, the 14 year old Kid Blogger from the Philippines who’s making 4 figures in USD a month, probably 5 figures by the time you read this

The list can go on and on and on…

Why are these digital entrepreneurs become who they are, digital entrepreneurs, and why you should consider becoming one too? I’m sure everyone’s got their own story to tell, here’s what I believe are the top 10 reasons why you (or any other digital entrepreneurs) should start building an income online today, hopefully they’ll give you some food for thoughts:

1. Retiring young and retiring rich
Every once in a while, we get approached by financial planners who’ll map our lives out financially and calculate the income we need to make in order to retire the way we want to. Well, do you like the figures? Here’s something new, digital entrepreneurship, when done right, can actually help you retire younger and much more richer too! Look back at the fine examples above, god, aren’t they young?

2. Financial security
Ever been through a recession from a global financial crisis? Did you know how many careers were destroyed and how high the retrenchment rate was? You know what, digital entrepreneurs are affected too, but a lot of them actually make more money during the recession too! Digital entrepreneurship is not 100% recession proof but it’s 100% safer than a 9-5 retrenchment risk. The funny thing is, many actually turn to digital entrepreneurship AFTER they were retrenched, and they always ask the same question – why didn’t I think of this earlier?
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When I first started with digital marketing, I spent tremendous time Googling for information and how to manuals. As you would expect, there are just too many Gurus out there offering very different tips from each other and they all have excellent valid points. So who should we listen to? Who’s hotter than the other in one specific topic? Can Alexa ranking really make a judgement?

Advertising Age has a list called the AdAge Power150. It’s an awesome list of the hottest digital marketing blogs in the world, ranked and updated daily through their system.

To save you time, here’s a list of the 100 hottest digital marketing blogs in the world to help you build a sustainable income online. These are the best of the best digital marketing blogs out there for you get inspired and learn from.

Read them, visit their websites, learn, and come back to KeepMovingForward.Asia for more!

Enjoy!

1. Search Engine Land

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This morning I came across an interesting study called the Ruder Finn Intent Index. The chart below summarizes the top 22 reasons why people go online. I find this to be a very useful data for any digital entrepreneurs.

The survey is done on a sample size of 500 American adults, 18 years old and above. What’s more interesting is that the data is dynamic and is updated on a quarterly basis. You should really visit the site, play around with it, drill down further and discover more trends or insights. It’s awesome!

Here’s a screen cap of the results:

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