Deborah and I have been traveling back and forth from Hawaii to the mainland for several speaking engagements and business coaching “playshops” over the last five weeks (with one more two week trip starting this week.) Things have been hectic with the launch of the new “Marketing With Business Blogs” multi-media coaching course, and a new breakthrough business coaching program we’ll be revealing this weekend when we present at Stephen Pierce’s Unleash Your Marketing Genius event in Ann Arbor Mi.

But I just had to take a couple of minutes to let you know about this little firestorm about started at a recent internet marketing conference. It has to do with royalties “supposedly” due to a company that “supposedly” invented the MP3 technology.

Yep, that’s right — royalties on your MP3 Podcasts! (Or any MP3 products for that matter.)

I heard about this a few months ago but after doing some investigation and speaking with our attorney thought it was so ridiculous, I forgot about it. But now, some opportune marketers have decided to use this trouble making company from France (no surprise there) as a scare tactic for promoting their products and services. One of my friends let me know about what was said at the Las Vegas marketing conference right after the event, and I think it’s outrageous that marketers would attempt to sell based primarily on fear and mis-information.

Jim Edwards wrote a great piece addressing this issue in detail over at his “igottatellyou” blog and I suggest you give it a read. There are several good resources mentioned in the comments section as well if you’re interested in doing more research on your own.

Deb and I just got done with a business blogging article series that we’ll be starting to post on Wednesday. We should be back on track with our regular posting schedule now, even with this upcoming two week trip. They’ll be some exciting changes coming to the blog when we get back in August.

Happy business blogging!

John-Paul Micek is a contributing partner in the only multi-media course that truly coaches business owners how to integrate business blogging for more traffic, more clients, and more profits — Marketing With Business Blogs.

He’s a published author and weekly columnist for the business section of the Honoulu Star Bulletin. He’s known as the “Click-and-Mortar Business Coach” by by business owners around the world thanks to members of the Business Owners Coaching Club.


The © Copyright to all audio, video, images, and text are held by RPM Success Group Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons License.