Monday, February 16, 2009

Publish, distribute and monetize your content immediately.






If you have ever tried getting a book published by a traditional publishing house, you already know that it is more than a notion. First, you have to get an experienced literary agent. They are hard to come by. Next, they have to pitch your book idea and book proposal to dozens, if not hundreds of publishers. If and when you get signed, you have to accept a belittling advance and give up most of the royalties for your intellectual property. Finally, you have to wait for almost a year for the book to be published, distributed and placed in the stores. We have not even began to talk about marketing. The shelf-life of the book is normally les than 90 days in comparison to the years it took for you to write the book, get an agent, get a deal and get published.

Then, of course, there is self-publishing. All of us have been down this road. However, with the increasing costs of oil, timber and a volatile economy, who wants to kill more trees and maintain boxes with thousands of books, CD & DVD's on the shelves.

Away with all that!

We are pleased to announce our Digital Publishing, Distribution & Literary Group Partnership. This partnership allows you to automatically have global publishing and distribution of your sermons, lessons, lectures, conferences and audio books via our vetted online distribution partners, iAmplify.com, Audible.com and Amazon.com. You keep the majority of the revenues and have instant global digital distribution. The publishing and distribution arrangements that we have created with these companies allows us to eliminate the barriers to entry for you. For a limited time, they have agreed not to charge you for getting started.

It gets better. Your members, partners and followers can add your content to their blogs, emails and websites and generate commissions and extra income as well.

Everyone wins. Everyone earns money.

Check out this cool widget by iAmplify.com which allows you to sell your audio and video content immediately while simultaneously allowing your followers and fans to generate commissions as well. We have integrated this widget into our websites, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, and other web 2.0 communities. You can do the same.


You can even create a popular monthly subscription program in which your loyal audience will receive a fresh message or sermon automatically each day, week or month. That's the future.

Call me today at 404-822-8641 or rodney@intellectualcurrency.tom to get started. We require that you sign our simple agency representation agreement. If you can't reach me, feel free to contact Glenn Rogers at 862-368-0512 or glenn@silverbackllc.com.

i am reaching billions now i am.

Why go mobile?


Why not? Here are the statistics and value propositions for "going mobile".

  • There are 230 million mobile subscribers in the US.

  • 12.5 billion text messages (SMS) are sent per month in the U.S.

  • 68% of 18-24 year olds, 37% of 35-44 and even 14% of those over 65 use text messaging (SMS).

  • You can generate new revenue streams for your ministry immediately.

  • You can build a permission based mobile affinity database.

  • You can cut through traditional marketing clutter.

  • It's a perfect ministry tool for this economy.

  • It's free (at least for now) to launch your mobile ministry.

Our beta has been with Dr. Creflo Dollar, Senior Pastor of World Changers Church International based in Atlanta, GA, New York City, NY and now thousands of cell phones throughout the country. We launched "The Word on The Go" about a year ago. Each and every day, Dr. Dollar sends out a personalized text message directly to his mobile ministry followers and subscribers. The response has been tremendous. People seem to receive the right word at the right time when that text message hits their phones. This ministry is growing each and every day. Because of the success, we will be expanding to South Africa and Europe in the coming months. Check it out today.

If you would like to create a mobile content ministry for your church, ministry or para-church organization, please give me a call at 404-822-8641 or email me at rodney@intellectualcurrency.com.

i am reaching billions now iam

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Your church and ministry's mid-life crisis is over!


A midlife crisis is a term used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the "middle years" of life, as a result of sensing the passing of youth and the imminence of old age. Sometimes, transitions experienced in these years, such as aging in general, menopause, the death of parents, or children leaving home, can trigger such a crisis. The result may be a desire to make significant changes in core aspects of day to day life or situation, such as in career, marriage, or romantic relationships.

I declare that the midlife crisis of your church and ministry is over!

Welcome to the future of your church and ministry. Welcome to the world of web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond. Welcome to the world of ministry relevance with global reach yet local impact. Welcome to the world of potent, powerful, strong and cutting edge ministry. Welcome to the tools and resources designed to help you and your ministry navigate the waters of its mid-life crisis. Welcome to the defragmentation of black Christian media. Welcome to the era in which your media actually breaks even, pays for itself and generates income.

Let's make it happen.

reaching billions now. together.

Reach billions now.

i am Rodney Sampson iam . Nine years ago, I started on a journey of innovation in the areas of new media, technology and the Internet. The result was amazing. We changed the landscape by pioneering the first internet broadcasting network servicing the black church.

I was branded by the leaders of the church as the Techno Apostle. My goal then, and now, is to reach billions now (for the Kingdom, of course) by utilizing every new form of technology, media and tool known to God and soon known to man. Reaching billions now requires global communications tools and the financial resources to maintain them.

As you can imagine, the use of technology requires change; and although change is inevitable, it is often resisted. Many times it is resisted even by our leaders, particularly our leaders of faith.That's ok. Timing is everything; and now with the embracing of the current evolution of the Internet, better branded as "Web 2.0", the time could not be better for the more than 70,000 black churches in America (along with the hundreds of thousands around the world) to boldly step into this next dimension of ministry evangelism, communication and outreach.

It is a part of my destiny to vet these platforms and present to them to you, our leaders of today and tomorrow, for proper and relevant use.

Let's do it together.

i am.