Verbal Viagra and all that jazz

I've been reading up on marketing concepts, as I am slowly taking more and more control over my own marketing plan. Yes, I know...there are experts for this, but I'd feel better experimenting on my own...of course, if someone wants to step up and volunteer to take it, I'm not hard to find.

Guerrilla marketing involves so many concepts, not the least of which is finding a catchy hook...something that convinces people, some people, that they can obtain benefit by your product (which in this case takes many forms: my website, my books, my appearances)...so, where to go from here...

The books, the idea suggests iteself to call them "verbal viagra". This implies and rightly so, that proper use of the love poems can improve your chance of getting laid and the perceived quality of your sexual function. This is not exactly BS, I have plenty of interesting emails from both male and female readers attesting to the "medicinal" value of my works when used in the right setting. Dating back to novelist Margaret Moseley calling the Panther Cycles "candlelight read-alouds".

The website: Still working on this angle...could apply the "verbal viagra" angle, but the truth is, very few people have a computer on and linked during seduction and foreplay (and many who do are alone at the time). But, to provide "email this" links to all the poems, and point out their value in setting the mood, that may work...still pondering that one.

My appearances. Harrumph. The problem with my readings is that, as a general rule, it is a bad idea to expose your girlfriend or wife to me, as they are more likely to get turned on by my poetry to the end of fixing on me, than on you. Yes, I am not gorgeous, but I am the author of these words and the spring of these feelings. Trust me, I've been on the receiving end of more than a few inappropriate crushes. This one will require the most focusing. Of course, if guys take their gals to concerts by romantic singers, or to movies like "Titanic" and expect to get reqarded for showing their sensitive side...perhaps.

My brain hurts...