YOUR ONLINE PLATFORM … WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU?

You have started a blog, joined social networks, and to your delight, discovered others seeing the world as you see it. You discover, sometimes quite by accident, that you've created a landmark and others look to you for guidance, info, products ... you've created a platform. A web-based arena, yours alone—it’s like you’ve a far-reaching microphone. Your platform lets you freely interact. You begin a movement, a wave of sharing awareness with power to reach across the street, state, country … the world. That power is only worthwhile if used well. Benefit others as well as yourself and your platform goes viral. One minute, you’re talking to yourself. The next, your platform broadcasts to people you never dreamed of reaching. Leverage it and move into new business, friends, skills.



We’ll let our guest, La Bartista—her "picture" shown here—tell you about her name. She's “a lifelong movie and TV nut buying and selling entertainment ephemera online.” It began as a hobby in the day of America Online message boards via an addiction to the classics and a desire to learn about her favorites. First it was Sherlock Holmes, and then the actor who played him, Jeremy Brett. Ultimately she’d created The Brettish Empire. La Bartista—the name a part of her platform—has since created websites and blogs, speaks at conventions, gets to know those close to stars of yesteryear, and is preparing a book on actor, Paul Richards.



Of her multiple sites, one of the newsest is a blog tribute to actor, Jack Kelly, The Tall Dark Stranger There.

Create a platform of your own to suit your needs and the needs of those you reach. Who's your audience? What do you offer? What do they offer you? How can everyone benefit? We answer these questions with OUR ONLINE PLATFORM … WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? Join us 5/27, noon–1 PM EST. Register at Three Wise Girls and share your stories. Enter our chat room, or call 347.994.3835.

Classic Entertainment -- Feeding The Niche

It wasn't long ago when the idea of "classic movies" went no farther back in general memory than maybe twenty years for most. Not so anymore. These days, there is a growing hunger for anything nostalgia, especially in classic entertainment. Whether it's in TV or movies or even radio shows from pre-TV days, the market is exploding. Are you interested in Cary Grant or Clark Gable or Robert Taylor? Check the internet ... you'll find exactly where you can get the latest and greatest in everything and anything related to classic film, TV, radio and its mega-stars.

What if you're more intrigued by names which not everyone immediately recognizes, such as Colleen Moore or Dean Stockwell? How do you find what it is you're looking for on the now more obscure stars from the days of nostalgia entertainment? Again, look to the internet. It's getting easier and easier to ferret out details, or find the old shows, or get photos and magazines and other pieces of entertainment-related ephemera.

And do you even KNOW what ephemera is?!

Join us on The Three Wise Girls, Thursday, May 6, from noon - 1 PM EST as we delve into the world of classic entertainment as it today relates to the booming e-commerce business. We'll talk with Cliff Aliperti who owns www.things-and-other-stuff.com, an online home for everything related to nostalgia entertainment. Cliff will tell us about how he started his business, what got him interested, and how the internet has changed the nostalgia market forever. Cliff has been selling on eBay since 2000. Thanks to his uncle, he's been in the nostalgia business--starting with baseball cards--since the mid 1980s. He moved into entertainment collectibles, and has been at it ever since. Cliff will chat about his journey, how the market has changed, and what he thinks is the future of nostalgia-for-sale.

Add to our guest list Jenny Allan who, under the name Jenny Curtis, has authored three books on classic film stars. She is equally well known in the world of classic movie geekdom as "Jenny the Nipper." She writes a blog, Cinema OCD, comprised mainly of rants about whatever movie is obsessing her lately.


Please call in and chat with Cliff & Jenny about your favorite entertainment figure or movie or TV show from days past, or visit our chat room. It's more than likely Cliff has some memorabilia for sale related to those stars you can't forget!

www.blogtalkradio.com/threewisegirls ... chat room log-in at that page. Call in to talk with us on the show at 347-994-3835 after noon EST, Thursday, 5/6. The Three Wise Girls--and Cliff Aliperti & Jenny the Nipper--want to hear from you!