Certain books are famous--or notorious--for changing people's lives: the Bible, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Atlas Shrugged.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter provided gushy cover blurbs.

FORBES: Logrolling

Mark Victor Hanson of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame could easily fold up his tent and go home but instead he chooses to teach young people how to start their own businesses.

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The editorial content in the 112-page issue was made up of the kind of short, uplifting contributions from real people that made the series of books based on Chicken Soup for the Soul a success.

FORBES: Schmaltz Appeal

We were told that anthologies are hard to sell (and especially anthologies about women), despite the success of Chicken Soup for the Soul and This I Believe (both of which our anthology has been likened to).

FORBES: An Industry in Turmoil: From Borders Bookstores to Self-Publishing

One of the most successful direct-to-consumer books actually came out years ago: "Chicken Soup for the Soul" sold over 2 million copies from its self-published origins in 1993 while the tools for all this were still in their infancy.

WSJ: On the Web, Amateurs Rivaling Professionals

Ray has had the good fortune to work with stellar clients such as New York Times Best-selling authors Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (creators of Chicken Soup for the Soul), Joel Comm (author of Twitter Power and The Adsense Code), as well as Armand Morin, Alex Mandossian, Jeff Walker, and many others.

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