April 2008

How One Author Made Millions From His First Book

Today I’d like to share the story of an author who leveraged the debut of his first book into new revenues of millions of dollars, with the formula you can use to model his success. When I first met Matt Bacak, he was already known as The Powerful Promoter, working with up and coming speakers [...]

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I Love to Hear “How DId You Get So Much Done?”

When you are doing it right, life as an author can be the ultimate lifestyle. You get paid for your expertise People look up to you You time is your own If this doesn’t yet describe your life, could be that you are trying to do things that an author should not do. When you [...]

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“How Not To Be a Turd” and Other Tips for Authors on Social Networking

As you begin using social media to attract new readers, sell more books and become a best seller, you will want to tell everyone you meet about the good things in your life. That what networking is all about right? One thing you’ll want to say is “My new book is a must read” I [...]

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Get Your Book Written Faster, Get More Publicity and End the Frustration

You know it can be very frustrating it can be to get the momentum going with all the other things going on in your life. What if I could show you 7 simple strategies that you could use right now, to work less, but still get more done when it comes to writing or marketing [...]

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Building Buzz About Your Book.. One Famous Author at Time

We’ve been following Rohit Bhargava and his new book Personality Not Included. Rohit is an experienced marketer, and learning book promotion quickly. His post How Malcolm Gladwell Proved There Is Such A Thing As Karma shared some thing new authors learn when doing on site promotions: Doing that, I learned a couple of big lessons: [...]

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Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal

We see more and more stories about blogging with a paragraph like this: Random House announces that it has purchased the rights to a book by the blog’s founder, Christian Lander, an Internet copy writer. The price, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorized to discuss the total, was about $300,000, [...]

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You Are The Author. Let Someone Else Do The Grunt Work.

Your work is important. You have a message to share, and the world needs to read you. And there is only one YOU Authors can get bogged down in the nitty gritty of running your small business (every book is a business) Want some help? Jeff Mills has a ZERO COST ebook “The Outsource Compendium” [...]

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How To Write Blog Posts

Authors who have no trouble writing a book ask me how to structure a blog post, what to say in a comment. I personally just start writing (and my critics will tell you, I tend to ramble). But Chris Brogran usually turns out some of the most readable and useful content on the net.. so [...]

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The Words You Say Will Sell Your Book

Alex Mandossian and Paul Colligan are my long time friends. I have watched them teach hundreds of authors and seen the results of their brilliant marketing minds. Wednesday night, there are going to share their secrets during a special 2 hours teleseminar “Podcast Monetization Roadmap” Imagine how adding “show host” to your list of accomplishments [...]

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