May

31

Author media training: Learn how to promote your book without Oprah!

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Published & Profitable invites authors and prospective authors to get the inside scoop on author book marketing and publicity by attending an interview with Brian Feinblum, from New York City’s Planned Television Arts. Host Roger C. Parker and special “insider guest” Brian Feinblum will be discussing How to Promote Your Book Without Oprah! The Oprah [...]

May

30

Create a 7-step Action Plan to promote your book or your business

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Friday’s upcoming event for authors
Join me on next week’s Guerrilla Marketing Association’s weekly expert Interview teleseminar, as I discusses small business and Internet marketing with Stephanie Diamond, former marketing director of AOL. Stephanie and I will be discussing her recently released Web Marketing for Small Businesses: 7 Steps to Explosive Business Growth book.
You’ll learn [...]

May

29

Enhance book royalties by adding new back-end profits created by offering updated worksheet packages

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Thursday’s profit tip for authors
No matter how much effort authors put into their books, new ideas are constantly occurring. Often, these ideas are sparked by reader comments or questions during webinars or live training events. Rather than waiting for the next edition of your book, authors can immediately profit from these ideas by offering supplemental, [...]

May

28

Authors should prepare and review their “talking points” before being interviewed

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Wednesday’s promoting tip for authors
One of the best ways authors can make the most of upcoming interviews (beyond submitting a list of topics and questions they like being asked) is to invest a half-hour, or so, preparing and reviewing their “talking points.” Talking points refer to the key ideas authors want to communicate about their [...]

May

27

Get a head start on writing your book, one paragraph at a time

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
During last week’s interview with Bob Burg, author of Endless Referrals and The Go-Giver, Published & Profitable friends and members heard Bob describe describe his deceptively simple way of geting started writing his book. After creating a table of contents, or list of chapters to be included in his book, Bob [...]

May

26

Storyboard your book, if you’re having trouble planning it

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
If you’re experiencing difficulties using your word processing program to create an outline of your book’s table of contents, try storyboarding your book using a presentation program like Microsoft PowerPoint. Think of a storyboard as a visual way of organizing your book’s contents into the right order.

Start by creating a new [...]

May

23

Published & Profitable end-of-month member coaching call

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Friday’s upcoming event for authors
Published & Profitable members are invited to bring their questions and concerns to this month’s Published & Profitable “Open Mic” event! This 1-hour call takes place Friday, May 30th, at 2:00 PM. Be inspired from the power of group discussion.
I’ll begin the call with a brief discussion of a new topic, [...]

May

22

Make a list of the ways authors in your field profit from their books

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Thursday’s profit tip for authors
Research should play an important part of your ongoing profit opportunities. Try to devote 30-45 minutes a week visiting the websites of authors and obvious experts in your field. Note the different ways they profit from their books beyond revenues from royalties and direct sales of their books. Look for [...]

May

21

Recommended post: “14 things I have learned about book author websites”

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Wednesday’s promoting tip for authors
During the past few weeks, I have been spending increasing amounts of time researching the elements that contribute to successful author websites. I’ve always been reviewing the various blogs on my blogroll to see what other authors have to say about author websites. One of the best was a blog by [...]

May

20

Before you start to write your book, list your 10 biggest ideas

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
One of the easiest ways to quickly make significant progress on your book is to make a list of the 10 most important ideas you want to communicate. You’ll find it far easier to create a table of contents based on the main ideas you want to communicate, than it is [...]

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