Jul

7

How to set up a Google Calendar to schedule the time to plan, write, promote, and profit from your book

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
If lack of time is keeping you from finishing your book and enjoying the benefits that it can bring to you, check out my latest Published & Profitable illustrated feature, Use a Google Calendar to Find the Time to Write Your Book, recently added to the members area.
You’ll find detailed step-by-step [...]

Jun

30

9 profound ideas to help you write your book from the “Dumb Little Man”

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
The Dumb Little Man is a blog with weekly tips about practical life ideas that often focus on writing skills. Postings are concise, well written, and detailed enough to be helpful. One of the best recent posts was Alex Shalman’s 9 Ways to Jumpstart Your Writing Goal. Definitely worth reading and [...]

Jun

23

Keith Rosen can help you find the time to plan, write, promote, and profit from your published book

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Several Published & Profitable members and several recent Guerrilla Marketing Association interview guests have stressed the importance of going “outside of field” in order to gain new ideas and inspiration for their projects. With that in mind, I’d like to describe one of the most useful time management books I’ve ever [...]

Jun

16

Authors can plan their book’s success in daily working sessions as short as 30 minutes, or less

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Planning can help authors greatly increase the likelihood of getting successfully published. Authors must plan their book before they begin to write their book. Planning a book involves tasks like analyzing existing books in your field, choosing a unique title for your book(i.e., one that creates a memorable brand), and identifying [...]

Jun

9

When choosing a title for your book, try words that arouse curiosity

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Authors searching for memorable titles for their book should explore book title options that incorporate apparent contradictions. When a prospective book buyer encounters a title with an apparent contradiction, it arouses the reader’s curiosity, as they ask themselves: “How can that be?”
One of the best “opposites attract” titles is David Chilton’s [...]

Jun

2

Before you write a book, judge its title from a bookstore’s perspective

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Although your book’s title is–quite justifiably–the center of your world while you write your book, your bookis just one of the hundreds of thousands of the books viewing for the attention of the “gatekeepers” between you and readers encountering it in bookstores. Before your book can be displayed on bookstore shelves, [...]

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

19

Base your book’s title on a list of reader benefits

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
For many authors, he hardest part of writing a book is choosing a title. Authors, however, can get a head start on choosing a process by simply making a list of the benefits that readers will gain from reading the book. Many start their list by hand, perhaps while at [...]

May

12

Let Richard Pachter, the Miami Herald’s business book reviewer, help you research successful nonfiction books

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Research can play an important role in planning your book’s success. You need to know what’s selling and what are the characteristics that book reviewers look for when reviewing books. An excellent starting point is to explore the writing of Richard Pachter, who reviews business and nonfiction books for the Miami [...]

May

5

David Meerman Scott encourages you to make Google your planning partner while searching for the right title for your book

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
One of the wisest voices in nonfiction writing is David Meerman Scott, a member of Published & Profitable’s Editorial Board. David brings years of international journalism and press relations experience, along with the knowledge he researched while writing The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
One of David’s recent comments to me [...]

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