Share your July writing progress, and any questions or concerns that surfaced during the month, during Published & Profitable’s July End-of-month Book Coaching Call.
Share the progress you made writing your book during July
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Tips for Managing Content & Multiple Writing Projects with Dashboards
Bonus Tuesday writing tip
Authors, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals struggling with information overload and multiple writing projects are invited to check-out my 4-part Managing Content with a Dashboard series on the Mindjet blog: appeared last week, Part 4, Writing with a Content Dashboard.
Previous installments in the series include:
Part 1: Why Do You Need a Content Dashboard?
Part [...]
Sell more books by sharing your ideas online with interactive maps
Thursday’s profit tip of the week
Now authors and publishers can now sell more copies of books and back-end information products by encouraging blog and website visitors to explore their book’s contents online, without downloading PDFs.
The above map shows the contents of my latest book, #Book Title Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Compelling Article, Book, and [...]
What was there a turning point writing your book?
Did you experience a turning point while writing and marketing your book?
Do you remember a specific moment, or experience, that either convinced you to write a book, or that encouraged you to continue working on your book? For example:
Was your turning point based on observing another author’s success?
Was it someone’s comment or sudden insight?
Did something [...]
Why you should “model” your favorite author’s style
Authors should feel free to “model” their favorite authors writing style. Modeling is not plagiarism; modeling is learning from other authors and–where appropriate–letting them know how much you’ve learned from them.
Modeling involves taking the time to identify the characteristics you like best in your favorite author’s writing. These characteristics can include chapter and paragraph length, [...]
How Twitter helps authors sell more books by exposing them to potential readers through serendipity
Twitter helps sell more books by providing a process that facilitates serendipity. As described below, a Tweet can set an unplanned process in motion with and unforeseen results that, in my case, sold a book I didn’t even know about.
For example, yesterday morning, Chuck Green, @ideabook, a graphic designer posted a Tweet describing a large [...]
