Courses – The Final Frontier of Book Publishing To boldly publish where few authors have gone before… Most people have heard and swallowed the hype that ebooks are all there is to self-publishing, that making 6-figures with a few Kindle ebooks is the trophy every player wants to walk away with. Unfortunately, that’s all but [...]

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Courses – The Final Frontier of Book Publishing

Self-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Know I stumbled across these while researching and testing. I haven’t seen them anywhere else, and they they are extremely practical ideas. First, You Have to Change Your Thinking 1. Authors are Producers. They generate “books-as-containers,” creating all possible versions of that title. Leverage is in multiple versions, as well [...]

Self-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Know

Download audio. The more authors get their content out to more people, the better chance they have of discovery. The more discovery, the better the book sales. I’ve long said that any author could and every author should “write once, publish to as many places, in as many formats as possible.” This is known as [...]

Is it Time for Authors to Speak Up and Sell More?

Download this audio. This could have happened to you – or maybe not. The scene was this: I was listening to some podcasts while working (as radio these days is nearly as bad as the TV news) and got inspired to use this fancy mic I had gotten a few months back. It would be [...]

When Your Case Study Becomes the Next Case Study (11)

Hello again, I actually had a rant ready to spring on you, but decided against it. This is the holidays after all. And it goes against my grain to simply diss someone for acting stupid and selfishly. (Well, most of the time.) So, that we will leave for another day. I did find a great nugget [...]

6 Simple Steps That Guarantee Your Publishing Success

Download this podcast. How Story Grid fights with your muse and upsets a perfectly good draft (while cows give life lessons…) This episode was extracted from a Mastermind group I participated in yesterday. It says everything about what I’ve been going through lately in building a new book. The inspirations are constantly giving new ideas [...]

Story Grid Battles Muse – and Lessons from Cows

Download this episode. How Stories Affect Your Life – and Explain Everything (Show notes…) Something different this week – thought I’d practice some free-wheeling ad lib instead of reading from a polished script. What are you working on now? Learning how great stories are built, as people understand something when they have a story to [...]

How Stories Affect Your Life – and Explain Everything

Playing the Long Game to Win at Life and Self-Publishing …isn’t that hard, but it seems to be a skill to master that isn’t commonly taught Hi there , This week brought to view the fact that 98% of us don’t choose to set goals, and if we do, don’t write them down. But this [...]

Playing the Long Game to Win at Life and Self-Publishing

(Download this audio – Click here.) There are four basic journey-choices you can make to get all the success you want as an author. Some of these are known, some can be observed. At least one isn’t obvious at all. That last one only came up recently in trying to explain some mystery successes I’d [...]

4 Simple Author Models to Use For Your Ultimate Success

How to Resolve and Expand Your Audience Out Of Trust The core value any online commerce runs on is trust. Yet business schools don t teach this. They are instead given all sorts of models to use which take them away from why they are there to begin with. A business is a ongoing exchange of [...]

Exploding Sales Funnel Fraud

How to Shift into Online Business Gears You Probably Don’t Know Exist Imagine that you had a car that only had two speeds – reverse, and low. Wouldn’t that be frustrating? You’d probably be able to go faster backwards than you could forwards. Yet this is the scene that most businesses have. Because people aren’t [...]

How to Shift into Online Business Gears You Probably Don’t Know Exist

Would you believe me if I said I had proof of Amazon KDP being a bully? How about that they are trolls as well? Well, it happened to me like this: I had a book up which got a DMCA complaint that wouldn’t resolve. You see, you can use DMCA to complain about someone else’s [...]

Trolls and Bullies, in the Kindle Author Graveyard

Can you actually write less and profit more? Introduction Deep in the heart of the ever-growing Amazon Kindle jungle, there’s a profitable under-served market which is not easily discovered. It sits in a clearing by itself, much like a massive stone temple rising above the forest. A temple with some gold-filled rooms. Just my kind [...]

How to Write Less and Profit More: A Rich Adventure In Short Read Kindle Publishing

The Beginner’s Book Launch – How to Survive and Prosper It’s time I collated all the material on book launches to sort out how to do this and give myself a plan I can follow. The biggest problem with book launches is that they are either undocumented at the beginning stages, or don’t really tell [...]

The Beginner’s Book Launch – How to Survive and Prosper

Anyone can get a book published. The trick is in getting it discovered and sold... This podcast has a running battle with the "conventional wisdom" being spread that keeps Indie authors from earning the income they should by self-publishing.

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