Many authors and aspiring authors approach their first media or speaking experiences believing they must be entertaining. After all, a good speaker or talk-show guest has the gift of gab and the ability to keep an audience engaged and laughing, right? If nothing else, they have the ability to impart knowledge. According to media coach and regular guest blogger Michael…
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Creating an Audio File Out of a Blog Post
One of the writing coach tips I’ve written about recently involves turning your blog posts or other work into audio files that you can then use on your website, in your blogs and elsewhere for added online exposure. To show you that even I can do it, since I’m not very technologically savvy, here’s my first step. I produced a…
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Sell Books and Find Clients with Increased Exposure Online
Do you want readers to find you and your book? Would you like to boost sales of the other services and products you sell in conjunction with your book, such as coaching, e-books, cds, videos, workbooks, teleseminars, workshops, etc.? Is it your desire to help readers, customers and clients find you so you can build your success as an author…
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Writing Coach Tip: From Passion to Productivity
I work with a lot of authors who begin working on a book project because they feel passionate about their subject. Not all of them perceive themselves as writers. Amazingly, the more strongly they feel about their topic or about accomplishing a goal by writing and publishing their book, the more quickly they tend to finish writing. If you feel…
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Publishing Mentor Tip: Start Building Your Author's Platform Today
If you look back over the last 10 days you’ll find a series of posts about building an author’s platform. (It starts here.) If you’ve never done anything to build an author’s platform, you probably feel pretty overwhelmed about now. If you had never heard of an author’s platform prior to the beginning of this series, you might want to…
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6 Ways to Build Author Platform Using Spoken Words
Most writers like to write rather than speak. I don’t mean they are all reclusive. I mean they tend to consider themselves more adept at writing than speaking. They say, I’m a writer, not a speaker,” and they may even claim to possess a fear of public speaking—along with many other people. Yet, speaking offers writers and authors one of…
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Techniques for Building an Author’s Platform with Your Website
Every author or aspiring author must have a website. This becomes your online home where your readers, prospective book buyers and the media can find you. How many visitors come to your website on a regular basis provides another useful statistic to quote in a nonfiction book proposal. However, if you plan on self-publishing your book, you will want to…
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