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9 Reasons to Write a Book through Blogging

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I have devoted a whole blog to the subject of why aspiring authors should consider blogging a book rather than writing a book. I suggest that taking this approach offers a quick and easy way to get your book written. It’s also a great way to gain readers in the process, thus accomplishing your pre-publication promotion without too much effort….
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Publishing Coach Tip: Make Promoting Yourself and Your Book Fun

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You will find a ton of information here in this blog about promoting yourself and your book. Building author platform, of course, involves promotion. Selling books involves promotion. However, most writers don’t want to take on the roll of promoter, marketer, PR specialist, social networker, or anything else along these lines–even though it’s necessary–because these activities involve wearing a business…
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Talking and Entertaining are Not Communication!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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