7 steps to make writing a book easy

7 steps to make writing a book easy

If you’re a speaker, business trainer, consultant or any other kind of expert you’ll almost certainly have considered writing a book at some point.  So what’s stopped you so far? I blew a few excuses out of the water in the last blog I wrote about writing books, but I...
Valuable material alert!

Valuable material alert!

You’ve almost certainly landed on a squeeze page at some point if you use your computer or mobile device to research information or learn. What’s a squeeze page? One of those web pages that offers you a free download – or sometimes a video – in return for your name...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

Winners!

You don’t have to be famous to be up for an award – your business may not qualify for the Oscars, but there are almost certainly awards that you can enter. Why bother?  It adds credibility to your business if either the organisation or its leader has won a business,...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

What could Autoresponders do for you?

The simple answer is ‘build relationships’, but as with all simple answers, there’s a lot more to it than that. Here are some of the uses that autoresponders work for: Building your reputation:  When someone joins your list they are likely to forget you quite quickly,...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

Email marketing or SPAM?

People are often worried about running email marketing campaigns – “I don’t want to spam the people on my list” they say.  And they’re right – we’ve all been on the receiving end of spam sales pitches from people who we don’t know or may have given us a business card...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

Does your Facebook page work?

You’ve probably come across Facebook pages with thousands of likes and an active community and wondered why yours only gets a couple of likes a week and hardly any engagement. It’s all to do with the amount of time, money and effort you’re prepared to invest. Facebook...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

Is crowd-funding your way forward?

Crowd-funding is on trend – everyone is using it from start-ups to Olympic sports teams.  Is it something you could use to help your business move to the next level? Anyone can launch a crowd-funding campaign – and there’s a blog here about creating a good pitch – but...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

How to build a press list

If you haven’t done this already, you may be missing an opportunity. Most PR agencies will recommend that you send information – press releases – to relevant publications to get new coverage, but if you don’t have a PR agency or the budget to engage one – how do you...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

What makes a good marketing flyer?

  Everything is digital these days – but then you have to go to a live event and have nothing except your business cards to promote your business. It’s time to create a flyer. Before you call up your designer or open Photoshop, think about what you want to...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

LinkedIn – personal or company?

Many of my clients ask me whether they should be posting on LinkedIn as themselves or their company.  The answer is both, BUT – unlike Facebook, where Pages get a lot of traffic, company pages on LinkedIn are less visible. The pages that do get traffic tend to be the...