A book or a business card?

A book or a business card?

If you’re having a business meeting with a potential supplier and, instead of a business card, they put a book in your hands, what does that say to you? Most people perceive a book as having value, outside the materials it’s printed on.  So it has a more positive...
Is this the year you’ll write a book?

Is this the year you’ll write a book?

Here we are at the start of a brand new shiny year – and many people are fired up about what they can achieve over the next 12 months.  If you own a business, it’s not just your personal goals, but the ones you set for the business too. Many of the business owners and...
31 questions every budding author should ask

31 questions every budding author should ask

If you think being the author of a book would be a good business strategy then there are some things you need to consider first. Why you? What qualifies you to write about this subject? Have you got a following for this area of expertise either on your blog, social...
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...
7 steps to make writing a book easy

Have you got a book in you?

I’m not talking an epic novel here – but, if you’re an expert in something, you’ve almost certainly got a book in your head.  The challenge is turning it into a powerful marketing tool. I’ve written a lot about writing, publishing and marketing business books, but...