Meaningful Marketing Strategies – My Top 10 Recommendations
When I was thinking about what to share this week, I found myself wondering why I hadn’t written about this topic much sooner than now – especially since I feel so passionate about it. Sure, there are many tangible ways to promote and market yourself, in general; whether it be a book or other product or service you want to get out to the masses. However, you can also get lost in the details and comparing yourself to others, if you don’t have a clear vision of what your message is and how ‘you’ want to communicate it. And so, in this blog post, I will share some Meaningful Marketing strategies and my Top Recommendations to help you enjoy the process and reach your goals!
Getting into Your Ideal State of Creativity
There are many ways you can CREATE YOUR IDEAL STATE – of laser focus, confidence, clarity, empowerment and more! In this blog, we’re going to concentrate on helping you to access and create your ideal state of CREATIVITY!
Is Life Getting in the Way of Your Creativity?
I’m extra excited about the content of this blog and next week’s, since I believe these are some of the real secrets to helping people move into action and manifest their dreams – whether creating the content for your first book and/or next, developing a new product, program or service … or making changes to have a healthier, happier relationship! We all have things that we aspire to creating; however, life can get in the way.
Connecting With the Written Word
That said, there are times that we’ve all read an email or article, and then found ourselves re-reading it. We often spend extra time, attempting to understand the message, sometimes second-guessing, and trying not to be offended or turned off by the language or brevity of the correspondence. We’ll even put off responding until we have a bit more clarity.
Here’s some tips to help you build rapport when corresponding by email, something almost everyone does everyday:
Basic Parts, Costs & Marketing of a Book
Whether you are planning to hire production and publishing services, do-it-yourself (i.e. self-publish), engage a PR company, or work towards acceptance through main-stream publishing; the following information can prove very helpful in your journey.
Why Write a Book?
So, what’s your story? Have you always dreamed of writing a book, perhaps sharing about a particular time in your life, or about things you’ve learned that you are passionate to pass onto others? Are you a business owner with a particular area of expertise?
Depending on how you are wired, you might be like many writers that feel they just ‘have to’ put pen to paper… they have something inside of them that just needs to ‘get out’ – and this can apply to non-fiction, as well as fiction.
8 Essential Factors – From Final Manuscript to Published Book
You have a close-to-final manuscript, now what? I remember that feeling when I wrote and compiled Hearts Linked by Courage! I had so many questions. This week I’m going to share with you some of what I learned, providing you with a few key steps to take you from your final manuscript to a published book to help enlighten the publishing or self-publishing path.
Key Steps to Making Your Book Concept a Reality
What’s most important is that you select a process that is helpful to ‘you’, productive and as enjoyable as possible. Yes, I tend to be a bit of idealist. That said, I’ve had a lot of practice and successful experience finding the joy in the journey – although some days better wording would be ‘creating the joy’!
Write a New Story
If this is something you’ve always wanted to do, the great thing is that it is quite attainable these days. But how and where do you to start? Here are some tips: 1) If you haven’t begun writing yet, try creating your preface first, outlining the intention of your message. Also, chunk your tasks into bite-size pieces, considering chapter titles and content, and build from there. 2) Know what your goals are for your book and 3) Hire a good editor, someone that ‘gets you and your message’.