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Spotlight on the Self-Reliant Entrepreneur by John Jantsch
A brief interview: The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur by John Jantsch offers entrepreneurs a guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life.
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Launching a Brand Story That Your Audience Will Love
Creating a brand story is a great way for others to understand who you are and what you do. Every business has a set of core values, a mission statement, and a brand story that ties it all together. As a personal brand, your story is just as important as any business. Your story helps your readers and audience not only understand who you are and what you do, but it is also a way for them to like and trust you.
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Simple Ways to Define Your Personal Brand for Epic Results
As an author, you need a personal brand. Use personal branding to help your audience and grow your reach. Learn how you can use personality and career testing, core values, your hard and soft skills to define your personal brand and your personal brand mission statement.
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3 Sure Fire Ways To Secure Your Online Presence
Let’s talk about your online presence. I wrote about the benefits of personal branding yesterday, so I wanted to follow up with some strategies. (Here’s the post if you missed it.) It’s bizarre to think that I’ve been blogging on and off since 2000. I have had several blogs discussing everything from Read more…
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Why You Need to Focus on Personal Branding
Personal Branding is more than just your photo.
It’s not just a buzz word.
The term “branding” simply means how others perceive you and your business. Personal branding isn’t necessarily the same as business branding, although it certainly helps your business.
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Do I need to use social media to market my book?
Most of the gurus will tell you that you need social media to market your book. When I started this website, I was intent that I wanted to write more about marketing and less about self-publishing. After all, there is a plethora of blogs out there dedicated to educating new Read more…
Book Promotion Guide
Create a Book Marketing Plan on a Shoestring Budget
It is possible to get traction for your books without spending a lot of money, however creating a book marketing plan without money means you’ll sacrifice your time to get there. Even $50 a month can help promote your book and bring it into view faster than organic efforts (non-paid). Read more…
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Self-Publishing & Pinterest for Business
When self-publishing your books, does it make sense to use Pinterest for Business? Pinterest for Business is not a typical social media platform. Instead, it’s more like a search engine. Pinterest refers to its platform as a “visual discovery engine”. While search engines pull up website link results, Pinterest results Read more…
Book Launch
Using Amazon Ads to Sell Your Book
Use Amazon Ads to promote and sell your self-published kindle or print books.
Book Launch
What Are Beta Readers? A Guide for New Authors
Beta Readers are one of those terms you might have heard before as a new author. So what are they and what do they do? When you’re writing a book, it’s easy to get so close to your own work that you might miss important details or have trouble seeing Read more…