Writing Career

Struggle. Doubt. Fear. Why aren’t your books selling? How can you improve your craft? You’re confused, feeling isolated, and not sure what you need to do to take your author career to the next level. You’re not afraid of the work, just confused about what it is you need to be doing to live the author life. Enter, the mastermind. No matter how experienced, independent, and motivated of a writer you may be, forming or joining an author mastermind can accelerate your career and get you past the tipping point. Working with a group keeps you accountable to your goals, gives you support ...

This short audiobook condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less. It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies.

The aim of the audiobook is to provide an easy-to-listen, short, and effective information so you can start your journey right away. This is a mini-audiobook composed of checklists, guidance, and explanation of these foundational concepts. This audiobook is short and conscience, a go-to audiobook for anyone who wants to start blog writing. You will learn so much in such a short audiobook.

While surfing the net, I saw this: “Ninety-seven percent of writers don’t finish their novels”. I don’t know how this figure was arrived at but it depicts the picture of many people who actually started writing a book but never finished. Do you feel like writing a book and you find it difficult to start? I got you covered in this audiobook. Have you started and it is taking forever to finish up on the book? I got you covered likewise in this piece. I have written and published nine books with global distribution.

¿Vivir de lo que escribes es posible? El escritor emprendedor tendrá que saber identificar su público objetivo, diseñar una propuesta de valor y atraer y retener fans en redes sociales. Es preciso que sepa construir su marca personal y maneje el email marketing. Si todo eso se te hace un mundo, este es tu libro. Aquí vas a encontrar todo lo que necesitas saber para—ahora sí—poder vivir de lo que escribes. Ana González Duque te muestra paso a paso cómo conseguir resultados tangibles con tu blog de escritor, cómo ha conseguido ella reducir al mínimo su jornada laboral para dedicarse a escribir.

"The Niche Author" is an essential roadmap for writers who wish to transform their passion for writing into a profitable and sustainable career. This comprehensive guide dives deep into the world of niche audience engagement, collaboration, and monetization, offering practical strategies and actionable insights that will empower you to create a thriving author brand and loyal fan base. Explore the art of building strong connections with your readers, master the techniques of collaboration, and learn how to monetize your audience effectively. With step-by-step instructions, real-world ...

The publishing landscape can be a tricky one to navigate. There are so many aspects to authoring and publishing a book that it's easy for you to make critical mistakes that can set you off-course and significantly decrease your chances for success. How many of the 50 biggest mistakes authors make are you making? When you learn to avoid the biggest mistakes authors make, you can greatly enhance your chances for success in the publishing world.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans in order to find the thirty best business stories from the past 12 months. Among those selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired; and many others.

Discover how to break free from being just another "grey mouse" freelancer, and start standing out to the right clients by embracing your passion and unique skills. Stand Out! How to Stop Wasting Your Time on Upwork is easy to understand and ready to apply to your freelancing at this exact moment. Because in the end, if you want things to change, you have to take action!

If screaming headlines and over-the-top phrasing make you want to hide your head in a bushel, get this guide to writing attention-getting yet honest and helpful sales copy. Whether you're a coach, author, financial advisor, B-to-B product manager or simply a professional who values trust, dignity and respect for clients, you'll find a framework for setting down a solid first draft and tweaking it into an effective selling tool.

This award-winning book is a definitive guide for women looking to build international careers and experience life abroad. In Moving Without Shaking, Yelena Mackay answers many questions that new and experienced expats alike ask at different times of their journeys and offers practical, no-nonsense advice on how to thrive abroad. This book will help you navigate your life overseas, adjust to local cultures, set priorities from learning languages to working through new job markets, keep in touch with your friends and family, and maintain a positive attitude.

The Speaking Wizard is a public speaking guide that will help you deliver presentations with ease. Within this book, you will learn how to turn speech anxiety into speech excitement, effective ways to brainstorm a speech, structure loose thoughts into a presentation, practice your presentation, and deliver your speech with grace on speech day. There are also sections that will teach you what to wear on speech day and eat prior to the talk. At the end, you will be given a bonus section on the Toastmasters public speaking club.

My purpose was handed to me in the shape of an envelope, a simple paper container with a sealable flap that holds a little bit of hope for our everyday heroes. As it turned out, a life of stationery was my destiny, not a stationary life. And it all began on the heels of a broken heart. For the better part of my life, I dreamed of and even prayed for an epic love story, and this is a love story on so many levels. I just never expected it to come at such a great toll. But then again, if you look back through the course of history, the greatest love stories always do.

In a business world that spans several continents, it is no longer common for everyone to speak English as a first language. Whether you speak English as a first, second, or even third language, intercultural business communication means that getting it right first time has never been more important for you and your organization. English can never be standardized in the global and digital marketplace; instead, we can learn how to customize business English according to our own values and culture and communicate successfully across borders.

Book marketing doesn't have to be awkward or uncomfortable. In fact, 95% of the “book marketing” actually takes place before you publish. It's about finding the value in your work, and communicating the benefits in a way that makes people beg for a copy. Stop wasting time & money on USELESS book promotion tactics! Don't let the gatekeepers squash your dreams of becoming a bestselling author. Take control of your publishing with a revolutionary new system for writing and publishing books that sell. TRAIN THE INTERNET TO SELL BOOKS FOR YOU You'll learn: • how to write books readers love...

Writing better copy is simple - it starts with listening to this audiobook. Writing Better Copy is a quick and easy listen that will teach you how to write more effectively to convey your message quickly. Copywriting is simply the art of conveying a message from one person to another, and the most important principle of copywriting is the ease and speed with which this message is communicated.

What is talent? How do you fulfil your potential? How do you create a winning team? These three simple questions, which are fundamental to the running of any successful business, take Ben Lyttleton on a fascinating journey to some of the world's top football clubs to discover the innovative new methods of developing and maximising talent.

In this audiobook, I discuss how I make an income from my books on the back end, using email marketing and affiliate marketing. As an author, you already know about passive income and the freedom it can create in your life. By setting up the proper email marketing sequence, you'll be able to earn money on the back end of your books without having to be there. The idea here is to set up a system that is automated and that gives you the opportunities to share value and build relationships with your readers.

You need to know about this. They're calling it the biggest business skill of the next five years. To explain the abstract, or the complex, we need to use stories. This short Two-Minute Solution will give you practical, step-by-step ways to increase your effectiveness with stories tactically woven into your regular business writing.

A characteristic that creates a pleasant work environment is the belief that the company cares, the boss listens, and there is a chance to get ahead and, perhaps, get a raise or promotion. Being taken advantage of often causes the perfect job to become dreary and tedious. Like most of us, I'm sure, bosses have made promises to me in the past to get extra work and longer hours and then reneged when the time came to pay up.