Sentences with phrase «many authors thing»

The idea that an author can continue to produce well - received content on a fairly regular basis and sell it directly to fans is limited to those who've made a full - fledged career out of this author thing.

In the meantime, I'll just keep doing that indie author thing that upsets you so much: writing and publishing, sans a New York publishing house.

When this independent introvertedness is part of your very being, you may want to convince yourself that you can do this whole author thing without getting anyone else involved.

My kids have seen me giving this whole career - author thing a go, with me getting up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. nearly every day for the last several months so that I can get my writing done and still have time for my day job and all the rest.

Giving an author those things keeps them motivated.

We all have hard days where we just feel like hiding under the covers, forgetting the author thing and publishing any other books.

I still envision myself doing the hybrid author thing at some point but have a list of editors, copyeditors, cover designers, etc. that I would use rather than a self - pub arm of an agency.

Instead of MyBookTable being an Author Media thing, it's become an every author thing.

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Admiral William McRaven, author of «Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life... And Maybe The World,» explains what he learned after being fired early on in his career.

Warren Mackenzie, president of Toronto's Weigh HousenInvestor Services and author of New Rules for Retirement, saysnbuy - and - hold is «not a valid thing at all.»

The author of «Getting Things Done» says people focus on the wrong parts of his productivity system

Daniel Pink, author of «Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,» has found that we're motivated by three things:

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

In this edited excerpt, the authors outline four things you should consider before starting a transportation business.

«According to the author, if you pay someone enough to take the issue of money off of the table, the things that truly motivate them are Master, Autonomy and Purpose.

«Other people have to be able to speak for your brand,» says Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He is also the author of Smart People Should Build Things.

But all contain triggers that get people talking, says Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

In this edited excerpt, the author discusses the six things your direct mail pieces must contain in order to get people to visit your website.

Andrea Syrtash is the author of «He's Just Not Your Type (And That's a Good Thing): How to Find Love Where You Least Expect It» and the founder of Pregnantish.com.

And that visceral response is what separates viral breakouts from busts, according to Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

Apart from listening, joining in on the conversation was also mentioned as a reputation management too and finally the author urges small businesses to protect themselves when things heat up.

To manage your emotions there are three strategies to implement, according to Amy Morin, author of»13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do.»

When I first got involved in the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I quickly learned a few things about freelance writers.

11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Brands YOU F**king Love Speakers: Jennifer Fleiss, co-founder and head of business development, Rent the Runway; Hilary Folger, partner - brand strategy, Lippincott; Daniel Lubetzky, founder and CEO, KIND; and author, Do the KIND Thing; and Bayard Winthrop, founder and CEO, American Giant Interviewer: Eric Schurenberg, president and editor - in - chief, Inc..

He told the tale to authors Jeannette Hanna and Alan Middleton for their book Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape, explaining that the staffers didn't have to ask their bosses for the green light because the company's ethics - driven culture puts a premium on do - the - right - thing customer service.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

In this video, Greg Rollett invites Linda Zander, author of Super Sized Success, to open up about core drives, core values and finding that one thing that will fuel you through the good times and the hard times.

I chatted with verifiable email «personal trainers,» Marsha Egan, CEO of InboxDetox.com and author of Inbox Detox and the Habit of Email Excellence, and David Allen, author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress - Free Productivity and engineer of the GTD Getting Things Done methodology.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

Most authors he's spoken to generally want three things: to do a good job telling their story, to get to the widest audience possible and to earn a living doing so.

And if you want to take things a step further you can add a related idea from author Laura Vanderkam that works for similar reasons — stop saying you don't have time for things.

«When it comes to establishing positive relationships with your coworkers, the most important thing is to get to know them first as individuals,» says Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

Parents who train their children's brains for a life of meaning, happiness and success, avoid these 13 things, according to author Amy Morin.

«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

Within five years, the authors note, 28 billion «things» are expected to be connected to the Internet, up from nine billion in 2013.

As the study's authors point out, experience succeeding at things is the key to becoming more confident.

The difficult choices at the poker table are akin to author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard Thing About Hard Things.»

Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, encourages audience members to look past short - term, material, and goal - oriented happiness in order to find a kind of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according to plan.

After studying hundreds of people both rich and poor, author Tom Corley reveals the one thing most self - made millionaires do when they first wake up.

When Jessica Jackley, founder of the micro-loan business Kiva and author of Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who Do The Most With The Least, was asked to leave the TED conference due to the event organizer's no children policy, she did the natural thing: Jackley took her complaint to Twitter:

According to Goodman, your book should have three things upon launch: social proof, i.e., a number of Amazon reviews; an «intangible,» e.g., a quote from a renowned expert in the field, say a New York Times bestselling author; and lastly a good book (which may seem obvious, but...).

Instead of networking, the author said you should do these five things:

The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

Business owners can partner with manufacturing plants that use IoT to connect to operations, logistics, and suppliers, says Maciej Kranz, an IoT pioneer and author of Building the Internet of Things.

The television personality, author, psychologist, and host of the «Dr. Phil» show suggests that, before you submit any work, you should ask yourself if you'd be OK with it being the only thing someone used to form an opinion of you.

The author reminds us to keep thinking big, never be afraid to ask for things, and to not be intimidated when things don't go as planned.

«Like many things pertaining to eBay transactions, it's up to the seller's discretion,» says Greg Holden, author of How to Do Everything With Your eBay Business.