Sentences with phrase «as authors and their books»

Based on his experiences as an author and book coach, the series helps authors save time, consider more options, and make better writing and book marketing decisions.

But I wish, as an author and book lover, that I had access to hundreds of videos like this.

Set the Expectation: When going into your launch event, it is important to keep the focus around you as the author and your book.

Introducing a simple guide for independent authors to do at least one task every day that promotes themselves as authors and their books to readers.

Not exact matches

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, and author of Anything You Want (When you buy any version of the book you can get 200 musical downloads as a gift from Derek).

«People read each other's intent as soon as they see each other,» says Nick Morgan, speech coach and author of new book «Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact.»

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

I'm a self - published author, and while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.

And as author David Rock observes in his book Quiet Leadership, advice can be challenged and debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questioAnd as author David Rock observes in his book Quiet Leadership, advice can be challenged and debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questioand debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questions.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

If as an author your plans are to write the book and expect others to sell it... do not write the book.

When I became an author, my first shoestring book tour basically consisted of all the places I had lived on the West and East Coasts as well as the Midwest and South.

«Customers are buying into the concept and the message of the company as much as they are buying the product,» observes Debra Lynn Dadd, author of the book Home Safe Home, and a SoapWorks endorser.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

And they use the author's name as a verb that can refer either to purging or meticulous folding: «Waiting for kettle to boil... So I Kondoed my recipe books,» Elaine Colliar, a family - finance columnist for Scotland's Sunday Mail, proclaimed in a recent Facebook post,» reported the WSJ recently.

Carmine Gallo is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of such books as «Talk Like TED» and «The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.»

As an author, I know that with every book I write I learn more about myself, both my strengths and my weaknesses.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Head of content at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric books out there, such as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.

It's hard to believe that an author who has made a career of the «leadership» racket — with book titles such as Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters; and Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business — would now be calling for its end.

The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

I would read great books and read profound articles and just think to myself — «How I wish I was as creative as the author who wrote that great book.»

He has shared his sales and business expertise as a motivational speaker and author of five books: Sell to Survive; The Closers Survival Guide; If You're Not First, You're Last; The 10X Rule; and Sell or Be Sold.

She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.

'' [They] come into the world as their parents» sole princess or prince,» wrote Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book «The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us» in an article for «Time.»

In their book The Power of Moments, authors Chip and Dan Heath give more insight into what is required to deliver these types of experiences, defining moments, as they describe them:

Barry Farber is rated as one of the top speakers of the year by Successful Meetings Magazine and is the bestselling author of 11 books on sales, management and personal achievement.

The authors of both books recognize that the chances of a product or idea taking off phenomenally are enhanced by social groups that «provide the resources for their members to learn,» as Brown and Duguid put it.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

He's also the author of the new book EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional Intelligence, as well as the best - selling The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.

As the CEO of the Author Incubator, Lauria and her team provide aspiring authors with guidance on how to write and publish their own books — whether that's through self - publishing or through her company.

Follow the platinum rule, which authors Tony Alessandra and Michael J. O'Connor defined in their book The Platinum Rule, «Do unto others as they'd like done unto them.»

According to Brian Halligan, the CEO of Hubspot and author of the book Inbound Marketing: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online, the way modern consumers shop and make purchases has changed dramatically, and as such, businesses must adapt in order to survive.

Perel, who has a practice in New York City, would know: She's the author of the bestselling book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence and the new release The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, as well as host of the podcast Where Should We Begin?

In this book excerpt from MONEY AND POWER: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, author William D. Cohan examines Lloyd Blankfein's up - from - nothing story, and finds out why Hank Paulson would've rather had no one else as Goldman Sachs's CAND POWER: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, author William D. Cohan examines Lloyd Blankfein's up - from - nothing story, and finds out why Hank Paulson would've rather had no one else as Goldman Sachs's Cand finds out why Hank Paulson would've rather had no one else as Goldman Sachs's CEO.

In one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Today.

Cindy Perman is the commentary editor for CNBC.com, as well as the author of the Pony Blog and the book, «New York Curiosities.»

And where Gladwell drew criticism for being a dilettante, Ranadivé — the founder and CEO of real - time software company TIBCO — has been working in this field for some time, both in his day job and as an author (it's his third book on the subjecAnd where Gladwell drew criticism for being a dilettante, Ranadivé — the founder and CEO of real - time software company TIBCO — has been working in this field for some time, both in his day job and as an author (it's his third book on the subjecand CEO of real - time software company TIBCO — has been working in this field for some time, both in his day job and as an author (it's his third book on the subjecand as an author (it's his third book on the subject).

Earlier this month, author Michael Wolff claimed in his controversial book, «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,» that Corallo resigned because he viewed Trump's interference as possible obstruction of justice.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open - book - management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine's staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation's most fascinating organizations.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

Being aware of how your brain works can help you make better decisions as an entrepreneur, contend the authors of a new book, Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).

But as more and more book - wielding entrepreneurs crowd the stage, the term published author has less traction than it did even a few years ago, Booher says.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

«I liken the partnership agreement to a prenup negotiated before a marriage,» says Barbara Weltman, a tax and business attorney and author of such books as J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes (Wiley 2009).

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»