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She is a former university media relations professional, a frequent speaker, and the author of the popular SMART Marketing
For Authors book series.
She is a former university media relations professional, a frequent speaker on the national stage, and the author of the popular SMART Marketing
For Authors book series.
Not exact matches
A new
book from the
author of «The Art of Nonconformity» asks: What if today was your last day of working
for someone other than yourself?
Amazon's dominant position in both
book publishing and
book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous
for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which
authors it chooses to work with.
For the sake of consistency, we need to realize that Amazon is now effectively claiming the right — and perhaps the obligation — to vet every
author prior to agreeing to sell his or her
book.
If a particular
author's
book is just one of thousands available to a subscribing reader,
for example, the idea of a refund doesn't apply anymore because there's no individual purchase being made.
Acuff, a bestselling
author and career expert, has written a
book perfect
for anyone who finds themselves constantly starting, and then failing to finish, long - term projects.
Mayer recently elaborated on the practicalities of her philosophy on burnout to
author Hanna Rosin
for her new
book The End of Men: And the Rise of Women.
Pulitzer Prize - winning investigative reporter Charles Duhigg
for The New York Times and
author of The Power of Habit delves into the science of productivity in his new
book Smarter Faster Better.
Other qualities to look
for, according to V. Kumar,
author of the
book Managing Customers
for Profit, include empathy, consistency and patience.
Tips
for organizing your financial life from the
authors of «The Money
Book for Freelancers, Part - Timers, and the Self - Employed.»
He is the
author of the award - winning 2012
book Going Social: Excite Customers, Generate Buzz, and Energize Your Brand With the Power of Social Media, which teaches brands large and small how to use social media
for business success.
An
author who sets out to write a
book as a lead - gen device
for marketing clients is by definition a lousy marketer.
Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and
author of the 2013
book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not be bound to rigid formal HR processes, which creates the opportunity
for more creative hiring practices.
There are no reporters waiting to interview the
author of the 576th
book on career growth, social media marketing or a formula
for living well.
And the amount of muscle you have to put into a
book is the biggest surprise
for most first - time
authors.
For example, if you were an
author writing a
book about how to drive traffic to a website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered when it didn't have traffic to its site.
In his
book, Navy Seal Training Guide: Mental Toughness (which by the way goes
for $ 790 on Amazon),
author Lars Draeger says there four pillars of mental toughness: goal - setting, mental visualization, positive self - talk, and arousal control.
If you're unsure about what your goal
for the
book is, read this piece about the mistakes that
authors make when framing the results they are looking
for, and how to better frame.
How This Ghostwriter Got the Idea
for a $ 2.3 Million Company That Allows Aspiring
Authors to Write
Books in a Castle
David Burkus, best - selling
author of three
books and an award - winning podcaster, has contributed the first four questions on this list from an interesting article he wrote
for Harvard Business Review.
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.
Work Teams That Work: Skills
for Managing Across the Organization
Author Anthony R. Montebello includes more graphs, diagrams, and flow charts in his
book (from Best Sellers Publishing, 612-888-7672, 1994, $ 24.95) than should really be allowed by law.
It's a fact I became more aware of a few months ago while interviewing vampire
author Anne Rice
for my upcoming
book Humans 3.0.
In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette
authors by offering them 100 % of digital
book sales
for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.
Independent
authors enjoy more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of
book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties
for traditionally published
books.
BookFunnel was started in 2015 by fantasy novelist Damon Courtney, who became frustrated when he couldn't create links
for free
book promotions; it helps
authors do giveaways and build readership.
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.
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.
Rhett Power is head coach at Power Coaching and Consulting and the
author of The Entrepreneur's
Book of Actions, a new book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more success
Book of Actions, a new
book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more success
book about daily exercises
for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successful.
A new platform called Reedsy.com,
for example, lets
authors search profiles of 500 vetted freelance editors and
book - cover designers and then manage proposals, bids, payment, and vendor reviews and ratings.
Author and London Business School professor Lynda Gratton, along with her coauthor, Andrew Scott, had a simple premise in mind
for their 2016
book, The 100 - Year Life: What is going to happen to us all, when everyone starts living to 100?
«
For many people, I think their first impulse is to have an event,» says Joan Schneider, president and creative director of Boston public relations and marketing communications firm Schneider Associates, and
author of the
book «The New Launch Plan: 152 Tips, Tactics, and Trends from the Most Memorable New Products.
For example, my
book and «published
author» moniker has helped me land contributor roles at various outlets.
James Braxton Peterson is a media contributor, the host of The Remix podcast on WHYY, and the
author of several
books, including Prison Industrial Complex
for Beginners.
«China has engaged
for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro,
author of several
books anti-China
books including «Death by China.»
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
authors asked couples in a survey commissioned
for the
book.
Chris is the
author of three
books, including «The People Powered Brand — A Blueprint
for B2B Brand and Culture Transformation» (Paramount Market Publishing, 2014).
This editing, writing, and social - media shop
for book authors raked in nearly $ 2.9 million in revenue last year, up 495 percent since 2012.
Bestselling
author Ken Blanchard mentioned in his
book, «Heart of a Leader», that each person has different motivations
for the work they do or to stay in a job they are in.
Evelyn Jacks is Founder and President of Knowledge Bureau, a national educational institute
for the continuing professional development of tax and financial advisors and
author of 52
books on the subject of tax preparation, planning and wealth management
for Canadian families.
Best - selling
author (and Inc. magazine columnist) Paul B. Brown's latest
book, Entrepreneurship
for the Rest of Us, has just been published.
Authors look under every rock
for ways to promote their new
books.
An
author hawking his
books in the park provides some examples
for strategies that can easily be adapted
for your business.
'' [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.»
While thought provoking, the real value of the
book comes from the practical, templated framework the
authors provide
for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name
for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.
Patton and Getting to Yes's principal
authors, Roger Fisher and William Ury, had earlier collaborated on a
book for international mediators, which is of course a rather small audience.