Nina Amir, author of the bestselling How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time (Writers Digest Books) and The Author Training Manual: Develop
Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively (Writers Digest Books), transforms writers into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogpreneurs.
When not writing books such as How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time and The Author Training Manual: Develop
Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively, she serves as an Inspiration to Creation Coach, guiding clients as they create their own books.
Today's post is an excerpt from The Author Training Manual: Develop
Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively [6](Writer's Digest Books, March 2014) by Nina Amir.
In both How to Blog a Book and my new book, The Author Training Manual: Develop
Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively, I suggest you evaluate your book idea before you begin blogging or writing it.
The Author Training Manual: Develop
Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively, offers aspiring authors a process to help them produce marketable book ideas — ones that sell.
Marnie LaVigne, director of business development at the Center of Excellence, said the result of the grants and the 12 - month project will not be just another study, but a plan of action that will match
marketable ideas with the investors and the business - minded managers who can turn those ideas into ongoing businesses.
Lafley's «connect and develop» program, which relied on partnerships with outsiders to bring in new,
marketable ideas, saved money but stopped delivering blockbusters.
Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good,
marketable idea.
If we think you have
a marketable idea and we are a good fit to help you, BookLaunchers will help you with partially complete manuscripts, manuscripts heading to the editing phase and even partially edited projects.
To self - publish your book successfully, you need to understand the independent publishing process, printing options and how to create
a marketable idea.
Not exact matches
It is important to consider the amount of investment that is necessary to build the
idea to a
marketable product.
When two heads are better than one: In a startup, when you're trying to come up with a breakthrough, creative
idea or
marketable product, it helps to be able to bounce
ideas off of someone equally vested in a positive outcome.
Investing in your own development is a solid
idea at a time when the income gap between those with education and
marketable skills and those without is growing greater.
Expertly written by Certified Product Marketing Consultant Matthew Yubas, Product
Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea is a handy financial and business guide to determining if an idea is commercially marketable; protecting rights; getting a competitive advantage; finding investors; making prototypes; establishing pricing strategies, and m
Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your
Idea is a handy financial and business guide to determining if an idea is commercially marketable; protecting rights; getting a competitive advantage; finding investors; making prototypes; establishing pricing strategies, and m
Idea is a handy financial and business guide to determining if an
idea is commercially marketable; protecting rights; getting a competitive advantage; finding investors; making prototypes; establishing pricing strategies, and m
idea is commercially
marketable; protecting rights; getting a competitive advantage; finding investors; making prototypes; establishing pricing strategies, and more.
Before spending thousands of dollars on a patent, you'll want to make sure your product
idea is
marketable and commercially viable.
This business plan template is a great tool for your startup to customize to reflect your strong qualifications, experienced team, and
marketable business
idea.
This has promoted «the
idea that knowledge should be used and useful, should boost the economy, be transformed into
marketable products or patents, and have a cultural, social, or political value.»
The
idea was that if a collaboration resulted in a
marketable product, the government would have some say over how much the product would cost.
««Contrary to popular conceptions about precocious college dropouts with big
ideas, U.S. innovators actually tend to be experienced and highly educated,» concludes the study, which is based on a survey of more than 900 people associated with «meaningful and
marketable» recent inventions.
We specialize in starting with a basic concept or rough sketch of an
idea and completely transform it into a complete,
marketable product — ready to present to interested manufacturers
With so many people using the Internet, one has to come up with original username
ideas because so many... This is especially true for people looking for usernames for online dating sites as they want a slightly more
marketable name.
Going through the process of preparing a product and a pitch for a panel of industry experts in Joe Blatt's Informal Learning for Children showed me how to transform
ideas into something tangible and
marketable.
An increasing number of university presidents with business backgrounds are coming into colleges with the
idea to reform them and make them more
marketable, more desirable, and, in turn, more profitable.
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marketable book
idea
It's also imperative start out with a viable, meaning
marketable,
idea if you want a successful self - published book.
THE
IDEAS ARE NOT
MARKETABLE.
To be more accurate Michael, a lot of traditional authors are bad too, but the
idea rings the bells and the support structure to hone and change, edit and re-edit is there to make it all shiny and
marketable.
Before you plan your blogged book content and schedule, be sure your
idea is
marketable.
Besides your good,
marketable ebook
ideas, you need a variety of things to get your publishing business up and running.
Just as self - publishing makes it possible for any writer to transform their
ideas into a
marketable book, content marketing makes it possible for anyone who can communicate well with words to create a marketing machine that works just as well as promotion backed by big money.
To do this, using a book proposal as a template and evaluate the information you compile to determine how to make your
idea as
marketable as possible.
Lois uses video, audio, and written lessons to transform an
idea into a
marketable manuscript.
Packed with strategies to craft
marketable book
ideas and then turn those
ideas into books that sell, you can use these tools over and over again to get the most out of your writing.
By accumulating the information necessary for each section of the business plan, you have a chance to evaluate if your
idea is
marketable.
Many good writers with
marketable book
ideas get rejected by publishers only because they have no way to help the book succeed.
Instead I wrote four 50K half novels, as a market test, to see which of my
ideas was most
marketable.
And it leads you through a self - evaluation, a book
idea evaluation, and the creation of a
marketable book
idea using the author training process, aka the proposal process.
A good
idea is great; a
marketable one is better.»
The
idea of going back to school to make yourself more
marketable is easier said than bankrolled.
A seller has no
idea if you live in a highly
marketable home or an eyesore in an undesirable area.
Roy is the author of several travel writing guides and manuals, and also offers coaching packages to help aspiring travel writers generate
marketable story
ideas, write enticing query letters and get their articles published in print media and online.
While a game can be a Japanese success and not make it to the West, some of the weirder escapees — like Project Diva and Tomodachi Life — did so after massive sales successes in Japan, and the reason that Level - 5 keeps dropping hints that Yo - kai Watch is heading global isn't because the
idea of Japanese spirits is particularly
marketable — it's because that franchise has consumed its home country in a way that has only been seen with franchises like Monster Hunter, Pokemon and Dragon Quest.
No matter how much critical writing by artists — perhaps most noteworthily, from the 1960s on, by Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, and Robert Smithson — staked out subtle avant - garde positions, their art and
ideas were quickly assimilated, becoming trendy,
marketable, and reputable.
Even though she was only part way through her training contract, Nelson was asked to put her vision into practice and lead the project team as the firm developed the
idea into a
marketable product.
Jim couples a keen vision for innovation with an intimate knowledge of the technology, finances, procedures and protocols necessary to build a company capable of moving a great
idea to a great and
marketable product.
I took the risk, because at the end of the day when you're 23 years old and you dread Mondays more than getting the flu, it's time to take a little «risk» in the hopes of gaining more
marketable skills, insight into yourself, and a better
idea of what you want for your career.
I must say that I had no
idea how
marketable I was until I hired the resume clinic.
It might give you a good
idea of the skills you lack or the education you need to acquire to make yourself more
marketable.
The problem with resume writing is that most people have no
idea where to start and how to develop a document that would make one a more
marketable...
If you are hoping to explain that you have a wealth of
marketable, transferable skills, you could use a functional resume but here's a better
idea.