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How to Price Your Kindle Book
What is the best Kindle pricing range? To answer how to price your Kindle book, first ask yourself, "Am I more interested cash sales or gaining exposure/subscribers?" When to Offer Your Book for Free If your goal is to use your Kindle eBook to attract subscribers to...
Book Design: An Inside Job
Writing Your Book is Only the First Step I’ve published nearly 60 books and had a role in designing many books I’ve ghostwritten and/or edited. From this experience, I know that the interior design of a book plays a huge role. It can even determine whether a reader...
81 Hybrid Publishing – Tips from a Publisher – Linda Stirling
Are you an author bewildered by the array of publishing opportunities? Should you submit to a big or medium-sized publisher? Self-publish? Or consider a hybrid publisher? Linda Stirling, founder and publisher at the Publishing Circle, as well as an author, answers...
76 Are you guilty of business blather? Jerry McTigue-Writing to Get Business Podcast
Has your business gotten trapped in its own innerspeak? Are your communications with clients verbose and full of vague and confusing language? Do your website stats show that visitors are bailing out after 15 seconds? Your company may be suffering from Business...
69 How to Overcome a Last Minute Printing Crisis- John Morris-Writing to Get Business Podcast
As first an artist and now an author, Scotsman John Morris has successfully bypassed settling into a creative niche. His painting subject matter varies widely, and when he turned his focus to writing and publishing, he designed a book that’s strikingly original in...
65 How do You get Your First Book Published-Terry Pappy-Writing to Get Business Podcast
How do you feel about writing or doodling in a book? Terry Pappy, coach, business strategist, and author, has created book series that invite the reader to create with her. She created an ingenious way for readers to use her books over and over again. Keeping the...
How to Go About Getting Your Book Published
For many people, writing the book is the easy part. Whether you have a body of work ready to repurpose (such as a blog you’ve maintained for several years) or a ghostwriter at the ready, or you just really like to write, getting your book on paper is simple. Getting...
61 How to Do a Virtual Book Launch -Linley Baker – Writing to Get Business Podcast
At least 80% of people in the U.S. feel they have a virtual book in them, but for the majority of these would-be writers, the book stays inside. What makes the difference between those who and those who don’t complete and publish a book? Linley Baker’s story provides...
54 How to Successfully Repurpose a Book – Tina Greenbaum – Writing to Get Business Podcast
In this podcast, Tina Greenbaum, teacher, coach, and author provides a virtual mini-course in how to repurpose your material. She turned a live event into an online course, a book, and a workbook. She also uses this material as blog posts and for social media posts....
53 From Fighter Planes to Publisher: Tracey Jones – Writing to Get Business Podcast
This Writing to Get Business podcast represents the end of our first year of producing weekly shows on the processes involved in writing and publishing books. Meet a special guest whose energy will inspire you. Tracy Jones went from Fighter Planes to Publisher Dr....
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