I’m not one to brag – unless I’m in the mood! And I have to say, I’m proud of this baby.
Coach Laura Howard wrote the following to me after purchasing my latest new platform building product:
“I just got my Platform in a Box program and wow….very beautiful and professional looking. I already love the first [...]

If you’re like me, you dread the tedious process of backing up. But you have to do it. So for some years now, at least when I was back in Windows-land and tethered to my desk, I had a Maxtor One Touch external hard drive. With it’s companion software, Retrospect, it backed up my daily [...]

No one less than podcasting maestro (maestra?) Leesa Barnes has published the next big thing in podcasting. Her book, Podcasting for Profit will be launched at the Podcast & New Media Expo taking place in Ontario, California September 28-30, 2007.
Leesa suggested I point you all towards her blog-based book tour so you can
so you [...]

Recently, I got connected with Margot Potter who has a VERY fun and interesting blog for young, hip crafters called The Impatient Blogger. (Her craft brand is The Impatient Beader which I love because it’s so improbably … beading seems the essence of patience, doesn’t it? But who has it these days?) Check this out [...]

I recently got this amazingly inspiring email blast from a vendor I admire, Shelley MacDonald Beaulieu, Owner/Manager To The Letter Word Processing Inc.
“Well, technology is a wonderful thing I’ve brought my laptop, I’ve brought my internet phone, and I’ve rented a multifunction laser printer/scanner/fax combination.
When you phone me … this is a internet [...]

You may or may not know (or care) that I live in the Adirondacks in the woods … surrounded by 1000 acres of wilderness. (And yes, I really am a Manhattan escapee.) Last night we were camping in the woods in a comfy little spot we’ve set up on our property and I had a [...]

If you’re interested in publishing a book and gaining a market presence and income from it, you’ll need a literary agent. Every day, they eat lunch or talk to editors and acquisition people in publishing houses all over the world, all the while pitching them on the new hot ‘properties’, as your manuscript will be [...]

I got this question from a recent call I did on publishing. The question refers to a bad experience I had with a small press that got my book well placed and published, but only paid me 10% of a pathetically small advance.
Q: “Given your position on going after a major publishing house, and your [...]

A reader wrote:
Please give us your opinion of eBooks. Is it worth it? Why not just do an e-book through Clickbank?
Ah …. Ebooks! So nice for the pocketbook but so ineffective for platform building.
Here’s the thing. In the world of Old media and platform building, only ‘real’ books count. That would be the kind you [...]

Let me answer this question by asking one of my own. What’s the purpose for your book? Is it to reach as many people as possible? To have a little something to sell in the back of the room when you speak? Or is it just to have ‘publish a book’ ticked of on your [...]