More and more ways to go literally from blog to book seem to appear all the time. These technologies allow you to get your blog content–your blogged book–off your blog and into a book format. Blurb, a San Francisco-based creative publishing and marketing platform, is the latest to enter the field by giving Ipad users […]
How to Focus Your Blog or Blogged Book on a Topic
Many bloggers simply begin blogging about a topic that interests them. They also may just feel passionate about the subject they first choose to write about. That’s all well and good–if you are just blogging. If you want to blog a book or build a business around a blog or a book, you have to […]
How to Decide How to Monetize Your Blog or Blogged Book
As you consider how to monetize your blog beyond your blogged book—and eventual printed book or ebook, you need to consider what types of activities you want to take on to produce information products and services–which ones are best for you and for your readers. Unless you want to put advertisements on your blog (and […]
Building a Business Around a Blog is Easier Than You Think
At the end of April, I began a series of posts about building a business around your blogged book. For a month, guest bloggers and I wrote about how you can have an attitude that allows you to take your book blogging to the next level, and what types of actions you can employ to […]
Will You End Up With a Blook?
Every since I began this blog I’ve been repeating over and over again that you are blogging a book. And, indeed, you are. What do you end up with, though, once you have a printed book based upon that blogged book? A blook. That’s right. A blook is printed book that contains or is based […]
The Best Business Plan for a Blogged Book (or Any Book)
To conclude this series on building a business around your book, I’d like to write about business plans. Now, I’m not a great one to spout off about business plans, since my business hasn’t had one until recently–and it’s not really quite done yet, if I’m going to be totally honest. (But I’m working on […]
Boost Your Publishing Business by Becoming a Speaker
Congratulations on blogging a book or even considering writing and publishing a book. You gain a lot of credibility as a published author. But now the real hard work begins. Unless you are a celebrity with a large publicity and marketing staff—and a huge following of fans, the burden will be mostly on you to […]
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur is Essential to Your Writing
Whether you want to be a part time author or to build a writing empire, you need to be able to think like an entrepreneur. Thinking like an entrepreneur and not just a “writer” will help you pull the right levers when you need to give yourself a “cost of living” raise or help you […]
Build Your Book Business on Your Passions and Strengths
Economists say that when the economy takes a dive, it is common for people to turn to their inner entrepreneur to try to create their own work. The task of finding a job is daunting and, therefore, encourages many entrepreneurs to make work for themselves. If you’ve already blogged your book, or if you plan […]
How to Succeed as a Blogged Book Author
We live in a period of history when the lines between technology, information access, business expertise and customer expectations have blurred or been obliterated. This unprecedented confluence has enabled individuals to tap into their creative side and become bloggers, writers, authors, and speakers. It’s enabled you to not only write a book but to blog […]
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