If you are like most aspiring authors, the idea of becoming a published author probably excites you. Even if you are planning to produce a book to boost your business, adding “author” to your credentials could represent the fulfillment of a dream you’ve had your whole life or might catapult you into the ranks of […]
Use Your Book as the Foundation of a Coaching and Consulting Business
If your book teaches readers how to do something, such as gives them 10 steps to perfect health, 5 ways to train a dog, 7 meditation practices, or 5 rules for better business negotiation, you can take your book content and turn it into consulting services and coaching programs. A book provides a sound foundation […]
5 Reasons to Offer Your Online Courses Through a Membership Site
In my last post, I discussed a variety of ways to create an online course from your book. Today, I’d like to explain why I think the best way to deliver them with a membership site. 1. Automation First, and foremost, membership sites are automated. This means much of the work is done for you. […]
How (and Why) to Turn Your Book Into Teleseminars and Webinars
A great way for an author to build a business around a book is to turn the book into teleseminars and webinars. If you can turn the chapters of your book into a talk, speech, workshop, or class, you can turn it into a teleseminar or webinar. That means you explode the number of opportunities […]
How Authors Can Turn Their Books into Workshops and Classes
If you are willing to go from author to speaker, a whole new world of opportunities opens up to you. Additionally, your ability to earn money increase as well. Since most chapters of your book can be turned into speeches, talks or lectures, which you can present to group of all sizes and types, you […]
How to Use Your Book to Start a Speaking Career
Once you’ve written a nonfiction book, you can easily begin your career not only as an author but as an expert speaker. Although novelists may think they are relegated to doing “readings,” any author can develop a speaking career based upon a book. How to Turn Your Nonfiction Book Into Numerous Talks While not every […]
Your Book Forms the Foundation of Your Business
Consider your book the foundation of a business. When you decide to write and publish a book, you go into business—no matter how you publish that book. You enter the publishing business, which is the business of selling books. As I said earlier, though, most authors don’t make the majority of their money selling books. […]
What Do You Want to Do After You Blog Your Book?
Let’s say you have taken my advice and decided to blog your book—and you succeed in doing so. Maybe you self-publish or your blog becomes so successful that you are discovered by a publisher. Is that it? Are you done? Finished? Caput? I’ve said it before: You have to pick your blogged book topic carefully […]
Tracy Repchuk Teaches You to Build a Business Around a Blog and Book
Many aspiring authors set out to blog a book, or to simply to write a book, with the idea that the finished product will make them rich. In fact, the majority of authors don’t get rich from their books. The majority of bloggers don’t get rich from their blogs, either. The largest percentage of authors’ […]