Bloggers and authors can find new readers when they speak on the topic of their blog or book. And a great place to find a new audience is on a college campus. In this post, professional writer Jodi Webb (@wordsbywebb) provides a host of tips on how to get started promoting your blog and book […]
Get Out From Behind Your Blog
Most bloggers love to write posts and to publish them. Some even love to blog books, writing and promoting them post by post. And, most bloggers also like staying safely online, checking our stats, sharing and retweeting on Twitter, commenting on Facebook, replying to readers, and generally hanging out on the Internet. It’s a nice, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Book Bloggers Write, But Do They Speak?
Writers tend to be introverts. They like to hide away in their offices with their computers and not talk to many people. Like most aspiring authors, book bloggers in many cases tend to be introverts, too. However, they’ve figured out that they can build that coveted author’s platform from the comfort of their lonely writer’s […]