November 2013
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“Vulnerability is not weakness.” – Brene Brown It really hurt to hit the send button on the email this morning. I had just typed out an email to a colleague asking for help with some marketing ideas. It was a follow up email on advice he had given me but that I didn’t understand. I…
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A couple months ago a big time venture capitalist from the Silicon Valley blogged about my book, Your First 1000 Copies. The result was a ton of book sales, lots of new email subscribers and a new connection that will help me out in the future. The interesting part is I had nothing to do with…
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In all the work I’ve done with authors over the last five years, there’s still one major gap in my knowledge. Most of my time has been spent doing two things: Setting up new platforms for authors and teaching them how to use it Launching new books Both of these are obviously important. If an…
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This post was hard for me to write. I want to be seen as calm, cool and collected. Always confident in my decisions and confident in my business. Of course, that isn’t always true. There are times I worry, times I’m freaked out, and times I want to bury my head in the sand and…
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As of this morning, July 11 2013, exactly two weeks after the launch, 1006 copies of Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book have been sold. For a majority of the past two weeks it has been ranked #1 in the paid Kindle Marketing category. It also reached #13 in the Business & Investing…