Ta-dah!
Announcing From Ideas to Income – a 5-part tele-class series dedicated to getting your great ideas out of your head and into writing.
I'm co-leading these classes with Sandra De Freitas, the Tech Coach for Coaches.
Hope to "see" you there!
Market Your Book Like a Pro, with my friend Lynne
I met Lynne Klippel through Andrea Lee (Lynne published both of Andrea's books), and since we made contact a few months ago, we've been talking about ways to put our talented heads together.
For now, I'm proud to be an affiliate of her upcoming Book Marketing Blitz. It's a perfect match for my ghostwriting clients who now have a great book, but aren't sure how to sell it. OR, for my prospective clients, who are thinking of hiring me to ghostwrite or edit their book but are hesitant for the same reason.
Lynne's Book Marketing Blitz will help you sell more books and design a book marketing plan just like the multimillionaire big guys do…only it won't cost you an arm and a leg!
She's put together an amazing array of speakers for this webinar-based seminar. In fact, you can enjoy 18 hours of book marketing instruction from some of the biggest names in the business from the comfort of your home.
You can listen to a very useful interview with a book cover designer just for checking out the website, so go and grab your free gift now.
You'll be glad you did!
P.S. – Just in case you're interested in earning some extra money to pay for your book expenses, you can become an affiliate of this program after you register. How about that? Learn great information AND earn some great money…
[Update December 8, 2012 – Links were removed since the event has passed.]
How Do You Like to Learn?
We all have our own preferred learning style. Personally, I prefer reading (are you surprised?) to audio. I enjoy live tele-classes, but not recorded ones. I recently took my first webinar and LOVED it, I was very engaged!
If I’m on a tele-class, I prefer to have a written handout in front of me so I can be reading the information while I’m hearing it.
I think that’s also why I’m such a good note-taker. By taking notes it’s like I’m simultaneously creating my preferred learning environment – seeing the words on the page or on the screen, instead of just hearing them.
I tried an online test and came out very high as a verbal (linguistic – spoken or written words) learner, and also aural (music and sounds – again, no surprise there!). The test also showed I’m a little more solitary than I am social.
This North Carolina State University article breaks down learning styles in another interesting way – active vs. reflective, sensing vs. intuitive, visual vs. verbal and sequential vs. global.
I encourage people who have audio products or tele-classes to combine them with a written document in order to reach people with different learning styles. We appreciate it when you do!!
Cristina Favreau hired me to help her do just that, and she talked about that in this story.
Quick Writing Prompt: How can you expand your product funnel to reach people with different learning styles? How can you help your clients and readers to better understand and benefit from your materials? And if you’re already writing, try adding audio!
Ring, Ring! This is Your Next Article Calling….
Look no further than the telephone for your next article or blog post idea.
It’s your client calling
For instance, imagine that your favourite client is calling in later today for a meeting with you. What topic do you secretly hope that she or he will want some guidance about?
Oh, I know – it’s the client’s agenda that counts, and all of that. But look deep and notice what topics feel more exciting to you than others because you can’t WAIT to hear what comes out of your mouth when you talk about it.
Write about that!
It’s your long-lost relative calling
Of course, the inevitable question, "So, what are you doing these days?"
When you gave your answer, what new points of clarity did you notice when you were invited to explain your business to someone outside of your niche group?
Where was the "juice" or excitement when you described the specific problems that you help your clients to solve?
It’s your best friend calling
Here’s another call you may have had. You took your "coach hat" off and you were just having a casual chat with your best friend. What brilliant ideas or solutions did you offer for a problem they were facing?
Quick Writing Prompt: Think back to one of those conversations or imagine a future conversation, and capture those gems in writing!
Blogging in Fits and Spurts
Everyone has a time of the day, week, month, season or even year that is their most "fertile" for ideas, creativity and motivation.
In trying to stay active on my blog (I'm aiming for 1-2 posts per week), I'm finding that the best method for me is to notice when I'm "on a roll" of ideas and capture as many as I can all at once.
Sometimes I just jot down a sentence or two and save it as a "draft" post for later. Today, I'm writing and pre-scheduling several blog posts so that they'll be published over the next couple of weeks.
Some people blog so they can have an intimate and interactive conversation with their readers – to share their most immediate thoughts, stories and experiences. A "canned" (pre-scheduled) post just wouldn't work.
I do want to maintain some of that spirit in the Idea Generator, so I'll still be posting spontaneously once in awhile!
But for today, I'm going with my own creative flow and I'm going to get these blog posts written and published while they're coming out of me.
Quick Writing Prompt: When is your "fertile" idea time? How can you make the most of it the next time it comes around? Need some help to generate ideas? Let's talk!