Since Contentpalooza kicks off tomorrow (or at midnight, actually), I thought I’d round up some resources that will help you come up with ideas for your own content creation efforts. Warning! Procrastination has many guises. Don’t get so sidetracked by researching brainstorming techniques that you don’t write. If your goal is 50,000 words, you want to write:…
I had the pleasure of hearing Les McKeown speak just a few weeks ago at Book Breakthrough. Book Breakthrough is a three-day workshop in New York City led by publishing strategists Janet Goldstein and Elizabeth Marshall. It’s all about finding and honing your book idea, building your platform and evaluating your publishing pathways. It was an…
The term “summer reading” implies fun, light fiction — those paperbacks in your beach bag. For me, at this slower time of the year, new ideas from business, science and culture can be just as refreshing. I have time to just let them soak in, without having to rush to the next item on my…
{Note: This is a guest post from Pamela Wilson of BigBrandSystem.com} You know what a badly-designed eBook looks like. You even know what it feels like. You cringe when you open the book and see grey, unending walls of text. You find yourself yawning, rubbing your eyes and trying hard to pay attention. You look…
In the year since I launched my ebook, I’ve learned that the old rules don’t apply. That’s why I’ve written the eBook Evolution Manifesto: 10 Declarations on Creating and Launching Evolutionary Ebooks — to explain what dinosaurs have to do with eBooks, of course, but also to explore the ways that make sense to market…
Back in early 2010, I found myself in an interesting position. I wanted to help people write, create and launch ebooks but my knowledge was mostly theoretical. So, I decided to write and launch my first ebook, and the Sticky Ebook Formula was born. Over the year and change since then, I have learned so…
photo by yuheitomi Recently I had a number of conversations with our gracious host, Kelly, on manifestos — a topic that I used to love to hate. I used to really hate the whole manifesto thing. During our talks, I had a light bulb moment: I didn’t hate manifestos, I just hated bad ones…
I didn’t start my business to change the world, I started it to pay the bills. I had been laid off, and I needed to find a way to replace my income. The past 18 months of becoming an entrepreneur have challenged me to do things that I never had to do before: sell my…
Chambered Nautilus Fossil ©2011 Hitchster It recently occurred to me that when I thought about my business challenges or spoke about them with others, we were often discussing underlying issues of personal growth. Becoming an entrepreneur, you soon realize that you — your strengths, weaknesses, skills, fears, limitations — are intricately connected to the growth…
(Note: There are no affiliate links in this post.) What if the Wright brothers sat around tweaking blueprints and talking about flight instead of testing their ideas? Information is wonderful, but we all know the implementation is what matters. I said earlier this week in my post about the conscious consumption of info-products that I…