Just talked to a friend who works for a publishing company that I mentioned on today's teleseminar. She told me about 10 people being laid off at the company, and how the magazine I used to work for is folding. "It's all part of our transition form print to pixels," she said.

Print to pixels. The trend of the future. YOUR future, and mine.

It's a rough transition, to be sure, for many. But I'm still optimistic and maintain that this is the BEST time to be an author, if you are willing to embra… Continue

Every author needs three things : credibility, visibility, and faster growth for your audience of readers.

A Ning Ring or joint blog is one of the lowest cost, most effective ways for an author to establish and promote your Internet brand and in the process you also build credibility and visibility for you and your book ( even before the book has been published ).

In a Ning Ring you create a small community of 5 to 10 authors who all want to write about a topic similar or related to yours, suc… Continue

One of the things I "do for a living" is work with publishers and authors to get the word out about their books through something called a "… Continue

Someone asked an interesting question:
“What if I want to become an author but I don’t really like to write?”

Well, that got me to thinking about why we might not like to write, even though we feel we might have something important to say.

I think a lot has to do with whether or not we’re operating from within our own natural style.

Work from within the way you’re wired–in anything, not just writing–and it will automatically be more enjoyable.

Work against your preferences, and the task beco… Continue

Best-selling author Robert Allen is writing a new book. And he has a way of not only getting his audience notified, but also involved in the actual writing of the book.

For years, Bob has been doing mentoring calls every Wednesday morning called "Breakfast with Bob." During these calls, he focuses on "inner wealth" issues. I appreciate his spiritual approach.

This summer, he has been letting his list… Continue

A successful blog comes from attracting readers who find your ideas interesting and would like to check-in with you a few times a month to hear what you have to say. The goal of this informal traffic is to point your more serious readers to your longer articles and eventually your products and services.

The good news is that since most blog readers are looking for something that is short, interesting, and informative you don't need to be writing brilliant posts ( especially in the… Continue

Strategic Internet Marketing is about building a solid foundation and identity on the internet by writing frequent articles and cross posting them on blogs, podcasts, article marketing, and PR marketing sites. Most of these articles and posts will be popular for a short time and then fade into the background. They will continue to give you a steady stream of leads but no one article will be read by most of your audience.

However, there are three “articles” that will be read by almost everyone i… Continue

A well crafted blog is one of the most powerful messaging and marketing tools any author can have. When you add in the fact that you can blog for free, it becomes clear that blogging is a core skill that any author who wants to become Well Heard & Well Paid must master.

There are three key skills that must be mastered to create a well crafted blog :

• 1) Posting - Setting up your blog and posting entries


• 2) Writing - Writing and posting to a schedule


• 3) Writ

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The Author's Village the book : How to build a community around your message and become a best selling author.

Along with this blog site and The Author's Village Community The Author's Village will be a book too.

The book will be published in 2009 as I am developing the content this fall.

Here is the outline for the book.
These Wednesday posts will fill in more of the details of the book as we go.

Introduction - Be Heard

i - Find a Crow… Continue

This is a bold experiment in generating blog traffic on the internet, a Ning Ring.
A community of six authors who have come together to write on related topics in one blog site. I call this a Ning Ring or a credibility cluster.

The goal is to build more traffic, faster, and at lower cost for the authors.
For the readers our goal is to give you more information faster and better than we could do writing individually.

To get an idea of how this might work listen in on the strategy call between B… Continue