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Book Marketing Is Also Personal Brand Building

Each time you engage in book marketing and promotion, you’re also marketing and promoting your personal brand.

How you present your book’s marketing and promoting message is as important to your personal brand building as your website’s home and About Us pages.

Book titles are just the first step

For years, I’ve talked about power …

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Write Your Brand-Building Book In Spite Of Yourself

Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work is for you if you’re finding it difficult to finish–or, even, to just start–to write your brand-building book.

Don’t blame yourself if you’re having trouble writing your brand-building book; blame the Resistance, the uncompromising force inside you that fights change–even when the change is in your best interest.

In the …

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Taking Stock Of Your 2011 Branding and Writing Progress

As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, it’s time to take stock of your 2011 progress writing a book to build your personal brand.

In particular, did you make significant progress towards your goal of writing and publishing a brand-building book during the first-half of this year?

The following are some questions to help you evaluate …

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Mark Twain’s Advice for Authors Writing Brand-Building Books

Early this week, I discovered a quote by Mark Twain that offers advice and perspective for those who want to write a book to build your personal brand.

Mark Twain’s quote addresses the reason many entrepreneurs fail to accomplish big goals–like writing a book; they have great ideas, but fail to take action.

Why many…
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Get Help Self-Publishing A Book To Build Your Personal Brand

If you’re an entrepreneur looking for ideas and help in writing and self-publishing a book to build your personal brand: Joel Friedlander’s A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish from TheBookDesigner.com is an excellent starting point.

A Self-Publisher’s Companion is an uncommonly useful book about self-publishing from several perspectives:

Decades of…
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Tips For Writing A Brand-Building Book From Gamestorming

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo, offers numerous lessons and tips for business professionals who want to write a book to build a personal, or corporate, brand.

Gamestorming’s success speaks for itself

Gamestorming appeared less than a year ago–during July, 2010. It currently is among …

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How To Promote Your Brand-Building Self-Published Book

In response to Jason and Victor’s comments about last week blog post, Introducing an Even Easier Way to Write Your Book, I’d like to share some of the ways you can promote your brand-building ebook or self-published print-on-demand book.

The following ideas are presented with the caution that they are ideas, or options; not a …

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Introducing an Even Easier Way to Write Your Book

During the past few years, many first-time authors have used blogs as starting points for writing books that created strong personal brands.

As he described when I interviewed him, soon after Garr Reynold’s began his Presentation Zen blog, it attracted the attention of several publishers, leading to his best-selling Presentation Zen series of bestselling books, …