platform building
November 1, 2009
- Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go off so you can start writing your book, e-book, article, essay, query letter, proposal, or whatever work of nonfiction you’ve chosen to create during the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFiN) 2009 challenge? No need to wait. There’s no starter's gun or whistle for this challenge. It’s well past ...
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January 24, 2009
- Okay, Write Nonfiction in November readers, I'm going to ask you this month to stop working on whatever nonfiction projects you have and make time to do something a bit different. Here's why: If you don't do it now, you're likely not to do it at all. Plus, according to PR expert Annie Jennings, who was my guest blogger twice in November during the challenge, I'd be remiss not to advise you to ...
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November 29, 2008
- On this, the second to last day of Write Nonfiction in November, I'd like to devote a blog posting to how to build your platform and promote books on the Internet. (Are you about done with your project? You have two days left...)The Internet offers a vast resource of free promotional tools, if we, as writers, only know how to use them - and actually use them.I was speaking with a POD publisher ...
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November 10, 2008
- If you haven't decided on a Write Nonfiction in November project yet, it's not too late to start. In fact, with just 20 days left to the month you might consider writing an ebook.With the introduction of the Kindle, ebooks of all kinds have become quite popular, but I'm not talking about producing a full-length work of nonfiction as an ebook. Long before the Kindle, writers and business people ...
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November 9, 2008
- I'm a member of a very unique writing group. We call ourselves a Jewish writing group, but we focus less on the writing - we don't critique each other's writing (although we would if asked) - and more on the business end of writing. By this I mean, our meetings, which happen in a teleconference room (by phone), deal primarily with platform building. We discuss how and where to get speaking gigs, ...
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November 8, 2008
- Back to the topic of building platform, your goal as a nonfiction writer needs to revolve around becoming the expert on your subject matter. By that I mean that the media needs to see you as an expert. Actually, you don't just want to be seen as an expert; you want to become THE EXPERT. This needs to happen not just before you write your book, but while you write your book and long after you get ...
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November 6, 2008
- We are at the end of week #1 for Write Nonfiction in November. Is your nonfiction project unfolding easily and effortlessly? Are you learning new and useful information by reading this blog? I hope so.Today we combine a bit of information about platform building with some great tips on writing the all-important platform, markets and promotion sections of a proposals. Media coach and marketing ...
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November 1, 2008
- Welcome to the first day of Write Nonfiction in November! The title of this blog post reminds me of all those timed tests I took in high school. I hated taking those tests, but hopefully you won’t hate the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge. It’s supposed to be fun, educational and productive all at the same time. I love it, because it forces me to stop procrastinating and actually ...
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