Category: articles

8 ways where or why seminars are usually given (#3 of 15)

This is a very short blog because I will discuss in much greater depth the ways that we identify (and create and present) seminars in later sections of this 15-blog series, which itself is an updating of a workbook that accompanies my How to Set Up and Market Your Own Seminar CD series that will [...]

Friday March 7th, 2014 in articles, back-of-the-room sales, booking seminars, corporate seminars, emceeing, finding a seminar subject, hospital seminars, introductions, keynoting, kinds of seminars, markets for seminars, MC, niche marketing, pricing seminars, product development, public speaking, publishing, school seminars, self-publishing, self-sponsored seminars, seminar attendees, seminar descriptrion, seminar feasibility study, seminar guidelines, seminar income, seminar locations, seminar promotion, seminar sponsors, seminar title, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, setting appropariate seminar times, speaking | Comments Off

How can I syndicate my article or my writing?

Syndication is the goal of many of my writing/publishing seminar attendees, so let me share what I know about it so you can pursue it farther on your own, if you are then still interested. What they mean is usually one of two things: (1) having a syndication (very few still exist) or a newspaper [...]

Wednesday March 5th, 2014 in article selling, article writing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, niche marketing, niche publishing, self-publishing, Seminaring, travel writing, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

Seminar, workshop, breakout, or a conference? (#2 of 15)

I created a four-hour CD program a few years back called “How to Set Up and Market Your Own Seminar.” It was comprised of three audio CDs where I explained the concept and process, plus a downloadable guidebook (workbook) on the fourth CD, in Word, that divided the program into 15 sections. As I update [...]

Sunday March 2nd, 2014 in articles, back-of-the-room sales, booking seminars, corporate seminars, emceeing, finding a seminar subject, hospital seminars, introductions, keynoting, kinds of seminars, markets for seminars, MC, pricing seminars, public speaking, school seminars, self-sponsored seminars, seminar attendees, seminar descriptrion, seminar feasibility study, seminar guidelines, seminar income, seminar locations, seminar promotion, seminar sponsors, seminar title, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, setting appropariate seminar times | Comments Off

“How to Set Up and Market Your Own Seminar,” blog #1 of 15

Somewhere about seminar 200 three attendees independently asked me if I could tell them how to set up their own seminar. I was flattered–and surprised that there was nothing in print at that time about the topic, though seminars bloomed in profusion nationwide, on week nights and weekends. So I created a four-hour audio cassette [...]

Saturday February 22nd, 2014 in articles, back-of-the-room sales, booking seminars, corporate seminars, emceeing, finding a seminar subject, Gordon Burgett, hospital seminars, introductions, keynoting, kinds of seminars, markets for seminars, MC, pricing seminars, public speaking, school seminars, self-sponsored seminars, seminar attendees, seminar descriptrion, seminar feasibility study, seminar guidelines, seminar income, seminar locations, seminar promotion, seminar sponsors, seminar title, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, setting appropariate seminar times, speaking, writing | Comments Off

2014 tax tips for writers and publishers

For years I spoke about tax tips for writers/publishers in my “How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing” and “Writing Travel Articles That Sell” seminars in CA. Since I often had taxfolk in the audience (even the IRS auditor I was requested to visit every six years or so), I had to keep up [...]

Thursday February 13th, 2014 in 1 Shopping Cart, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, fiction, Gordon Burgett, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, Nook, open publishing, product development, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, speaking, travel writing, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

My buddy the Dalai Lama

The self-publishing guru Dan Poynter has been a close friend of mine almost forever, at least from the time when to set type you had to lift each letter and place it. Think Ben Franklin. We were sharing some old stories by email this morning, and I thought you might enjoy one that I had [...]

Friday January 31st, 2014 in article selling, article writing, articles, e-publishing, public speaking, writing | Comments Off

Want to sell almost 100% of your NF writing?

That’s the title of a three-hour program I’m offering at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference on Monday, Feb. 17, from 9-noon. I thought you might enjoy an overview of the program that all of the registered participants will receive on an all-program digital plug-in fairly soon. It’s a one-page summary of what I will explain [...]

Thursday January 23rd, 2014 in ancillary publishing, article selling, article writing, articles, Blurb, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, iPad, keynoting, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, pre-testing, proofreading, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, speaking, webmarketing | Comments Off

To which publishers would I submit my 2014 book? What order?

Yesterday I emailed my January newsletter, which goes out every two months, free. The section enclosed here is the answer to the question I think I was most asked in 2013: “If you were going to publish a book today, who would you submit it to and in what order? I have 10 places I [...]

Monday January 13th, 2014 in 1 Shopping Cart, ancillary publishing, article writing, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, pre-testing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

How to share the heart of your book 35 ways in Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin each!

Sometimes you write a book or some copy that lends itself to being edited into

Thursday January 2nd, 2014 in articles, Blurb, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, product development, proofreading, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

Your book needs final, professional proofreading…

What will kill a reader’s fervor fastest? Misspellings, punctuation errors, endless paragraphs, no flow, and nonsense. If somebody asks another, “How was ____ (your) book?” and they respond, “I couldn’t get into it. He can’t spell.” Or they say, “It didn’t make any sense…,” you probably lost that potential reader forever. So you need a [...]

Saturday December 28th, 2013 in 1 Shopping Cart, articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, newsletter writing, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, proofreading, publishing, second draft, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, travel writing, writing | Comments Off