Category: Inside this Effort

Why Publishers Must Use Direct Sales | Digital Book World
Direct sales is how this effort will live or die.

Check this out!! I was on a Podcast.
I was the guest on this podcast. It came together well and has some great information on how to promote yourself. Mike Fazio, CEO of Workforce 180, shares insights about effective communication for the digital […]

HELP WANTED: Would you like to write for the blog?
Wanna write? Wanna help me write? This may be your chance…

Tools, Techniques and Teams – WordPress Themes
I’m ready to upgrade. I’ve spoken about it in the past, the idea that I’ll have additional contributors and a higher end more magazine like appearance for this website. As a matter of […]

Coming to Terms: Purple Squirrel or Never ending shades of violet
I’ve occasionally discussed the concept of the purple squirrel. But what is it? According to Wikipedia: Purple squirrel is a term used by employment recruiters to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, […]

Thrifty Studio Time and Priceless Motivation
A few weeks back I reached out to a contact I had made at the North Carolina Writers Network who had said they knew somebody with a studio. As anybody reading this blog with regularity […]

The Write Community
Who would have thought that a community post and writers meet-up would inspire me so much?

PIC your pay policy.
The sad part about any data out of a politically focused organization is that even when the data is really good, you still have to double check all of it for determining if it’s skewed. […]

300 page business cards
There was a time when if you were an author, it was a very big deal. What made it such a big deal with the fact that there was a gatekeeper. This gatekeeper was the […]

Just Tweet NO!
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts on my power walk today, and the guest host in the latter half of the show brought up an interesting concept that was only preferably related […]