You’ve almost finished your draft and you start shopping around for publishing quotes. One editor quotes $1,200 and another quotes $5,000. One designer will charge $500, while another charges $2,000. And then you approach an end-to-end publishing company who will charge $12,000 for the lot – editing, design, eBook, printing and distribution. Regardless of where your suppliers […]
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“My prices are high. They are so high that you’re not going to believe it. We even have paramedics on call because my prices are so high that you might go into cardiac arrest!” I was at a publishing workshop for entrepreneurs, and the guru stood on stage in front of a slide with a […]
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It’s often said that it takes a village to raise a child – the same could be said about publishing a book. While it is possible to do it all yourself in Microsoft Word, Photoshop and uploading your files to one of the many free eBook sites available, this approach is rife with potential pitfalls […]
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Every year my team and I are lucky enough to work with incredible entrepreneurs and business people – people who have a tonne of knowledge to share, and an audience they want to help, and just need a hand transforming that knowledge into a book. So I’m excited to share the publishing projects we’ve worked on […]
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You’ve written a book, or are in the middle of your first draft, and you’ve started thinking about your publishing options. Should you try to get a traditional publishing deal, or would self-publishing make more sense for you and your book? Over the past decade or so, the publishing landscape has changed. Fifteen years ago, […]
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Have you ever noticed how successful books always seem to have quotes on the front cover? They’re usually written by someone influential and rave about how great the book is, how knowledgeable the author is, and how everyone and their cat should get a copy. Wouldn’t you love to have the influencers in your industry […]
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Ever wanted to write a book but you don’t have the time and you don’t know how to get it out there? In this episode of Business Brainfood I share with Ben Fewtrell how you can finally make the leap. In this episode you will learn: How a book can help you stand out from the […]
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For the last few years, content marketing has been the king of marketing your business online. The theory is simple – if you provide your potential customers with enough value up front, when they are ready to buy you will be the first one they think of. The ultimate goal is to have them thinking, ‘If I […]
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Open up any professionally published book. On page 1 you’ll see the title. On the flipside, you’ll see a bunch of scary legal information – copyright symbols, disclaimers, ISBNs, Dewey numbers, publisher details and more. This is your book’s copyright page, or imprint page. If your book is being published by a traditional publisher, or […]
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One of the most common questions my clients ask, and one of the areas that’s most commonly forgotten, is what goes around your book’s content. What are all of those bits and pieces that should come before your introduction and after your conclusion if you want your book to look like a high-quality, professional product, […]
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Self-publishing a high-quality business book isn’t cheap, with quotes ranging anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000+ depending on the suppliers you use, the number of rounds of editing you need, how many books you get printed and more. The problem is as a business owner, that level of investment needs to make sense. When making any investment, you […]
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As the year winds to a close it’s easy to get caught up in the silly season. Suddenly, it’s mid-January and you haven’t written anything for a month. Your editor is impatiently tapping her toe and you need to push your entire self-publishing process back. Not anymore – check out Grammar Factory’s 10 most popular […]
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With growing numbers of qualified professionals offering their services to first-time authors, the power of publishing for entrepreneurs is becoming more widely recognised. After all, publishing a book establishes you as an instant expert, which then leads to a range of opportunities that come with expert status – media appearances, keynote gigs, charging higher rates […]
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So you want to write a book… but where do you start? What most people do is set the goal of writing a book, set themselves a deadline, and then write ferociously until they run out of steam (this usually takes two to four weeks). Soon the weeks turn into months, and by the time […]
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Last year I started to get a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. I’d worked with tens of entrepreneurs on their manuscripts by that stage and printed book after printed book started arriving in the mail. As my pile of client books grew, a nagging little voice spoke up in the back of […]
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