You’ve got a brilliant idea for an e-book that will blow your audience away – but you can’t seem to get the thing written. Why? When the first idea strikes, it seems simple. But the truth is, you’re going to face a lot of barriers to writing an e-book. You’ll encounter fear of what your […]
Your job is sucking the life out of you. It’s Sunday evening and you have a knot in your stomach dreading the thought of facing another day at work. Despite the stress, you know that you can’t walk away because you have bills to pay and a family to support. You feel trapped. You search
If you ask your customers why they chose to buy from you, your personality is likely to come up in the answers. Maybe you seemed trustworthy. Or your sense of humor made people want your products and services. Whatever the personality trait, your marketing made people notice it – whether or not you intended it
Ask any writer, and they’ll tell you the same thing: becoming a writer is hard work. And if writing is hard work, building an audience who appreciates your work is even harder. So what’s holding you back from building your audience? You already know what you need to do to grow your blog and authorship
When you think of “editing,” where does your mind go first? Most readers and writers think of editing as correcting grammar, punctuation, and word choice in a manuscript – but there’s a lot of work to do with your book’s first draft before it’s ready for that! Don’t go straight from finishing your first draft
Meet Carolynne Melnyk, our newest project ABC contributor. Carolynne’s going to give a back story on her journey to building an online business, and then we’ll get into how we create our own road blocks on the road to success, and how you can overcome your own procrastination roadblocks 🙂 10 years ago, most of
Once upon a time, bloggers would write long-ish posts with an image or two tucked in. Then along came Twitter, and we started to write posts in 140 characters or less. Now, a new shift is happening. This time, it’s from written media to visual media. Every day, your audience is bombarded with tons of
You’ve done the research. You’ve read the blogs. You’re prepared. Now, it’s time to launch your business. But as you take this giant leap, you just might fall victim to a fatal piece of “how to market your business online” advice. You might make a mistake that could cost you a lot of time and
I have a confession to make: I used to be an ardent supporter of feedback sandwiches. You know what I mean – it’s the conversation you have with your boss / partner / children / client where the criticism is sandwiched in between the “bread” of an introductory and concluding set of positive comments. However,
For every day that your business survives, the need to think of new creative marketing ideas to extend your existing customers’ loyalty and to gain new ones remains constant. This is especially true when there are other products in the market similar to what you are selling, which means that you’re competing with other brands
