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Get Motivated!

February 01, 2012 by Sam Henrie, President

Recently, I attended the all-day Get Motivated! seminar when it came to Tucson. I didn’t actually go to get motivated—an entrepreneur for many years now, I’m plenty motivated as it is. I also didn’t go to buy any of the stuff they were selling—they didn’t have anything I need right now. I went to hear the celebrity presenters, and to study one of most successful marketing processes in the world. First, for $2.95 (essentially free) Get Motivated! attracts nearly 10,000 attendees with the promise of seeing celebrity presenters like Colin Powell, Terry Bradshaw, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, Kurt Warner, and many more. (Pictured: Terry Bradshaw getting ready to motivate.)

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Why You Don’t Want to Delay Your Ebook Any Longer

January 31, 2012 by Atilla Vekony, Publishing Information Manager

You may remember that a little over three years ago we asked you if now you thought ebooks were going to make a difference to you as an author. That is the time when Amazon released its Kindle reader.

I know what your answer is now. But back then, we had spent the previous decade waiting for ebooks to come of age, to no avail. There were multiple formats and substandard readers that few people wanted. The early Kindle could have seemed to some as simply the latest untested entrant into an otherwise failing e-reader market.

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An Amazing Resource…

January 26, 2012 by Atilla Vekony, Publishing Information Manager

This month we searched long and hard for a tool or resource that can dramatically increase your productivity as a content-producing author. With all the high-tech gadgets available to us (in most cases, on us) like smartphones and tablet computers with wireless connections, you’d think that we would have figured out how to use them to take control of our productivity.

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How to Get More Done

January 09, 2012 by Grael Norton, Acquisitions Manager

Are you ready to reach your goals in 2012? A lot of New Year's resolutions are broken by the first week of January!

The single most important reason for this failure is a lack of action. We picture our goals, but make little or no progress in reaching them. Why? Because we don't know which steps to take, and in what order.

Or maybe you're already doing a million things to get closer to achieving your goals... and maybe that's the problem! The mechanism to single out that one step you need to take TODAY is called focus!

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Focus: 2012

January 05, 2012 by Sam Henrie, President

Have you seen the movie 2012? Neither have I. But I know what it’s about: that the world will end in 2012.

I’ll bet you $10,000 that it won’t!

(What the heck, make that ten million! You see, I’m betting from a position of strength: I won’t have to pay either way ... I think.)

Not only do I not think that the world will end in 2012, I’m determined to make it the best year ever for me, my family, and my company. Possibly only to be surpassed by … 2013. Will you want to make it your best year ever as well?

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It’s 4 in the Morning

January 05, 2012 by Sam Henrie, President

It’s 4 a.m. in the morning, and you are sound asleep. (You’ve slept so soundly since you finished your manuscript and mailed it off to your agent.) Your cell phone rings. It’s your agent, the one it took you so many years to find. She says in a breathless voice, “I’ve been up all night reading your manuscript. I couldn’t put it down. It’s the Eat, Pray, Love of home plumbing guides. You, my friend, are a genius! I have a limo coming to your house to bring you to the airport. I’ll meet you at JFK. Please, puh-lease, don’t talk to any other agents or publishers until we meet. I’ll get you an advance check and bring it with me. You’ll never have to work again! And, by the way, I took the liberty of scheduling lunch for us with Michael Korda and Malcolm Gladwell at Tavern on the Green. They need to meet you!”

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An Amazing Resource: 3D Covers!

January 04, 2012 by Atilla Vekony, Publishing Information Manager

Ever needed a professional-grade shot of your whole book for promotional purposes (such as the one on the right, a whole stack of them with white background), but all you had was the flat cover image?

Well, that’s all you need, it turns out!

There are a number of online services where you can just upload the front cover of your book, put it in a template, click a button, and you can save your own “3D” picture of your book, complete with pages.

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The Latest Word from a Client…

December 08, 2011 by Atilla Vekony, Publishing Information Manager

We post short testimonials from our authors in a separate area, but I don't think we could have done a good job excerpting from this one. Thanks to one of our newest clients, Joann MacMaster from the Arizona Center for Innovation:

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An Amazon Holiday Quick Start

December 06, 2011 by Sam Henrie, President

The holidays are upon us, and Amazon.com is set to sell more gifts than any other online retailer during this season. I hope you’re already taking advantage of this awesomely powerful marketing platform—Amazon—to sell more books. If not, here’s my holiday gift to you: A brief, 7-step procedure to quick-start your book sales on Amazon:

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7 Writing Mistakes Editors Constantly Fix to Make Your Book Saleable

December 06, 2011 by Grael Norton, Acquisitions Manager

Do mistakes that authors commonly make keep your writing from being powerful—and saleable?

How can you fix them before you hand over your manuscript for editing?

Barbara McNichol presents an hour-long teleclass on Wednesday, December 7 that addresses seven writing problems you might not easily recognize on your own—and how to fix them.

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