Parent, Educator, Author
Dan Blanchard the Award Winning Author and Speaker, two-time Junior Olympian Wrestler, and two-time Junior Olympian Wrestling Coach who grew up as a student-athlete. Dan admits that as a youth he was more of an athlete than a student. Since then, Dan has successfully completed twelve years of college and has earned seven degrees. He teaches Social Studies in Connecticut’s largest inner-city high school. In addition, Dan is a Teacher Consultant for the University of Connecticut’s Connecticut Writing Project. He was chosen by the American Federation of Teachers as their face and voice of educational reform.
Dan has authored the two dynamic teen leadership books, Feeling Lucky? and Feeling Good. His third book of the Granddaddy’s Secrets series, Feeling Strong! will be out next winter. As an educator, coach, author, and speaker Dan feels that it is his duty to positively influence our youth every chance that he gets! He lives with his wife, Jennifer, their five children, and family dog, Daisy.
The Benefits of Good Networking Okay, quick story. And I’m sure some of you can relate to this story. A long time ago, I saw a fellow co-worker unfairly targeted by his supervisor because he wouldn’t keep his mouth shut in meetings. This co-worker was a high-quality guy, and when he saw something that [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:59:26+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 91- The Benefits of Good Networking
Retargeting to Increase Sales Did you know that the big boys and girls in this business love cookies? That's right, my self-publishing indie authors. Every time we do a search, the big boys like Amazon and Facebook, to mention a few, try to use their cookies. Their cookies are little bits of code that [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:54:55+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 90- Retargeting to Increase Sales
Creating Offers Hey, my self-publishing indie authors, do you want to take the next step to become a real authorpreneur? Of course, you do, right? Okay! This is what you do. You get better at creating offers. Too many of us just put our books and services out without a good offer. Or, if [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:52:31+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 89- Creating Offers
Facebook Ads Too many people spend good money and time to do Facebook ads and walk away with less-than-stellar results, my self-publishing indie authors. Many frown and say, “Well, that didn’t work. Boy, this authorpreneur thing is a tough business.” To have success with Facebook ads, it’s kind of like Stephen Covey, author of The [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:50:18+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 88- Facebook Ads
Creating A Successful Book Prelaunch Writing a book and then launching a book is a big deal, right, my self-publishing indie authors? A successful launch will help us sell a lot of books so we can gain some ground in our authorpreneur world and really make a difference out there with our books and [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:47:50+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 87- Creating A Successful Book Prelaunch
Bringing a Book Back to Life Hey, someone put our book to sleep. Our book seems to be hibernating, my self-publishing indie authors. What are we going to do to bring our book back to life? We worked way too hard and way too long for our book to just check out on us. [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:45:17+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 86- Bringing a Book Back to Life
Creating Value so People want to do Business with Us I’ve always preached how we should always be kinder than we need to be. Being kinder than we have to be makes it so that others want to be around us, my self-publishing indie authors. Sometimes, the world is lacking in kindness; I think [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:41:00+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 85- Creating Value so People want to do Business with Us
Instagram Hey, my self-publishing indie authors, wouldn’t you agree that people love pictures? And guess what? Instagram is all about photos! They are also well-aware that people these days want to monetize on their social media channels. So they are doing everything they can to help their customers use fantastic pictures and make some [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:36:53+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 84- Instagram
Getting Social Proof Hey, my self-publishing indie authors, guess what? If I tell you or anyone else how great I am, or how right I am, you may be hesitant to believe it. But, if you say it, or if others say it, then I have some credibility now. This sort of thing gets [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:34:33+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 83- Getting Social Proof
Increasing Facebook Engagement All of us self-published indie authors would love for our Facebook posts to go viral, wouldn’t we? Of course, we would! For this to happen, though, we have to create shareable content. Now I know this is a lot easier said than done. If it was easy, we’d all be going [...]
By danblanchard|2020-07-28T14:32:11+00:00July 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Book Marketing For Authors Blog 82- Increasing Facebook Engagement