Turning Your Weaknesses into Your Strengths I know most of us self-published indie authors don’t have to deal with the downfall of not having any flaws or weaknesses. Remember, people don’t like perfect people. Flawless people are not relatable to most of us. And that’s a good thing because I have a lot of [...]
Believing in Yourself It saddens me when I think about how many of us self-published indie authors look for others' approval. We're all scared. Me, too. We're all looking for the world to say it's okay to move forward. It shouldn't be that way. After all, we've written books, right? We've done something most [...]
How to get Paid Part of getting paid is being able to take other people’s money. Yeah, I bet I have your head swirling right now, huh? Okay, this isn’t a nefarious as it sounds. Let me explain what I mean by being able to take other people’s money. When I talk about taking [...]
Being Accessible We live in a world of instant gratification now, wouldn't you agree? Many of us don't do so well with that delayed gratification of things nowadays. So, we have to make it very, very easy for people to find us. They just don't do it on their own, my self-published indie authors. [...]
Making Sales with Webinars Webinars are a nice simple structure for us self-publishing indie authors to put our message out there. They help people become more familiar with who we are and what we do in our authorpreneur world. It’s another tool we can use to create more sales and build our business. Webinars [...]
Habits of Success Set your alarm clock. Yup. Getting up earlier is one of the secret habits of success. Just ask one of our greatest Americans, Benjamin Franklin. Didn’t he say something about the one that gets up early is the one that gets the worm? Listen, my self-publishing indie authors, you all know [...]
Turning Lemons into Lemonade Hey, my self-publishing indie authors, life is going to serve us a lot of lemons. That’s just how it goes in this world and in our field of authorpreneurship. Come to think of it, that’s how it works everywhere. Life is full of lemons. So, here’s the thing, when life [...]
How to come up with Blog Posts Ideas Okay, this former football and wrestling star has a secret to share with all of you self-published indie authors out there. I’m a bit of a nerd. Yup. I said it. I’m sort of a nerd. Believe it or not, I carry a mini-notebook and pen [...]
Better Storytelling We can't help ourselves. We're humans. And we love sitting by the fire listening to a good story. It's just the way we're built. We crave oral stories to learn from. We all take different things, our own things, away from each story we hear or read. Within each story, there is [...]
Why You Should Be Blogging Blogging does a lot of things for us self-published indie authors. First of all, it’s our own little piece of virtual real estate. Hopefully, we all have our blog on our website as I have previously preached. With a website and a blog, people have a way of finding our [...]