The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors – Writing
The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Authors
Judy Cullins
If you are not a successful author yet, incorporate the following 10 Secrets:
1. Treat your book as a business.
You spend many hours creating a masterpiece to help your audience. It follows then, you need to set up a regular time schedule to market and promote it.
2. Create a flyer for each book you offer.
Hand out your flyer at business meetings or at any public place. Ask your audience to pass the flyer along to friends and associates. Offer one free report or ezine on the flyer to get new email addresses to send promotion to later.
3. Create a line or two about your book in your signature file that goes on every email you send.
After your name, title, and benefit statements, add something like: eBk: "Write your eBook or Other Book--Fast!" Include your addresses and phone numbers too.
4. Invest some money in book marketing.
Contact a book coach and schedule a low-cost introductory session to see if you are a match and will get what you need. Many authors print too many copies or use an expensive service to get book finished instead of putting aside an equal amount to market it.
5. Take a teleclass on how to market your book.
These low cost and low time investments can make your book the great seller it should be. Discover inexpensive ways to market via the phone and email. How convenient!
6. Dont get fooled by high-cost services.
If its too good to be true, it isnt true. When you hire someone to do it all for you, it can cost over $1000 a month with small results. Check out what services fit your budget, and get a realistic picture of what your results will be.
7. Delegate some of the marketing.
Like me, hire a low-cost computer assistant from your local high school. They know more than many professionals. For under $10 an hour, you can multiply your promotion exponentially via ecommerce your assistant does for you 2-3 times a week.
8. Set a dollar goal for your book each month.
Dont count copies sold. Count each months book sales. Put your goal near your workstation to remind you of what you want. Dont price your book too low, so youll appreciate an easy experience--getting what you deserve for all your work.
9. Learn more about Internet book marketing.
Think about reaching hundreds of thousands of your audience every week. When you give them what they want--free information--they will eventually buy. Many authors go the traditional path of talks, ads or press releases. They dont always pay well for the effort.
10. Dont stop marketing.
Many clients come to me and say they are discouraged their book didnt sell well in four months. Replace doubt with patience for the process. Success takes many months, but once you get it, the Internet keeps it multiplied for you.
Knowing the secrets of successful authors can help you receive the same prestige and become a household word.
Judy Cullins © 2004 All Rights Reserved.
About The Author
Judy Cullins, 20-year book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in peoples lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Author of 10 eBooks including "Write your eBook Fast" and "How to Market your Business on the Internet," she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, The Book Coach Says...and Business Tip of the Month at http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml and 140 free articles.
judy@bookcoaching.com
Writing Tips For Novice Authors – Writing
Writing Tips For Novice Authors
Patty Apostolides
If you are reading this article then you probably have asked yourself at some point in your life, "Do I have what it takes to become an author"
I believe that successful authors, those who actually write and finish that novel, or book of poetry, or even that book of short stories, and see it all the way to publication, have certain characteristics.
Characteristics of Authors
1. They like to sit for hours in front of a computer screen or with pen and paper, typing writing away.
2. They think about their book, even when theyre not writing.
3. They are motivated to finish their book.
4. They are motivated to proofread, edit and revise their finished book until it is the best it can be.
5. They are motivated to publish their book.
6. Once they publish the first book, they are already working on the next one.
If you answered yes to anyone of the above, then you have a good chance of attaining your dreams of becoming an author. Dont listen to those people who say its a competitive market out there. Dont listen to those people who say theyve written five books and havent had one published yet. And dont listen to those people who send you back your manuscripts! Listen to yourself. Listen to that inner voice, the one that is whispering now. But wait until you get started. Once your book is written and published, that inner voice will be roaring! And the whole world will hear about it.
I know, I know. I tend to be the optimist. But we have so many pessimists in the book business, we sure need some more optimists around!
For you, the novice writer who would like to start writing that first book, the best way to begin is to start writing. Yes, just sit down and do it. Stop the other activities, the television, the reading, the shopping, the chatting on the telephone, and find the time to devote at least one hour a day to writing.
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5 Free Time-Saving Tools for Article Authors – Writing
5 Free Time-Saving Tools for Article Authors
Brandie King
You can save time and make your article writing and promotion easier by putting some very great tools to use. Below Ive included 5 tools that can help you.
1. Article Formatter
If your articles arent properly formatted before being submitted they have a very high chance of getting rejected. Formatting your articles also shows respect for the publishers you are submitting to. The following tool will not only format your articles to any line length you desire, but give you a total count of characters, words, and lines. To format your articles very quickly, just visit http://www.fwointl.com/FWOFormatter.html.
2. Tracking Software
As you start writing articles, and especially when you have been writing them for awhile, you will need a way to keep track of everything youve written. You can do this using a free program called Writers Database. Writers Database is a program that will keep track of everything youve written, potential publishers, submissions to those publishers, writing that hasnt been submitted yet, and more. You can find it at http://www.ultima-thule.co.uk/
3. Text Converter
To make it simple to add your articles to your website you need a simple tool for converting them to HTML. Using such a tool will greatly reduce the time you spend getting your articles up on your site. You can find a free one at http://www.cyber-matrix.com/txt2html.html.
4. SP*M Checker
Whether you submit your articles directly to publishers or to article directories, you can increase the chances of them being picked. Every time you write an article, run it through the checker at http://www.lyris.com/contentchecker. This will check your articles for things that have a probability of triggering SP*M filters. Once the check is finished, you get a detailed report that will show you what you need to change.
5. Spell Checker
I know that this seems pretty obvious, but checking the spelling in your articles is a must. When you submit articles that are full of spelling errors you project a very unprofessional image and turn people away from what you have to offer. Tiny Spell is a free program that will allow you to check the spelling of words in any Windows application. http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/
Using these tools will not write your articles. That is completely up to you. But using them will dramatically decrease the time you have to spend writing your articles and getting them ready to submit.
About The Author
Brandie King is a writer and author who teaches other writers how to write, as well as promote, using articles. You can submit your articles free to her article directory. http://www.articlesubmission.com
owner@articlesubmission.com
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