Stitching it together
Posted on October 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business | 3 Comments
Several final steps with regards to the ebook.
First: Editing. No matter how many times you read your own writing, there are problems. Having edited my book five times I felt pretty confident when I sent it out. But my editors disagreed with me.
Guru.com produced nearly 40 people who offered to edit my book. Selecting the [...]
Building a Brand
Posted on October 29, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
I was going to chat a bit more about the book. But this needs to slip in here, to understand a bit better my motivation behind some of the decisions I made.
This phrase speaks to me: Do one thing and do it well.
If I were to rattle off the name of some companies, what impressions [...]
Designing a Site
Posted on October 28, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
As stated before, Wordpress is the engine which drives my websites. I know enough about HTML programming to understand the importance, and simplicity, of being able to control the content on the site. So if an error is found, I can quickly fix it without having to go through a “web guy”.
Based on previous estimates, [...]
Birth of a Site
Posted on October 27, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
With the book coming along, the next step was developing the website.
It is my belief that websites are becoming a natural extension of books. Books won’t go away any time soon. But for the internet crowd, websites are proving to be a very powerful marketing tool in advancing not only readership but also sales of [...]
Birth of the Book
Posted on October 23, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
The starting point for BuyThatDuplex was a book.
I knew I had wanted to do a book for many moons. Real Estate seemed to be a good starting point. But what can you write about a subject that’s been talked about to death?
Taking a chapter from Sir Richard Branson’s book, I let my frustration be my [...]