Every Friday I send out a newsletter called Friday Happynings. I’m sharing this one from June on finding your #1 thing to (perhaps) help you get focused for 2023. I am heading out to Madrid today (IF I make my connections…) for a writers’ conference and I’m pretty darn excited. Why? Because it will help…
I don’t often struggle with writers’ block. I like to say the cure for writers’ block is a hard deadline. But last week I had several (not one, not two, but SEVERAL) free days to just work on my own stuff. It was the equivalent of being taken to Baskin Robbins and told you could…
Your chances of becoming a successful writer are about the same as your chances of becoming a successful anything, maybe better because the success of one writer does not preclude the success of another. There can only be one Super Bowl champion team a year. Tally up the players, coaching staff, trainers, and everyone else…
When I tell people I run a boutique business, I’m pretty sure they’re thinking, “Really? She doesn’t even dress very well.” (For the record, they’re right. Most days I’m not even wearing shoes.) The boutique business model starts with providing a specialized product or service for a small niche clientele. Boutique businesses don’t compete on…
A former prospect got back in touch after a six year absence. We had met back in 2013 to discuss writing his book. He had a lot of things going on in his life and he never got back to me, though I would hear from him from time to time—an email or social media…
Several years ago, I wrote a post about the benefits of having a writing accountability partner. I had a writing buddy and we would meet once a week at a coffee shop to work on our books and it worked out really well… until he got a new job AND got married and his life…
An oft-quoted study found that 81% of Americans want to write a book someday. (I think the other 19% are realists.) But what kind of book do you want to write? In the context of what I discuss here, we’re talking about a book for your business. When I first talk with someone about their…
I’m in the business of helping people write their business books. So, when I say just about everyone who runs their own business should have a book, it’s pretty self-serving. It’s also not true. Not everyone in business is at the level where they should have their own book, or at least not a signature…