BEST RESOURCES FOR AUTHORS AND SPEAKERS**
Here are my all-time, best-found-to-date resources to help you create the most professional book and marketing pieces possible.
Organizing Your Blog
Book Design – Interior:
Cover and Interior Design:
Eli Blyden at Crunchtime Graphics
Editing:
Well, me, of course! Email me: Barbara@BarbaraGrassey.com
Market Research:
KDP Rocket — COOL TOOL! Software tells you how viable your idea is, provides market data from Amazon on number of competitors, the average amount of money the top books are making, estimated number of searches, and a competitive score to help you figure out if you can break out in a category. All your competitive data in one place.
Sell Your Book/The Business of Writing:
The Chilton Method — I LOVE this course. Dave Chilton focuses mainly on bulk sales of nonfiction books, but he covers so much territory! I was going to write a Sell Your Book course, then I found this and it’s so much better than I could have done.
Want to be a working writer? ZenBusiness has a page with a ton of resources from skills that you need to be a writer to self-publishing red flags. Shout out to the creative writers in Laurel, Maryland for sending this link to me.
Self Improvement from SelfGrowth.com
SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to information about Self -Improvement, Personal Growth and Self Help on the Internet. It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other Web Sites on the World Wide Web.
Speaking/Business Mentor:
Dave Lakhani Dave@Boldapproach.com
Social Media Sharing Software:
MeetEdgar — You get $10 off (and I get $10 off — yay us!)
RecurPost — this is the software I’m currently using. Both are great!
Transcription:
Rev.com — this is my go-to company for transcription. They are accurate, they are fast. Full service is $1 per recorded minute and an automated option is $0.10 per recorded minute.
Course Platform:
Thinkific — This is where I host my online courses.
Video Conferencing:
Zoom — One of the best deals going. Their free version rocks and the pro plan is ridiculously cheap.
** DISCLOSURE: Some of these links are Affiliate Links. That means I earn a commission or referral fee if you decide to use that product or service. And that is much appreciated!!