Many times people underestimate the value of spending time reading to get information for every area of their life and business. I’d like to hone in on business, marketing, and business growth. Remember, writing is a business, selling is a business, all of us are salespeople, all of us can apply this to our daily business growth. These are the principles I’ve applied to Writing Career Coach to grow my business exponentially while other businesses contracted, particularly in the publishing industry. 1: Don’t NOT read a book simply because you can’t read the entire thing. Confucius said “Every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” It’s true. Every journey in writing and business begins with the first step. Whether it’s a new idea for a marketing strategy, […]
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Are you ready for opportunity when it arrives?
Aspiring writers are always looking ahead to that book contract. They write, revise, network, rewrite, learn, plot…and dream. Pre-pubbed can be an intensely exciting time as well as an intensely frustrating one. We seem to stagnate in our dreams as week after week, chapter after chapter, conference after conference, time seems to pass us by. We watch others catapult to superstar status at writing conferences where the published authors gather to talk industry and the pre-pubbed gather to dream. The one thing all of them have in common is there are potential opportunities swirling around them at every moment. The thing that distinguishes many people is recognition of those opportunities. “But wait, Tiff!! I’m working hard!” I know you are. Don’t worry. I’m not criticizing. I’m coaching. I’m speaking from […]
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