Your Book is MORE Than Just a Good Read….

Filed Under (Products) by Lynne Klippel on December 2, 2009

Frank KickbushMeet Frank Kickbush
On today’s call we will meet Frank Kickbush, author of the book, The Secrets of Self-Leadership: Map Your Destiny Using Your Inner Compass and expert in creating workbooks and training courses based on the material in your book.

As you know, the most successful authors have a raft of materials related to their books.  Today, you’ll meet a man who knows exactly how to create great learning materials based on your book.

As a successful consultant for 20+ years, Frank has designed, written and delivered numerous adult training courses. Frank currently provides a training business development service to non-fiction authors creating training programs and products to compliment their book including: Workbooks; Study Guides; Home Study Courses; eCourses; Teleseminars; Speeches; Audio and Video products.

On this show we will explore why and how authors can develop training products to compliment their book and what authors can do to dramatically increase their influence of their target audience and grow their business in a major way.

Click here to listen in as Christine and Lynne interview Frank:

To learn more about Frank and his outstanding services, visit http://frankkickbush.com/

How Do You Speak About Your Book When You Are Terrified?

Filed Under (Speaking) by Lynne Klippel on October 11, 2009

Janet EspositoThis is a very special call for all authors, but especially for you if you have stage fright?

Meet Janet Esposito, author of Getting Over Stage Fright: A New Approach to Resolving Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing. Janet’s book is so special that Love Your Life Publishing, Inc, selected as our first published book.

Janet is the president of In The SpotLight, LLC, a company devoted to helping people overcome fear of public speaking and performing. Janet writes and speaks from her own experience with this challenge and from more than a decade of helping others to master their fear. Her best selling book, In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing, and her CD, In The SpotLight: Guided Exercises to Create a Calm and Confident State of Mind, Body, and Spirit While Speaking or Performing, as well as her workshops and personal coaching, have helped thousands of people better manage their performance anxiety and achieve a level of comfort and confidence they never thought possible. Janet writes and speaks with a depth of understanding, compassion, and inspiration. She is a master guide on this journey as she deeply understands both the problem and the solution!

Getting Over Stage FrightJanet’s newest book, Getting Over Stage Fright: A New Approach to Resolving Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing, is a great sequel to her first book. It provides a comprehensive mind, body, spirit approach to working through stage fright and offers a wide array of techniques and practices to help you resolve this fear.

This interview is so powerful that even if you LOVE public speaking, you will be blessed by the information you learn from Janet about showing up in a more powerful way in your life and your business.

Using Your Book to Gain National Prominence- A Case Study

Filed Under (Expertise) by Christine Kloser on August 25, 2009

Join us for an inspiring discussion with nationally recognized author and expert, Bill Losey, CFP, CSA. Bill will be sharing his inspiring story of how he turned his book idea into book reality and leveraged his book to become one of the nations most recognized authorities on retirement planning. We’ll be asking him to share his book marketing strategies so you can follow in his footsteps, too!

Bill Losey, CFP®, CSA, America’s Retirement Strategist®, is a highly sought-after advisor, retirement authority, thought-leader, author and TV personality because he makes the complicated and mundane topics of investing and retirement fun!

Bill has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry and is a Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner, a Certified Senior Advisor and Certified Retirement Coach. He is the author of Retire in a Weekend! The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Making Work Optional (a 2008 Finalist at The Indie Excellence Book Awards), Founder of National Retirement Planning Month, and he publishes Retirement Intelligence®, an award-winning weekly newsletter that reaches thousands of subscribers worldwide.

As a qualified professional in the areas of retirement strategies, personal finance and investing, Bill is the resident retirement expert on CNBC’s “On the Money”, as well as a frequent contributor on KABC in Los Angeles and Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C. Bill has also been interviewed by or appeared on Oprah & Friends, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Montel William’s “Montel Across America”, the CBS Evening News, FOX Business Network, CW11 Morning News, the CBS Radio Network, AARP Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, Aol.com, BusinessWeek.com, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, CNNfn, FOX’s “Hannity & Colmes”, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg Business Radio, FOX News Radio, Wall Street Journal Sunday, and hundreds of radio stations nationwide.

Listen now to learn how Bill leveraged his book into this phenomenal success.

To follow in Bill’s footsteps and use the same step-by-step system he used to get HIS book done, check out getyourbookdone.com today. Or, listen to our FREE teleclass that features Bill’s success story at gybdpreview.com. We want to help you get YOUR book done!

Visit Bill’s website: www.retireinaweekend.com

Why Is It So Hard for Authors to Enjoy Selling Books?

Filed Under (Marketing) by Lynne Klippel on August 1, 2009

Jim and Judith SniechowskiJoin us for an empowering and informative discussion with best-selling authors Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski PhD. Authors of multiple books, Judith and Jim freely share their journey from book marketing newbies to book marketing experts.

As guest experts, they’ve been on over 1500 television and radio shows including Oprah, The View, 48 Hours, CNN, Canada AM and The Daily Buzz.

There’s a good reason why it’s challenging for authors to feel comfortable with selling books. In fact, in this interview, Judith and Jim explain what’s keeping you blocked and how you can make some simple shifts in your thinking and behavior to start enjoying the process of marketing your book and increase your book sales significantly.

The Heart of MarketingJudith and Jim also share key concepts from their outstanding new book, The Heart of Marketing: Love your customers and they will love your back. Christine and Lynne offer their commentary on the book and call it ‘recommended reading for all authors and service-based entrepreneurs’.

This interview will transform the way you think about marketing your book so that you can see book marketing as a service instead of a dreaded chore.

To learn more about Judith and Jim visit their websites:

www.theheartofmarketing.com

www.judithandjim.com