With a book that covers as much ground as Mindhacker, its hard to know where to start. The authors have written a book that is chock full of brilliant techniques to save time, money, and brainpower. If you find just one tip you can use out of the 60 that are offered, it will be […]
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3 Questions To Ask Before Quitting: Seth Godin’s book, The Dip, should be essential reading for authors. He offers a lot of helpful advice on overcoming \”writer’s dip\”, both in the writing process and in the marketing process of the book. All writers hit a point where they struggle to decide whether they should quit or
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The Dip is a short book by Seth Godin about when you should quit and what you should quit. It focuses on one principle again and again, and it is one that most of us need to be reminded of. When we start a business, write a book, sell a book, start training, or just
Social Media Analytics is a book that will introduce readers to many of the best social media analysis tools and firms that are out there. The author does a great job of explaining what a business really needs to measure and then gives plenty of information on how to get there. Chapter 5 was my personal
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The new book by Dan Zarella (reviewed here) has plenty of applications for authors. I highly recommend that you purchase the book, but wanted to share the top three tips from the book for authors. 1. Build Authority and Claim It. Zarella found that Twitter users with the word \”author\” in their username had, on average,
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Social Media Science sounds like a fairy tale, but Dan Zarella proves otherwise in his new book on contagious ideas. He focuses on social media because they are a \”petri dish\” for ideas, but the principles that he is able to extract from social media metrics can be applied to all of your ideas. This
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One of the most surprising things about the publishing business is finding out how many people want to write books. I honestly have more people who tell me they want to write a book then people who talk about reading books. Now more than ever, that goal can be realized quickly and effectively. Yet it
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Eat That Frog! is a book that a few of my favorite authors have recommended, but I never picked up a copy until last week. Very glad that I did, it is an excellent time management/productivity book that gets right to the point. Even if you just pick three concepts to implement, any three concepts,
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The Lean Startup is a book proposing that the way businesses have traditionally started is wasteful, time-consuming, and relies on a lucky turn of the dice more often than not. Eric Ries presents a new way to think about business and a new way to start them in this book. Eric defines a startup as
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George Orwell, renowned author of 1984 & Animal Farm, penned an insightful essay in 1946 entitled \”Politics & The English Language\”. He skillfully parodies meaningless words and confusing phrases, pushing for writers to simplify. He translates a verse from Ecclesiastes from good english to modern english to demonstrate: \”I am going to translate a passage
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