Pre Vacation Post
Written on July 10, 2008 by Susan Payton
I’m closing up my home office for a well-deserved break. Before I attend BlogHer next week, I’m touring Napa Valley and San Francisco with my mom. Place your bets on how much work I slip in between wineries! I’m not even swearing I won’t open my computer (it’s always a magical time when I leave for vacation: new business always comes in).
Before I go, I want to share a book I just finished with you: From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur, by Stephanie Chandler. It gives great advice on how to get published, in ebooks or physical books. Now, I already have a couple of ebooks (DIY Press Releases and Eating Cereal with a Fork: Maximize Marketing in a Recession) but this book really got my wheels turning about how to better promote it. I’ve taken steps to have my ebook automatically downloadable once someone pays (I use a program called E-Junkie.com. Cheap and easy).
Go back and read my posts on using ebooks as promotion, then buy this book!
Have a great week, and I’ll be back after July 21.
I actually read that book last summer, though I was listening to several related podcasts and reading some similar books at the same time, so I forget what exactly was covered.
I do think ebooks are kind of on the way out though with all the multimedia ways of learning and interacting through the Internet now (not to mention that you can charge a lot more for a course that’s interactive and includes video and audio content). I still want to write a book myself, but I’ll definitely be looking at creating a physical text–I want my book on someone’s shelf and not just in some forgotten folder on their computer. But, hey, I’m vain like that.