Exactly 100 days ago I wrote a blog. I had no intention of doing anything crazy with it, but by the end, I found I’d committed myself to blogging every day, with no end date. Not only that, but I’d somehow committed to running at least a mile every day too. (It’s all Seth Godin’s […]
Continue readingToday’s post is over at Birds on the Blog, looking back at a couple of recent podcast episodes and drawing out some lessons on attitude for entrepreneurs and writers. Are you a DD?
Continue readingOn Wednesday I carved out a few hours to focus on planning for 2017: usually what happens is I block out a day in the diary for this kind of thinking and then it gets eaten up by the to-do list. This time, however, I used my new-found understanding of myself as an Obliger (see […]
Continue readingI know it’s a bit early to be thinking about January, but you’ve got to plan ahead. What are you going to look forward to once the Christmas parties are over? Here are a few ideas. You’re welcome. 1. Use discarded wrapping paper to make a collage 2. Throw every scrap of left-over cheese into […]
Continue readingA sneak peek at next week’s Best Bits episode, which I finished recording this morning: If you’re finding it tough – building your business or writing your book – here’s some wise words from Amy Wilkinson. In Episode 32 Amy talked about how she wrote The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs […]
Continue readingThere are lots of business tools that are useful for writers of business books, and this one is particularly helpful towards the end of the strategic thinking piece, as you prepare to move over into content marketing and more specifically into writing your book. A positioning statement is the pure distilled essence of your strategy […]
Continue reading‘Why should you write a proposal? Because YOU need to be clear on this stuff too. Your book represents an investment of your own time and energy, and you need to make the business case to yourself.’ Today’s blog is a guest post over at Birds on the Blog – http://birdsontheblog.co.uk/writing-a-book-start-with-the-proposal/.
Continue readingRobin Waite was a busy man. He was running his own business building websites and developing online business strategy for an ever-growing list of customers. At home, he was doing his bit looking after a 3-month-old baby. So when he decided to write a book, the obvious question was: when? Rob’s solution was to plan […]
Continue readingBack in January, I ran a workshop for 10 would-be authors called The Year of the Book. It was aimed at those who wanted to get serious about the book they’d been talking about writing for months/years and make it happen in 2016. One of those people was Glenda Shawley, and she came away from […]
Continue readingWell, that was a long-held ambition realized: I just interviewed Guy Kawasaki for The Extraordinary Business Book Club. (I still can’t believe I get to talk to some of the people who’ve most influenced my entrepreneurial career and who’ve been such a powerful force in shaping my ideas over the last few years – I […]
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