Reading Seth Godin’s blog post this morning (“Actually, they’re not yours“) inspired me to create a worksheet to help us think of our tribes in the right way. Authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, marketers, and businesspeople seem to be thinking of their tribes in the wrong way. Download the Our Tribe Worksheet. We make a mistake when…
The Ultimate Book Launch Guide: 33 Ideas Any Author Can Use
Your book is about to be released into the world. You want it in the hands of as many people as possible. The question is, what do you do now? Where do you start? How do you craft a book launch that will really help your book take off? A book launch is a whirlwind…
Self-doubt and the Published Author
Now that I have a published book out and another eBook single on the way, I am experiencing an unexpected feeling. Doubt. What most successful people will tell you, if you ask them, is that they still feel self-doubt. Oddly, I’m feeling it now more than ever. Now let me clarify that I don’t feel…
Lectio Divina Meditation: The Mission of the 72
In preparation for this Sunday’s Liturgy, the fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, take some time to integrate this week’s Gospel reading (Luke 10:1-12, 17-20) into your life with this lectio divina meditation about the Mission and Return of the Seventy-two. Follow this four step lectio divina process, taken from Pope Benedict XVI’s Verbum Domini, in your meditation on…
The Death of the Blog “Subscriber”
You’re blog doesn’t have subscribers. You might think it does. You might see some traffic trickle in from your Feedburner account. When people tell you they “read your blog,” it might make you think they are one of your beloved subscribers. But they’re not. You don’t have blog subscribers. When I first started “blogging” back…
