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Tips for entrepreneurial authors.

Batch Your Weekly Work Ahead of Time

By Jared Dees

The typical writer, blogger, thought leader, entrepreneur, etc. commits to a weekly or daily post. This sets up a nice rhythm in someone’s schedule. For example, every Monday for the last three years I have posted a new worksheet to my membership website. Usually, I would these worksheets a month or a few weeks ahead…

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December 14, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, Meaningful Work, Productivity

Nonfiction Book Title Checklist

By Jared Dees

Titling a book is challenging. It is hard enough to describe a book in just a few sentences. How can you be sure you have a title for your nonfiction book that works? Here is a handy checklist to help choose the best title for your book. If the title does not meet one of…

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December 6, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, On Writing

Write Three Drafts for Three Different Readers

By Jared Dees

I’ve heard bestselling author Neil Strauss say on a couple of occasions (links at the bottom) that he writes his books in three drafts. As I finish writing another book, I find this advice to be extremely helpful and challenging. Most of us just do the first draft and maybe the second. I think we…

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November 30, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, On Writing

Gary Vaynerchuk’s $1.80 Strategy for Instagram

By Jared Dees

When you are first starting out, no one knows who you are. You pick a platform pump out some content and you get crickets. No traffic, no impressions, no likes, no comments, and no shares. The mistake a lot of people make is just to create more content. Eventually, they will get seen or heard,…

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November 29, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, On Entrepreneurship Tagged With: blogging, content marketing

Own the Hour: The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself When Developing a Product

By Jared Dees

It is common practice and advice to identify who your ideal customer, client, reader is when developing your product. In fact, it is surprising how many people don’t have a specific type of person in mind in the development stage. Identifying what a product does for someone (benefits) is also common practice and advice. Being…

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November 28, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, On Entrepreneurship

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