Avoiding Dragons With a Training Budget

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. How often have you overspent on a “deal” that was guaranteed to help increase your income, but left you broke instead? How many times have you lacked the funds necessary to buy that eBook that could teach you ways to [...]

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Marketing Monday: Self-Promotion HSP-style

“People forget what you say, but they remember how you made them feel”–Warren Beatty Caring for others, wanting to help our fellow humans, comes rather naturally for highly sensitive people, so why shouldn’t promoting ourselves and our products be just as natural? Most likely because we’re thinking of “selling” rather than “marketing.” Sell: to persuade or induce (someone) to buy something: The salesman sold me on a more expensive model [...]

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Avoiding Dragons With a Training Budget

How often have you overspent on a “deal” that was guaranteed to help increase your income, but left you broke instead? How many times have you lacked the funds necessary to buy that eBook that could teach you ways to improve your marketing strategy? If you’re like most Independent Authors, myself included, the times for [...]

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Marketing Monday: A New Vision

If you’re a highly sensitive person like me, then you’ll understand how stressful marketing yourself, your product or your business can be. If you aren’t an HSP, then today’s marketing landscape with its hurry, scurry push in social media probably doesn’t bother you. You may, in fact, thrive on the pressure, the excitement. If that’s [...]

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The Dangers of Facebook,Myspace

Originally this post was going to be just about the little experiment I’m running on Facebook vs. Myspace. I wanted to have a less subjective (or rather “other’s opinion”) view on which would be the better network to use for marketing. So far, Facebook is far superior, but mostly because that’s the one used by [...]

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Success Feels Like Failure

Last Sunday I had a wonderful thing happen in my absence at church. My mother (who is one of my biggest fans ) took my book to her Sunday school class and, for lack of a better description, “marketed” it. Before the class was over there was a volunteer to write up an article for [...]

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Marketing For The Indie Author

We have the flu at our house, so this will be just a short post (and probably a bit scattered in its organization, so I apologize).  I hope to write more on the subject at a later date.  Perhaps by then I’ll have tried all the techniques suggested in the following links and will be [...]

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