Photo Credit: Joanne McCall Creating a media mindset is like preparing for any other important project, whether it’s getting ready to climb up a mountain (nice metaphor, don’t you think?), preparing for a vacation, taking on a new client, or getting yourself organized. To be […]
January 2020 is already behind us and we are now into February. It’s cliche to say how fast time flies, but it’s so true! As I write this it is Super Bowl Weekend. Soon it will be Valentine’s Day, then President’s Day, and then it
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Welcome to part two of Your Book Launch. If you missed part one, you will find it here. Today we’re going to delve into a very important part of your book’s campaign: Your Website You have a website, right? I am very hopeful that no
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Dear Savvy Pro: The words “book launch” are tossed about quite frequently among writers and authors. Now and then I have people come to me behind the scenes and ask me exactly what is a book launch? In fact, it happened again just the other
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Dear Savvy Pro: There are two sides to every coin: Heads and tails, yes and no, yin and yang. pros and cons, right and wrong, up and down, outer and inner.The last one is the focus of today’s Savvy Sunday News: the outer and the
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The Winter Solstice was last night, Hanukkah begins this evening at sundown, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are coming up very soon, and then Kwanzaa begins. I’m taking a short break from our Savvy Sunday News to celebrate with my family, so let’s pick up
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Last week we took some time to reflect on 2019 and some steps for reverse engineering in preparation for 2020, which you can read about here if you missed it. And, of course, there is the present. Right now. We still have time to take
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In order to stand out and be heard in this unbelievably noisy world, sound bites can be your best friend. Authors ask me all the time how I manage to come up with them, so I thought this would be a good subject this week.
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Before we get into the meat of today’s Savvy Sunday News, I want to make sure you saw last week’s edition, New Rules for Interviews. It included a lot of actionable tips for doing interviews with television programs from your home or office. It generated
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When you’re ready to cook a fine dinner, you don’t just walk into the kitchen, throw a bunch of ingredients together and hope for the best. Or maybe you do at times (I certainly have), but let’s suppose in this case you have company coming
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