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How did I learn how to do Virtual Book Tours?

Through master trainer and inventor of Virtual Book Tours, Alex Mandossian.

Virtual Book Tours are only one kind of teleseminar Alex teaches. There are many other forms and purposes for teleseminars, all of which can help authors and business people build a platform, sell more books, stay in touch with their audience, and even create new products at the speed of sound. Not to mention, turn a very nice profit!

Alex will be teaching his premier course, Teleseminar Secrets, in December. Before the training begins, he will be holding a Preview Call. I got you a VIP discount for that call.

Here’s what I’d like you to do:

1. Read my new Publishing Coach Weekly article on “5 Ways to Use Teleseminars to Build an Author Platform–Before or After Your Book is Published.”

2. Ask your question about teleseminars. I’ll be answering them on next week’s Publishing Coach Weekly call.

3. Sign up for Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets Preview call on December 4 at http://www.teleseminarsecretspreview.com. When you do, you will also be eligible for my 1-hour+ follow-up strategy call focusing specifically on what you learned from the Preview Call and how it relates to being (or becoming) an author. This will also prepare you to get the most out of the Teleseminar Secrets course itself, should you take it. (And I highly recommend you do.)

So go here now to read the article and get all the details.

There are so many wonderful tools and opportunities to promote books that weren’t there before.

In addition, the Internet and other technology has allowed us authors and aspiring authors to actually make a huge profit from the information we have to share with the world.

Whereas before, we could only hope for 10-15 percent of “net” royalties from a publisher (if we were so lucky as to be published), now we can not only self-publish and keep ALL the profit, we can also deliver our content
in a variety of other ways.

Just about all of these alternative ways–teleseminars, membership sites, articles, ebooks, multi-media home study courses, etc.-have a much greater profit margin than printed books.

You would do well to consider these new methods of getting your message into the world.

I’d like to recommend you take a 2-minute quiz to start you on this path. It’s an Electronic Marketing quiz put together by one of my colleagues, Alex Mandossian, who is an amazing marketer and one of the best trainers
I’ve ever come across.

When you take this quiz, you will receive a customized analysis of your current starting point. You will also begin to receive some free training on marketing that is very worthwhile.

So take this quiz and go from there. Don’t worry, in the coming days and weeks I’ll be helping you put the things you’ll be learning into the context of being an author and getting your message into the world in ways
that could very well change your life (as they did mine).

Just click here to take the 2-minute quiz now.

When I use it, it doubles my productivity. If you haven’t investigated it yet, I encourage you to check it out. It’s free, fun, and it works!

But I’m writing now about something new from Mark Joyner, who created Simpleology. (I think Mark Joyner has a real gift for boiling things down to the most valuable essence, and then communicating it clearly. See if you agree.)

It’s about the only four investments you will ever need to make (in good times and bad).

Can you guess what they are?

If your mind starts racing with answers, you’re not alone. Recently over 668 people placed a guess at what they were and the answer will be revealed on the 6th.

Check to see if you agree with the folks by clicking here.

Now here’s another question …

If you know the four areas to invest in, how do you do it?

(The answer to this holds the key to just about anything you want.)

The good news is, anyone can do it.

… young, old …

… wealthy or poor…

It doesn’t matter. It applies to everyone, including YOU.

Curious?

Learn more about what’s brewing here. I think you’ll be fascinated.

(Special note: This blog is a goldmine for authors. You must at least read the November 1 post AND ESPECIALLY the comments. I will be revealing why and how it’s a goldmine, soon.)

If you’re a published author - or even THINKING of becoming a published author - you won’t want to miss tonight’s free teleseminar from Build Your Business Write.

Yvonne Perry will talk about her new ebook, Book Marketing in the Digital Age, Online Promotion Made Easy, and give tips for promoting your book(s) online. She’ll also answer questions about online book promotion.

To register for this free teleseminar, and to ask your question, go HERE now.

I’m excited to be doing several Virtual Book Tours in the coming weeks, and I’d like to invite you to the first one.

If you’re a leader of any stripe (parent,  educator, church leader, community leader, manager, etc.)  tune in on October 28 13 to listen to my interview with Nancy Ortberg, author, speaker, teaching pastor, and business consultant.  As is typical with Virtual Book Tours, you can ask Nancy Ortberg questions ahead of time. So go ahead–ask Nancy any question  you have on how to unleash leadership potential—in yourself or others.

Nancy will answer questions—perhaps yours!—in the upcoming Virtual Book Tour that you can attend via your phone or even computer. Rather than driving somewhere to a physical book tour to hear Nancy talk about her new book, Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership (or missing it altogether because it’s not in your town), you get to hear her either live, or later via replay—from the comfort of your own home!

When you sign up, you’ll also get an excerpt from the book to get you started.

Book previews are the newest fad in book promotion and are quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for authors to get the word out about their books and for readers to sift through the millions of choices in reading material.

What is a book preview, you might ask, and why would anyone watch one?

Find out the answer to that question HERE.

The Internet Marketing Dictionary defines information products as “products that can usually be delivered over the internet and which essentially provide information about a topic that is of sufficient interest to get people to pay money for the information.“

There’s a huge market for information products and now you can learn how to take advantage of this worldwide market.

Simply attend a free teleseminar, this Wednesday night, October 1st, at 7:00 central time.

Find out more about the event and how to register here.

Well, I just came across a most exciting new resource to help you get exposure in, perhaps, The Washington Post or New York Times.

Could that help you in any way, do you think?

I’m talking about a service called Help a Reporter. Sign up with your email address and three times a day, Peter Shankman will send you a list of all kinds of things reporters are looking for. (Thank you, Peter Shankman–and Bonnie Dillabough,founder of the Yaktivate.com podcasting network, Cookie Cutter Group teacher and Internet marketer extraordinaire, for telling me about this!)

Here’s what Peter served up tonight (I included the Washington Post and New York Times details–but act fast!):

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I just posted a couple of comments on Alex Mandossian’s blog (Jeff Herring’s post), and Stu McLaren’s.

I don’t quite get why Jeff Herring is backing someone who is obviously doing more than “creatively imitating” him.

What do you think? Comment here, please.