Author Tips

Reach Out to People You Look Up To

Reach out to people you look up to. Email them, tweet them, Facebook them. Most of the time, they don’t say no. — Stacy Ferreira, co-founder of AdMoar.com She followed her own advice to score funding from Richard Branson and other icons. You can do the same in reaching out to people you look up […]

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Lisa Kogan: Dreaming and Doing

Lisa Kogan, a columnist for Oprah magazine, answered a reader’s question about getting her dreams off the ground. Here is part of her answer: If all we ever did was dream, the world would be made up of Batmans and ballerinas—it’s time to stop spinning and start doing. Then Lisa laid out a plan for the reader: Plan […]

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Book Marketing Advice from Consumer Magazines

Write with passion. Write from your heart. And you will find an audience. — John Kremer Click To Tweet Here are a few great statements I’ve run across while reading various consumer magazines during the past few days. All of these statements offer marketing lessons for authors, publishers, and entrepreneurs. You know what real power […]

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Twitter announces a 10,000 character limit coming soon

Twitter to 10,000 Characters: A Marketing Opportunity

Last week Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, sent out the following tweet as an image (which, currently, is the only way to send a long tweet). In essence, he announced that Twitter is working on a feature that will allow users to send tweets as long as 10,000 characters, rather than the current limit of 140 […]