Inspirational Stories
Book Marketing Tip: Zig Ziglar on Success
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the […]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Building a Ship
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather the wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And, if you want to sell books, don’t drum up humdrum followers. Teach your fans to yearn for […]
A Huffington Post Story: Relationships Matter
An old friend of mine, Willy Mathes, recently had a wonderful bit of writing success. Willy’s been a freelance book editor and writing coach for 17 years. One of his clients, Judy Warren, began blogging for Huffington Post last July. Not long ago, she also started practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM), something Willy had been doing […]
Kickstarter Has Funded 100,000 Projects
Late on February 7, 2016, Kickstarter celebrated it’s 100,000th project being funded. To celebrate, Kickstarter shared 100 facts about crowdfunding. Below are a few of them. 1. Number of successfully funded Kickstarter projects from their launch on April 28, 2009 to February 7, 2016: 100,000. 2. Number of creative categories and subcategories in Kickstarter — from Architecture […]