Comments on: Becoming a Published Author

By: Felice

Felice — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:27:55 +0000

I have self-published successfully for over 15 years. It takes hard work but I have become a full time publisher and published others authors as well. The biggest key to becoming successful is to “have a platform” (a term used to mean you are a public speaker). That has tremendously helped with book sales. My latest work is a book serie (another good tip) and the first book is Information in a Nutshell: Writing and Publishing. It is a quick how-to book to get you started. I have friends who have successful companies (multi-million dollar range) who are self published and not multi-marketers online. It all depends on your niche and your drive. I just wanted to say it can be done!

By: Jan Weidenbach

Jan Weidenbach — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:33:56 +0000

The best example for this personal branding are the numerous internet marketing gurus who all publish ebooks, set up newsletters and run their own blogs.
All these gurus invest heaviley in personal branding and at least some of them seem to be quite succesfull with this.

By: janne

janne — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:53:32 +0000

Well, first of all I admire your shot for becoming a succesful author, reading a little here I believe you can do it.
My comment however is a recommendation of a funny/sad website where I wrote all my to-do and not-to-dos while launching an online business. Part of the reason tried it is because i REALLY Wwant to get to Australia, and I hope this can fund part of my trip.