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Do The Work Right From The Start To Accomplish Goals Within Their Deadlines

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Last Minute Stress

When we give ourselves a deadline, many people make the mistake of doing the work as the deadline approaches. Some authors give themselves a month to write a book they were supposed to write within a year. As the deadline approaches, we put in more work than we have ever put in before.

Instead of living the crunch time lifestyle as the deadline approaches, why not do the work in the beginning. I was recently listening to one of Seth Godin’s lectures, and he explained what happens when people work in the beginning and when people start working as the deadline gets dangerously close.

The people who work in the beginning are able to get their goals accomplished before the deadline. Working in the beginning and finishing before the deadline will give you the overdelivering effect which is always good to have.

The people who start working towards the deadline create an overwhelming schedule that is virtually impossible to implement unless sacrifices are made for that period of time. Some bloggers who try to write a book sacrifice updating their blog to add content to their books as the deadline approaches.

Working in the beginning will save you a lot of time and stress. Starting to work towards the end will result in deadlines that are not reached. The reason most people do not get their New Year’s resolutions accomplished is because they start working to accomplish their resolutions with 6 weeks to go before the New Year.

There are two choices that you have. You can either start early or rush in a desperate attempt to get some goals accomplished as the deadlines approach. Your best bet is to start early so you aren’t cramming everything in later.

 

How To Write A Persuasive Blog Post

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Power of Persuasion

When you come out with a new product or want sales for an old product, you would want to write a persuasive blog post that encourages people to buy your product. Writing a blog post that describes your product with a Buy Now button at the bottom is not a persuasive blog post, and most of those kinds of blog posts rarely work for your own products.

If you master writing persuasive blog posts, most of your readers will be enticed to buy your product. The first thing you would want to do is tell people your story of creating your product. How did you come up with the idea? How many months of hard work did it take to create your product? How many hours straight did you work on your product? At the end of that paragraph, say, “After several hours, weeks, and months combined, I have finally created my product [name of product].”

After you tell people the name of your product, tell people why your product is special and is not like the others. The mistake many people make is rushing straight to what the product includes. That is the wrong approach. You first need to identify the problems people in your niche face. Then, you need to tell people in your next paragraphs how your product solves the problem. Throwing in a week long discount for the first week is also very helpful.

The persuasive blog post is not another way to say “Buy Me Product.” The persuasive blog post is a way to give people a strong reason why they would want to buy your product. Your sales page will do the job of listing all of the features of your product. Your blog post is just a way to give people a good idea of what your product is, the story behind it, and how this product can solve problems your potential customers face.

 

We All Have Big Egos (And There’s No Denying It)

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Whether you think you have a big ego or not, you have one. While some people go over the top, we all have a big ego. Who wouldn’t love to tell other people about their accomplishments? If you are not that kind of person, wouldn’t you love it when someone else told their friends about all of the cool things you do?

The truth is that we love it when that happens. Talking about ourselves triggers the same parts of the brain when we think of food and money. I did not just write this blog post to say that we all have big egos. Instead, there are benefits that we need to know about in order to use someone else’s big ego to our effect.

If you want to make a new friend, have a good date, get a new business partner, or make a strong connection, the easiest thing to do is sit back for a while and let that person talk about himself/herself. Let that person talk about all of the accomplishments, successes, and products they have. When the conversation is over, that person will feel incredible about himself/herself. Then, that person will respect you because you made that person feel great.

We all have big egos which means you and the person you talk to. By tapping into the other person’s ego, you will hear all of their successes, and they will love you for it.

 

The Day I Forgot To Schedule Tweets

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Loud Tweeting

I will never forget the day that I forgot to schedule tweets. It started out as a typical day. Before going to school, I always check my statistics. I look at how many Twitter followers I gain, how many eBook sales I make, and my blog’s statistics as well. I happened to notice on one day that my blog only got 50 views at 7:30 am.

Since my blog tends to have more than 100 views at this time, I looked through my statistics to see if I could identify the problem. The problem was that I was not getting nearly as many visitors from Twitter as I normally got. I decided to look at my tweets thinking that I somehow forgot the link to my blog posts in those tweets or something along those lines. However, I quickly realized that I had not scheduled any tweets for the day. For the first time in several months (or maybe even a year), I had no scheduled tweets on HootSuite.

Here come the lessons. The first thing I took advantage of was HootSuite Pro. As a member, I knew the ropes well enough to schedule 24 tweets in 1 minute. Although I could not schedule any tweets in the morning, I had all of my tweets lined up from the afternoon and on.

This experience allowed me to deeply understand how important Twitter, and social media in general, is for my strategy. On that day, my blog got over 350 views because Twitter was able to kick in and save the day. However, I was able to get an idea of what traffic would look like without my social networks. Search engine traffic also contributed towards my blog’s increase in traffic, but the reason I get a lot of traffic from search engines is because of my social networks in the first place.

The big lesson is to never forget about your social networks. Although there may be some days when you do not feel like scheduling tweets or putting that pin up on Pinterest, continuing to use social networks will ultimately grow your presence in a big and powerful way. I was putting in the same amount of hours on Twitter back when I had 2,000 followers (also because I needed more time to learn and utilize cool tools) as I do now (now I gain more than 2,000 followers every 4 days).

Never forget your social networks. They have the power to put you on the map and get people to talk about you.

 

[Free] How To Publish More eBooks Faster: Tactics To Write 7,000 Words Every Day

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Words eBook Cover

While writing an upcoming book, Lead The Stampede, I noticed that I had not published a single eBook since last year. I wanted to go into the second quarter of the year strong, and I knew that publishing a new eBook would be a great start.

The result is called:

How To Publish More eBooks Faster: Tactics To Write 7,000 Words Every Day

It will be free through Amazon’s KDP Select program for the next five days.

Starting today (April 24th) to the end of Monday (April 28th), you can grab a free copy directly from Amazon.

Read on to learn more about this freebie.

 

How To Publish More eBooks Faster

If you are a self-published Kindle author, then you know how important it is to publish as many quality eBooks as possible. By publishing a lot of quality eBooks, you will get more returning customers, and the sales for your older eBooks will increase as well.

The problem many Kindle authors face is the ability to publish 1 quality eBook every 3-4 weeks.

With my eBook, How To Publish More eBooks Faster, I detail the best methods that will allow you to publish 1 eBook every 3-4 weeks. I go into detail on multiple case studies that show it is possible to write 7,000 words every day for your eBooks. Not only will I tell what works for me, but I will also provide simple methods that you can use to publish your next Kindle eBook faster.

Here are some of the topics that get covered:

  • How to become a better writer
  • How to find the time to write 7,000 words every day
  • How to eventually write more than 7,000 words every day
  • How successful self-published authors are able to publish 1 eBook every 3-4 weeks
  • How authors can split their time among blogs, social networks, and eBooks

In order to boost your sales, you need to publish more eBooks so you can get more customers. By publishing one eBook every 3-4 weeks, you will get many customers. So grab your free copy while it’s still available.

 

It’s Free, But I Need Your Help

Once again, I am offering free copies of my eBook from now until midnight on the 28th (Eastern Time). So grab your copy while it’s still available.

But, I do need your help! If you find this eBook to be useful, then I would love getting a review on Amazon.

 

Don’t Own A Kindle Reader?

There are some people who have had trouble accessing my eBooks because they do not have Kindle Readers. However, you do not need a Kindle to read Kindle eBooks. There are a variety of free ways that you can read a Kindle eBook without having a Kindle.

To sum it up, you can read Kindle eBooks no matter what device you use to access the internet. Amazon makes it simple for people to read Kindle eBooks whether they have a Mac, Android, or other device.

Anyway…

Here is the download link to my free eBook:

http://www.amazon.com/Publish-More-Kindle-eBooks-Faster-ebook/dp/B00JVAG88I/

Go download it now and let me know what you think about it.

To your success,

Marc Guberti

Great, Honest, And Thoughtful Content Wins

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This seems obvious. However, we all need to be reminded.

There are shortcuts to writing. Sacrificing quality writing means a blog post takes less time to write. However, that kind of content never wins.

We are all focused on writing quality content, but that is not the only kind of content that wins. People are not going to like something just because it has quality. It needs to be something that is great, honest, and thoughtful.

Show your readers that you took the time to write a brilliant blog post. It is easy to stop at the first sentence. It is easy to overlook your writing and forget to fix the spelling mistake. It is easy to write a 5 paragraph blog post and then leaving out the last tip.

If you want to be an elite blogger, your content needs to be great, honest, and thoughtful.