If you’re a writer, whether you want to aim to publish traditionally or whether you want to self-publish, self-promotion is part of the deal. Having hung around various writers’ forums and blogs for a couple of years, it seems that very few people acquire a publisher who is able or …
If you’ve ventured onto Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that there’s an awful lot of stuff on there that you don’t want to see. What’s the best way to avoid the dross? Book Spammers Spam takes many forms on Twitter. ‘Book spammers’ are something that writers will come across almost immediately. This …
If you hang around my blog, you probably realise I’m keen on Twitter. I play regular Twitter games and interact with a lot of my writer friends there. The biggest challenge that Twitter presents is that of fitting what you want to say in 140 characters. It’s really not very …
In my last post in this series, I looked at how to turn your goals into systems and habits. However, we also then discussed the problems with keeping ongoing systems on track. Overcoming Boredom To overcome boredom, first you need to identify the problem. If you’ve got a proposed system …
Last week I talked about how setting goals can be useful to help you achieve things. I then went on to say that goals can be difficult to achieve because of not knowing how to start a large goal, not finding the time to progress, and feeling a sense …
Success – the ultimate achievement I’ve always been interested in ways of improving productivity and efficiency to achieve success. Success is a nebulous concept–it means different things to different people. I’m going to use ‘writing’ as an example, because this is (mostly) a writing blog. You may think that it’s …
When people start using social media, most of them start with Facebook. Facebook is an easy place to start. A lot of people already have personal Facebook accounts, and from there it’s easy to gain more friends on your personal account or start up a page for business purposes. Generally, Facebook …