In my last article, How To Turn Your Life Experience Into A Business, I looked at opportunities to create a business from life experience with Mark “Hammer” Dixon and his book, Bash for Cash, as the example.
Once you have a book, you need to have a successful launch to get the word out there. Creating an author platform provides those opportunities.
I thought I would share those of author Joanna Penn, who has recently launched online her first thriller, “Pentecost”, to an international audience.

Here is our interview:
Tell us about your first book launch and how it went.
I wrote my first book “How to Enjoy Your Job” in 2008 and made all the mistakes in the world! I had a book I believed in and had spent a year working on. It was available on Amazon.com but no one was buying it. It was humiliating and depressing; plus I had outlaid my [...]

Original post by http://ReplytoYaro.com (Yaro Starak)

Greetings fellow Entrepreneurs, this week’s article is all about techniques, one thing I’m not usually very focused on. I love exploring and understanding why we do things and how we work, but my articles have been somewhat lacking in techniques.
One of the reasons for the way I write is that if we don’t have a deep understanding of how we work and why something is important, it doesn’t matter how many techniques we learn, we won’t apply them anyway. But this week, that’s all we’re doing – a big dump of as many creativity enhancement activities as I can squish into this article. So anyone feeling a need for more exercises to boost creativity can revel in the plethora of options available.
Why Brainstorming Doesn’t Work And How To Tweak It For Success
Numerous studies have been done to prove or disprove the effectiveness of brainstorming. It turns out, getting people together [...]

Original post by http://ReplytoYaro.com (Yaro Starak)

WordPress 3.1 was finally released and we have spent yesterday upgrading our network of blogs and testing, implementing the changes. For most people with a normal stand alone blogs it will be a simple automatic upgrade. In our tests – no issues or problems discovered, even though some plugins we have haven’t been upgraded officially to support 3.1 – they work.
As always - you want to do a backup of at least your database before taking the plunge but I don’t see any reason with delaying the step. Our Expert WordPress once click installer was upgraded to support latest version, so people who use our services get to enjoy latest and greatest!
WordPress 3.1 New Features To Be Aware Of
Most of the changes will be unnoticeable and invisible to you after upgrade. Perhaps most visible change is addition of Admin Bar that you will see on front end when logged in as blog [...]

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