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 [...]

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The Day I Made A $700 Affiliate Commission
One of my favorite stories to tell during interviews is my first attempt to make money selling an affiliate product.
My campaign started off as a failure as my blog post promoting the product netted zero results. I briefly doubted my decision to blog and considered giving it up for all of a few hours, but decided to stick to it because I enjoyed it. I then later made my first sale from the blog post, earning $20 in commission, which led to more sales and cementing of my belief that affiliate marketing could become a serious source of income for me.
Later that same year (this was my first year of blogging) I did another affiliate promotion, but this time for a live event that cost $1,500 to attend. The commission was $700.
I did my promotion with a couple of blog posts and eventually [...]

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