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Description: Award winning author, Joanna Penn, has put together 25 top articles from her website and 17 hours of free audio inspiration for writers and authors who want to succeed.
In this neat primer, you’ll learn things such as:
How to self-publish without fear.
How to build your brand, building a solid book marketing plan.
The importance of print-on-demand.
How to get featured on some of the most influential websites.
How to make an awesome book trailer.
And so much more!
This well laid out and easy to read report may just be the kick in the butt you need to get your writing career on track.
Author: Kara Gebhart Uhl under the banner of Writer’s Digest.
Niche: Education, Guide, Writing
Description: Online resources can help writers in very profound ways.
However, when writing time is at its premium, an author needs to beware of resources that although helpful, can suck precious time.
In response to this problem, Writer’s Digest has offered the “101 Best Website For Writers” for the 17th year running.
Writer’s Digest took into consideration numerous reader nominations and staff favorites to come up this awesome guide for authors.
The websites included are organized into eight sections: creativity, everything agents, genres/niches, jobs and markets, just for fun, online writing communities, publishing/marketing resources and writing advice.
A “best of the best” is highlighted in each category.
Those 101 websites offer mostly free resources and cater to both established and budding writers.
One can look forward to links to or mentions of writing conferences, contests, classes, critiques, workshops and support in this guide.
The guide also highlights a “best of the best” resource in each category.
Description: Niche: How to Get What You Want” is a 5 chapter essay that reviews the main ideas of Wattles’ timeless classic, “The Science of Getting Rich”.
Th essay outlines the importance of getting yourself in a state of mind that is conducive to more effortless success .
Wattles makes it clear the differences between your conscious, objective mind and subconscious, subjective mind.
For instance, you might consciously affirm and visualize success but the subconscious mind and its negative beliefs may sabotage your desire to succeed.
Wattles puts forward a mental exercise to be practiced each day that will make your subsconscious naturally more positive.
Readers of this book will be able to say the following statements and feel a oneness with them:
“I can succeed”.
“All that is possible to anyone is possble to me.”
“I am successful.”
“I do succeed for I am full of the Power of Success.”
Authors: Elizabeth, Cate, Jen, Erin & sponsored by Ken Evoy’s Sitebuildit
Niche: Online Business
Description: The Work-At-Home-Mothers (WAHM) Masters Course is literally everything a mother would want to know about starting her own internet business from home.
Four Work-At-Home Moms, authors of the course, start right from the beginning.
They review possible areas in which to start an internet business, how to organize properly and the nitty-gritty of how to build a substantial income online.
They introduce moms to a work solution that “fits” naturally with their family needs and yet is rewarding, exciting and soul-satisfying.
No technical knowledge or prior experience is necessary. Case studies are included.
Their realistic, “been-there-done-that,” helpful style gains the trust of moms. A mom who reads and follows this information will soon be on her way to building a real business with growing income.
Description: This book is split up into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters.
The chapters outline how to overcome mental obstacles and how creation rather than competition is the critical factor to attracting wealth.
The Science of Getting Rich or SOGR for short, is based upon Wattles “Certain Way Of Thinking”. This way of thinking emphasizes that positive thinking and self-affirmations as a matter of course lead to financial prosperity and happiness.
Chapters such as “How to Use the Will” and “Further Use of the Will” advance Wattles’ concept of the “Certain Way.”
The Science of Getting Rich was credited by Rhonda Byrne as one of the inspirations for her popular 2006 film and 2007 book The Secret.
Author: Ken Evoy, was one of Canada’s most productive toy makers in the 1990s.
Evoy’s game design company went on to create and license more than 20 toy creations between 1985 and 1998.
His most noted success is as the founder and Chairman of the Board of SiteSell, a company that created and markets the SiteBuildIt (SBI) all-in-one website builder platform and hosting.
His instructions in online marketing coupled with the SBI platform have helped many people develop profitable online businesses and achieve total financial freedom.
Niche: Business, Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing
Description: The Affiliate Masters Course is an intensive 10-DAY course geared to help you become a highly profitable online affiliate marketer.
The course’s ethos is building a solid income online by marketing other people’s products using the “Content Traffic Pre-sell Monetize” (CTPM) model.
The “C” aspect helps you develop the critical thinking and planning skills to come up with a killer theme for your website based on what you love, such as hobbies or work experience. Plus you are shown how to develop and refine topics for your theme.
The “P” aspect shows how to position your valuable content in a way that establishes credibility and get your website visitors in a buying mood. The goal here is to increase your conversion rates.
The “T” part of the course is concerned with growing your website traffic. You are shown how to put the right hooks in place on each page of your site to suck in hordes of traffic from places such as Bing, Google and Yahoo.
One of those “hooks” is keywords, for which you are shown how to choose the right ones. Another “hook” is external links, for which you are shown how to build those the right way.
The “M” part of the course gets you to eliminate dependency on a single source of income. You are given direction as to how to add complementary revenue streams that really adds value to your visitors.
Author: Martha Stephenson is an accomplished chef and cookbook author.
Growing up on a farm in Illinois and surrounded by fresh produce, she developed a love for all things culinary from a young age.
She honed her ability to prepare delicious, home-cooked meals with home ingredients under the guidance of her mother.
Eager to spread her message of cooking with fresh, healthy food, she has published several cookbooks and has become a household name in so doing.
Niche: Food & Drink, American Recipes
Description: If you’re excited by slow cooker dump dinners but have no idea how to get started “Slow Cooker Dump Dinners: Quick and Easy Slow Cooker Recipes” is just the book you need.
And it’s FREE to boot!
Within the pages, you will find 25 wholesome recipes such as meaty meatballs, sloppy joes and vegetable beef soup.
All recipes come with serving size and preparation time so that you get a complete understanding of how many people each meal serves and how long it will take to prepare.
You will also learn about the common mistakes that occur when bringing these recipes to life and how you can avoid making those mistakes..
These slow cooker recipes are perfect for everyone. They’re easy enough for the neophyte to prepare and yet so mouth-watering that the expert chef would not be able to resist sharing these meals with family and friends.
Description: The battlefield of cyber warfare has shifted from the outskirts to the endpoint.
End user desktops and laptops are under a dual threat from nuisance malware and advanced threats. Both needs to be stopped.
However, as more sophisticated threats increase in both strength and number, the customary approach to endpoint security of relying on signature-based anti-virus software needs to be re-examined.
The decreasing efficacy of antivirus and its decreasing ROI demand a new solution. This document outlines the type of protection that companies serious about protection really need.
Author: Lisa Shea is an accomplished author in a range of fiction stories.
Niche: Medieval Romance
Description: Kay is spellbound by the prospects that lie before her.
Five good-looking men are competing for her hand in marriage. The stakes are high; ownership of a medieval keep perched on the rocky edge of a stormy ocean.
Each man seems more suitable than the previous and it is her choice which will reward the prize.
To make the pursuit more interesting, Kay moves around disguised as a handmaiden to her sister, Em. She hopes a more relaxed interaction her suitors will allow her to find out their mettle in their most unguarded moments.
Overtime, Kay finds that this game of hers is taking on a more serious tone to the point where who to trust becomes a matter of life and death!
This story is the first in the series, “The Sword Of Glastonbury.” It is doesn’t contain offensive language nor describe sexual encounters beyond a gentle kiss. It is thus suitable for teenagers and older.
The digital version of this book is free but proceeds from the sale of the other books in this series goes to battered women’s shelters.
Author: UK House of Commons – Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee
Date Published: July 2012
Niche: Environment, White Paper
Description: The committee has identified the need for society to recognize the value of nature and for greater local action to protect and improve nature.
This white paper sets out a range of policy levers (proposals & incentives) to creating a green economy.
Herein the foundation is laid for economic growth and the health of natural resources to sustain each other.
Author: Joanna Penn
Author: Kara Gebhart Uhl under the banner of Writer’s Digest.
Author: Wallace D Wattles
Author: Kim Garst
Author: Lisa Shea
Author: Wallace Wattles
Author: Martha Stephenson is an accomplished chef and cookbook author.
Author: BIT9 + Bit9 + Carbon Black, market leader in Next-Generation Endpoint Security.
