Our Price $97.00

"DARE to fearlessly promote yourself, and your book,
to build your author's platform and sell more books!"

Most writers I know just want to write. Promotion is an imposition, at best, and at
worst is terrifying. And ever since John Kremer proved that there are 1,001 ways
you can promote your book--and yourself--the whole prospect of promotion has
become overwhelming.

From Shy Writer to FearLess Promoter is a 6-part teleclass that will ease your
sense of overwhelm, and help you embrace promotion and platform building
as a gift, rather than a curse.

This class will help you:

• Let go of feeling confused and overwhelmed so that you can UNLEASH your promotional power!
• Create a strong and balanced promotion plan that includes both online and
  offline elements 
• Build a platform worthy of an agent's or publisher's attention 
• Cultivate  strong relationships with your readers 
  

Call #1  
How To Be a FearLess Promoter
so that you can get your message, and your book, into the hearts and hands
of those who most need it

Some of the topics covered:

• What are the qualities of a fearLess promoter?
• The 7 keys to promoting with ease
• 3 powerful fear-busting techniques
• How to deal with today's abundance of promotional choices without feeling
  confused and overwhelmed

Call #2 
Online Platform Building and Promotion Tips, Tools, and Techniques
that will help you build strong relationships with your readers

Some of the topics covered:

• Why blogging is essential
• How to brainstorm your blog content 
• How to encourage your blog readers to comment
• Which social media sites you should be on, and which are a waste of time
• What it takes to create your own audio and video promotional pieces and
  products
• Video and YouTube tips
• How to use the internet to get neighborhood book clubs all over the country
  to buy your book in bulk

Call #3 
Offline Platform Building and Promotion Tips, Tools, and Techniques
that will build your reputation as an expert, and create multiple income streams

Some of the topics covered:

• How to get free publicity--the ins and outs of using HARO
• The importance of writing articles for print publication
• How to get your first speaking and teaching gigs
• Creating "Keepers:" Promotional merchandise that people will want to keep
  for years

Call #4 
How to Create a Powerful Promotion Plan
that will introduce you and your book to to the world!

Some of the topics covered:

• Is your promotion giving you all four of these benefits
• Why you need both online and offline promotion 
• How to integrate your promotional activities so they build on each other
• How to brainstorm & organize your promotional plan
• How to create your promotional Power Plan
• How to recognize what types of promotion are the best fit for you
• Mark Victor Hansen's "Rule of Five" and how you can apply it to your
  own platform
• building & promotion

Call #5 
Q&A Session
to help you take this information and apply it to your own platform building
and book promotion

Every session will have Q&As at the end, but I've added this extra Q&A session at
the end of the series to make sure that you're able to take this information, apply
it, and really run with it!

In addition to the 5 classes listed above, you will also get these
three BONUS INTERVIEWS:

Denise Wakeman, Blogging Expert     ($27 value)
How to Write and Promote Your Book With a Blog

If the thought of writing a book intimidates you, here's a fun, fast  and easy way
to approach the book writing process: blog your book.  Denise shows you how.

Some of the topics covered include:

• How to set-up your blog to write a book
• How to use blogs to build your author's platform and promote your book
• How to encourage readers to comment and give feedback
• How often you should post for optimal visibility
• Keyword strategies that help Google rankings

Jane Friedman, Publisher & Editorial Director of Writer's Digest
Publishing Your Book in 2010                 ($27 value)

Today's economic challenges and constantly evolving technologies keep the
publishing industry in a state of flux. Jane Friedman, the Editorial Director and
Publisher of the Writer's Digest community of products and services, talks about
the different publishing routes available to author's, today.

Some of the topics covered include:

• Does self-publishing still carry a stigma that will hurt your chances of
  finding a traditional publisher?
• What are the chances of getting your self-published book picked up by
  a traditional publisher?
• How has the Internet changed publishing?
• When's the best time to write a book proposal for fiction, non-fiction,
  and memoir?

Michael Larsen of the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency
How to Make Yourself Irresistible to an Agent  ($27 value)

"Literary Agents supply 90% of the books provided by the major houses. So to
understand how publishing works, you need to understand how agents work."
No-one can help you understand agents better than Michael Larsen, who's been
a literary agent for over 35 years. He heads the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency,
and the annual San Francisco Writer's Conference.

Some of the topics covered include:

• How to write a book hook
• What makes a book proposal stand out
• What agents are looking for
• What your book proposal's promotion section should include
• Pitching your book at book conferences

When you put these all together--the 5 call class, and 3 bonus interviews--they
create a powerful foundation from which you can, with greater ease, efficiency,
and effectiveness, build your author's platform and promote your book.