What Time of Day Should You Write Your Book?

Problem: You’re working on a book, but you never seem to actually work on it. Solution: Work on it at the right time of day. According to Ron Friedman, Ph.D., author of The Best Place to Work, the first three hours of your day are when you’re most productive. “Typically, we have a window of about
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Write Better PR Pitch Emails With The 7 Systems of Influence

Q: Hey Josh, I just read an article written by you titled “How To Get Free Press For Your Business.” It’s an older article, but I stumbled upon it because I am part of a small start up that is trying to find ways to increase our visibility. To that end, I thought about writing
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My Top 15 Business Book Writing Hacks

These are the top fifteen things I wish I would have known when I began to write my first book. This list is continually updated as I continue to learn new things about how to write, publish, and leverage nonfiction books to grow my own businesses. Download this post as a PDF 1. WRITE A
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How To Become A $100,000 Ghostwriter

I charge six figures to ghostwrite a book. If you want to become a $100K ghostwriter, please steal my formula. The method I use to maximize my ghostwriting income is to follow The 7 Systems of Influence, a framework I developed to help people get what they want. You can learn more about it at
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Bragging Is A Lost Art

​That line was part of an email I got from Rich Litvin, author of The Prosperous Coach. I’m not sure I agree, but it depends on your definition of “bragging.” If it’s pointing your thumbs at yourself and saying “I’m better than you! Look at how awesome I am!” then nah, we don’t need more of
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12 Perennial Sellers That Will Help You Write a Perennial Seller

On the New York Times website is a page explaining how they choose the books that gain a spot on the coveted New York Times Bestseller list. Towards the end of the page you’ll find this paragraph: Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and
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3 Big Questions For Thought Leaders

“We need sales, fast!” “Could producing thought leadership help?” “Yes! Get me a blog post, right now! Can we get some coverage in Forbes? Share a bunch of stuff on social media!” “Wait, what kind of content?” “Anything! What’s in the news? What are people paying attention to? Do something connected to that!  Just hurry!”
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7 Lessons From Two Decades of Remote Work

I quit my job. It was December, 1999. I had gotten married three months earlier. My wife and I were both students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. We were poor. We had one, cheap car, with no air conditioning, and lived in a small studio apartment with cinderblock walls and a vintage fridge,
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Thought Leadership in a Time of Crisis

“…by all accounts, this recession is the severest since the Great Depression. The wave of bad economic news is eroding confidence and buying power, driving consumers to adjust their behavior in fundamental and perhaps permanent ways.” If you’re reading this in March, 2020, you might think that was a headline from the day I wrote
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How To Homeschool During A Global Pandemic

Imagine a virus suddenly wreaked havoc on the world and everyone went into isolation. You have to work from home. Your kids’ school is closed for the foreseeable future. What do you do? How do you get started? What if you’re a single parent? Comforting Facts About Homeschooling 1. Yes, you can homeschool as a
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