Getting Started On Your Book: 666 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand
The Ultimate System For Starting A Book That Will Create Big Business Results — Including 222 Types That Require Less Writing
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Ready to start a book to build your business, nonprofit, career or brand?
If you’re like most executives wanting to create a business-building book, your biggest challenge is deciding what kind of book to write.
Especially if time is of the essence and you want to focus on info already in your head or your files — or something you’d like to learn. Or you want to fast-track the process with a book that requires less original writing than most.
This groundbreaking workbook is your definitive guide for all that and more . . .
Its core is our 18-step Spark Ultimate Book Start System for making the four strategic foundational decisions about your book (these are your essential starting points whether working with a publisher or self-publishing):
• Defining your book-driven business growth results & success measures.
• Identifying the audiences related to those results.
• Choosing the topic and book type* those audiences will appreciate most — from you.
* A type provides the structural framework, point of view and voice of a book. Think training manual vs. contrarian point of view, description of new trends or cautionary case studies.
As the consequence of making these decisions,
• You’ll have a book that’s uniquely structured to produce your SPECIFIC desired business results (something that too few business authors ever achieve).
• You’ll have organized and prioritized dozens of stray ideas rolling around in your head.
• You’ll be focused and clear about your book and its place in your future.
• That clarity will fuel your mojo to get it finished and out into the world (something else that too few business authors ever achieve).
• Plus you’ll have a working title and subtitle.
• And you’ll know many free tactics for publicizing your book and thereby generating some of the results you seek — before your book is even written!
There’s no other System like ours to put your book on such solid footing to generate game-changing growth.
In addition, this workbook reveals 666 of the hundreds of choices you have about which type of book to create, with two real-world examples of each type. The examples not only reveal the type’s potential but will also jumpstart your thinking about your eventual title.
Make special note, this workbook links to a free printable interactive PDF of worksheets for all 18 steps (worth $40 if bought separately): The Big 4: The Essential Strategic Decisions & Worksheets For Your Business-Building Book.
This workbook is also a printable interactive PDF with dozens of interactive fields to put notes into, save and return to or add more ideas to later (saving your typed information requires use of Adobe Reader 8 or later versions). You can also print its pages, blank or filled in, to go into a notebook.
Last but not least, it includes an option to buy a private hour of consulting (that we’ll record for you) to answer your questions and ensure you get the most value from applying its concepts to your situation and needs.
Our Ultimate System will get you focused, organized and started on a business-building book that will change your professional life forever.
Our 666 collection of book types is jam-packed with type options in 26 categories. It includes all the types and examples from three of our other workbooks (plus over 250 more types): 77 Book Types For Building Your Business & Brand, 111 Types of How-To Books and 222 Book Types That Require Less Writing. All of these workbooks include our 18-step Spark Ultimate Book Start System for making the essential foundational decisions about your book.
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Back cover:
Build Your Business Into a Powerhouse Through Your Book
Interest in the hottest marketing trend of the decade — creating a business-building book — has exploded, thanks to the ease of publishing via print on demand (POD) and the popularity of ebooks.
Are you one of the thousands of executives, experts, entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals excited about the huge impact a book can have on your business, nonprofit, career or your brand?
- Wondering which audiences to write your book for?
- Unsure what topic(s) will produce the game-changing outcomes you seek?
- Don’t know where to start and then what to do in what order?
This groundbreaking workbook is your answer! It will help you make one of the most important decisions you have ahead: which type of book to write that will lead to your desired results. As part of our family of books about business-building book types for aspiring executive authors, it not only reveals 666 types proven over decades, but it also identifies 222 that often require less original writing than the typical business book. Best of all, it organizes the types into logical categories and shows you how to know which ones have the best potential FOR YOU!
Through its 18 steps, you’ll make the essential strategic decisions that will empower your book to generate your specific growth goals (i.e., the best topic(s) and type(s) that will WOW the particular audiences related to those goals). It also includes a URL for a free printable interactive PDF bonus book of worksheets.
Unpadded, pithy and absolutely on point, this book will save you hundreds of hours searching for inspiration while it helps you to easily and methodically decide where to focus your book creation effort. Developed over a decade by Carol Abrahamson and never before revealed beyond her high-paying clients, this ultimate system for making your book’s essential foundational decisions will get you off the daydreaming dime and moving forward.
As one of the many executives eager to produce a differentiating book that will catapult you and your business above the competition and to the next level, THIS is the preeminent comprehensive system that will help you get focused, organized and started creating a quality business-building book that will bring astounding new relationships, invitations and opportunities!
About Carol Abrahamson
An executive author whose first book opened doors that brought her one-person business over $2 million in consulting revenues, Carol has written dozens more about her expertise in three industries, becoming America’s foremost expert about the unique, complex, high-stakes options and opportunities of executives seeking notable results from their book. A different kind of business book expert — knowledgeable about the many facets and requirements of business and growth in numerous industries through her MBA and decades as a high-profile strategic advisor to CEOs/CFOs at Apple, McGraw-Hill, McKesson plus 1,000 others from companies of all sizes — she’s the premier strategic advisor about making a book work actively in tandem with a business to make amazing things happen!
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Contents of 666 Book Types:
About Carol
Getting Started
How To Get The Most From This Workbook
Your Preliminary Foundational Decisions
Identify the Realistic, Strategic, Measurable and Prioritized Business Results You Want From Your Book & Your Success Measures
Prioritize and Profile the Target Audiences Related To Your Desired Results
Choose Topics Your Top Target Audiences Will Appreciate Learning —From You!!
Chapter 1 – How-Tos (130)
Chapter 2 – Guides (53)
Chapter 3 – Manuals (5)
Chapter 4 – References (40)
Chapter 5 – About You (23)
Chapter 6 – Odysseys (7)
Chapter 7 – Varied Experiences (19)
Chapter 8 – Compilations (27)
Chapter 9 – Lists (5)
Chapter 10 – Questions/Answers (8)
Chapter 11 – Best/Worst Types (6)
Chapter 12 – Contrasts (6)
Chapter 13 – Contrarian Types (8)
Chapter 14 – Something Problematic (21)
Chapter 15 – Hidden Information (56)
Chapter 16 – Something Named (10)
Chapter 17 – History (16)
Chapter 18 – Something New (11)
Chapter 19 – About The Future (7)
Chapter 20 – Taking Action (18)
Chapter 21 – Daily Routines (5)
Chapter 22 – Notes, Journals, Diaries (7)
Chapter 23 – Fun (18)
Chapter 24 – Reviews (8)
Chapter 25 – Other Structured Formats (46)
Chapter 26 – Miscellaneous Types (118)
Your Final Foundational Decision
What’s Next
Indices
241 Types That Often Require Less Writing Than the Typical Business-Building Book
Examples’ Titles
Examples’ Authors
How We Can Help
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