… Continuing from where we left off yesterday as we incorporate a small business on Legal Zoom step by step… 6. Select your state. I’m choosing Colorado. You have to choose the state either from the drop down box or by clicking on the graphic (if you know your geography), followed by clicking the orange Continue … Continue reading Incorporating a small business on Legal Zoom – Pt 2
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When you grow as fast as Facebook, you are constantly tweaking “things” to improve them. The same thing happened (and is still happening) with us at Outskirts Press. Not that I’m comparing our growth to Facebook’s (I wish!) – but we have had quite a few “versions” of our website since it launched in 2002, … Continue reading Branding Facebook Pages
Today I’m in Atlanta to attend the National Speakers Association “UNconference” through Sunday, and also to announce the introduction of our new One-Click Publishing for Coaches & Speakers package. When Outskirts Press first started in 2002, we focused only on providing high quality publishing services. That focus served us well for a while. Of course, … Continue reading Self Publishing for Speakers and Coaches
Recently I made a change to this blog’s main title. For those of you reading since the beginning, you may realize how much thought I put into the title of the blog to begin with, since the subject of “titling your blog” was one that stretched across a number of postings at the beginning of this year. … Continue reading Inc. 5000 Self Publishing Company
The solution to the wholesale/retail bookstore issue I discussed in the last posting was to combine both bookstores into one single store, and that is what we did with the launch of Version 4.0 of the Outskirts Press website. We retained both URL links to the store but focus mostly on just promoting a single … Continue reading Outskirts Press Direct Bookstore
As discussed previously, pricing is one of the reasons we introduced a direct bookstore with the launch of Version 4. Another reason is so that our authors would have the same level of control they have over their bookstore listing that they have over their author webpage. Outskirts Press is one of the few self-publishing … Continue reading The content is the thing
I have been discussing the differences brought about to our business model with the introduction of Version 4 of our website at Outskirts Press. The main difference is that we are starting to offer a la carte services to writers regardless of where/how they publish their book(s). Of course, authors publishing with Outskirts Press get … Continue reading Self publishing book marketing services
Version 4.0 of the new Outskirts Press website launched on Memorial Day weekend with 4 writing options available for authors. I’ll be the first to say I wanted to launch with more. But, as with everything this complicated, it became a matter of compromise and resources. We had to launch over Memorial Day weekend — … Continue reading Self publishing writing services
Any entrepreneur, business owner, CEO, or manager knows that running a successful business is hard. People with conflicting personalities push and pull, motivated by their department’s agendas. Fortunately, most of these internal struggles remain where they belong–inside, away from the microscope of the customer/client’s eyes. The goal is to keep these struggles internal even when … Continue reading Migrating a website
According to Gregory K. Ericksen in his book Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Insights From the Winner’s Circle, the fifth criteria the judges use to help them determine a winner is “originality.” A lot of factors can contribute to originality. Have you pioneered a new approach or created a new technology? Are your business practices or … Continue reading Entrepreneur of the Year Criteria #5
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