4-Ways-Get-Unstuck
05 Apr

4 Ways to Get Unstuck

By Lisa In Blog, Books, Business, Coaching, Entrepreneur /   No Comments

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of work you need to do, chances are you could benefit from these ways to get unstuck. Overwhelm is like quicksand and when it sets in, it can completely take you off of your game and make you uber productive on all the things that really do not matter one bit in your business. I call this busy work, it has nothing to do with building a business. You may wear the “I’m so busy” badge of honor on a regular basis and still feel like you’re never making any real progress  

This is why:

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9 Great Reads
18 Jan

9 Great Books for Entrepreneurs

By Lisa In Blog, Book Review, Books, Bullet List, Business, Content, Entrepreneur, Fav /   6 Comments

Annually, I take a look back at all of the books I’ve bought and read and distil it down to my top picks. This past year there were 9 great reads that I’d highly recommend you take a look at.

Reading is one of the best ways to expand your knowledge and challenge your way of thinking. It’s a daily practice of mine to read something every day.

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10 Best Business Books for Entrepreneurs
30 Mar

10 Best Business Books for Entrepreneurs

By Lisa In Blog, Book Reviews, Books, Business, Entrepreneur, Pilot To Profit, Shop Talk /   31 Comments

Before we dive into the 10 best business books for entrepreneurs, I have a secret that I want to share with you…

You may or may not know this but, I am a high school dropout. I never finished high school. I quit half way through my last year. I’ve gone on to build an amazing life and business which I attribute it to one thing– I read a lot of books. Not only do I read books, I implement what the books tell me to do in my life and my business and it works. One day a famous author asked me why I wasn’t in one of her programs and I said, “Plain and simple, I don’t need your program, I read the book and I did the work to put it into action.”

That is the power of a good book and I have 10 such books that I have read (some of them more than once). They’re instrumental in my own success – and they can be in yours too.

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15-Step Book Marketing Strategy
16 Dec

15-Step Book Marketing Strategy

By Lisa In Blog, Books, Business, Content, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Pilot To Profit /   1 Comment

Writing a book is easy compared to the book marketing strategy that goes into getting it into the hands of the people you intended it for. Peggy McColl, who wrote the foreword for my book Pilot to Profit: Navigating Modern Entrepreneurship to Build Your Business Using Online Marketing, Social Media, Content Marketing and Sales, once told me that 95% of authors sell less than 200 copies of their book.

Why is it some authors become New York Times best-selling authors and others end up with a garage full of books?

What separates the successes from the failures when it comes to a book launch?

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