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Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. As a wordpreneur, sooner or later, you’re going to need to transcribe something you’ve recorded — an interview, a webinar, a speech on video or audio, whatever. For those of you with heavy transcription needs, you’ll probably want some automated speech-to-text conversion software to help save you oodles [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. I absolutely positively do not need software tools for photo and image processing and manipulation, having collected what’s in my toolbox literally from years of futzing around with this stuff. I haven’t even upgraded some of what’s in there to their latest versions, preferring to rely on my intimate and [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Didn’t get much in the way of “Wordpreneur Tools testing time” this week, so didn’t. No need for that to keep you away from putting some cool tools to work for your respective enterprises though. I’ve discarded the crappy “tools” that have crossed my desk; here are the [...]
The two tools you’ll be reading about in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday installment are in the “not quite recommended but pretty dang curious” category. I like what they promise, but I’m not sure they deliver what they say they will. The way I think they should, anyway. Or what is delivered isn’t cost effective as [...]
Let’s start a new tradition hereabouts — new-ish, anyway, since in a sense, we’re revisiting our roots. Grasshopper, let me introduce you to… Wordpreneur Tools Friday! The concept’s simple: Every Friday, in a single post, I’ll give you a few (or more) links to “tools” you may find useful as a wordpreneur. To do, well, [...]
In May of this year, Freebooksy commissioned a survey of authors who had used KDP Select’s free promotion days between January and April 2012. 72 authors completed the survey. Some of these authors had been featured on Freebooksy, some had not. We posted the link to the survey in Kindle forums and groups to get [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Are Consumers Sensitive to E-Book Prices? (Forbes) — “Consumers believe that e-books cost very little to produce and therefore should cost very little to purchase — and, certainly, e-books [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Advice for Authors: Create A Twitter Profile that Sells (Paula Margulies Communications) — “If you’re an author hoping to use Twitter to sell books, then how you describe yourself [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! A tacky mess: the masses vs. great design (Seth Godin’s Blog) — “Left to its own devices, the mob will augment, accessorize, spam, degrade and noisify whatever they have [...]
By Nick Thacker, a self-declared “life hacker” and writer from Colorado Springs, Building a Blog for Readers is “a manifesto that will help you ask the right questions. It’s not a ‘get-rich-quick’ scheme or a blueprint to riches, but rather a down-to-earth and honest approach to understanding the blogging process, and the business behind it… Featuring [...]
Here’s one free-for-now ebook you’ll definitely want, even if you don’t have a Kindle. Why? Isn’t the title crystal clear enough, Grasshopper? Sheesh, you’re a hard sell. OK then, here are the first couple of paragraphs of the author’s book description on Amazon: “You don’t need an agent or a publisher to make your new [...]
Free today and tomorrow (Friday, August 3) by author Sabrina Sumsion, for the Amazon Kindle (but no Kindle required!). What it’s about: “Do you want to increase your book sales? Are you ready to publish a book? Have you published a book before but weren’t really satisfied with the experience and want to find a [...]
Free for I don’t know how short, this Amazon Kindle edition (no Kindle really needed, though). Author Julie Smith has written over a dozen novels and short story collections, and the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, so I’m thinking it’s a safe bet the lady know what the heck she’s talking ab out, [...]
WordPress users: Wouldn’t it be neat if there were an easy way to add those attention grabbing boxes on your posts or pages? What am I talking about? Eyes down, Grasshopper. At the bottom of this post, see that red bordered round cornered boxy thing with the yellowish background and the link in the middle? [...]
Transferring huge files online probably ranks among the highest “tech tasks” performed regularly by those of us in the publishing industry. Writers and editors need to send each other stuff all the time. In most cases, the transfers are all handled and go smoothly via email file attachment. But sometimes, those file sizes hit truly [...]
Just a follow up to my post a couple of weeks ago on QR codes — here’s a short list of three free online resources that’ll let you generate custom QR codes for a variety of purposes. Hit Google and you’ll find that there’s really no shortage of these QR code generators out there, but I’ve already [...]
Get it for free while you still can, Grasshopper, and like the others, no Kindle necessary! Fun to Write Fiction: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Your First Novel author, Donna Monday, had… “…a desire to share her creative stories with others so she decided to take the plunge and write her very first novel: Best Black Vampire [...]
FYI about one of the better free ezines out there for professional writers. Published by my friend Dana Cassell, a full-time freelance writer since 1976 who has authored and ghosted over a dozen books and is the founder and executive director of the Florida Freelance Writers Association and Cassell Network of Writers (a.k.a The Writers-Editors Network). [...]
I really should quit reminding you that I have no idea when these individual freebie Kindle editions expire nor is that information presented anywhere on their Amazon product pages, that they could end anywhere from less than a day to maybe five days, right? Right. And that you don’t need to own an actual Kindle [...]
