To be as frank and clear as I can, if you’re interesting in self-publishing at all, you must buy the book “APE: How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch”. No, I have not read every book on self-publishing that exists, but I doubt there are any as good and as thorough as APE, let alone better.
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In November and December of 2012, I finally got around to reading the book “100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People”, by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D. This is an extremely helpful book, and one that anyone that does public speaking should read.
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It’s three in the morning, and I’ve just arrived at my hotel in Instanbul, Turkey. It took 49 hours of travel to get here. I haven’t really slept in 37 hours. My one piece of luggage is nowhere to be found, which means that I don’t have my suit, laptop cords, laptop remote, or business cards. The presentation is in 8 hours. I have 8 hours to make up for two days without a good night’s sleep and to go shopping for presentable clothes. Oh, and did I mention that I’m deathly uncomfortable with public speaking?
Surprisingly, the presentation is going to go okay, in part because I had the good fortune to have read Scott Berkun’s “Confessions of a Public Speaker.” That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s true.
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Peachpit Press has just published online an article I wrote titled “Creating a Customer Review System in PHP and MySQL.” The article can be used to expand some of the content in my “Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL” book.
