Author: Roger Parker

Roger C. Parker is an author, book coach, designer, consultant who works with authors, marketers, & business professionals to achieve success with brand-building writing & practical marketing strategy. He helps create successful marketing materials that look great & get results, and can turn any complex marketing or writing task into baby steps.
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Web Design Tips to Sell Books and Build Brands

Web design is usually approached from a subjective or an aesthetic, or I like blue! point of view; but if you really want your site to sell books, products, and services while building your brand, you have to know a bit about the psychology of your website visitors.

That’s the message Susan Weinschenk delivers in …

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Your Book Idea into a Published Brand-Building Book

Writing is the biggest obstacle between ideas and personal brands; unless you take action on your ideas and actually write your article, start your blog, or finish your book, your ideas will never turn into career-enhancing SEO visibility and a brand-building published book.

And, it’s not just writing a book! The ability to take action …

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Timeless Book Titles Build Lasting Brands

When writing a book to build your brand, choose a clear and timeless title, one that won’t quickly go out of date.

A clearly and obsolescence-proof book title can contribute to a book that will build your personal brand for decades instead of just weeks!

What’s wrong with “instant bestsellers?”

With proper promotion at book …

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Tips for Measuring the Influence of Your Personal Brand

Measuring the influence of your personal brand is a necessary first step towards increasing the influence of your personal brand. Measurement creates a baseline against which you can track your increasing influence.

How do you measure the influence of your personal brand?

Brand measurement is more important today than ever before. There’s more competition for …

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Write Your Way to a Profitable Personal Brand, $5 at a Time

For several years, writing and giving away ideas online has been viewed as the best way to build your personal brand. It’s a popular and powerful technique, well-documented in numerous best-selling marketing books, like David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing & PR.

But, does it make sense to limit your brand building writing activities …

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7 Ways to Start Building Your Personal Brand for Free

Today, it’s easier than ever for individuals to build and promote the personal brands for free, long before writing and publishing a book.

The Internet offers you numerous free ways to demonstrate your subject area expertise, set yourself apart from your competition, and build your online visibility. There are several ways you can take small …

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Lessons from Rachael Ray’s Path to Personal Branding Success

Daytime television hostess, Food Network celebrity chef, and best-selling author – Rachael Ray’s career has many lessons to teach those interested in achieving personal branding success from zero to 60 in less than a decade.

In less than 10 years, Rachael Ray’s personal brand has taken her from an Albany, NY, grocery store to multiple …

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Convert Your Brand Building Book Into a Blog…and More Profits

Although you may be familiar with the idea of writing a book a little at a time, as a series of blog posts, you may not have thought about leveraging books into blog posts – -and creating new brand building and profit opportunities.

Bud Bilanich, the Common Sense Guy, however, provides a template for a …

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Should You Pay to Get Your Personal Branding Book Published?

It may seem strange to talk about paying to get your personal branding book published, while the media often talks about celebrities receiving 6-figure advances. What’s going on?

Celebrities, of course, is the key word in the above.

Politicians, their wives, their ex-wives, ex-CEO’s, and television personalities often get big buck advances. But, this only …