Book Review: Power Stories
The Book Valerie Khoo Power Stories: The 8 stories you must tell to build an epic business John Wiley & Sons, Australia, 2013. PS: I bought my book last year, it was published in 2012, even though the books says 2013. Book Website PowerStoriesBook.com The Big Idea Stories connect human beings. And, therefore connect customers […]
What I’ve Been Reading – June
Given I write Book Rapper, a lot of people ask me, “What are you reading at the moment?” I thought I’d share my answer publicly. Here’s five books I’ve read recently… Micro Domination by Trevor Young This is a great book for any solo business person wanting to grow your personal brand. It’s filled with […]
How to Write your Book Faster!
This blog post was inspired by a comment from Corrinne with regard to our earlier post on the slideshow used by the authors of The Plateau Effect to promote their book. Corrinne is writing her own book and jokingly asked for any gems on getting it done faster. So, here’s a general response… Know where […]
Leaderslip Slideshow
The End of Leadership The End of Leadership. Now, that’s a big call. If I had said it, nobody would have listened – it would merely sound like clickbait crying for attention. But when someone like Barbara Kellerman says those words, it holds a different level of significance. Kellerman is a widely regard leadership expert […]
Books Just Merged With Everything
Following from our previous post “The Outside the Book“, I want to explore the comment by Gihan Perera. Gihan mentioned “documents with interactive multimedia”. It prompted me to think of two sources… 1 Marshall McLuhan Most famous in the 1960’s for his book “The Medium is the Massage”. Still worth reading today! He’s been one of […]
Think Outside The Book
Following from our previous post “Can a Book Summary Be Worth More Than The Book?” we ask all our authors reading this: Why are you writing your book? From an author’s point of view, you may dearly love everyone to read your book from cover to cover. However, which is better… for one person to […]
The Ideas Marketing Book
I’m pleased to announce the launch of my new book! It’s called ‘Ideas Marketing: How to Design, Build and Sell Your Idea’. If you’ve been following my blog posts and webinars and seminars and workshops, then you’ll be familiar with some of the content. It takes you through the nine steps of the Ideas Marketing […]
8 Nancy Duarte: Resonate
Our third post in a series counting down the 10 most influential books I’ve read this year – 2011. Nancy Duarte, Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences, John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey, 2010. In movies, the sequel rarely surpasses the original in quality and adoration. With books and authors, often the latter books […]
9 Gihan Perera: Webinar Smarts
Our second post in a series counting down the 10 most influential books I’ve read this year – 2011. Gihan Perera; Webinar Smarts: Power Secrets of Engaging, Profitable Webinars I made more money because I read this book Every year I aim to read 50 books. That’s one a week. I just love books… And, […]
10 Peter Fitzsimons: Kokoda
Our first post in a series of the 10 most influential books I’ve read this year – 2011. Peter Fitzsimons, Kokoda: The masterful and gripping account of Australia’s legendary Kokoda triumph – our most important battle; Hachette Australia; Sydney; 2004. Buy Kokoda on Amazon I don’t read too many books that aren’t related to business. […]