A Book of Posts

Yes - Persuasion by Goldstein, Martin and Cialdini

This is the sixth and final article in a series of How to Turn Your Blog Posts into Books. Here’s the first article that introduced the idea. Here’s the second article on simply sticking a title and a cover on your posts. Here’s the third article on choosing blog categories. Here’s the fourth article on […]

Story Arcs – Keep Your Readers Reading

Story Arcs example: The Blacklist

This is the fourth article in a series of how to Turn Your Blog Posts into Books. Here’s the first article. Here’s the second. Here’s the third. What is a Story Arc? Typically when a visitor comes a clicking to your website and your blog they’re looking for a single thing. Your challenge as a […]

How to Create Your Blog Categories

Ideas Marketing Book Map

This is the third article in a series of how to Turn Your Blog Posts into Books. Here’s the first article. And, here’s the second. Blog Categories When you write a series of blog posts they will appear as a series of pages on your website. The point of creating categories is to give your […]

Five Ways to Turn Your Blog Posts into Books

Chris Brogan - Social Media 101

Blog Posts into Books I’ve had some good feedback from my previous blog post titled Turn Your Blog Posts into Books. I think it sparked a few ideas for some readers and I thought I’d expand on it here by offering five ways to turn your blog posts into a book. It’s become a long […]

Turn Your Blog Posts into Books

Reading Books - My Passion!

My Milestone I’ve had an interesting response to my earlier blog post where I shared my milestone of having written and published 650 blog posts. This post is #658. One of the comments that surprised me most was by a colleague who didn’t know one other person who had even published 100 posts let along […]

Kindle Books Versus Physical Books

Reading Books - My Passion!

I read a lot of books. Usually 40-50 a year, which is close to, and not quite one per week. Mostly I read business books or at least non-fiction books. I rarely read a novel. One of the questions I often get asked is: Do you prefer Kindle books or Physical Books? Usually, people say […]

Eight Classic Ways to Structure Your Ebook

eBook Skeleton Head

How to Structure Your Ebook A lot of what has been written about creating ebooks and books focusses on the usual things of Topics, Planning, Writing, Editing, Publishing, Selling and Promoting. This is all useful stuff. And, it’s all pretty standard stuff. One of the big misses from this list is a key design element […]

Book Review: Back from the Brink

Graeme Cowan

Graeme Cowan, Back from the Brink: True stories and practical help for overcoming depression and bipolar disorder Disclosure: This book was a pre-publication review copy and a gift from the author. Overcome Depression Recently I interviewed Graeme Cowan for the Ideas Architect podcast. I had met Graeme at a book publishing workshop over 5 years […]

Write A Book The Easy Way – Eighteen Different Examples

18 Different ways to write a book

Why Write a Book? 18 different ways to write a book answers the question: How do you position yourself as a thought leader? [Updated and rewritten November 2021] One of the tried and tested ways is to write a book. Having your own book shows that you know a great deal about your niche or subject […]

Pete Kvist – Why Most Websites Suck

Pete Kvist - Website Design

Welcome to Episode 004 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Our Topic: Website Design In our second podcast interview we talk with Pete Kvist of Sugoi Marketing. Pete Kvist is a web developer, a master of outsourcing, engaging presenter and author of Why Most Websites Suck. In this Podcast Episode… Pete talks about websites… what makes […]