Outline Your Goals to Grow a Better Memoir Business
In order to grow your memoir business, you will need to outline your goals. It’s likely that there are some skills (teaching, business, or writing) you would like to improve, so you can be more successful. Organizing your plans to build your skills will help you attain them more quickly. (more…)
Tips and Ideas for Increasing Profitability for your Memoir or Writing-Based Business
Bear with me. This really is about increasing profitability for your memoir or writing-based business. I like to have my house be in a state of presentable for an unexpected visitor. I look around the place periodically and ask myself how, if a friend just dropped by, how s/he might find the place. Oppressively messy or welcoming in its orderliness. (more…)
Becoming a Memoir Professional – Be Very Adept at the Memoir Genre
To create a successful business of helping people to write their memoir, you must be familiar with the memoir genre itself. Being a good fiction writer or a poet or an essayist is not enough. You must have read many memoirs and have written in the genre. Your clients will rightfully expect no less from you than you be expert at both memoir writing and the theory behind memoir writing. (more…)
Tips to Grow Your Memoir or Writing-Based Business
Writing and memoir professionals too often have little sense of what a memoir or writing-based business is or how it functions. Too frequently, when people think of a business they imagine a machine shop, or a dry cleaning store, or a computer repair place rather than a writer’s office. But…writing as a business? (more…)
Teaching a Memoir Workshop – Easy Is Usually Not Best
In teaching a memoir workshop, the teacher’s task is to help individuals to go through and beyond two kinds of barriers to their writing: the technical and the psychological blocks that keep them from success. Our job is to facilitate our participants’ arrival at a point where they are able to “own” their stories, to acknowledge their life stories as they are and to accept themselves as they are.
(more…)Memoir Writing – Five Tips For Jazzing Up a Life Writing Group
A good writing group can give you invaluable support and see you through to the end of your project. Regular meetings essentially become writing deadlines to complete portions of your project. Group deadlines can be very stimulating (after all, who wants to show up at a meeting and be the deadbeat who hasn’t brought any writing to share!) (more…)
Launching Your Memoir Business—Do What it Takes to Succeed
Before launching your memoir business, you ought to inquire about your viability to be successful. People aspire to become memoir professionals for many reasons. Among the background that you bring to the endeavor ought to be the following: (more…)
Making a Success of a Memoir Business – Get Over Back-of-the-Room Sales Phobia
“Selling? I just can’t do it!” says the sales phobic. Why is it that some people cannot ask for a sale, cannot sell products from the back of the room, when promoting their memoir business, etc.? Perhaps it’s a struggle between values and rules!
Does this sound familiar: “I just can’t ask my work-shoppers or people who attend a presentation to buy books and tapes from me. It feels too… too-” (Screw up your face here and think nasty.) (more…)
Make a Business Plan for Your Memoir Writing Business—Basic Elements
What do you want your memoir writing business to accomplish in the next 12 months? Take some time right now and make a business plan.
You don’t have time, you say. Planning is an indulgence? Think of this parable:
A person is sawing a tree and is obviously harried. A second person approaches and asks, “How long have you been sawing?”
“Oh, all day and I’m exhausted. Look at how much I have left to do!”
The second person suggests, “Your saw is dull. You need to sharpen it.”
The first retorts wearily, “That might be a good idea for some other people, but I just don’t have the time to do that. Don’t you see how much tree I have left to cut! Get real.”
Take the time to sharpen the “saw” of your business life. Make a business plan. (more…)