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Memoir Professionals work in their communities—and worldwide thanks to the Internet—to help bring memoirs into existence. Each Professional, of course, endeavors to establish the best Memoir Professional business s/he can, but it’s not always easy.

Memoir Professionals lead workshops, coach, edit, ghostwrite and do book production.

I hope you read The Memoir Professional Blog—as a way to learn what goes into making a memoir business a profitable and enjoyable endeavor. These posts will create a context for you to delve into developing your business—starting today. Any one of the many posts on these pages can serve you as an entry point into boosting your business success.

What these posts will give you as you build the best Memoir Professional business

1. Regular, even daily if you approach it daily, inspiration and motivation to do the work of creating a memoir business.

2. Education in creating the process and the content of a solid memoir enterprise. This will permit you to enjoy the fruits of your labor: a profitable and enjoyable business.

This is what you need to do.

You can, of course, read The Memoir Professional Blog for entertainment, as a way of making a diversion for yourself so you don’t have to do the work of building a memoir business. That is not the focus of The Memoir Professional Blog.

We hope you will work everyday top making your business profitable.

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Keep working on your memoir business. Let this be the year you become a profitable Memoir Professional and create the best Memoir Professional business you can.

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Outline Your Goals to Grow a Better Memoir Business

By on March 25, 2020

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…)

Becoming a Memoir Professional – Be Very Adept at the Memoir Genre

By on February 26, 2020

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

By on February 12, 2020

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

By on January 28, 2020

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.

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Memoir Writing – Five Tips For Jazzing Up a Life Writing Group

By on January 15, 2020

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…)

Making a Success of a Memoir Business – Get Over Back-of-the-Room Sales Phobia

By on October 2, 2019

“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

By on September 18, 2019

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…)