Your Book Is Your Business Card

Describes how to promote your business and yourself by writing a book which will lend credibility to you as a business person.

What if you turned your book into 18 streams of income? Most authors have been taught that a book is just a business card. Sadly, this is why most authors stay poor. Notice the difference: Business Cards Cost Money Books Create Value Business Cards Are an Expense Books Are an Asset Business Cards Get Thrown Away Books Last Forever Business Cards Decrease Space in Your Pocket Books Increase Influence, Impact, and Income Business Cards Change Landfills Books Change Lives How you view your book and position it in the marketplace shapes your results and your riches-or lack thereof. For eight years, Kary Oberbrunner struggled to earn profit as an author. (Let's just say he kept his day job.) Finally in 2012, he discovered the model that enabled him to go pro as a writer. In Your Book Is NOT a Business Card, Kary reveals his proven process for helping authors create a suite of products-18 streams of income in all-to service their readers' needs while growing their profits. To date, more than 250,000 authors from all over the world have found success using this powerful model. His clients have effectively implemented it across multiple continents, languages, and genres-even with fiction and children's books! Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Kary Oberbrunner will teach you how to make the most of your book: Leverage the exact income streams that fit your dreams and goals. Create a clear buyer's journey that delivers real, life-changing results. Invite your readers to go deeper without sounding spammy or salesy. Build an engaged community thrilled to purchase your next book-based product and service. Create your 6- or 7-figure book-based business, starting today! Kary Oberbrunner is the CEO of Igniting Souls Publishing Agency. His company helps authors, coaches, entrepreneurs, and speakers (ACES) write, publish, and market their books the right way and turn them into 18 streams of income. He lives in Ohio with his wife, Kelly, and their three children. Connect at IgnitingSouls.com

This innovative collection features the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The “go-to” sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains pages packed with business cards, showing front, back, and special elements and materials. This unrivaled resource is sought by professional designers, corporate executives, and in-house marketing departments as an essential identity and branding tool.

*WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2020!* If you’re a coach, consultant, or speaker who makes a living from your expertise, this is for you. It’s the guide you need to help you plan, write, and promote the book that elevates your authority, increases your visibility, and gets more clients saying ‘yes’. Because creating such a book is a challenge. Where do you start? How do you keep going until the end? And what do you do when you’ve finished? Don’t let your book stay in your head – allow it to come to life and make a positive difference to both you and your readers by following the guidance you’ll find in here. · Section 1: Plan. Learn how to create a strategic plan and outline for your book, so it both supports your business and helps the people you want to reach. · Section 2: Write. Master the art of crafting your work so it engages, inspires, and educates your readers. · Section 3: Promote. Discover how to market your book so it sells to a ready-made audience. This is the final step in building a reputation as the go-to expert in your field.

From debut author Alyssa Hollingsworth comes a story about living with fear, being a friend, and finding a new place to call home. They say you can't get something for nothing, but nothing is all Sami has. When his grandfather’s most-prized possession—a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab—is stolen, Sami resolves to get it back. He finds it at a music store, but it costs $700, and Sami doesn’t have even one penny. What he does have is a keychain that has caught the eye of his classmate. If he trades the keychain for something more valuable, could he keep trading until he has $700? Sami is about to find out. The Eleventh Trade is both a classic middle school story and a story about being a refugee. Alyssa Hollingsworth tackles a big issue with a light touch. 2020 UKLA Award Winner

Want to supercharge your life? Effective networking is the answer and this book will teach you how. Professionals of all stripes and ages are told to 'get out there' and network so they can build their careers, grow their businesses and elevate their influence in the community, but they are rarely taught the skills to do that. Most people are lost, intimidated by the idea of presenting their own personal brand, and frustrated when it comes to networking. Despite long hours at events and attempts to make the right connections, they aren’t seeing their desired results. From Business Cards to Business Relationships is a start-to-finish guide that demystifies the networking process and teaches readers how to truly benefit from getting connected. Allison Graham provides an easy to follow road map that is adaptable to your personality, circumstances and growth goals. You will learn how to strategically decide where to go, what to do when you get there and what to do afterwards to turn those casual business card contacts into meaningful relationships. Allison's approach is based on the Four Pillars of Profitable Networking: Perspective, Personal Brand, Procedures, and a Strategic Plan. This is a prescriptive, practical system based on the author's real-life experience of going from unconnected to connected in a short period of time. No cheesy gimmicks or high-pressure nonsense, just the skills and knowledge that will create success for anyone willing to do the work and follow this advice. Regardless of your past experience or current level of connectivity, your industry or profession, whether you're an entrepreneur or climbing the corporate ladder: you can accomplish whatever you want by meeting and connecting with the right people. From Business Cards to Business Relationships gives you the tools you need to cement a positive personal brand and build your own profitable network. Praise for From Business Cards to Business Relationships "Allison Graham can help you turn an introduction into a business, a dinner into a relationship, and an average practice into world class. I've long preached that we're in a relationship business, and this book provides the handshakes, codes, actions, and routes to master those relationships." —Alan Weiss, PhD, Author of Million Dollar Consulting and The Consulting Bible "At last—a networking book that actually makes sense! Allison Graham's four pillars of networking are as simple as they are powerful. If you are willing to follow her lead with consistent and persistent effort, you will make your mark and expand your horizons both personally and professionally." —Lou Heckler, Humorous Business Keynote Speaker and Speech Coach "This book is an excellent and much-needed resource to share with the business community." —PJ Hartson, Business Editor, Sun Media

Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.