We’d like your help finishing the sentence above.
Every small business person or entrepreneur will likely have a different answer when asked to define small business, an answer that says a bit about what small business means to them, so here’s how you can contribute:
- If you’re on Twitter and haven’t already done so, start following us @BizSugar (we’ll be sure to follow back).
- Then make a Tweet completing the sentence “Small Business is…” .
- Be sure to use the hashtag #SmallBusinessIs in your tweet so everyone will be able to track your response.
- Important Twitter tip: You can use the Twitter search function entering the #SmallBusinessIs hashtag to check out others’ real time answers to the question.
- If you don’t use Twitter feel free to add your response in the comments section below on the blog. We’ll be interested in reading the results!
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BizSugar Small Business Tip: Stephanie Chandler, CEO at AuthorityPublishing.com and small business speaker, author and blogger recommends publishing a book as a great way of demonstrating expertise in your business niche.
If you’ve been thinking about writing a book, here are some quick tips to get you started:
- Investigate competing books and know why yours will be different or better.
- Use the storyboard method to develop an outline. Take a stack of Post-it notes and a pen and write down every topic you want to cover in your book. Then, move them around until you develop a logical flow.
- Leverage material you already have like blog entries and articles.
- Tackle each topic in the book one at a time, as if writing brief articles. This will help you progress quickly and make the task at hand seem less overwhelming.
- The average book manuscript is around 60,000 words. If you write just 1000 words per day, the equivalent of three typed pages, you’ll have a book in 60 days!
*Find out more about Stephanie at StephanieChandler.com or check out links to some of her latest blog posts at BizSugar.com
This post could become a Twitter meme! 😉 I am interested to publish an e-pamphlet, e-book and a regular book sometime in the future. I will check out Stephanie Chandler’s site.
I certainly hope so, Martin. Feel free to add one of your own on Twitter so we can see things build.
Could you recommend any specific resources, books, or other blogs on this topic?
Carol,
Not really sure whether I can recommend additional resources. The idea is to create a Twitter hashtag that ties these ideas together with everyone sort of adding their own end to the statement “Small business is…” See above.