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Noted Author Teaches Audiences How To Become Excellent Writers and Communicators |
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Looking for a speaker for your writer’s workshop, conference or professional association? |
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Sophfronia Scott is a professional writer, published author and coach who teaches principles of effective writing and marketing of books as well as passing on the inspiration to tackle and achieve big goals such as publishing a book. |
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Sophfronia’s presentations are known for their high impact, mind-blowing quality that motivates audiences to take immediate action on their creative projects.
Sophfronia also has a wealth of experience and fun anecdotes to share from her days as a writer and editor for Time and People magazines. Audiences will enjoy her intimate personality and approachability and take away plenty of ideas for practical application of new writing, publishing and marketing strategies.
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How to Get Your First Book Written and Published In As Little As 6 Months |
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Publishing your own book creates tons of opportunities: more speaking engagements, more publicity, more clients, more business. Unfortunately many speakers, entrepreneurs, executives and coaches lack the time (and sometimes talent) to create this crucial product that could skyrocket their business. Plus the publishing business can be a confusing maze and many aspiring authors don’t know how to begin.
Sophfronia will show you exactly how to get your book out of your head and in front of your audience. She will take you step-by-step through the planning, creating, selling and promoting of your book with fast and satisfying results.
In this presentation you will learn:
- How to build a book so solid that readers can’t put it down!
- How to make your book the ultimate lead generation tool.
- What to do to establish your authority.
- How to get your book into stores and on Amazon.com.
- How to create a killer marketing plan to ensure your book's success.
- The secret to getting a manuscript completed in half the time!
- The one piece of paper that will make you an IRRESISTIBLE interview subject for the media.
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“What I Can Do for You and What You Can Do For Me”: Networking for Writers |
You can attend tons of writer’s conferences and networking events, but how turn these events into fruitful gatherings where you’ve made great and lasting contacts? How do you come away with something more substantial than a stack of business cards? Sophfronia will show you how.
In this presentation you will learn:
- How to effectively communicate who you are and what you want.
- The makings of an effective two-way conversation.
- What is productive networking.
- The 3 best ways to maintain your new connections.
- When to ask for what you want—and how to get it!.
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Who’s Gonna Buy My Book? Your Target Market and How To Reach Them |
Having a list is a goldmine, both for selling your book and for getting your book noticed by a publisher. These days if you can prove that you come to the table with a huge audience, a big advance may follow. But how do you get such a list? And how to you build it into a ready audience for your book? Sophfronia will teach you how to go from seed to harvest as you grow your group.
In this presentation you will learn:
- The basics of starting a list.
- What NOT to do to grow your list.
- How to work on your list wherever you go and whatever you do.
- How to decide who your target market is.
- The best ways to find your market so they can buy your book.
- How to generate excitement so your market is always waiting for what you’ll do next!
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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Your Memoirs |
When a person starts thinking about telling their life story, they tend to overthink it. They get caught up in worrying about things such as what others will think and who would publish it. The whole thought process results in paralysis so they can’t even figure out how to get started. But if you do your thinking in a more focused way, and then follow it up with specific actions, you’ll have your completed pages done before you know it! Sophfronia will show you exactly how to get going.
In this presentation you will learn:
- How to map out your project to improve your chances of success.
- The one trick that can give you a finished rough draft in just days.
- How to know what stories people will want to hear.
- Why it’s best not to pursue this project alone.
- How to get your story into print.
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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Book on the Internet |
Selling your book will be ten times easier as soon as you can accept this one, think-out-of-the-box strategy: your book doesn’t have to be inside a bricks-and-mortar store to sell copies. Too many self-published authors get caught up in trying to figure out how to get distribution which will get their book into big box stores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble. The process can be expensive and daunting. But these days the best grass-roots marketing that can sell tons of books happens on the internet. Sophfronia will show you how, by using a few tricks of the trade you can reach a wider audience, sell more books and do it while spending less money!
In this presentation you will learn:
- Why your website needs to do more than just look good.
- The ONE thing your website must do, even if it does nothing else.
- How to use your website to get writing assignments.
- How to market your book to become a bestseller on Amazon.com.
- How to use every Internet tool available to get your name out there.
- The other places on the Internet—besides your website—where you’ll want to be.
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How to Cultivate Greatness in Your Writing |
I am struck by how often I hear from writers who want to know if their current project is worth the effort. Basically they want to know if they can sell it. There’s no passion behind their idea. No writing for the love of writing. They’re willing to abandon an idea based on my say so or someone else’s. Somehow I don’t think John Steinbeck, when he was writing East of Eden went around asking anyone if it was worth the effort. In fact, I am inspired by what a reviewer said of that novel when it was published. “A novel planned on the grandest possible scale…One of those occasions when a writer has aimed high and then summoned every ounce of energy, talent, seriousness, and passion of which he was capable…”
This presentation is my challenge to writers to aim for greatness in their next project. I show you some excellent strategies on how to do just that.
In this presentation you will learn:
- How to enliven an old idea with new creativity.
- The one thing you MUST do if you intend to strive for greatness.
- How to decide what your great work will be.
- Who will be your best allies in this endeavor.
- How to set big goals that will inspire and challenge your writing.
- What you must put aside in order to focus on great work.
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