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Psychology and Business

  I decided it was time for some training and to learn to be more business savvy and find out how things work. Here in New Zealand, we’re lucky to have some FREE Training for Businesses in the Digital Market. I joined up and started watching the videos. The first one was on BRANDING.  …
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Vanity Radio Interview Scam…

I had an email yesterday from an author asking about a radio interview with Kate Delaney and Emmy Award Winner form America Tonight. I can honestly say I’ve never heard of these type of interviews before so being me, I went on a research trip to look into it. I was drawing blanks from google…
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How to add an Admin on your WordPress website. #tips

Adding an Admin, Editor etc. to your website! If you aren’t overly tech savvy it can be hard to work out how to do things. Even though WordPress have tutorial, lessons and can help you to do what you need, sometimes it is easier to find a blog post to read which shows you how…
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Know Your Worth – A Conversation about Perceived Value, Posted on Facebook by Amanda Zito.

    KNOW YOUR WORTH   There are so many people who don’t understand what your job is.  I’ve had one client decided all I was doing was putting images in her book and therefore I cost to much…  Never had the nerve to ask me, never spoke to me again, never apologised.  Think about…
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Goodreads Ransom Scam by Alina Leonova

  Goodreads Ransom Scam And The Platform’s Astonishing Indifference January 13th, 2021   A number of authors are being attacked by scammers who first post multiple fake 1-star reviews and ratings on Goodreads and then demand ransom to take them down. If you are not a book geek, you might not be familiar with Goodreads.…
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Emails and Files

A short blog post about emails and files!! It seems many people either don’t realise, forget or just don’t think about files they’ve attached to emails and sent to contractors, publishers, editors etc., etc. Why do I say this? If you send a file to someone… anyone, then you should still have a copy of…
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Happy New Year and Welcome to 2021

Happy New Year to all our followers and friends. It has been a wow of a year with many of us working from home. The toll on the human race is still growing though with vaccines, perhaps we can beat this virus and the many strains. Please be safe and take care of each other…
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Courtesy Lost in the Digital Age…

Over the years, I’ve had bad experiences with clients. I’m sure we all have and we move on and forward, take it as a lesson learnt and not repeat it. Most of the time it works, however when COURTESY is lacking then I will take a stand. It doesn’t take much to message someone who…
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Word War with Cac the Proofreader – Understanding Jokes…

A SPECIAL TREAT FOR THANKSGIVING FROM CATHY.   • An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.  • A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. • A bar was walked into by the…
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Publishing Confusion – Part Three. Building a Website

There was a bit of confusion on my first post. I’d like to say, this series of posts is aimed at writers who wish to be Authors and make an income of some kind or another. As an Author, you run a business. In business, NOTHING is FREE, most certainly not your TIME.  You’ve made…
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