Comments on: How To Unlaunch Your Ebook

By: Doing It By The Numbers - Blog Post Engineering | Website In A Weekend

Doing It By The Numbers - Blog Post Engineering | Website In A Weekend — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:44:12 +0000

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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:49:40 +0000

Gary, I break a lot of “rules” here, but I’m pretty well following Zig Ziglar’s advice of “help people get what they want.”

I’m really good at helping.

I just don’t quite yet have a handle on what people really want.

Where are taking you Coffee Muses?

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:49:18 +0000

Working on it as best I can; have posts scheduled up until the webcomic so I should be able to slot in more product time. Also check out the post tomorrow – I might prod you about it a little later =)

Agreed though, responsibility I can handle, having to put up with someone else’s impossibilities is horrible. Besides I’ve noticed that I work way harder for ‘myself’ (read: readers, and my credibility) than I do for employers. Nothing like being totally to blame to get you moving.

And Dave? Thanks.
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Semester Scramble Turns Ugly =-.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:27:35 +0000

Yeah, you really do.

It’s not really any different anywhere else, either. I would be perfectly happy teaching and doing research totally anonymously… but no schools want anonymous professors these days. Competence, even excellence, isn’t enough. The door opens at “Rock Star.”

I watched several of my classmates promote themselves into faculty positions at good schools by “breaking the rules.” In one case, it was quite outrageous, inviting a full professor to visit her without informing anyone he was coming. She teaches at that university now. I would never have done that. Which is provable, I never did it.

So, let’s get out there and hustle it lady.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:21:29 +0000

Just do the best you can. It made me ill when I realized this wasn’t going to be able silver platters full of rose petals, but what can you do?

Really, this is the cool thing about working for myself: when I mess up, I know it’s my fault. And I can handle that. Working for other people and being tasked with impossible deadlines just sucks.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:15:58 +0000

Justin: Same dif.

By: Justin Matthews

Justin Matthews — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:13:31 +0000

I thought it was “Evil Overlord of Blogistan”
.-= Justin Matthews´s last blog ..What I want to be when I grow up. =-.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:11:17 +0000

Excellent! If it wasn’t too late at night here I’d be happily running off to record it now. Video too I’m assuming?

Also, are we only singing that verse you have there or are we completing the song? :P

Oh, oh, or we could record the audio then edit it so that it sounds like we’re both singing.
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Semester Scramble Turns Ugly =-.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:59:50 +0000

Eleanor, no worries, I got ground up in the gears on this thing.

I have a whole new respect for Jeff Walker and Frank Kern. Orchestrating a real launch is a real pain!

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:58:17 +0000

Ok, Heather, you’re on. The phrasing might be a little wack, you can handle it, Roger won’t care.

I *might* consider doing it in harmony… but I haven’t done any singing for over 10 years. Closer to 15 really.

But I wanna hear you first.