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Speakipedia Podcast #32: Lois Creamer

Speakipedia Posted on December 10, 2024 by juanDecember 18, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #32: Lois Creamer

Dave Bricker: Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies and amazing stories from visionary speakers … More ☛

The Music Industry’s $50-Billion/Year Storytelling Fumble

Speakipedia Posted on October 30, 2024 by juanOctober 29, 2024

  For decades, FM radio stations served as the primary outlet for major record labels to promote their artists. Radio listeners visited brick-and-mortar music stores to purchase records, tapes, and CDs. For a while, M-TV joined the party. Then the … More ☛

Scientists Have the Climate Story Wrong

Speakipedia Posted on October 22, 2024 by Dave BrickerOctober 22, 2024

Oh, they’re right enough about climate change. If you look at the data and at changing weather patterns around the world, it’s difficult to argue otherwise. But when it comes to telling the story, scientists have it all wrong. Measuring … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #14:
Andrea Gold

Speakipedia Posted on July 16, 2024 by juanAugust 14, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #14:Andrea Gold

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business?  This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ☛

A Story of Steve Jobs, Creativity, Balance, and Success

Speakipedia Posted on July 2, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

“People from technology don’t understand the creative process … companies go through to make their products, and they don’t appreciate how hard it is. And the creative companies don’t appreciate how creative technology is; they think it’s just something you … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast # 11:
Will Bowen

Speakipedia Posted on June 25, 2024 by juanJuly 23, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 11:Will Bowen

Transcription Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media, brought to you by Speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

Rethinking Book Cover Design

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Rethinking Book Cover Design

Book cover design tells the story of the story. It must convey the spirit and intentions of the author authentically, and it also has a few practical chores to perform. If a book cover design is to accomplish these things … More ☛

Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles

The following publishing advice is based on my own experiences and those of my clients. I hope you find it valuable and encouraging, even if it changes your expectations. I’ve written and published 12 books. I’ve guided many remarkable people … More ☛

Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework

This article discusses the pros and cons of traditional publishing. Abandon your biases, study the business of publishing, and choose the publishing method that best suits you and your book. Perhaps the biggest myth in publishing is that as a … More ☛

The Perfect Book Sales Page

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
The Perfect Book Sales Page

Tom Morkes published The Perfect Book sales Page on his blog. I’m usually the first person to reject formulaic approaches to book marketing. Many well-written books are horrible products. But what I like about Tom’s template is that it forces … More ☛

Publishing Scams and How they Work

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Publishing Scams and How they Work

Many self-publishers start their book projects with unrealistic expectations and misunderstandings about how publishing works. A huge industry has arisen to prey on writers who are unsure of the path. This article explains the basics of how publishing scams work … More ☛

How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 14, 2024
How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

This article explains how to produce and market a professional quality audiobook using Amazon ACX. Through ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), I was able to audition voiceover talent, choose a professional producer, review the work in progress, and make my audiobook … More ☛

Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

You threw a grand party but nobody came. Your novel is so good but you’re not selling books. What happened? You were supposed to appear on Oprah’s show. Terry Gross isn’t calling you for an interview. You may be an … More ☛

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3

This third installment of Judging a Book by its Cover looks at great book cover designs that won the 2012 Design Observer 50 Books-50 Covers award. Part 1 explored how most book design rarely rises above “competent.” Part 2 looked … More ☛

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 14, 2024
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued “professional” covers taken from Amazon’s Editor’s choice list. Read that article first as it provides background for this one. The article looked at design elements that worked … More ☛

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover – Part 1

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 16, 2024
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover – Part 1

Nothing screams “amateur” like a poorly crafted book cover. The standards for book design aspired to by trade publishers are not all that high, but self-publishers routinely fall short of them. If you want your book to be taken seriously, … More ☛

Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers

One question that loops endlessly on writers’ forums is “How can I sell more books?” The question is a natural one, but for many self-publishers, it betrays a certain lack of awareness about the publishing business. Lest I sound holier … More ☛

Gatekeepers and Self-Publishing

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Gatekeepers and Self-Publishing

Indie publishers complain that the mainstream publishing establishment acts as a “gatekeeper.” Many readers rely on big publishing houses to filter out low quality books—even though trade publishers regularly print celebrity crap with impunity. Indie publishers often see themselves as … More ☛

Self-Publishing: Art or Business?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Self-Publishing: Art or Business?

The very idea of “book marketing” is vague. It’s like subsuming advertising and fine art sales into a single realm of “image marketing.” And in tacking marketing on as the de facto second phase of writing a book, a lot of worthy artists’ resources are placed in jeopardy.

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Indie Publishers, Bookstores and Readers – the Indie Ecosystem

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Indie Publishers, Bookstores and Readers –  the Indie Ecosystem

Indie publishers are everywhere and so are indie bookstores, but apart from their names, the two have little in common. “Independence” is a feelgood concept, but it’s often presented without any reference to that which a publisher or bookstore is independent … More ☛

Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?

There is a direct relationship between the number of sales you can expect from a book distributor and the value-added services they provide to publishers and readers. Publishers are best served to ally themselves with book distributors that do the … More ☛

Stop Picking on POD

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Stop Picking on POD

A great technology is getting a bad rap for the wrong reasons. Print On Demand (POD) technology is often mislabeled “Publish On Demand,” which consequently associates it with the Vanity Publishing world; a realm inhabited by a few reputable operators and a large number of scammers waiting to prey on naive writers. While it’s true most Vanity Publishers do rely on POD technology, the majority of reputable self-publishers and many small traditional publishers do, too. POD is entirely disconnected from matters related to whether you own your own ISBN numbers, share rights and royalties with a third party, own your cover artwork or choose one distribution chain over another. It’s just a digital book-manufacturing technology. After all the business arrangements are decided on, a file is sent to a POD printer and books are then manufactured to order in quantities as small as a single book. POD is just a printing technology—and it’s a great one.

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Tips For Book Cover Design

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Tips For Book Cover Design

Most book designers make the same errors. One sore spot for me and with many of my university design students, is typography.

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Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore

If you’re hoping to have mainstream bookstore distribution, using a Vanity Press may present some obstacles. Book buyers will likely tell you, “your book may be excellent, but you’re using a Vanity Publisher and the vast majority of their books … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast # 4:
Rosemary Ravinal

Speakipedia Posted on May 9, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 26, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast # 4:Rosemary Ravinal

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia .com. I’m your MC, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ☛

Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Speakipedia Posted on November 21, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

When the urge to gripe arises, consider that no matter what dark clouds may loom on the horizon, you threaded the needle of human history. Imagine what life would have been like had you been born not so many years … More ☛

Sound Advice for Writers & Publishers

Speakipedia Posted on July 26, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

The following advice on writing and publishing is based on my own experiences and those of my clients. I hope you find it valuable and encouraging, even if it changes your expectations. I’ve written and published twelve books, and I’m … More ☛

Confirmation Bias: Storytelling at Your front Door

Speakipedia Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

We give more weight to evidence that supports what we like—a phenomenon called, “confirmation bias.” Belief is often based as much on what we want to be true as on what we determine to be true through direct observation. Data, … More ☛

Storytelling and Your Mission Statement

Speakipedia Posted on April 19, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Anyone who questions the relationship between business and storytelling need look no farther than the humble corporate mission statement.   The goal of this article is to teach the value of storytelling so you can develop engaging mission statements that … More ☛

Don’t Hire Experts and Tell Them What to Do!

Speakipedia Posted on September 14, 2020 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Too many professionals buy the story that expertise is a commodity: Hire an expert, tell them what to do, and get the job done. Experts are experts because they know more than you do about their professional discipline. Experts are … More ☛

Speak Standing Up!

Speakipedia Posted on April 14, 2020 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

I’ve been videoconferencing for years; this will be easy! I thought as I began my first virtual speech. When it was over, I was surprised at my lackluster performance, and by the number of filler words I used—ums, ers, and … More ☛

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