Today’s my birthday and an amazing present came in over the weekend: A print proof of the paperback version of Your Business Growth Playbook! 🤩 It’s beyond exciting to hold in my very hands a physical copy of the book that’s been in my head for years, and in production for over 10 months! 🎯 As for hitting my goal of 50 early reviews by my birthday? We’re SO close at (as of this morning) 41 early reviews! That’s 82% of the way there! And – like me – the day is young! Who do you know that would want early access to my book and be willing to share an early review today so I can hit my goal? Invite them to join us on our launch team right now! 😊 If you haven’t yet taken a moment to share your early review… right now would be great! It’ll only take a moment! Help Me Hit My Birthday Goal! Share Your Early Review Now! 41 wonderful folks already have – maybe even you – and for that, I thank you. And now… I’m off to enjoy the rest of my birthday!

It's funny... Within the three types of early readers, the later category ("pretty close to finished product" readers) stay quiet until you're at the finish line... I just dropped the link to the full PDF manuscript out to my prelaunch list yesterday afternoon, and wouldn't you know... many of the folks that have been quiet, never downloaded the intro PDF, didn't write an early review, etc... THEY are the ones who are now downloading the full book and - before I even follow up - have been publishing their early reviews! The reviews keep coming in! All I had to do was say "I'm done with the book" and folks sat up and started to engage! 🎉

Well, this is exciting... 🤩

I submitted my Copyright office application today, as well as my Library of Congress app (for LCCN), and also "assigned" my ISBNs in my Bowker account... 🛬 Had those on the "near publication" part of my pre-launch plan for months, and now was the time! It's great checking off so many items on my list as I near the end of "pre-publication" and approach actual "publication"! So exciting! 😊 It's been really great having y'all on this journey with me. We've got a pretty special community here, @Julie Broad ! Thanks for creating this space for us authors to connect and help each other out! 🫶

Hello all, One of the latest podcasts I was a guest on - Awesome Attitude with Stephen Shaner (the Attitude Chiropractor') just dropped this morning. During the podcast I speak on my 4th book, which is now with the editor. Taking clues from Booklaunchers and others like Dale Roberts, etc., I am getting out a head of the launch with being a guest on podcasts. As you might recall I have written here about my 4th book about the marketing techniques I have used to sell my books, and in this podcast I tell of a number of those strategies I have employed. As Alex Sanfillipo (Podmatch.com) has said, tell them everything when you are on the podcast. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to tell them everything during this podcast, but I do a pretty good job at it. Here is the link and I hope you enjoy. https://traffic.libsyn.com/areyouawesometoday/AYAT0201.mp3