It’s our innate nature to seek advice from people who already come before us. For one, we don’t want to repeat their mistakes. And they’re more than happy to give us the advice too. While many of them are useful, there are some that I have to ignore simply because they don’t work for me.
Don’t get me wrong, social media metrics are important if it’s a part of your book marketing strategy. But the problem with most authors is that they’re focusing on the wrong thing as far as the social media metrics are concerned.
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Most people tend to associate having to spend the time alone as something negative. But little that you know successful people spend most of their time alone. In this book, Terri Savelle Foy tells us what successful people do when no one is looking and how you can adopt the same habits for yourself too.
How in the world do these authors have the time learn anything new while still chucking out books like clockwork? Do they have a secret that we’re not even aware of? Well, they actually do this simple thing to do everything that matters in their lives.
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