StevePavlina.com Personal Development InsightsTM Newsletter Issue #9 - August 28, 2008 - www.StevePavlina.com In this issue I have lots of news to share with you...
Speaking in Tampa on October 5th On October 5th I'll be speaking in Tampa, Florida at Hay House's I Can Do It! conference. This will be the same presentation I did at their Las Vegas conference in June, with improvements based on audience feedback. This conference is open to the public, so I invite you to attend. My 90-minute presentation will be on Sunday, October 5th from 11:00am to 12:30pm and is titled Personal Development for Smart People: The 7 Keys to Genuine Growth. This is based on the ideas from my new book, Personal Development for Smart People. After the presentation I'll be doing a book-signing. Even though the book won't officially be released until October 15th, conference attendees will be able to get a copy of it early. Erin will be offering a limited number of in-person readings during the conference in our hotel room, so if you're interested in booking a reading with her in Tampa, please contact her first, so she can work out the best appointment time for you. All bookings will be done on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details about the conference, please see today's blog post about it. Note: I'll be sending out a separate email about my ICDI presentation -- this is something all conference presenters agree to do -- so don't be surprised when you receive a second email from me shortly after this newsletter. That email will include a description of the session as well as conference registration links if you wish to attend. I don't receive any commission if you decide to register. Erin and I will be attending the whole conference, so please do say hi if you see us there.
Personal Development for Smart People Book Update  Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth has been doing incredibly well with pre-orders at Amazon.com. After I announced the book last month, it hit the Amazon.com top 100 bestseller list that same week. Wow! If you visit the Amazon.com page for the book, you can read some sample material from the introduction and first chapter. Amazon messed up the formatting of the excerpts, but the content is still readable. I was told this problem happens with many books because Amazon tries to automate the extraction of these excerpts. Apparently they still have some glitches to work out. The book's official release date is October 15, 2008 -- only 7 weeks left. The current Amazon.com price is $16.47 for the hardcover version, $9.99 for the Kindle version. The advantage of pre-ordering is that you're guaranteed to get the lowest price between now and when the book ships. If the price drops anytime between now and then, you get the lowest price during that time. In addition to pre-ordering the book on Amazon.com, you can also ask your local bookstore to pre-order it for you. The book's ISBN-10 number is 1401922759, and the ISBN-13 number is 978-1401922757.
Free Review Copies for Bloggers If you're willing to read Personal Development for Smart People and write a review for your website or blog, you can get a free pre-release review copy of the book if you meet a few simple criteria. I already discussed this idea with Hay House, and they're willing to send out lots of review copies for bloggers who get enough web traffic to justify the expense. Obviously the idea here is to help create more buzz for the book in the blogosphere. Consequently, Hay House can't send freebies to everyone who requests one, but they've agreed to send copies to the people I qualify first. Here are the criteria to quality for a free review copy: - You have a website or blog where you can post your own review of the book.
- Your website/blog has a non-derelict level of traffic. I.e. if you post a book review, it will be seen by a reasonable number of people (at least 100 or so), and you have some way of demonstrating this. For example, your website has an Alexa.com ranking of 1,000,000 or better, your blog posts show active visitor commenting, your content comes up in Google searches, your site has been online for at least a few months, or something along those lines. Since it costs Hay House money to mail out each review copy, I just need some way of verifying that your website isn't a ghost town.
- You agree to write and post an original review of the book on or around October 15th (i.e. sometime in October 2008) where your website visitors will see it.
- Your review links to the book's sales page at Amazon.com. Feel free to use your own Amazon affiliate links if you'd like.
As an extra incentive, if you post a review of the book sometime in October and then email me a link to your review once it's online, I'll add a link to your review from my website. StevePavlina.com gets more than 2 million visitors per month, so you'll gain a free link from a high-traffic site in exchange for writing the review. In order for me to link to your review, I need to see at least enough substance in your review that makes it clear you actually read the book. I won't link to reviews that merely rehash the book's back cover. However, you don't have to write an exceedingly gushing or glowing review. You don't even have to recommend the book to your visitors. Just share your honest thoughts about it in a way that provides some extra value to your visitors and mine. Fair enough? Since Personal Development for Smart People is a book about universal principles of growth and change, the ideas in the book can be applied to absolutely any field, so it doesn't matter if your website's topic seems totally unrelated to personal development. Personally I'd love to see people exploring how the book's ideas can be applied to other fields. If you believe you meet the criteria above and would like to request a free review copy of the book, please send me the following info via my contact form: (1) your name, (2) the URL of your website or blog, (3) an estimate of your website's monthly visitors, (4) any evidence that I can use to verify that your site is more than a ghost town, and (5) your mailing address to receive the review copy. Review copies will be mailed in September. This offer expires on September 30th, 2008.
Interview Requests If you have a website, podcast, radio show, or other publication and would like to arrange an interview with me related to the launch of Personal Development for Smart People, please let me know as soon as possible. I'm already averaging 5-6 interview requests per week (not including what Hay House's own PR team will soon generate), so I have to be fairly selective and can't accept every request. However, if I must decline your request, I can at least provide you with a standard text interview (it includes questions and answers) that you can share on your website if you'd like; it just won't be exclusive.
Interest List for One-on-one Consulting By the end of this year, I expect to begin offering a limited number of one-on-one consultations by phone. I'm currently building an interest list of people who want to be notified when this gets going. There are about two dozen people on the list so far. If you have any desire to arrange a one-on-one phone consultation with me, please read the blog entry I posted earlier this month on coaching and consultations to learn the details. Then if you'd like to be added to the interest list, please send me a message via my contact form to let me know, and I'll be happy to add you to the interest list.
Twitter If you're familiar with the online service Twitter, you can start following my Twitter updates at twitter.com/stevepavlina. I started using Twitter a month ago and currently have 1,080 followers on the site. I've been averaging 4-5 updates per day. For further details on Twitter, what it is, how it works, and why I decided to start using it, please see my recent blog post about it. Whew!
Until next time, live consciously!
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