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Marketers, entrepreneurs, artists, and everyone else are flocking to sunny Costa Mesa, California in anticipation of a rare and breathtaking Seth Godin appearance on Friday, March 15th. This event is scheduled to run from 6:30 to 8pm, and doors will open at 5pm for a special networking and book-signing session. Entry is $85, which includes two copies of The Icarus Deception and one copy of V is for Vulnerable, which will be mailed to your home prior to the event, courtesy of 800-CEO-READ.
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A few weeks ago I reviewed Mike Rohde's The Sketchnote Handbook. This week Tuesday, as Jon and I were sitting inside Greenville's Peace Center, eagerly anticipating the start of Brains on Fire's 2013 F. I.
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Sarah Miller Caldicott is the author of three books, Innovate Like Edison, the e-book Inventing the Future, and her newest, Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison's Lab.
CEO of the innovation consulting company, Power Patterns, and a great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah is committed to translating the innovative methods of Edison for the digital age. In Midnight Lunch, she focuses on contemporizing Edison's collaboration process, and offering a concrete methodology for implementation.
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Some of us here at 800-CEO-READ just returned from this year's Author Pow Wow in Austin, TX. What's the Pow Wow? Every year since around 2005, we've gathered a room full of publishers, authors, marketers, speaking experts, designers, editors, agents, sales people, and a few people curious about becoming an author, to talk about what works, what doesn't, and how to make a more successful career as a business author.
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When I got in my car, the temperature gauge on the dashboard read negative four degrees. It was sunny out, but it was the kind of sunlight that seems reluctant—like a lone light in a walk-in freezer—struggling through the cold air to get to you.
So when I backed out of the driveway yesterday morning, I thought to myself, "there is no way we get a good crowd this morning, on the coldest day of winter.
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