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Authors have Credibility
Do you have a book that you have written?
If so, honestly, how much money did you make from the book? How long did it take to you write the book? Simple math – divide the amount of money you made by the number of hours it took you to write the book.
Was it worth it?
Having a book that you have written is good form for the cruise ship seminar leader. It fact, it is a given. No book? Good luck getting a speaking gig.
I can think of 3 reasons why you, the cruise ship speaker, should want to write a book.
1. Credibility – if you have written a book it establishes you as someone who is willing to make the commitment to sit down and do the work, put yourself out there and open yourself up to criticism – good and bad.
Related: 19 Things You Can Learn, Do or Teach on a Cruise Ship.
2. New Calling Card – to get on radio or television AND to get on a cruise ship having written a book is a requirement. Instead of giving someone your business card, give them a copy of your book. Not everyone mind you … only those people deserving = interested in having you speak for them.
3. Door opener – I tell people that a monkey can write a book. The book might not be any good but it’s a book nonetheless. Getting your book read is the hard part. When your book does get read, however, watch for doors to open that traditional marketing cannot do.
Here’s my advice – write a book.
We can help you do it.
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Bill Belew, PhD, MFA, MSc also has a very interesting career. Bill spent a half dozen years in the US Navy climbing the enlisted ranks and making the jump to Lieutenant where he served as a Surface Warfare, Communications and Intelligence Officer. While aboard ship, in the Navy, he sailed enough nautical miles to circumnavigate the globeAfter his military time, Bill spent nearly 20 years in the Far East – Japan, China, Russia and India where he taught university and created and grew his own language school throughout Japan and Far East Russia.Bill speaks to audiences of all size, countless times yearly. He has a network of 4000+ individuals who follow him in the Silicon Valley Bay Area to learn about Social Media/inbound/content marketing. He is a weekly guest on the Social Network Station broadcast to 90+ countries from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.More than 75,000,000 people have viewed over 125,000,000 pages in his network of sites.Bill is represented by 4 cruise ship agencies that send him, literally, anywhere and everywhere in the world, and is a principal of SpeakOnCruises.com
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