Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

You need to earn the right to promote.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.