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Writing a Book

My business partner and I decided to write a book about a year and a half ago.  It has been really exciting and really exasperating at the same time.  We spent a year gathering information from our massage center that we previously owned.  We put all the information in a notebook.  We are now using the information to write a business textbook for massage therapists.  This book will be a reference manual for when the graduating therapists go out to start their own businesses.  We are starting to see how complicated it is to put a book together.  We have a few chapters done but we are still getting together the other chapters and trying to find information to enhance what we have pulled form our own references.  We would like to see more progress.  Some days I am really not feeling creative and it is hard to get the ball rolling.  My business partner has already moved on to the next book.  She feels this book is done already and is ready to start creating a new book on a totally different subject.  We barely have anything together and she is already selling it to a publisher.  I know it sounds strange but this is why we work so well together.   She is the vision and the foresight of our little duo.  I am the task master.  I am feeling a little intimidated because I have never written a book before and I really don't know what to say.  I try to talk about my experiences from our business time together but it all sounds so childish.  I am really trying to get over my fears and know that I do have the knowledge and the power to get this book on the shelf.  I have to get over myself and let the universe help me get what I want, which is for all massage therapists to have access to the ins and outs of running your own business.   Everybody deserves to be entrepreneurs and experience total control of their own lives.

Go Blog WIld

Blogging, Blogging, blogging what a total new world for me.  keeping track of feeds and newsreals and other blogs.  Commenting, trackbacks, sharing it is a whole new day in media and marketing.  I have just finished the go blogwild book.  I have been trying some of the things in the book and I am going to ad some pictures and comments and an RSS feed to this blog and see what happens.  I am just trying to learn so I can write and sell my book.  I am trying to write a how to book for massage business'.  My partner and I are both learning about the crazy wild world of the internet.  So bare with us as we learn and grow and change.  Our website is www.massagebusinessexperts.com.

How to Book

We have been caught off guard by emergency surgery for Jody's daughter who broke her leg skiing in New Hampshire last week.  I am trudging ahead while Jody is tending to her and trying to beg her to come home.  The book is moving forward.  I am working on some individual chapters and trying to pull some of the stuff together.  We have been gathering information on publishing and trying to go ahead and set up seminars and continuing education classes.  Jody is in the process of writing her story so you can kind of understand where we are coming from and what happened to us.  I am working on the form letters trying to make them generic enough for anybody to use and to be worded for specific  applications.  I am also exploring the world of blogging.  I am reading a book and trying out some of the examples and just reading blogs and seeing what other people are doing.  I have also found Donald Trumps university blog and newsletter to be very important in my research.  Of course everyone listens or should I say wants to hear what Donald Trump has to say....  I have also found the e-myth by Michael Gerber to be an excellent source of information.  I totally resonated with Sara's story as any entrepreneur would.  When you first start something it is fear that keeps you from moving forward....the I DON'T KNOW factor keeps us in our seats.  When a new business starts it is very important to keep your eye on the prize.  Sometime the prize can escape us in the daily routine. As Sara put it in the e-myth I wish I could just go back to making the pies.  I am aware that most new business run into the hazards of what am I doing here.  Again FEAR is what keeps us from moving forward.  Something I have found in my research is nobody else knows either.  I think that when we own our own business we get to write the rules ourselves.  We get to decide what is right and wrong.  We get to make the decisions and weather they are good or bad we will learn something.  Either don't do that again or how can we make this even better.  Some decisions if made wrong can ruin us but for the most part they won't take you under just give you more incentive to move forward and try something new.

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