This weekend I’ll be giving a presentation at the National Speakers Association annual conference in Indiana on how to Own Your Niche for authors. It’s all about building a solid online presence to attract your ideal target audience. Here’s a look at the slides, compliments of Slideshare.com!
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Stephanie
From your slide show, it looks like you conducted an excellent presentation at Writers/Publishers PEG. Congratulations. Thanks for posting your slides for all to see and learn from. Sorry I missed your presentation in person.
We appreciate you!
Best, Barbara (former chair W/P PEG)
Hi Barbara, Thank you for your feedback. I had a GREAT time speaking with the PEG group and greatly appreciate the invitation. My book was also the first to sell out at the bookstore! Hope to see you sometime soon.