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A lot of people have been victims of idea theft by friends, imitators, and organizations; and if you have ever been a victim of idea theft, you know how annoying or/and helpless you feel when someone else steals your idea. If you have never been a victim of idea theft, you should be concerned that it may happen to you someday. So, either you simply want to stop being a victim of idea theft, or you want to prevent it from happening to you, here are 5 ways to guard your idea against theft.


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A lot of people have been victims of idea theft by friends, imitators, and organizations; and if you have ever been a victim of idea theft, you know how annoying or/and helpless you feel when someone else steals your idea. If you have never been a victim of idea theft, you should be concerned that it may happen to you someday. So, either you simply want to stop being a victim of idea theft, or you want to prevent it from happening to you, here are 5 ways to guard your idea against theft.

Don’t reveal too much: Sometimes, discussing your idea may be thrilling, especially when you are talking to someone who is willing to listen, but always ensure that you don’t reveal too much when talking about it.


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Book piracy is the biggest obstacle for publishing firms across the globe. Book piracy is described as an illegal and illegitimate reproduction of other people’s intellectual property for economic reasons, without prior consent or authorization. Forms of book piracy include local reproduction of fast moving titles using newsprints or textured paper, abuse of publication rights, hi-tech reproduction overseas, circumventing the e-book version, illegal reprography, unauthorized or excessive production by printers, and translation without permission.

The effect of this illegal act is not limited only to the destruct it brings on the image and profits of the publishers, but also the immensely economic, educational and intellectual losses it brings upon any country.

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In any field of endeavor one intends to be successful in, training and constant practice are vital recipes. Just as you would undergo training if you want to become a fashion designer or an electrician, you also need to train if you intend to become an author, especially in these areas:

1. Training on Writing
Writing is an art that could be learned; and if you don’t have a top-notch writing skill, you would need to get effective training on it. Writing workshops and seminars also teach writers how to write books that are marketable in the publishing industry.


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Whenever I pitched Terms of Use to an agent, publisher or book reviewer, I was always quick to point out I’d been a reporter for almost two decades. They’d have to take me somewhat seriously because everyone knows journalists can write. Right? If only that were true.

Oh sure, I could whip up a 400-word news story with my eyes closed and one hand on my flask (just kidding). But as I waded into my novel, I came to appreciate how poorly prepared I was to tackle long-form fiction.


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Can you hear that?

Pop.

It’s the sound of me bursting your bubble.

I started a blog to help other writers because I know it’s possible to succeed.

Encouragement helps, but sometimes a cold splash of truth is what it takes to get people in motion.

I’m going to tell you the truth today. Are you ready? Brace yourself.

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No one starts a career with the hope of failing; in spite of that, lots of people fail in their career, and authors are not an exception. Many authors have never made a dime from their writings or achieved any form of success. Some of the reasons failure is imminent are as a result of over-expectation, laziness, inexperience, and over-confidence. Now, here are 5 ways to prevent failing as an author:

Learn about the Industry: Aspiring authors need to learn about the industry they intend to operate in. So, as soon as a writer decides to become an author, he should learn about how things work in the industry he intends to operate, and use that knowledge as guidelines in his decision making processes.


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As writers, we have a reputation for being daydreamers — disorganized, artsy, lost in our own little worlds. After all, creative types don’t have time for mundane things like schedules, planners, or any sort of filing systems, right? Look, we’re busy creating art over here, you can’t just pencil in inspiration on your calendar.

Ah, if only it were that easy. In college, I loved the idea of being a messy creative, doing my own thing and ignoring the rules. Going to the pub and writing tipsy poetry on a Monday night instead of going to my school newspaper meetings, ignoring my professor’s emails until the last minute because um, my muse just hadn’t struck me yet, you can’t rush genius, and completely ignoring any form of “networking” beyond the occasional LinkedIn request was kind of my style.

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1. JAMES JOYCE NEVER SET FOOT IN IRELAND AFTER THE YEAR HE TURNED 30.
A writer who needed distance from his subject of choice in order to write about it, Joyce left Ireland as soon as he could, then spent the rest of his life considering it. In 1904, at age 22, he settled in Trieste, Italy with the woman who would eventually become his wife, Nora. 1904 was also incidentally the year in which his masterpiece, Ulysses, is based. “For Joyce, Dublin was always the Dublin of 1904,” says David Norris, who runs the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Not even his father’s funeral in 1931 could get him back to his home country.

2. TONI MORRISON DIDN’T START WRITING UNTIL HER MID-THIRTIES.
Happily employed as a professor at Howard University in her thirties, Morrison joined a writing group just for fun, and in it started working on a story about a little black girl who wished she had blue eyes. After her divorce a short while later, she took the story back out and over the next few years it evolved into her first novel, The Bluest Eye, published when Morrison was 39 years old.

3. NABOKOV HAD TO WORK UNTIL HE WAS 60.
He was born rich in Russia, but after his family fled the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Nabokov found he was on his own to earn a living, first in Europe and later the United States. Early on he tutored students and taught tennis lessons. In America, he spent a decade teaching full time at Cornell University. While he had long garnered critical respect, Vladimir Nabokov didn’t get a commercial success under his belt until Lolita, published in the United States in 1958. He ended all employment outside of writing the next year.

4. JACK KEROUAC NEVER LEARNED TO DRIVE.
Kerouac moved to New York City as a teenager on a scholarship to boarding school and then entered Columbia University, so no car was necessary to get around during the years when most people learn to drive. Through every subsequent adventure, across the country and back, down to Mexico, up from New Orleans, Jack Kerouac was never the one behind the wheel, relying on buses and his friend Neal Cassady to do the “on the road” navigating.

5. KAFKA NEVER FINISHED A NOVEL.
Even though he made enough progress for his friend Max Brod to organize three of his efforts into works presented as novels after his death, Kafka on his own was never able to make Amerika, The Trial, or The Castle come together, and in fact wished for Brod to destroy them, along with all of his other work, upon his death. Only because Brod refused, and subsequently sunk his efforts into configuring what Kafka left behind, do we have Kafka’s three published novels today.

6. 'INFINITE JEST' STARTED OUT AS THREE SEPARATE STORIES.
In his twenties, David Foster Wallace started working on a story about a video so entertaining that people watch it to the exclusion of all else until they die. Soon after, he began another one about a tennis prodigy and his idiosyncratic family. Those stories floundered until several years later when, living in a halfway house outside Boston, Wallace began a story about a man he’d met in rehab, naming the character Don Gately. He then realized the three stories belonged together, and Infinite Jest began to take shape.

7. GEORGE ORWELL BORROWED THE PLOT FOR '1984' FROM A NOVEL CALLED 'WE.'
Orwell reviewed Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We for the Tribune in 1946, and despite what he called a “rather weak and episodic plot,” he found it “relevant to our own situation.” We is set in a city of the future built of glass to enable the government, led by a Big Brother-like figure, to monitor its people in every corner and nook. Its plot centers on a man and woman who fall in love and together rebel against the state. Sound familiar? 1984 was published three years after Orwell wrote the review.

8. IT TOOK ZADIE SMITH ALMOST TWO YEARS TO WRITE THE FIRST 20 PAGES OF 'ON BEAUTY.'
The first 20 pages are always the most difficult for Smith. She says that this first section is when the identity of the book emerges—and “the whole nature of the thing changes by the choice of a few words.” But for her 2008 novel On Beauty, those first pages provided a particularly tall challenge. After she finally got them in place after almost two years, she finished the rest of the novel in just five months.

9. FITZGERALD RECEIVED $55,000 IN TODAY’S DOLLARS FOR A SINGLE SHORT STORY.
At the height of his career at the end of the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald commanded $4,000 per story from publications like The Saturday Evening Post and Scribner’s, or $55,000 a pop in 2014 dollars. Thanks to Fitzgerald’s meticulous recording of money earned from writing in a ledger that still exists today, we know that stories for which he received this top fee include “The Bridal Party” and “Babylon Revisited.”

10. VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ROOM OF HER OWN WAS A PIGSTY.
Woolf famously argued that every writer needed a space in which to think freely, and we subsequently tend to assign a particular romance to her particular writing space. But those who knew Woolf intimately got to see the reality. Her husband Leonard described “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette holders, etc,” while Vita Sackville-West recalled the “incredible muddle of objects” in Woolf’s writing room.

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The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg and only 705 of its 2200 passengers and crew survived. With too few lifeboats onboard, many lives were lost unnecessarily. With a little creativity more people might have been saved. For example, what if the crew saw the iceberg as a sanctuary instead of a cause of death? They might have ferried people there. Unfortunately, we’ll never know.

There is an important lesson from that tragedy that can help us solve more problems. The lesson? When you look at something do not think of it only in traditional terms. The crew of the Titanic saw the iceberg as a menace to be avoided. They overlooked possible solutions hidden in plain sight, much like publishers overlook the opportunity for lucrative sales to buyers in non-bookstore markets.

You can avoid this phenomenon and destroy your hidden creative blocks by applying at least two techniques. One is to change the way in which you define the object or situation, thus expanding its possible uses. The other is to visualize alternative paths to reaching your goal.

Write your objective so it stimulates ideas
The analogy for publishers is that they look at their product and see a book. Instead, describe its contents and its uses become more varied and more widely applicable – and perhaps more profitable. Do this by asking yourself questions that keep breaking it down to its basic elements. If you look at your book as a source of information, ask who needs it? How could they benefit from it? Who else could use and benefit from it? Where and when do they search for that information? In what form do they prefer to have it delivered? This could lead you to providing your content in printed, electronic or audio form. Or, delivering it through booklets, seminars or as a consultant.

You may feel this is a minor matter of semantics, but creative problem solving consists of two connected activities: describing your objective and coming up with multiple solutions. The words you use to describe your product or circumstances are important. If you were asked to glue something to a wall you would search for a tube of glue and do it. But what if you are asked to fasten something to a wall? You might also think of tape, tacks, nails, Velcro, push pins, etc.

Apply this to your publishing business as you finalize your 2016 marketing plan. Write your goals differently to find new ways to reach them. A goal to “Sell X0,000 books by December 31, 2016” places your focus on selling books. If you say, “Reach net revenue of $X00,000” you expand your definition to focus on content and different paths to it.

Then rephrase your goal as a question: “In how many ways can we reach net revenue of $X00,000?” This expands your focus to think of multiple ways to attain it. This could be by selling your content in a book, booklet, ebook or other format. If you change the operative word to expand or grow you could expand your product line, pool of authors, other markets, new users or new uses for your content. You could grow revenue through corporate sales, selling to associations, generating recurring revenue, consulting and/or speaking.

Visualizing the path to reaching goals
Some people are more visually oriented and are not motivated by words. Going back to the Titanic story, what if the passengers and crew looked around for things that float? They might have used wooden tables as lifeboats, or used them as platforms between lifeboats. There were 40 cars on the ship, and assuming each had four tires with tubes another 160 people might have been saved. Even more passengers might have been saved if they used the tubes to float the wooden tables. They might have even used empty passenger trunks as floats, at least until the Carpathia arrived.

You might think it unreasonable to come up with these creative ideas with only 2.5 hours to live. And you would be correct. But that demonstrates the importance of planning. If the crew had a brainstorming session before leaving port, the innovative life-saving activities would have been second nature. They might even have removed all the tire tubes before departing.

Back to the business of publishing. Adapt the concept of mind mapping to create a market map to help you think of additional opportunities. Below is a graphic representation of a market map for special sales. First list the major niches in which you could compete. For example, you could sell your books to buyers in associations, corporations and through non-bookstore retailers. You could also sell your content by consulting or with back-of-the-room sales after speaking events.

Next, look for different ways to help buyers in each segment solve their problems. For example, associations want to increase their membership. Offer your book a premium – a thank-you gift for joining or renewing one’s membership. Similarly, corporate marketing executives want to increase the sale of their products. Propose your book as a promotional tool as an incentive for people to buy their product. Human Resource professionals want to motivate or educate their employees. Present your book as the solution.

Brian Jud

Every organisation conscious about its brand recognises that corporate identity comprises a varied selection of small, but very important, essentials that conjoin to send out a single, powerful message about its brand.

When it comes to corporate publishing, it is always important to understand that every printed material, in whatever forms it is produced, contributes to your corporate outlook. The ability to combine resources and communicate this powerful message to clients, investors, employees and other stakeholders is what distinguishes a reputable brand from the also-rans.

Through a strategic mix of ideation, creativity, conceptualisation, designs and the right technology, we transform your corporate publications into tools that help you achieve marketing objectives as well as long-term customer loyalty.

Sons of Issachar Concepts is a fully integrated Strategy, Process Improvement and Publishing firm that knows what it takes to transform your corporate prints into a voice that not only gets heard, but reverberates your brand quality long after exposure to your stuff.

Your Call cards, Stationery, Corporate Profile, Brochures, Periodicals, Newsletters, Manuals, Annual Reports, Journals and other outputs deserve better than being subjected to the handling of charlatans. On our team are experts with post-graduate, professional and technical certifications in publishing and corporate communications. That is why what we offer You is more than just printing…

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Brand Visibility is the number one distinguishing factor that separates better known brands from those that are not as popular or loved. Every brand says one thing: my product is good and you can trust it. However, some say it better and louder than others.

Creating a solid brand takes time, a winning strategy as well as the ability to take a step back and access how all the tools at your disposal have worked to get your brand noticed.

Certainly, one of the surest ways a brand can get noticed and keep getting noticed is through repeated advertising. Advertisements come in different forms; they can be commercials on TV or radio, in print or online. With these different forms of advertising also come commensurate costs.

Apart from the costs, every advertiser needs to ask what form of advertising offers the widest reach to their target market.

Online advertising guarantees every brand very unique targeting techniques, speed in set up, cost effectiveness and a way to measure the success of your advertising budget.

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There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define great, he said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!”
He now works for Microsoft writing error messages.

Everybody has inherent gifts in them that distinguish them from others. For many it is writing. Amazingly, not everybody is a published author and many that are published do not have a voice that people can identify with and trust.
Gifts are meant to be expressed! If you have writing skills and you are yet to get published, the world needs to hear from you. On social media everybody is writing, but you can be that one that would stand out. The world values proofs! Back your words with some relevant proofs by getting published. Your generation is counting on you.

Are you already published and nobody has even heard of you, not to talk of buying your works to read them? Why would you write a book that nobody would read? Take action now and change your life forever.

If you belong to any of these categories, act fast and give us a call now on 08188708026 or send us a mail to mail@issacharprojects.com and let us help you publish your work and market them to the world until they result in recurrent sales.

#FunFriday It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’

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Are you an author or do you have a dream of becoming one someday? Your books are meant to be read by people who need it. We can help you get you books to them send us a mail now at mail@issacharprojects.com or call us on +2348188708026.

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of you

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training - Lewis Mumford.

Your life can be better when you are well trained. Are you a self-published author? There are new trends in digital Marketing that we can put you through. Do you want to be part of our training? Call 08188708026 or send us a mail to mail@issacharprojects.com

#PublishingWednesday Thinking of publishing? Think it through and make it worth the while. This is the time to make your dream of being published a reality. We can help you out, give us a call now on 08188708026 or send us a mail to mail@issacharprojects.com

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Everybody has inherent gifts in them that distinguish them from others. For many it is writing. Amazingly, not everybody is a published author and many that are published do not have a voice that people can identify with and trust.

Gifts are meant to be expressed! If you have writing skills and you are yet to get published, the world needs to hear from you. On social media everybody is writing, but you can be that one that would stand out. The world values proofs! Back your words with some relevant proofs by getting published. Your generation is counting on you.

Are you already published and nobody has even heard of you, not to talk of buying your works to read them? Why would you write a book that nobody would read? Take action now and change your life forever.

If you belong to any of these categories, act fast and give us a call now on 08188708026 or send us a mail to mail@issacharprojects.com and let us help you publish your work and market them to the world until they result in recurrent sales

Everybody has inherent gifts in them that distinguish them from others. For many it is writing. Amazingly, not everybody is a published author and many that are published do not have a voice that people can identify with and trust.

Gifts are meant to be expressed! If you have writing skills and you are yet to get published, the world needs to hear from you. On social media everybody is writing, but you can be that one that would stand out. The world values proofs! Back your words with some relevant proofs by getting published. Your generation is counting on you.

Are you already published and nobody has even heard of you, not to talk of buying your works to read them? Why would you write a book that nobody would read? Take action now and change your life forever.

If you belong to any of these categories, act fast and give us a call now on 08188708026 or send us a mail to mail@issacharprojects.com and let us help you publish your work and market them to the world until they result in recurrent sales.

Think of it, when you have left this world what would people remember you for? What legacy do you want to leave behind? Your life would become enriched when others can benefit from the wealth of knowledge that you possess. if you have any book idea that you want your would to know about or if you have published a book and you are wondering how to get it out there, we are hear to help you. Simply send us a mail now to mail@issacharprojects.com or call 08188708026.

Your life is complete when others hear your story! #GetPublished!