Resources

Feed your brain. Here are my top-7 resources for independent consultants:

  1. Marketing Sherpa’s free e-mail newsletter, which features daily case studies and success stories. http://marketingsherpa.com
  2. Mark Silver publishes an amazingly helpful newsletter on how to stay “in your heart” and stay in business at the same time. You can subscribe here: http://heartofbusiness.com/thecore/.
  3. Havi Brooks helps independent professionals (or people who want to be) who know they have something amazing to share with the world but don’t feel comfortable putting it out there yet. Meet her and her duck-assistant Selma. She also provides a procrastination vaccine in the form of this handy ebook, Dissolving Procrastination. Highly, highly recommended.
  4. The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. I’ve recommended this book to every writer I know. It’s particularly handy for people who claim to suffer from “writer’s block.” After reading this book, you won’t.
  5. Infoguru Marketing Manual, by Robert Middleton. Download a free sample chapter here: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=550437
  6. Writing coach Daphne Gray-Grant is the reigning brevity queen. Everyone who writes—that’s all of us—should sign up for her newsletter, Power Writing, immediately. Get it here: http://www.publicationcoach.com/sample-newsletter.php.
  7. Looking for a virtual assistant with business smarts? Someone you can trust with everything from direct client contact to online marketing campaigns and research? I highly recommend mine, Robin Sagara. You can find her at http://robinsagara.com.