December 30, 2018
Making Your Business Work For You with guest David A. Fields
This week on TBOA, Rochelle and I are joined by guest David A. Fields. David is an author, speaker, and consulting firm expert. His book Guide To Winning Clients is both fun to read and chock full of solid gold advice.
Talking Points
- How David got into the consulting space
- David’s website redesign
- David’s books, and the difference between the first and second books
- David’s writing process
- How books work as a marketing vehicle
- How David pictured his book fitting into his business model
- The difference between traditional publishing and self-publishing
- Advice for people who are considering writing a book
- What happens when you are the brand
- David’s story about speaking
- Speaking as a marketing tactic
Quotable Quotes
“What do you consider part of the writing process? Because there’s writing, then there’s rewriting, there’s having the beta readers give feedback and tweaking based on that.” –DF
“If you want something fast, you get up on stage and you speak. If you want something enduring, you write.” –DF
“It’s not worth holding back your book because you can’t get a publisher. If you’ve got a book to write, write the book.” –DF
“I don’t consider myself a professional speaker. I’m a consultant who speaks.” –DF
Enjoy!
If you enjoy this episode, you might also like the interview I did with David for Ditching Hourly:
Fishing Where The Fish Are with guest David A. Fields
Yours,
—J