Shared Visions Unlimited with Greg Dixon

Woody Allen has scripted AND produced over 60 movies.
That is more than one a year!
He has sustained that through a daily routine that includes writing on paper and a portable and doing other things ~ like playing the clarinet in a jazz band.
My favourite Woody Allen movies include Sleeper, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Midnight In Paris, To Rome With Love, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (ooh la la!).
What are your favourite movies?
What could you accomplish if you wrote every day?
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I combine my comprehensive marketing strategies with Conversion Alchemy by my Total Traffic and Conversion collaborator, Roy Dickan.

Conversion Alchemy is an AI tool that actively acquires qualified leads from searches and site visitors.

We add them to a mailing list in Kartra and subscribe them to an email sequence. It works very well.

You can use the leads for future email campaigns.

The Golden Marketing Sales Machine combines landing pages, blogging, social media, and YouTube to dominate your online presence and attract people to you and your offers.

Dominate Your Niche!

Who Is The Golden Sales Machine For?

This comprehensive marketing approach will work for any person, entrepreneur, or company that offers something that people will pay for, including:

• Authors
• High-End Coaches
• Entrepreneurs
• Professional Practices, like Dentists and Therapists
• Real Estate Investors
• Course Creators
• Artists
• Musicians
• Network Marketers
• What you do:-)

The Main Components

Here is the basic approach:

• Create a Compelling Offer
• Create a Compelling Landing Page or website with buttons to make an appointment or purchase, as appropriate for your offers.
• Create an Email Sequence.
• Create Conversion Alchemy Campaigns to acquire leads and subscribe to the email sequence.
• Create an Opt-In for the landing page that subscribes the person to the email sequence.
• Create blog posts based on the email sequence, optimize them for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and submit them to the Google Search Console. Each blog post will have a call to action.
• Create Social Media and YouTube posts based on the blog posts with links to the blog post or landing page.
• Boost posts with paid advertising.

This approach will bring traffic in days for your success.

I am working on a book and training program if you want to implement it yourself.

Or we can work with you or implement it for you.

Busy professional practices will want us to implement and run the Golden Marketing Sales Machine with Conversion Alchemy for them.

What Does Done-For-You Cost?

I am offering an Introductory retainer of $388 per month that includes all the moving parts and a modest budget for Conversion Alchemy leads and Facebook post boosts.

We can review the results near the end of the month to make adjustments for next month if needed.

Discuss with Greg Dixon

https://www.gregdixon.net/388retainer

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I am combining the best practices from my Publishing and Marketing experience into my Power Publishing and Marketing Process.

The goal is to build Authority, Influence, and Sales for you.

I am working on a book and membership program for those who want to implement themselves.

I am available now to implement the Power Publishing and Marketing Process with you.

Is this for you?

The Power Publishing and Marketing Process is for you if you want to publish a book, course, or almost anything else.

The Power Publishing and Marketing Process can revitalize your golden content if you have unproductive books and other creative assets.

If you want to be invited to speak on broadcasts and stages, the Power Publishing and Marketing Process is for you.

Want to expand your business?

The Power Publishing and Marketing Process will attract clients and customers to your products and services.

Does any of that resonate with you?

Please put your questions in the comments.

Let me know if you want to join the conversation.

Greg Dixon, Your Chief Enabler
Shared Visions Unlimited Publishing and Marketing

Let’s discuss your big, audacious Blue Sky goals.

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Having a website using your name can help authors and speakers in the following ways:

1. Provides a place for people to learn about you and your books and purchase your books.
2. Can be a place for you to share excerpts from your books or possibly a place to test content for new books.
3. You can combine social media and other marketing strategies to boost your online presence.

A website is essential for speakers to get booked.

Key Points

• The website can present you, your work, your mission, and any upcoming projects.
• -The website can also serve as a platform to breathe new life into older works by presenting excerpts.
• An author-speaker website is a great space to build your online presence, authority, and influence.
• A website offers marketing opportunities, can boost your search engine presence, and enables you to sell your books directly.
• Having a book can serve as a gateway to speaking gigs, boosting your credibility and attracting invites to be on podcasts.

I am available to create an author-speaker website for you.

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Many of our book clients come to us with their book manuscripts completed and ask for some final editing and uploading to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and sometimes IngramSpark to get into retail catalogues.

You can do it yourself and get your book on the world’s largest book marketplace for free. You can treat Amazon as a low-cost print-on-demand service available in most countries.

The formatting and uploading process can be a bit finicky, but you can learn to do it yourself by following the guidelines provided by Amazon KDP. The uploading process itself tells you what is required.

Here are the steps we follow to publish books for our clients.

Formatting For Submission

You must choose a trim size for your book and format to fit.

A typical trim size is 6 x 9 inches.

Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, and other programs allow you to set the page sizes and margins to the required specifications.

Amazon accepts PDF files for print books and ePub files for eBooks.

I use Atticus (https://www.atticus.io/) to format client books and to write and format my books.

Your one-time investment will save a lot of futzing with formatting for both print books and ePub books.

Atticus supports collaboration, which would streamline working with me on your books.

Opening Your Own Amazon KDP Account

Even if you have me upload your book, I will upload it to your Amazon account rather than publish it under Shared Visions Unlimited.

I know many authors who had terrible experiences with publishing houses and book consultants who published their books under their umbrella. Some come to us.

It is best to keep control and keep the money from sales yourself!

See the Amazon KDP Signup Process at https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200620010.

Uploading Your Print Book

Amazon will ask for the title, subtitle, description, contributors, categories, and keywords.

You will specify a trim size and upload your PDF file.

Amazon will create a preview version of the book and review it when submitted.

Uploading or Creating a Cover

The hardest part of the exercise is getting a cover that matches the exact specifications of your book.

The width of the spine will vary according to page count and paper grade.

Amazon can generate a template for your trim size and page count.

I load the template into PhotoShop and overlay the design to keep within the specifications, including adequate margins and room for a book number code.

Amazon can assign a book number for your book. I can generate book numbers, and there are paid services for that. The free Amazon book number will work for most authors.

Amazon has a book cover creation tool that is quite good and will create a cover that fits.

Pushing the Publish Button

When you and Amazon seem happy with the book, you can push a button to submit it for review and publishing.

Amazon will let you know if there are any issues or let you know that your book is live.

Now The Work Starts!

Amazon publishes thousands of new books every day.

Ideally, you have been promoting the book in advance, and now is a good time for a book launch party and marketing campaign.

And steady marketing ever after:-)

I can help you with all of that.

Book a chat about your books at https://www.gregdixon.net/calendar.

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Are you using live streams or podcasts to get your message out and attract people to your products and services?

You can leverage the differences between live videos and podcasts to multiply your audience and influence.

I use the Power Podcasting Practice to get my message out to LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRADIO, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more.

The whole process takes around 1 hour.

I have been using this to put out information about my Writing For Fun Adventure I started from scratch just over a week ago.

You can see the results by searching for ‘Greg Dixon writing‘ on Google Search. I am not the only Greg Dixon and there are other Greg Dixons who are writers, yet the first two pages of search listings are mostly mine.

How do you show up in searches?

Here are the tools and practices that I use:

1. Create a splash image like the one at the top of this page.
   I use screen captures and PhotoShop. Canva and other programs can create images for your branding and messaging.
2. Set up a LinkedIn Live Event.
   • Upload the splash image.
   • Provide a compelling title.
   • Write show notes with a link to the next steps for the audience.
   • List guest speakers
   • Set the time.
   • Submit.
   • Invite guest speakers through LinkedIn.
3. Set up StreamYard Studio Live Broadcast. Restream would work, too.
   • Choose the destinations for the live stream. I use LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook Profile, Facebook Pages, and sometimes Instagram and X.
4. Do the Broadcast.
5. Export the audio from the completed broadcast,
6. Upload the audio to your Podcast platform. I use buzzsprout.
   See https://gregdixon.buzzsprout.com.
7. Create a Blog Post (Recommended).
   • Use the splash image and show notes to create an SEO-optimized post.
   • Add buttons that link to the LinkedIn Event and the Podcast Episode.
   • Submit to Google Search Console.

Miracles Happen

That probably sounds like a lot. I developed the strategy over the years.

However, I now do the whole process from beginning to end in about one hour, plus the actual broadcast time.

Greg Dixon is Available to Help

You can do it too.

I am available to help set this practice up for you.

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Gaining Clarity during the writing process.
 
Creating content that can repurposed as articles (print and online), blog posts, broadcasts, podcasts, speaking presentations, radio, ...
 
Opens doors to clients and speaking opportunities.
 
Building Influence and Authority
 
Creates a lasting legacy.
 
Can you think of any more?
 
Start Writing for Fun and see where it can take you.
 
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I have a new mission statement encapsulating what I have been doing for clients for many decades. 
 
Shared Visions Unlimited enables 
the creation of new things, 
publishes them into the world, 
and markets to those who need them. 
 
 
I will explain what that means and how it could apply to your visions and projects. 
 
Let's chat. 

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Bonnie Dixon joined Greg to talk about her writing past, including writing a recipe column and a Mojave Desert newspaper, her How To Get a Job You'll Love book, and writing a health column and a local newspaper in Merritt.

We shared some ideas about getting started, and something that starts as a fun thing for yourself could open doors and opportunities.

Register for insights and invitations to join the discussion or be a guest writer at https://www.writingforfun.online/

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Sometimes, people use the term Podcast to talk about live video streaming. They are related but not the same in ways beyond simply video and audio.

Podcasts have different distribution methods and audiences.

You can use both to extend your reach far and wide to share your visions for the world or attract people to your products and services.

Greg Dixon demonstrates the difference using the launch of Your Writing For Fun Adventure.

Learn about that at https://www.writingforfun.online/
#broadcasting #podcasting #powerlaunch

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