Welcome to the Visibility Factor podcast with Susan M. Barber – a show where business leaders and anyone seeking ways to raise their visibility can come to learn how to take action in their own authentic way. It’s time to raise your visibility, amplify your voice and be the confident leader you were meant to be. Each week author, former fortune 500 IT Director turned executive coach, Susan M. Barber will bring you inspiring guests, coaching, tips and tools to empower you to take action so that you can elevate your career and gain new opportunities. Topics about visibility, authenticity, confidence, leadership, impostor syndrome, and career transition will be discussed each week with guests who are amazing leaders and are doing great things in the world. There are so many possibilities to do more than you think you can, so trust yourself and let’s take this visibility journey together!
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episode 83: 83. Creating Visibility Through Writing (with Melissa Newton)
83. Creating Visibility Through Writing (with Melissa Newton)
Melissa Newton is an author of 18 books. As a writer, editor, and publisher, she helps single authors and co-author teams to turn ideas into amazing books. She enjoys copyediting projects for experts who submit articles to trade/consumer magazines. Melissa is also a nature photographer, pianist, singer, and storyteller, performing programs in senior living communities and libraries to educate and bring joy to her audiences.
In this episode:
- Melissa shared how she got started in her writing as a career.
- Lessons that she learned from starting her own business.
- We discussed the challenges that authors face to achieve their goal of writing a book.
- Future authors can be more successful by reading a lot of books.
- She talked about the different ways that her clients wanted to work with her and how she had to pivot her business.
- Sharing posts on LinkedIn as a way to get started writing.
- We also talked about book marketing and ideas for repurposing the content that is created.
- What she would like her legacy to be.
Information on Melissa:
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MelissaNewton.com
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Melissa Newton on LinkedIn: (in/melissanewtonpublisher)
The Book that Melissa Recommends:
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Just Who Will You Be by Maria Shriver
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