Confessions of a Public Speaker

Appendix G. How to help this book: a request

Thank you for buying this book. If it somehow exceeded your expectations or left you feeling like, gee, things would be better if more people read it, this is for you.

As you know by now, I’m a young, independent author. I don’t have a huge marketing machine behind me, nor a gang of billionaire friends, or even a magic genie offering me three wishes. But that’s OK. If you’re willing to chip in a few minutes of your time, you can seriously help this book find its way in the cold, tough world, where many good books never reach all the people they should.

Please consider doing any of the following:

• Write a review on Amazon.com.

• Post about this book to your blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter.

• Recommend the book to coworkers, your friends and your friends’ friends, or your friends with blogs, or your coworkers’ friends who blog, or even your friends of friends who blog about their friends’ blogs. The possibilities are endless.

• If you know people who write for newspapers or magazines, drop them a line, or perhaps Oprah or Jon Stewart owes you a favor. If so, now is a good time to cash it in.

• Check out www.scottberkun.com and discover all the great things I write about each week. If you like what you find, run through this list again with that in mind.

These little things make a huge difference. As the author, my opinion of the book carries surprisingly little weight. But you, dear reader, have all the power in the world.

Not only can you help this book ...