Don’t get me wrong. Blogging can be a lot of work – especially when no one is commenting, sharing, or engaging with your posts. It can be frustrating and make you want to give up. But don’t stop. Blogging can also provide clues into what your next best-selling book could be!

Blogging is what helped me to create my best-selling book “Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend” and help women all over the world start earning an extra stream of income from companies we give our money to every day!

Instead of companies profiting from our consumption every day, it was time to show people how to get quarterly income from the multi-billion dollar companies we see every day.

The Beginning of My Blog

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I released my blog to the public during Women’s History Month (March) in 2018. I was at the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit surrounded by so many successful women in different industries.

But there was one recurring theme: many women were overworked, underpaid, and not always appreciated.

Here’s another problem I noticed: many women had no idea how to invest and make money beyond their job because they invested their entire lives in getting the education and certifications needed to climb the career ladder.

If women knew the basics of investing and how to make their money work for them, they wouldn’t have to work twice as hard for half as much.

Understand How Your Blog is Bigger than YOU

Knowing how to invest would provide women with more time to focus on health, spend time with family, travel whenever they wanted, and take advantage of an overdue moment of REST.

After all, those were my motivations for learning how to invest. I wanted FREEDOM. You only have one life and you have to do whatever it takes to make it your best life. Investing gave me that freedom.

So, I started my blog based on a NEED. I slowly built an email list so I can share as much as possible about investing.

I exposed more women to the power of dividends. It was time to change the conversation from paying debt to receiving dividends.

Dividends are the “rewards” you get for investing in publicly-traded companies. It’s like the rewards you get when you shop at the store! The more shares of a stock you have, the more dividends you can earn.

This is what women needed. And I wanted to share it without the intimidating lingo. I was on a mission to make shopping at the stock market as simple as shopping at the mall.

Use Your Blog as Market Research

What stories resonate with your target audience? What questions do they have? Use your blog analytics to help you fill in the blanks.

Women loved the dividend blog posts.

After reading my blog posts, people still wanted more. You can only have conversations and meetings with so many people at one time. The best way to spread your message is to write a book.

So I created a female-friendly book that delivered a sip of girl talk and investing information in a way that most people have never heard about before.

I didn’t want to write just another investing book. I wanted to write something that didn’t exist. After the responses I received from my blog posts about helping women to earn another stream of income, I knew I had to release “Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend” on Amazon.

One day I woke up and realized that my book was in the Top 100 books for stock market investing on Amazon!

When you work so hard on a project and it finally comes to life, there’s a feeling of alignment and purpose that you get. It’s an amazing feeling!

This is what is possible when you listen to the feedback and solve a problem. Seek to help others by using your gifts.

Reach Out to Multiple Editors

Writing a book won’t happen overnight. But it can happen really quick if you have a team by your side helping you to navigate the process.

When you are looking for people to add to your dream team, think about who your book is intended for. You can have people in your target audience as part of your launch team or make sure you have editors that speak the language of your audience. If one of your editors is a member of your target audience, that’s a slam dunk in the editing process!

Determine Where You Will Sell Your Book

You can sell the book on your website or you can use a third party platform like Amazon KDP.

I set up an account using KDP. It’s the largest marketplace for authors. It was easy to set up the account and you can choose the royalty income structure that works best for you. You can also do pre-orders!

The most important thing you can do is get book reviews. This serves as social proof about the impact of your book. Before people purchase, they want to know what others are saying about the book.

Here’s What Others Are Saying About My Book…

When people are able to do what they once thought was impossible or intimidating because of your book, it makes every late night and sacrifice worth it!

Your goal is to create a piece of work that will get others one step closer to their goals.

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This is why I do what I do.

Support the Movement! Grab Your Copy of “Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend”!

More people will have the freedom and flexibility to live life on their terms.

Life is all about sharing your gifts to make the road easier and more fulfilling for someone else.

Grab your copy of Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend and find out why every woman should keep this book in their purpose.

Dividends Are a Queen’s Best Friend 
https://www.amazon.com/Dividends-Are-Queens-Best-Friend-ebook/dp/B07TTYNHH5

Turn Your Blog Into a Book!

Have you ever thought about writing a book?

If so, what’s stopping you from releasing your thoughts to the world?

If you’ve wrote a book, how did you get your masterpiece out to your target audience?

Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Pam Jones is a great example of this. This Chicago-based entrepreneur exceeds the average revenue numbers for black women business owners because of her networks, perseverance, and brilliant product ideas.

And she has quite the story! Read more here.

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