Upgrading to Featured Contributor or Co-Author Status
We offer a variety of opportunities for you to boost your credibility and national exposure through our Smartest Thing™ book series. The contributor of each story published in one of these books receives a 50-word bio—a good amount of space to tell people who you are, what you do, what you’re passionate about, and provide contact information. That can translate to an equivalent of thousands of dollars of advertising at no cost. For much greater visibility, we offer what we call Featured Contributor and Co-Author opportunities.
Becoming a Featured Contributor
As a Featured Contributor, you will write a minimum of two stories, of 500 to 1,500 words each—choose the topic that best showcases your area of expertise.
Benefits of Featured Contributor status:
- Your stories will appear in a special section for Featured Contributors in the front of the section for maximum visibility;
- Your bio can be expanded to 100 words, giving you ample space to provide your audience with all the information and incentive they need to visit your site or give you a call;
- You bio will appear at the end of your stories rather than among the alphabetical listing in the back of the book, again giving you maximum visibility and making an immediate connection for the reader between your demonstration of expertise and your credentials; and
- You will receive five copies of the book in which you are featured.
This option increases your exposure within the book tremendously, giving you a priceless level of professional visibility, credibility, and exposure. Featured Contributor status in one title of the Smartest Thing™ series is only $300. The first book in the series is limited to one Featured Contributor in each section: My Career, My Family, My Health, and My Money.
If you're ready to propel your visibility by becoming a Smartest Thing™ Featured Contributor, call to secure your spot right now! (303)604-6402.
Upgrading to Co-Author Status
If an even higher level of visibility, credibility, and exposure is what you’re after, we also offer the elite status of Co-Author. Only two co-authorships will be available per book. As a co-author, you will write four stories of 1,000 to 1,800 words each for the title of your choice.
Benefits of Co-Author status:
- Your name will appear on the front & back covers of the book;
- Inside the book, the First Co-Author’s stories will appear before the Second Co-Author’s stories in the front of the book;
- Your bio may be expanded to 100 words;
- Your bio will appear at the end of your stories, rather than among the alphabetical bio listings in the back of the book;
- You may choose to have either your photo, a product photo, or a company logo accompany your bio;
- You will receive ten (10) copies of the book you co-author.
The value of this level of exposure is astronomical. It's like having your own book published, but for only a few hours' work and very little expense. Co-Author status on the title of your choice is yours for only $750.
The Co-Author option is tremendously valuable to consultants, coaches, speakers, and trainers who want to maximize national exposure as they establish themselves as published experts in their field.
If you're ready to propel your visibility by becoming a Smartest Thing™ Co-Author, call to secure your spot right now! (303)604-6402.
Earning Upgraded Status: Do You Have a Powerful Rolodex?
If you’re well-connected to top executives in marketing, community relations, or public relations, your Rolodex could earn you Featured Contributor or Co-Author status at no cost! Help us secure a sponsor for the title you’re interested in, and we’ll reward you for your efforts: securing a sponsor for a print run of 1,000 to 5,000 books earns you Featured Contributor status; securing a sponsor for a print run of over 5,000 books earns you Co-Author status. You still need to write your stories, but we’ll waive the fee for your upgraded position as our thanks to you!
Going for Maximum Exposure: A Surefire Strategy
If you’re truly serious about gaining the highest level and scope of exposure you possibly can, you can use our Smartest Thing™ series to do just that. Here’s your plan-of-attack:
- Choose the title that will best showcase your expertise and become a Co-Author.
- Find other titles that are related to your area of expertise, or which will showcase another specialty area of yours, and participate as a Featured Contributor.
- For as many other titles in the series as possible, submit a story as a regular contributor—even though it may not be related to your professional focus, you will still have that valuable, 50-word bio in thousands or tens of thousands of books across the country.
So…for just a couple hours spent crafting stories about yourself which help educate, encourage, and inspire others as well as showcase your abilities as a consultant or coach, you have the opportunity to become a well-known expert throughout the country…and maybe internationally as well!
Want national and international exposure beyond the pages of the Smartest Thing™ books? From the stories we receive through our website and blog , we will be searching for guests to be interviewed on a new podcast series by the same name. How would it feel to be introduced as the expert guest and the co-author of a book in a popular, nationally-recognized series? Submit your best stories right now for the best chance of being invited on the air with us!
Maximizing Your Exposure: Our Role
So, what will Real Solutions Press do to help maximize your exposure in the Smartest Thing™ series? Besides the usual avenues of on- and off-line marketing, we are also creating win-win situations with a variety of national organizations. A worthy, related charity is being selected for each title in the series which will receive a cash donation based on the retail sales of that book. Only large, well-run and -respected national charities are being selected—they will be marketing ‘their’ book to their sizable membership, as well as to their partners, sponsors, and colleagues. The more books they help sell, the larger their donation will be, so they will be working very hard to get those books (with your stories and bio in them) into the hands of thousands of readers.
NEW! We are starting our donations now...by contributing $1 to the chosen charity for each publishable story submitted to 'their' title. Do you think that charity will be helping promote the books? They sure will!
Also, we will be seeking corporate sponsors to foot the bill for large print runs of our books. The logo of the sponsoring company will appear on the front cover of the book they sponsor. The books will be given to the charities to sell (they do their own marketing and keep the proceeds for their projects). Imagine your name as co-author right next to the name and logo of a national corporation! We’re sure you’ve heard of ‘guilt by association’…well, ‘credibility by association’ works the same way (it's called 'implied endorsement') and is extremely valuable—it works much like a testimonial, only exponentially stronger.
What would it be worth to you and your business to have not only yourself and a publisher, but national charities and large corporations working hard to sell books in which your expertise is showcased? It's priceless!
Call or email us today to discuss how we can help catapult you to nationally-recognized expert status!
