Rick Wilson and his wife and younger daughter, Shanna Mann and her friends (including Debs from New York), and our family gathered at London Grill in Philadelphia to celebrate getting six books published in six months. Rick and Joel [...]]]> Months of working frantically to write six books simulataneously with two different co-authors culminated in celebration on 11/11/11.

Rick Wilson and his wife and younger daughter, Shanna Mann and her friends (including Debs from New York), and our family gathered at London Grill in Philadelphia to celebrate getting six books published in six months. Rick and Joel co-authored Hits or Niches: Why Marketing is Boring, Obnoxious & Annoying, & What You Can Do About It. Shanna and Joel co-authored Why We Lead: Conversations on the Scarcity of Confidence and the Nature of Leadership. Joel’s other four books just released are:

Through the Fog – An Irish Mystery Novel (fiction)
Permission Granted: Create Something Remarkable. Start Now.
The Time is Now 11:59 – Heretical Thinking for Tomorrow’s Business
Getting Your Book Out of the Someday Box – Because You Know You Want to Write a Book

Joining us were fans from the area and New York. Thank you to all who joined us in celebration, including:

• Joel and Cheryl
• Craig and Katherine
• Rosemary
• Ashley
• Debs
• Chris
• Connie Herman
• Jodi Kaplan (fellow Triiibes member)
• and all the rest!

Thank you to Ryan and the crew at London Grill for your great service and hospitality! We enjoyed a nice dinner, fun drinks and interesting desserts.

For all you bacon lovers, Joel enjoyed the Candied Bacon Ice Cream on your behalf!

Books were autographed for anyone in attendance and those who pre-ordered. We’ll be shipping books out to those who couldn’t make it in person.

On display as well were copies of client’s books that Someday Box had a hand in helping finish. Fred’s Abduction by author Pegleg Terry is a favorite of Fiona’s.

To all of you who wanted to come and just couldn’t make it, we missed you! If you’d still like to get an autographed copy of one or all of the books, send us an email using our contact form and we’ll see what we can arrange.

Kathy had found our event online and registered. We’ve kept in touch over the past year by email and calls. Today we received this email from Kathy:

Hi Sue & Joel,

Just wanted to let you know how appreciative I [...]]]> Last August we held an event for virtual assistants in Vancouver British Columbia while house sitting in the area.

Kathy had found our event online and registered. We’ve kept in touch over the past year by email and calls. Today we received this email from Kathy:

Hi Sue & Joel,

Just wanted to let you know how appreciative I am for the encouragement you gave me last year when you were in Vancouver and the few months after when I was so unsure.

I have just landed my first “big” contract.  It is for a business coaching firm in San Jose.  We got together because of a LinkedIn VA discussion.  They were asking if it was possible for their meetings to be transcribed live.  All of the VAs that answered said, no, you had to record it first.  They said their meetings could not be recorded.  Then I came on and said it could be transcribed live.  I did a test run for them to show how it could work and we are now working together several times a week.

I never would have had the courage to go to these forums let alone say I could do it if it was not for the encouragement you had given to me.

Again, thanks, and enjoy your nomad life.

Kathy Andrews

Kathy told us the company was looking for 80% accuracy and she got 90% so they were very impressed! And as Joel told her, “Real-time transcription has to be nearly unique. In cases where there’s a need, you probably have NO competition!”

We’re glad to have been a part of helping Kathy succeed as a transcriptionist. Visit Kathy’s website at http://andrewsvirtualtranscripts.com/

Epic because of the 6/6—we’ll be celebrating the release of 6 books in 6 months. I’m wildly proud of my two co-authors, both first-timers. Also proud of the fact that I’ve written 4 of these books myself, besides co-authoring those two.

Join Rick Wilson, Shanna [...]]]> On November 11th, 2011 join us for a book release party of epic proportions.

Epic because of the 6/6—we’ll be celebrating the release of 6 books in 6 months.

I’m wildly proud of my two co-authors, both first-timers. Also proud of the fact that I’ve written 4 of these books myself, besides co-authoring those two.

Join Rick Wilson, Shanna Mann, my Best Beloved Sue L Canfield and I in Philadelphia (at a remarkable venue not yet selected) for an evening of wild assertions, strong opinion, informational presentations and oodles of books being sold.

This is a rare trip to the east coast for Sue and I so we hope you’ll make the time to join us for a festive evening of fun and friendship.

Here are the six books, some of which are already available (written by Joel D Canfield unless otherwise noted)

Through the Fog—An Irish Mystery
http://throughthefog.joeldcanfield.com/

The Time is Now 11:59—Heretical Thinking for Tomorrow’s Business (with a foreword by Rick Wilson)
http://thetimeisnow1159.com/

Getting Your Book Out of the “Someday” Box
http://somedaybox.com/video/

Hits or Niches: Why Marketing is Boring, Obnoxious, & Annoying, & What You Can Do About It (with Rick Wilson)
http://hitsorniches.com/book/ (site is under construction)

Permission Granted (and Other Reasons You Should Be Doing More)
http://businessheretics.com/blog/permission-granted/ (the original inspiration for the book)

Why We Lead—Perspectives on Confidence, Arrogance, and the Chasm Between (with Shanna Mann)

Joel playing his tin whistle in Ireland

You can read all about it at the Someday [...]]]> Last night our friend Kari Hagensmith had a book release party for her first book, The Girlfriend Will . . . which we helped create. Our Someday Box service helps people get their book out of the ‘someday’ box and into their hands.

You can read all about it at the Someday Box website.

But Monday night I’ll be performing in Queen’s Park here in New Westminster. Up there on a stage, in the bandshell, with seats out there for folks to sit in and the whole shootin’ match.

I take the stage at 7:00 pm and will play for about an hour. It’s still light here [...]]]> Oh, alright; it’s just me.

But Monday night I’ll be performing in Queen’s Park here in New Westminster. Up there on a stage, in the bandshell, with seats out there for folks to sit in and the whole shootin’ match.

I take the stage at 7:00 pm and will play for about an hour. It’s still light here until nearly 9:00 so it’ll be broad daylight for my whole show.

If you’re within driving distance, c’mon down! Tell all your friends so y’all can come down and make me look famous.

If you’re not in the area, I’ll be shooting video of the whole thing. It will look much like all the other music videos I’ve done, except it’ll be in Canadian, eh?

The workshop will be very interactive and include [...]]]> Yes, we’re moving ahead with the Vancouver Virtual Assistant Workshop on August 6, 2010. Thanks to Renee Shupe, The Redhead VA, and Minna Van of The Network Hub, we have a great location and lots of great information to present. You can read the Press Release posted at PRLog.

The workshop will be very interactive and include exercises to help virtual assistants:

• Clearly define their ideal client
• Create marketing strategies to reach ideal clients
• Learn how to convert prospects to ideal clients
• Network in person in such a way as to create word of mouth referrals
• Create a newsletter to engage with prospects and client

All attendees at the Vancouver workshop will also receive a copy of Building Blocks: Succeed as a Chief Virtual Officer. There will also be a drawing for 5 copies of the ebook on CD, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – A Quick-Start Guide for Virtual Assistants by Christine Giri of Time Tamer Consulting.

Details and registration can be found at Event Brite.