Sadly, I was just waaay too busy for Michael Hyatt’s latest seminar. Yes, they’re usually infomercials on how to buy his latest product – and that is his right! However, his seminars always give you a whole bunch of free information and advice – this alone makes them worth the price of admission. The last one was “7 ways how to write your book.” Once I’m earning enough money from my writing, I’m going to take his Get Published course and his Platform University. If you’re a writer, you should too!
Because I’m already a writer,I didn’t get as much out of it as other people would have. But I did grab a couple of good things from it, like getting Evernote. Yup, he was absolutely right. And his advice on editing not being done the same day as writing. Helpful links on who to get to design your cover. Things like that. He gave all that away for free. When Michael Hyatt sells you something or gives it away, his number one rule is, “I have to believe in it.” And you know it’s going to be good. I just used his affiliate link to buy my Bluehost internet hosting, and used his article on how to install WordPress… but Bluehost did him one better and automatically installed it for me!
The latest seminar was on growing your “Social platform”, what others are calling your “writing platform” – a social media presence combined of a website/blog (got that), Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn or Instagram. It gets your name out there, people know you’re a writer, have some inkling of what you’re writing, and can follow you once you’re published or sold. And industry insiders are making dire comments that if you don’t have a writer’s platform, you probably won’t get published!
He’s using it to advertise his $280 a year publicity college, where you learn how to build a blog following, etc.
I was interested on watching the seminar, but alas he sent out the link to the broadcast on the very last day that it expired. And that day I had massive deadlines on finishing a script. There was no putting it off – I HAD to finish it that night!
He did offer a questionnaire where he analyzed your problems, and had a recommended video. Well, according to him, I don’t know what my message is. Actually, I don’t know what he’s talking about! So, I’ll go through the workshop pdf, and see if I can figure all this out.
Mike, it’s like this… you need to run the seminars for longer than just two weeks! That way I can watch them!
UPDATE: I did get to see Michael Hyatt’s latest seminar on selling things. VERY informative! I learned a lot on this one!
