One Great Thing Makes Everything Else Better

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If you know anything about Madison, Wis., you know hot & spicy cheese bread is a big deal. In fact, it’s Stella’s Bakery’s one great thing. As a result, all their other pastries are delicious. Stella’s one great thing makes everything else better.

Take the hot & spicy cheese bread away and everything else tastes a bit more bland.

Take Apple’s design away and everything else starts to feel cheaply made.

Take the Dre out of Dre’s Beats and, well, you get the point.

The piece of advice all these brands take to heart: don’t try to be everything. Be remarkable at one thing. The rest follows.

 

Stay Positive & Can You Guess My One Great Thing?

Go ahead. Guess. I’ll mail a loaf of hot & spicy cheese bread to the person who guesses it.

10 Tips To Turning Your Beat Into A Book By Bill Lueders

The next few days will be dedicated to posting ruminated-on content gathered from the Turn Your Beat Into a Book event I attended.

Bill Lueders was on the panel and offered this advice:

  1. Don’t write a book on your beat.
  2. Start by thinking about audience.
  3. Writing a book is easier than getting it published.
  4. Write for a press. Most press have a larger mission you need to fulfill.
  5. Not state or local interest. Aim for international interest.
  6. Be flexible on how you define success.
  7. Don’t expect to make money.
  8. Be a reader. 30-50 books a year.
  9. Inaudible. Sorry.
  10. Be emotionally strung, crush indifference.