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[TfTi] Google Made Me Do It (DKIM & More)

If you got a scary email from Google or your email marketing platform about adding DKIM, DMARC, and more, just do it! If you didn’t get one and want your email newsletter to keep getting delivered, do it anyway! Here’s how.

By Tom Collins January 18, 2024 Business & Entrepreneurship, Tips from Tom's inbox, Tools & Technology
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[TfTi] 2024 Literary Holidays: An Indie Publisher’s Book Marketing Goldmine

Here’s your 2024 literary holiday and events calendar to add fun and inspiration to your book marketing efforts.

By Tom Collins December 21, 2023 Books, Business & Entrepreneurship, Indie Publishing, Marketing your book, Marketing your business, Tips from Tom's inbox
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What’s in a Best Selling Book?

Understanding the New York Times and other best seller lists and what’s in it for authors who achieve best seller status

By Tom Collins December 7, 2023 Books, Business & Entrepreneurship, Indie Publishing, Marketing your book, Marketing your business, Tips from Tom's inbox
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[TfTi] Who is the Author of a book these days?

Has corporate publishing changed the meaning of the term author to include all those who help get a book published? What about audiobooks? AI?

By Tom Collins November 9, 2023 AI Tools & Tips, Books, Indie Publishing, Tips from Tom's inbox
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[TfTi] Hints that Indie Authors might abandon Amazon?

Two emails arrived in the past week or so that, in combination, have me rethinking my conviction that indie authors have no realistic choice about […]

By Tom Collins October 12, 2023 Books, Indie Publishing, Marketing your book, Tips from Tom's inbox
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[TfTi] 30 more quotes on books to inspire writers and readers

This Tips from Tom’s inbox entry was itself inspired, once again, by James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter, with a subject line that read in part: “the value of books.” How can we resist?

By Tom Collins August 17, 2023 Books, Learning, Tips from Tom's inbox, Writing
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[TfTi] Writing Yourself Into Their Lives; and other useful bits

In this week’s Tips from Tom’s inbox, I’ve gathered a wider set than I usually include, and consequently our dives will be a bit shallower. […]

By Tom Collins May 25, 2023 Learning, Tips from Tom's inbox, Tools & Technology, Writing
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Are We Having Fun Yet? (with AI)

Let’s have some fun together, experimenting with an AI animated video tool and Bard, Google’s new entry to compete with ChatGPT.

By Tom Collins March 30, 2023 AI Tools & Tips, Business & Entrepreneurship, Tips from Tom's inbox, Tools & Technology
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Finding Lost Time (and What to Do with It)

Finding Lost Time (and What to Do with It)

As I began writing, the photo above made sense. A major Nor’easter was moving up the coast and the governor had declared a state of […]

By Tom Collins March 21, 2023 Business & Entrepreneurship, Tips from Tom's inbox, Writing
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Taming the AI Beast: How to make ChatGPT serve, not enslave you

Taming the AI Beast: How to make ChatGPT serve, not enslave you

We’ll review ways content creators can use ChatGPT’s capabilities; 2 major concerns about quality and 1 about copyright in AI’s output; and how to avoid those dangers.

By Tom Collins February 21, 2023 AI Tools & Tips, Business & Entrepreneurship, Tips from Tom's inbox, Writing
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