Self-Published Success Is Not Do-It-Yourself or One-Stop, Do-It-All-For-You
If the process of writing and self-publishing a book does not align with what a speaker/coach professes from the speaking platform, it is a lie and you will be ultimately “found out.”  Speakers ask people to hire them for the speaker’s “special expertise.”  If a speaker does not respect others’ “special expertise” and is not willing to pay for it, the speaker’s platform comes into question.  Ask vendors who work with speaker/coach author’s.  Over and over I hear that speakers/coaches the most difficult and unethical to deal with, the most demanding, and the most rude.

Speakers and coaches, lie to yourself but not to your potential reader’s.  Don’t self-publish a book if you are not willing to seek the “special expertise” from professionals yet stay involved in the process (not give over to a “publishing house” with restrictive templates and homogenized book cover designs) so that the process of reaching the end product best represents your message to your own customers and clients. Not to mention, the world does not need more rehashes of someone else’s work. Think original, excellent content. The latter being the rightful place for your “special expertise” in the publishing mix.