Category: Pre-Launch Updates
These are the latest book prelaunch updates for members of the Launch Team!
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2025 RV Literary Award Winner!
Your Business Growth Playbook just received the 2025 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award in Business/Sales/Economics! The non-fiction business category is a competitive space, with a number of fantastic books I personally recommend. To receive this award is an honor and a validation of the impact that this book truly has. As Sheri Hoyte and Susan
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Giving Tuesday is Every Day
As a business owner, we know the benefits (and challenges) of running our own business. For some, though, it’s their path out of generational poverty. Around the world, over 700 million people live in what the UN defines as “Extreme Poverty” – or on less than ~$1.90 per day. And of those, almost half are
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A Note of Gratitude
While I’m off at the world’s largest Turkey Trot this morning – for real, it’s a record breaking 23,000+ runners this year – I’ve been reflecting a lot the past many weeks on how fortunate we are to live in a world where we can make our own way. This past year has been full
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Going Wide
With the Amazon Launch behind us for both ebook and paperback, wider distribution has now been coming online. IngramSpark moves glacially slow in approving things, printing, packaging, and shipping, BUT… they are the gateway to the entire book world. With my book now approved and setup for distribution, most anywhere you can buy books now
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Paperback Now Available on Amazon!
Some exciting updates for you! First of all, the paperback copy of Your Business Growth Playbook is now available on Amazon. That’s been one of the most common requests from folks and your patience has been answered! Order your paperback of the book today! For market specific links, like Canada, Mexico, etc, you can check
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#1 New Release AND #1 Best Seller!
WOW. Before even fully launching, just from you and the rest of the amazing Launch Team, we’re hitting some GREAT numbers for Your Business Growth Playbook. Already, we’re:#1 New Release in Business Planning and Forecasting#1 New Release in Marketing for Small Businesses#1 New Release in Entrepreneurship Management#2 New Release in Small Business Sales & Selling
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Top New Release on Amazon!
Wow! Your Business Growth Playbook is already the #1 Top New Release on Amazon in the Business Planning & Forecasting category and ALSO #1 in the Marketing for Small Business category! It’s climbing the Best Seller rankings, and early reviews are coming in and getting approved by Amazon! View the Amazon Listing and Buy Now
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Kindle Submitted to Amazon!
Well, this is exciting! The ebook version of Your Business Growth Playbook has been successfully submitted to Amazon! It may take up to 72 hours for it to go live, and then I’ll be able to drop the price temporarily for our internal “soft launch.” That’s when you can get your copy and leave your
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Celebrating Village Enterprise’s Impact
Last evening was one of my favorite evenings of the year, Village Enterprise‘s annual donor appreciation event, generously hosted by Brenda and Bill Younger. It was especially bittersweet to wish Dianne Calvi a fond farewell after 15 incredible years of leading and growing Village Enterprise to what it is today, having brought over 2,000,000 people
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Birthday Publishing Update (Guess What???)
Today’s my birthday and an amazing present came in over the weekend: A print proof of the paperback version of Your Business Growth Playbook! It’s beyond exciting to hold in my very hands a physical copy of the book that’s been in my head for years, and in production for over 10 months! As for


