Best Small Business Advice – Interview with Randy Peyser

Until March 31, I’m running the Best Business Advice Ever interview series featuring successful entrepreneurs. I’ve asked each of them what’s worked, which mistakes they learned from the most, and the one piece of advice they have to share with you.

Randy Peyser, the CEO of Author One Stop, www.AuthorOneStop.com, performs “Book Appendectomies” to help get the book inside of you out. She is the creator of “The Write-a-Book Program: How to Position Yourself as an Author by Writing a Book.” A dynamic presenter, publishing coach, and editor, she speaks for business organizations, as well as for the publishing industry, and helps savvy women produce and market their books with ease.

Randy has an incredible track record getting authors noticed and published and has developed solid relationships with the top publishers in the United States. Through Author One Stop, she has brought together ten award winning editors who have 32 New York Times bestsellers between them. Her reputation for excellence has earned her an inside track to several of the biggest publishers in the nation.

But Randy did not set out to build this business, or to be an entrepreneur. In fact, her start in writing and publishing was neither planned nor traditional (you know the interview is going to be interesting when the first answer is “I slept my way into the publishing industry”).

In this interview, Randy shares insights on the process of going from starving writer (what she calls her “baking soda in the fridge” moment) to her becoming a published author, speaker, and CEO of Author One Stop.

Listen to the complete interview to find out:

• What “random act of hutzpah” this formerly shy woman committed that led to her first breakthrough (completely unconventional, but it worked)
• The question she says you need to ask yourself about your business and your life in order to fulfill your dreams
• Her definition of failure, and why you should treat your life as a grand experiment
• How she bridges the mind, body and spirit industry and the mainstream of the publishing business, and why
• Why you need to put the foundational pieces in place in your business
• How she used generosity through Linked In and other publisher and writer discussion groups to position herself as an expert and to attract a flood of client inquiries

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