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Promoting Your First Book as an Academic: Strategies for Visibility
As an academic working on your first or second book, it’s common to face the challenge of limited visibility. However, with the right strategies and tactics, you can effectively promote your book and increase its reach. In this blog post, we will explore five key tactics that can help you gain visibility and maximize your book’s impact.
How To Find the Right Coach: 3 Steps
Are you scared to spend money on a coach to help you reach your goals?
3 Tips for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Guide for Academics
Just like many of you, I’ve wrestled with imposter syndrome. I’ve undercharged for speaking engagements or priced programs too low, missing out on the earning potential my expertise truly deserves. These experiences with imposter syndrome inspired me to share three strategies I’ve used to combat this phenomenon.
How to Beat Imposter Syndrome and Gain the Confidence You Need
The way to overcome imposter syndrome is to be so good that it would be unreasonable to 1) believe you didn’t deserve the opportunities you were getting and 2) unreasonable to think you weren’t good enough.
Academic to 6-figure Plus Entrepreneur: The Journey
My 9-5 paycheck would only take me so far in terms of making more money. I also had a new motivation because I never wanted to find myself broke with nowhere to go ever again. I needed to get financially secure to weather any storm life had in store. While I already had an LLC before my son was born, I was not running it like a business. Over the last six years, I’ve been running two (predominantly) online businesses, Power Your Research and Nerdworks.
What Imposter Syndrome Is and How It Affects Highly Educated People (Imposter Syndrome Memes)
Even the most brilliant minds can sometimes doubt their own abilities, and yes, I'm talking about you, professors, Ph.D. holders, and other highly educated academics out there. You've probably heard of imposter syndrome - that gnawing feeling that, despite your...
What Professors Make (Salaries of Academics)
Median salaries in academia vary considerably depending on a multitude of factors, including tenure status, discipline, and institution. According to the AAUP, in 2020, the average salary for a full professor was around $104,820, whereas adjunct professors, who constitute a large portion of academic professionals, earned significantly less. Moreover, there’s also a disparity across disciplines, with professors in fields such as law and engineering generally earning more than those in the humanities or social sciences.
3 Ways Media Coverage Increases Google Scholar Citations and Other Opportunities
In the world of academia, your reputation often hinges on the strength and recognition of your research, primarily gauged by citation counts.
Social Media Hashtags to Reach Academics, Professors, and Higher Ed
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5 Steps for PhDs to Become Thought Leaders
For PhDs, building a network means more than just going to academic conferences. You will not become a thought leader if you only talk to other academics. You need to go where everyday people are that care about the things you are talking about.
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