Why recreate the wheel? Follow M. Nicole van Dam’s instructions for a quick start your entrepreneurial and creative dreams, even find help in creating your attractive, effective & generally FREE presence on the web, social media and e-commerce.
SuperQuick® How-To Books by M. Nicole van Dam
M. Nicole van Dam publishes a series of how-to books under the SuperQuick® brand name. These helpful, user-friendly books are designed to help other creatives and entrepreneurs achieve their creative and entrepreneurial vision and objectives. These SuperQuick® books provide guidance on everything from defining and implementing tailor made plans towards achieving your goals, to effective (and generally free) e-commerce, Facebook, WordPress, social media and publishing solutions (so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, so you can spend your time on your creative and entrepreneurial endeavors instead of trying to master Facebook or other technologies). There is even a thinking and talking points guide for the entrepreneur, to ensure you have the most fruitful conversation possible with other entrepreneurs, investors, funders, consultants, and creatives. These SuperQuick® books are written for those of us who are NOT programmers or diehards, with handy tips and loads of free resources and free tools on the web.
Because of Nicole’s unique experience in the arts and entrepreneurial endeavors, M. Nicole van Dam has undertaken to create, so that others need not re-invent the wheel, a series of simple, step-by-step hands-on books under the SuperQuick® brand. A great hands-on how-to book in this SuperQuick® series to get your started in pursuing your dreams is “SuperQuick® Success – Exploring the Successful You.” If you are seeking a step-by-step guide to on demand or eBook self-publishing, then “SuperQuick® Self-Publishing: On Demand Publishing & eBooks Made Easy” will help you get your book published asap and even provides no-cost solutions. If you’re trying to get the right digital (internet, mobile and social media) presence for your business, brand, or creative endeavor, then SuperQuick® series has several hands-on how to books to help you: “SuperQuick® Facebook Pages & Ads,” “SuperQuick® WordPress: Easy, FREE and Fast Website, Smart Phone and e-Commerce Solutions!” and “SuperQuick® Solutions – Web Essentials.” Another handy guide in the SuperQuick® series is “SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews,” a thinking and talking points guide to ensure you enjoy the most fruitful conversation possible while networking with other entrepreneurs, investors, funders, consultants, and creatives, and to help you prepare for speaking engagements or moderate conferences and panels.
Following is more detail on this useful SuperQuick® series of hands-on how to books for the entrepreneur and creative.
SuperQuick Self-Publishing
SuperQuick Facebook Pages and Ads
This book, “SuperQuick® Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” is available in paperback via Amazon. “SuperQuick® Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” is a book for entrepreneurs and beginners, not programmers, so that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to figure out the basics of how to create an effective custom Facebook page for your business/creative efforts. In addition, “SuperQuick® Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” highlights the cost-effective and incredibly targeted advertising power of Facebook. The point of SuperQuick™ Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” is so that you can efficiently, quickly, with minimum effort harness the power of Facebook, including FBML, and then spend the rest of your time on your entrepreneurial and creative endeavors, not becoming a Facebook pro (or hiring one with money you don’t have right now). Please visit “SuperQuick® Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” to purchase this book, and we would love to hear your thoughts!To purchase “SuperQuick™ Facebook – Easy and Fast Pages & Ads” please visit our Amazon store.
SuperQuick WordPress
Nicole has also written a book, “SuperQuick® WordPress: Easy, FREE and Fast Website, Smart Phone and e-Commerce Solutions!” about how she created this site, now available in paperback. This book details step-by-step, with illustrations, how to create a web site, using free goodies from the web, that has e-Commerce, blogs, and much more. Great for the Entrepreneur, “SuperQuick® WordPress” will show you how to harness the power of WordPress with step-by-step illustrated instructions. Learn about WordPress’ free shopping carts, free search engine optimization, smart phone compatibility and more. If you were trying to figure out how to cost-effectively get a website and smart phone solution – with e-Commerce and blogs – here is your answer! Written by entrepreneur M. Nicole van Dam, who also teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the college level, this is an illustrated book you can hold on your lap while you go step-by-step and create your own website with e-commerce, a blog, and more. These steps start with the process of finding a host and walk you through setting up your site. “SuperQuick® WordPress: Easy, FREE and Fast Website, Smart Phone and e-Commerce Solutions!” is the kind of book you can hold on your lap while you create your site.To purchase “SuperQuick™ WordPress: Easy, FREE and Fast Website, Smart Phone and e-Commerce Solutions!” please visit our Amazon store.
SuperQuick® Solutions - Web Essentials
The third book in the SuperQuick® series is “SuperQuick® Solutions – Web Essentials,” which provides much needed short cuts and great information, and time and money saving tips, for Website, Social Media and e-Commerce. Created for those of us that don’t want to spend a lifetime (or a fortune) learning how to set up and maintain an effective web and social media presence, this book shares a wealth of easy pointers. You will learn about some great free tools on the web, learn the right order to do things in, and learn the vocabulary that you need to know to be effective (and a bit about intellectual property). You will even get a crash course on finding your market (your “target demographic”) on the web and how to prioritize your internet marketing efforts, how to track the results of your efforts using free online resources and reporting tools, how intellectual property rights work in the context of the internet, how to test your website, create free web surveys, how to use social media without spending too much time on it, and much more. A great reference for how to accomplish many things on the web, from the nuts and bolts of internet marketing to social media, “SuperQuick® Solutions – Web Essentials” is a must-have resource that will give you time & money saving tips for your website, social media & e-commerce endeavors. The vast majority of the tips in this book guide you to wonderful free resources and tools on the web. This is a great, diverse resource for any artist or entrepreneur who needs a quick guide to implementing and managing an effective website, social media, and marketing strategy. Ideal for your business or your writing, art, music, or other career, this is an ideal how-to book to get started, SuperQuick® Solutions – Web Essentials” is now available.To purchase “SuperQuick® Solutions – Web Essentials” please visit our Amazon store.
SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews - a unique thinking and talking points guide for the entrepreneur
Nicole has also written a unique thinking and talking points guide for the entrepreneur, “SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews,” now available in paperback. SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews provides enjoyable and fruitful conversation, interview and conference panel moderation guidance that will also enhance your own business planning process. This book is a great interview, Q&A and Conversational get-to-know guide for Entrepreneurs, Memoir Writers, and Educators and Conference Facilitators, and an excellent way for any entrepreneur to prepare for meetings with investors, and for any business speaker to prep for an upcoming speaking engagement. As background, the best way to explore the steps you (or your audience) need to think about in developing your own business, is to learn from the trials and triumphs of others who ultimately have achieved success. The good news is, successful people generously willing to share their wisdom are all around us. In fact, everyone you meet has an interesting history – wonderful experience, lessons to share – and this book outlines some questions that will help you find the gift of wisdom that is within each individual. As a teacher of entrepreneurship and innovation, M. Nicole van Dam brought industry leaders, innovators, funders and investors, including successful entrepreneurs and CEOs – collectively representing more than a billion dollars in net worth each semester – to share their wisdom with her entrepreneurship and innovation classes. The fact that this was possible is a testimony to the generosity of these wonderful guest lecturers. Most of these guest lecturers participated in Nicole’s classes semester after semester, which was a great gift to each student. In order to make the most of the guest lecture experience for her students, Nicole, using her own MBA/JD expertise and experience in the field, over time developed these specialized interview questions and Q & A thinking points. Because of the many requests for Nicole’s interview outlines and business thinking points, Nicole has published this “SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews” book. It is Nicole’s hope that this unique book will make it easier for you to ask the right questions and enjoy the most fruitful conversation, as well as to guide in investor presentations and speakers preparation for upcoming business meetings and speaking engagements. This Book will show you how to harness the power of the conversation to learn from successful entrepreneurs, innovators, creatives and leaders! An extra benefit from this book is that looking at these questions will help you create your own business and strategic plan. If you have been asked to be a guest lecturer or will be making a pitch to a prospective investor, the thinking points in SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews will help you prepare and organize your thoughts. SuperQuick® Savvy Business Thinking Points & Interviews is a great and unique read and guide for the Entrepreneur.
"Exploring the Successful You" by M. Nicole van Dam
The fifth book in the SuperQuick® series is “SuperQuick® Success – Exploring the Successful You.” Use this innovative book, filled with smiles, insights and inspiration, to transform your dreams into realities, to gain valuable skills, and to start doing what you need to do to fully, knowingly live your life. Join popular college entrepreneurship and innovation instructor and international artist and author M. Nicole van Dam in a daring adventure… Exploring the successful YOU. Learn hands on techniques for releasing the inhibitions and combating the negative self-talk that can stifle creativity and entrepreneurial success. “SuperQuick™ Success – Exploring the Successful You” is a must-have hands-on tool that will give achieving your dreams a hyperdrive boost! SuperQuick® Success – Exploring the Successful You” is now available on Amazon and other book sellers.To purchase “SuperQuick™ Success – Exploring the Successful You” please visit our Amazon store.
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