Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself for more than a decade, she deeply understands the questions and concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. Her expertise in personal and business change was developed through many years consulting inside corporations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Charles Schwab, where she coached thousands of executives, managers and employees.
“Entrepreneurship at its heart is aligning your purpose for being on earth with a business idea so compelling that you simply must do it, despite the fears that hold you back,” says Pam. Her experience teaching martial arts for 10 years to thousands of students including former gang members has helped her clients deal with fear head-on. A world traveler, Pam speaks four languages and has lived and worked in Europe and South America.
Pam is certified as a master coach with “the best-known life coach in America,” New York Times bestseller and O Magazine columnist Martha Beck. She writes for Martha’s blog and trains her life coaches. Her book “Escape from Cubicle Nation” is being published by Penguin/Portfolio in Spring 2009. Pam is married with three kids and lives in Mesa, Arizona.
Sessions:
How to strike a balance between sharing information freely and making a living using New Media
Most people agree that using new media to promote your business is a good idea. But how do you decide how much time to devote to sharing free information like blog posts, podcasts and ezines versus doing the work that your clients pay you for? Based on her own trial and error and those of her blog readers, Pam will share ideas for making sure that you strike a good balance between sharing content freely and paying your bills.
What’s involved in going from blog to book?
Recently, many bloggers have landed book deals that based on their blog content including Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen), Penelope Trunk (Brazen Careerist), Hugh McLeod (Gaping Void) and Gary Vaynerchuk (101 Wines). If you have been blogging for a long time and wonder if there is a book hidden in your archives, how do you select and organize the content? How do you decide whether to self-publish or pitch to a mainstream publisher? Pam will share highlights from her experience going from blog to book.
