Tina Dietz is coming to unleash the voice of your business!
Internationally acclaimed business coach, world class audio-book publisher and launch specialist, popular podcast host, and bestselling author Tina Dietz brings passionate vision, perspective and attention to detail for her clients. Tina’s company, StartSomething Creative Business Solutions, helps clients who want more than just a business, they want a ‘Business Oasis!’
Get Tina’s checklist for producing your audiobook and demystifying the process, click here.
When Tina Dietz was two-years-old, someone handed her a tape recorder – and that was that! A lifelong love affair was born. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed business coach, audiobook publisher and launch specialist, podcast producer, and a bestselling author who has been featured on ABC, Inc.com, Huffington Post and Forbes.
Her podcast, The Start Something Show, was named one of the top podcasts for entrepreneurs on Inc.com and her company, StartSomething Business Solutions, helps clients who want more than just a business and more than a routine life–they want a “Business Oasis.”
As part of her own business oasis, she herself splits her time between the US, Canada and Costa Rica. Tina Dietz, welcome to the show!
Icebreaker
When I go to conferences I like to organize what I call “transformational karaoke” outings ????
Think Like A Journalist Quote
“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes.”
―Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Success Quote or Tip
FOMO…fear of missing out.
Career Highlight
Tina grew up in a small town where her parents sold fireplaces. Their home was upstairs and the business downstairs. When she grew up, find out why Tina was unemployable and how that actually benefitted her and the world.
When It Didn’t Work
Hear what happened to Tina when she first started her business with partners. Find out what this difficult lesson taught her.
Top Tips 10X Your Book Sales With Audiobooks
Bestsellers are created every day.
Publishers don’t always act in the best interest of authors.
1.5 million audiobooks were downloaded more than ebooks in 2015.
The cost of production of an audiobook has dropped 50 percent in the last seven years.
Don’t narrate your own audiobook. It’s not the best use of your time.
Leverage the power of your book by distributing it in the audiobook world.
Audiobook listeners listen to, on average, 20 books a year. The average book reader reads 12 books per year.
Self-produce your audiobook by using ACX.com audiobooks exchange.
Did you know that 1.5 million MORE audiobooks were downloaded than ebooks in 2015? Audiobook publishing is growing at a rate 3 times faster than any other format. Walk down any street and you’ll see people soaking in information through their phones–will your book be available to the millions of listeners looking for content?
-Discover how to get your audiobooks produced for 50% less than what it costs the big publishers
What is one piece of technology, video or multimedia equipment, or app that you just can’t live without?
High-quality mic. Blue Yeti and Audiotechnica 2100.
One book, documentary, blog, podcast, or Internet Channel to watch?
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert (Get a free audio book when you try Audible free for 30 days)
OR to get a physical copy of the book…click the book title.
When she was 2 years old, someone handed Tina Dietz a tape recorder – and that was that! A lifelong love affair was born. Today, Tina is an internationally acclaimed business coach, audiobook publisher and launch specialist, podcast producer, and a bestselling author who has been featured on ABC, Inc.com, Huffington Post and Forbes. Her company, StartSomething Business Solutions, helps clients who want more than just a business and more than a routine life – they want a “Business Oasis,” and she herself splits her time between the US and Costa Rica. Tina Dietz, welcome to the show!
Interested in learning more about audio marketing?
When she was 2 years old, someone handed Tina Dietz a tape recorder – and that was that! A lifelong love affair was born. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed business coach, audiobook publisher and launch specialist, podcast producer, and a bestselling author who has been featured on ABC, Inc.com, Huffington Post and Forbes. Her podcast, The Start Something Show, was named one of the top podcasts for entrepreneurs on Inc.com and her company, StartSomething Business Solutions, helps clients who want more than just a business and more than a routine life – they want a “Business Oasis.”
Did you know that 1.5 million MORE audiobooks were downloaded than ebooks in 2015, and in 2016 sales are up 34% over 2015 numbers?
Tina is going to share these nuggets:
Why you don't have to narrate your own book to get the best results.
How authors can protect themselves from royalty scammers and the hidden pitfalls that scare away readers.
How you can get your audiobooks produced for 50% less than what it costs the big publishers.
Audiobooks can make you money even when your book is free!
As part of her own business oasis, she herself splits her time between the US, Canada and Costa Rica. You can find her online here:
There’s something to be said for studying the habits and processes of great writers and artists and how they kept their creative juices flowing over time.(Podcast on Writer On The Road, November 6, 2016)
There’s a lot of burnout happening in the field of writing right now, especially among Indie authors trying to manage both their writing and their business. Tina is a mentor and coach, and she’s my kind of crazy. With a focus on values as well as mental, emotional and spiritual well being, Tina guides us to be the best we can be. She’s also damned funny at times. We chat about being in the writing game for the long haul and how it’s got to be about pacing ourselves as our energies change as we grow and mature as writers. Self-care is at the top of the list, being flexible with our schedules and putting thought into those high priority creative endeavours to actually get the work done. We chat about how 80% of our results come from 20% of our efforts – it’s Tina’s job to help us focus on the 20% – and how the transitions in our lives open us up to new potentialities. And we just wouldn’t be creatives if we didn’t delve, just a little, in the fear factor that has derailed every one of us at some time or another. You can find out more about Tina and her work here.
At only 2 years old, Tina Dietz was already interviewing people on her tape recorder. She STILL has that tape and has never put the microphone down.(Podcast on Reinvention Radio, September 22, 2016)
At only 2 years old, Tina Dietz was already interviewing people on her tape recorder. She STILL has that tape and has never put the microphone down. Born to entrepreneurial parents, she started answering their business phones at 4 and was going to trade shows by 6.Now she is an internationally acclaimed business coach, speaker, dedicated audiobook publisher and podcasting mentor.
As a therapist (with an MS in Counseling and Educational Development), early in her career while working in the public school system that dealing with bureaucracy was not her thing. She has a “students-come-first” approach, which grew into something new as she worked with a grassroots group and developed two teen leadership centers. She showed kids how to make ideas a reality. Many of those seeds that were planted still live in her programs and her approach to coaching to this day. She developed transitional training programs for colleges and some of the nation’s largest utility providers, as well as serving as the co-founder and Director of Business Development for the Nayada Institute of Massage.
Tina is also a bestselling author and has been featured on Million Dollar Mindset, ReLaunch, ABC, Massage Today, Money for Lunch and Tropical Entrepreneur, to name a few. She has worked with and provided small business help in more than 20+ industries and 6 countries (and counting) around the world, watching them grow and transform.
TUNE IN to this episode to hear Tina chat with Steve and Mary about audio marketing and how to take advantage of the booming audiobook trend.
In This Episode
Spanish & Italian; The Audio Extravaganza; They Put A Mic In Her Hands At 2 Years Old; 1.5 Million More AudioBooks Than Ebooks Consumed In 2015
3 Ways To Create An Audiobook; No Book, No Audiobook; Time & Costs Of Producing An Audiobook; Steve’s New Book
Skype – Pants Optional; Best Call To Action For An Audiobook; Wade’s Mic Drop; Podcasting Isn’t Being Throttled The Way Other Media Are
Episode from the Copy Chief where I was a guest. We talked about the truth about marketing and how to walk your talk. Tune in(Podcast on Copy Chief, April 3, 2016)
In This Episode
(2:30) How to choose the fitting social media app without tediously testing every shiny new platform.
(3:20) Tina’s first words out of the womb and how she consistently grows her audience – even with subpar copy.
(5:00) The unusual VA task for creating new ideas. Kevin shares his technique to turn a single interview into weeks of future content… A strategy that may lead to your next premium offering.
(9:00) “You might be an Internet Marketing Idiot if”…. you have any of these tell-tale signs of “shenanigans” or “general jackassery”. Learn why creative people don’t wear dumb “pants”.
(13:05) Tina’s conclusive 2-minute walkthrough of “blab”… and why it’s the #1 choice for mature marketers who want to put Periscope’s “video selfie… millennial-vibe” to rest.
(19:10) How to write “quick-sloppy-copy” for a 2-minute VSL that converts enough to “earn your entire salary in one go”.
(23:00) Why you’ll want to “decrease your client conversion” using Tina’s “Nightclub Bouncer Tactic”.
(25:50) Tina reveals the real trigger for her clients that moves them to double their income AND double their free time in 12 months or less.
(26:20) Why your preferred coach/client won’t willingly work you through your toughest challenges so you can reach lasting results…
(28:25) Tina’s ONE profound tip to avoid “bed-ridden burnout” and “success sabotage” even if you’re 10+ years into your business and think you figured it all out already.
In episode #81 of You Leading You, Tina Dietz, 4th generation entrepreneur, therapist, business development professional and “The Voice Of 10,000 Thriving Businesses” pulls up a chair from her dream home in Costa Rica to talk about her journey. (Podcast on You Leading You, February 21, 2015)
From growing up with an entrepreneurial father, to today creating her own business, and being the driving force behind new individuals on their own path to self success!
Today Tina shares:
How Being Raised In An Entrepreneur’s World Made A Huge Impact!
Why Leadership Programs Were The Seeds For Her Success Today!
The Story Of 10,000 Thriving Businesses!
How The Power Of Transition And Change Made All The Difference!
How Failure Is Transformational!
Tina pushes herself to her You Leading You Moment by:
Always expanding her capacity and stretching herself outside of her comfort zone. Be comfortable with being uncomfortable, remember mom always said, “they can’t eat you”. The human resiliency is tremendous as Tina shares the story from Malcolm Gladwell’s, David and Goliath of The Blitz in London during WW2. The courage we develop comes from stepping into the fire, getting a little burnt, but surviving and stepping out the other side, stronger for the experience.
