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19 hours ago

Houston: We have a book contract!
I am so very happy to have found a publishing partner at McGraw Hill for my third book, titled The Widest Net. Here is our official announcement:

From Publishers Marketplace:

September 22, 2020 - THE WIDEST NET, by Pamela Slim
Non-fiction: Business/Investing/Finance
Thought leader and business strategist Pamela Slim's THE WIDEST NET, a model for growing your business by discovering and connecting with customers outside your field of view, to Donya Dickerson at McGraw-Hill, for publication in fall 2021 (world English).

To say it in a simple way, if you want to find a large, engaged, diverse group of people to buy your books, products or services ...
If you are doing community or movement building and want to connect with a wide variety of folks in a deep and meaningful way ...
If you are doing strategic marketing and want a rigorous method that will put you in the most strategic places in person and online in front of thousands of your ideal customers ...
If you want to build strong partnerships to grow the strength and economic power of your community ...
If you are passionate about getting your work out into the world so it makes deep, lasting change ...

This book is for you.

This is the soul of my community building work over the last 30 years.

This is the antidote to sterile, transactional and dehumanizing marketing tactics that only benefit the rich and powerful.

This is the result of thousands of generous, creative, revolutionary and hilarious people bringing me into their life and opening their hearts to me and my family (including all y'all!).

And this is a love letter to my Downtown Mesa family and all the Key Guardians at K'é - Main Street Learning Lab who showed me that deep connection, caring and healing can be centered as we build our businesses and community together.

This has been a 5 year long process of research and development.

-I did a 23 city tour in 2015 to workshop early versions of the model for the book
-In 2017, Susan Baier, Chris Lee and I and 100 partners conducted a 2,000 person study gathering data for the book
-I used the exact model in the book to build our Main Street Learning Lab community, going from knowing not a soul here to being in relationship with a huge, vibrant and amazing community of thousands of diverse and interesting entrepreneurs
-I worked with scores of 1:1 clients to test and try approaches over the last 5 years
It's now time to write the book.

Because I am not interested in just making up a cool concept that sounds edgy and fresh to impress a publisher (believe me, it would have been easier that way).

I want to write a book that is proven to be deeply useful, transformational and effective for the people I care most about in this world -- small business owners who are passionate about building a strong business, strong communities, and strengthening the economy for us ALL.

To my amazing agent Joelle Delbourgo Associates - thank you for all your support and encouragement!

To David Moldawer, thank you for your expert writing and guidance on the proposal.

To Susan Baier and Chris Lee, my 5 year mastermind partners, thank you for pushing my thinking and never giving up on my idea.

Desiree Lynn Adaway thank you for being here every step of the way and dealing with my daily bananapants ways.

And to Darryl, Angie, Josh, Jeffery and Chawa, this is for you.

So many more people have helped along the way ... I will be sure to include you in the acknowledgements!

For now, I have a book to write by March 1!

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