Deb speaking at a recent seminar (photo by Graham Cullen, The Frederick News Post).
WHO ARE BRAD AND DEBRA SCHEPP?
Writers, editors, speakers, consultants, and online pioneers—we wear so many different hats that it’s a good thing we have two heads!
As information professionals we focus on bringing the latest in technology to the attention of everyone who could benefit from knowing how to use it. Our goal is to make sure these new technologies are easy to understand and integrate into our readers’ lives. While we’re busy researching the latest innovations, we’re also meeting people who are using them successfully and gathering their stories. We are, before all else, storytellers.
Look at it this way. It’s been a long time since most of us were fascinated by the magic of a microwave oven. But as mundane an appliance as it has become, do you know exactly how it works? Nah, neither do we. We honestly don’t care about the technology behind it. We just want to know which buttons to push to make our coffee hot. Likewise, we can’t begin to tell you how LinkedIn or YouTube have built their global networks, but now that they have, we can help you use them to make yourself more successful. We can also help you build a successful e-commerce business, if you’d like, whether on eBay, Amazon, or through your own website.
We have worked together for more than 25 years helping people become familiar with emerging technologies. From building a solar home, to convincing your boss to let you telework, to keeping your kids safe online, and earning your livelihood with your own e-commerce business, we’ve dedicated ourselves to making the online world safer, more accessible, more profitable, and yes, even more fun.
Our 19 books include The Complete Passive Solar Home Book, How to Make Money with YouTube, and How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other Social Networks. Our bestselling book is eBay PowerSeller Secrets, with more than 40,000 copies in print. We’ve also written extensively for the web, a whole different type of writing.
Whether you need an accomplished writer, a top-notch editor, a keynote speaker, or a consultant who can assist you with e-commerce or publishing, we can help. We bring creativity, energy, curiosity, and a passion for quality and results to every project. No project is too big or too small—we’ve worked with Fortune 500 companies such as McGraw-Hill, AOL/Time Warner, and individuals working on Internet start-up ideas. If you need a clear understanding of how to make the best use of the world’s newest tools and want to be entertained while you learn, you’ve come to the right place.
NEWS
Winter/Spring 2013
In addition to his editorial work, Brad is now working as a Literary Agent for Waterside Productions. He's working with authors of nonfiction works; especially in the areas of social media, social commerce, e-commerce, business and investing, general computer books, and Popular Culture.
Spring/Summer 2012
The 2nd edition of How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ is now available! Completely revised and expanded, the new edition has a chapter on Google+, and also a new chapter for students and recent grads. Deb and I poured our hearts and souls into this one because we feel helping someone find that next new job is one of the most most important things you can do. We've all been there. Job hunting isn't fun. But with this book you can take a lot of the guesswork and pain out the process. It's a quick read, with many stories of people who have successfully used social media to land new work, whether full-time, or as a freelancer/independent contractor/consultant.
More News!
We just completed a great interview with FORBES.com for an article called Make Social Media Your Job-Finding Weapon. They even used our quotes to create an entertaining slide show. The link for it is below the next bit of text.
The new book promotion is going great guns. New interviews with Investor's Business Daily and CBS News. Links below!
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After the winter that wasn't we're now enjoying spring. Can summer be far behind?
We're thrilled to say that the Wall Street Journal named How to Find a Job on LinkedIn among the Best Career Books for 2012. The book's in production and is due out in May 2012.
For this edition we added a chapter on Google+, as well as a chapter just for students and other recent grads. We also added many more stories about people who found jobs through LinkedIn or other social networks. We checked every fact and incorporated all the great feedback we received from our readers.
Our hope is that it helps many, many people in these difficult times. Job hunting's still hard, but in some ways it's "easier." Or at least the Internet makes it appear to be. Our book really shows you how to use social networks efficiently and productively to uncover new work opportunities. Plus, it's fun to read and what job hunter couldn't use a bit of fun?
In their March 18th edition, PARADE Magazine published our article on making money on eBay. It appeared in print in PARADE's 20 million newspaper supplements. Now we don't get the same thrill as we once did from seeing our names in print but this was different. Brad used to read PARADE magazine as a kid. He couldn't have imagined that one day an article he wrote would be included there!
CBS News articleWhy Facebook is not Your Friend
Investor's Business Daily articleCareer Building Starts With Solid Social Media Strategy
FORBES articleMake Social Media Your Job-Finding Weapon
The National Press Club invited us to be among 75 authors presenting books at their annual Book and Authors Night. We presented How to Find a Job on LinkedIn.
Deb was recently profiled in our local newspaper, The Frederick News Post.
Summer/Fall 2011
Working on the second edition of How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Other Social Networks. We're also consulting with new clients on self-published books, and editing and writing newsletters such as Industry Watch (the newsletter of the Used Truck Association).
And we're always cooking up new book projects (the urge to write is a poison in the blood and we just can't help ourselves).
Also, we've been quoted recently in Men's Health and Woman's Day!
Click on the link below to hear our son Ethan covering the song Ohio. We don't know where he got his great voice, and ability to play the guitar so well, but we're amazed and proud. :)
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