Marketing Your Best Seller 101 erty to help spur entrepreneurship. It works worldwide. You don’t have to know how to end world hunger. You can 昀椀gure out how to get one goat, or one dollar, to someone who needs it, and the di昀昀erence begins there. Two resources on the subject are my Miracle of Tith- ing, and former president Bill Clinton’s book Giving. Also, learn about Muhammad Yunus, who has taken 100 mil- lion women out of poverty with microlending and won a Nobel Peace Prize. He’s de昀椀nitely one of my heroes. Even if you haven’t written your book yet, start think- ing about a cause in the world that you feel passionately about. Identify it now. I don’t care what your church, charity, or spiritual disposition is. If we have a network of enlightened millionaires dedicated to doing good around the world, imagine how much could get done—and how fast! I am personally dedicated to making that happen. Bill Gates and Warren Bu昀昀et created and launched the First Supper (after the Last Supper), and they asked all billion- aires to pledge to give away 50 percent of their enormous wealth while still alive. I gather that Warren says that it is working much better than expected. I hope you will be inspired by my words, actions, and thinking to be a lifelong contributor. Helen Keller said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” If all writers started giving a percentage of their prof- its to worthy causes, readership would boom and bloom,
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