NEW BOOK EXPLORES WHO AND WHAT SHAPES THE WAY WE THINK AND ACT

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Sep 22, 2026, 10:08 ET

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Publicity, Persuasion & Life: Real-World Lessons for Builders, Thinkers, and Doers, a new book by entrepreneur and author Steven M. Stroum, brings together more than 100 essays drawn from five decades of building a business, working closely with business leaders, solving problems, making mistakes, and observing what actually works.

Publicity, Persuasion & Life is an unusually authentic collection of essays built around five decades of entrepreneurial experience. Although the opening section focuses on product publicity and marketing, the book steadily broadens into thoughtful exploration of persuasion, leadership, entrepreneurship, responsibility, resilience, and independent thinking. The author's voice is confident and the essays are concise, readable, and grounded in lived experience rather than theory.

Someone is always trying to influence what we think and what we do. Ranging from publicity, marketing and persuasion to entrepreneurship, business judgment, personal growth, politics, and society, the essays offer perspective rather than prescriptions. Written over the past 20 years, the essays are brief and readable, intended to challenge assumptions, encourage independent thinking, and above all help readers make better decisions in business and life.

Stroum is president of Venmark International which he founded in 1976 and is the author of Success and Self-Discovery: An Entrepreneur's Memoir of Growth and Transformation. He was also an appointed Small Business Advisor to the Governor of Massachusetts, was a member of the Norbert Wiener Forum at Tufts University, graduated from Northeastern University, and is a U. S. Air Force Veteran.

Publicity, Persuasion & Life is available in paperback and eBook editions.

For more information contact:

Steven M. Stroum, Author
508-877-9242
[email protected]
www.smstroum.com

SOURCE Steven M. Stroum