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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Why Publishers Earn More Income than Self-Publishing Writers
(photo: Jeremy Brooks) Selling Books Online is What Publishers Do Best (Writers Write Best). I was looking over my “series of unfortunate events” post – which laid out how I got financially free once I started publishing books for a … Continue reading
How to Build an Ecourse and What to Have In it.
(Photo: Ruschi) Building an online course is perfect for giving enough value to get people onto your list (and into your membership.) That’s the key point -giving away real value. Cheap stuff doesn’t cut it. This is another post in … Continue reading
Posted in book sales, books, google, IBooks, Internet, iTunes, Microsoft PowerPoint, publishing, smashwords, Web page, YouTube
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Why You Don’t Have to Be a Bestselling Author to Get Financially Free
(Photo: Alfred Cunningham) To Make a Living as a Writer, You Only Have to Publish Books Well. Why keep beating your head against a perfectly good brick wall? Look over some facts: Some bad books sell well. Some great books … Continue reading
How to Use Common Sense (and Search Engines) to Market Your Self-Published Book
(Photo: daniel julià lundgren) Developing a Common Sense Marketing Plan for Self Publishing – Why So Hard? When something “makes sense”, it’s when the logic and emotion agree. This is the point of sales, actually. And sales are hard to … Continue reading
Rough Getting Paid – Single-book Author Income
(Photo: Ruth Sharville) Some authors have only one book in them – how do they make a living as an author? These people write and publish (or not) – then move on with their lives. Much like the old Zen … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Business, E-book, google, iTunes, lulu, passive income, publishing
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How to Market Test Your eBook – Before You Port to Amazon
(Photo: Wikipedia) Test Your Book’s Sales Ability Before a Big Amazon Release Simple really: sell everywhere else first. Why? Because Amazon is known as the new book graveyard. That is why there are so many, many books written about how … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Goodreads, iTunes, LibreOffice, OverDrive, public domain, publishing, Shelfari
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Finding Your Bliss – Self-Publishing Case Study 01
A Case Study in Self-Publishing – Progress doesn’t come easy… We’ll start with the Step 0 of self-publishing: ensure you are working on your bliss – something you are fascinated with and could talk to an avid listener forever. For … Continue reading
Solving Distractions and Getting Your Book Ready – Case Study 02
(Artwork: Birger King) You have to handle distractions to finish getting your book(s) ready for publishing. It’s not just the social media. It’s life itself. I’ve gone over the successful action of working in batches, of having a proven assembly … Continue reading
Posted in affilates, amazon, Assembly line, booksales, Flickr, google, iTunes, LibreOffice, lulu, public domain, publishing, video
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Getting Your Book Published and Marketed: Actions List – Case Study 03
Any Man (and his brilliant wife) Knows – Things Get Done When You Have a List: Self-Publishing Truth. (Photo: Rob and Stephanie Levy) There are lots of details to get done when you publish books, let alone market them. And … Continue reading
The Author as Producer – it’s not just about ebooks anymore. Case Study 04
Becoming a Media Producer: Even Better Than an Author The point I have to pause here is to tell you that you’ve just morphed into something more powerful and more creative than you’ve ever been before. Books, especially ebooks, have … Continue reading
At last, you’re published – telling the world: Case Study 05
(Photo: “Riverside Stompers – Wolfgang Straka 2007 e”) Time to let the world know about your book. Technically, you’ve been published ever since you first submitted to Lulu to get your ISBN. The completely-published part was when you got it … Continue reading
Save Time, Save Money, Get Loved – Case Study 06
(Graphic: Coloroverboard.com) How to Save Time and Money – and Find Love. Well – link-love, anyway. We’re talking social media here. Many of these are interlinked with various programs that will send your status updates, and even post blogs for … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Backlink, Blog, E-book, google, HTML, iTunes, Market Samurai, Search engine optimization
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Getting Started on a Right Foot – with Online Book Selling: Case Study 07
(Photo: Augustus Binu) Your site is the right first step to take in getting your book selling online. There I was, running through all these to-do spreadsheet list actions – and I realized I’d skipped over a huge piece of this … Continue reading
What Begins Well, Goes Well – and You Can Always Start Over
So, I was all set to get back to publishing books – when I discovered I really should drop back and punt. (Not hand it over to someone else, but like you’re playing as a kid and doing both sides … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Blogger (service), book, Ebook Publishing, google, IPhone, iTunes, napoleon hill, publishing
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Your Ebook self-pubilshing future just happened.
This is the future of ebook self-publishing – here and now. Why wait for the big corporations to get their ebook readers which will support epub 3 so you can have video and audio along with your book? What GalleyCat … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, audio, bittorrent, E-book, epub3, future, Internet, publishing, self-publishing, video
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How Rubber Meets the Real World – Case Study 08
Marketing books results in – publishing yet another book. Got back to work getting my checklist/spreadsheet executed. With the revisions I added. Now that the site was mobile-friendly for real, I then turned to the next most obvious distraction – … Continue reading
How I Fouled up Self-Publishing My New Book Series – Case Study 10
(…and what you can do to avoid this mistake) (Yes, I know – Fouled up isn’t the same as Fowl, which isn’t a cute chickie…) Your browser does not support the audio element. Video edition: OK, I got busy getting … Continue reading
When Your Case Study Becomes the Next Case Study (11)
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here This could have happened to you – or maybe not. The scene was this: I was listening to some podcasts while working (as radio these days is nearly … Continue reading
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