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Category Archives: publishing
How to Sell Your Books Online, Old or New.
Selling books online doesn’t have to be hard, …but you have to know what to do when in order to be successful. (Photo: RIAN archive) Just because your book never sold well doesn’t’ mean it can’t. Just because most books … Continue reading
An Author’s Guide to Memberships – How to Sell Books Online
Writers: Get Your Books Selling Online Better – Build a Membership I’ve long said (over and over) that the key to any author earning real income came from writing well and prolifically having multiple books for sale on all possible … Continue reading
How I Got My Financial Freedom from Publishing Books
(artwork: keep_bitcoin_real – modified) You can publish your way to financial freedom. I did. It’s a story I haven’t really told before, but probably should have. I’ve been publishing books since around 2007, according records on Lulu.com – where I … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, Assembly line, bestsellers, book sales, Bookselling, iTunes, Kobo Inc., lulu, public domain, publishing
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How to Build a Profitable Business Plan – Selling Your Books Online
(photo: PlanToo47) Most Authors Don’t Have a Business, or Even a Plan Don’t worry about it. That’s why 97% of everyone on this planet die broke, including most indie and conventional authors. Charles Dickens ran a business. So does Amanda … Continue reading
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
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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
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
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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Is it Time for Authors to Speak Up and Sell More?
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here The more authors get their content out to more people, the better chance they have of discovery. The more discovery, the better the book sales. I’ve long said … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon.com, Audiobook, book, iTunes, publishing, RSS
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Authors: How to Podcast On a Lean Budget
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Authors can get better discovery (and sales) for their books when they podcast. Sadly, the tips and tricks on how to do this for low cost or free … Continue reading
Posted in Content marketing, ebook, JPEG, podcasting, publishing, self-publishing
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How to Start a Marketing Bonfire for Self Publishing Sales – Case Study 12
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here In the days before lighthouses, bonfires would be lit on the heights near a port to guide merchant ships safely to the harbor. If you stood on a … Continue reading
I’m Sorry – Updates Galore Coming Soon!
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here I’ve been quiet too long. And I apologize. It’s not that I don’t have stuff for you – I do. About 5 podcasts which have to be recorded … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Blogger (service), E-learning, google, iTunes, LinkedIn, New Rainmaker, Podcast, publishing, RSS
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I owe it all to you – Thanks. (Some notes on future-past.)
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here You are who I do all this work for. Really. So this blog post and podcast is a thank you note. What did you do to deserve this? … Continue reading
The Rainmaker Solution: An Expensive Date That Turns Out to Be a Priceless BFF
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here The Rainmaker Solution – a BFF which starts as an expensive date. Have you ever been in this situation? Having a significant other who is costing you a … Continue reading
Self Publishing: Employing Emissaries and Spies for More Profit
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Spying is probably the oldest profession (well, excepting maybe one other). The most widely reprinted book on warfare (Sun Tzu’s Art of War) has a whole chapter on … Continue reading
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When Book Marketing Becomes Just Another J.O.B.
Ever get fed up with stuff – when something you used to like to do has become just another chore? No, I’m not quite there yet with book publishing. But podcasting was taking me to the brink. You see, “conventional … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, book publishing, CD, Compact Disc, DVD, iTunes, job, podcasting, publishing, schedule
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How to Market Your Book Online – My Last Recipe
This podcast available for download. This is the (final) recipe for marketing a book online. And because of the breakthroughs below, you may not hear from me for awhile. But don’t worry, I’ll give you links at the end so … Continue reading
How to Publish 76 Books In a Year
…And Earn a 6-Figure Passive Income for Life This podcast available for download. So much for that hiatus. Since you’re one of the brilliant, charismatic followers of this blog and podcast, you know I just gave you a complete brain … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Kindle, E-book, google, iTunes, lulu, passive income, public domain, publishing, steve scott
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My Google Play Books Were Killed and Replaced With Zombies
Your browser does not support the video element. Download this podcast They came for a friend of mine first, and I didn’t have anything to say. Then they came for me. Then I did want to say something, but it was … Continue reading
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Track and Prosper – Bitly Redirect Links
Harnessing the Power of UTM Parameters with Bitly – Bitly | Blog You need to track which of your books is giving you link-love. Particularly, which ones are generating leads, which from from the Look Inside. Yes, the primary reason … Continue reading
How to Completely Fail and Go Broke in Public Domain Publishing
Bottom line: it’s all a numbers game that’s been rigged against newcomers. Let’s go over some patently obvious facts: 1. Public Domain books are a commodity. They are sold like cattle at auction. People buy as low as they can. … Continue reading
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The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing
The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The … Continue reading
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4 Simple, Smart Ways to Book Launch Success
The Smart Ways to a Successful Book Launch Has Four Routes I’ve been doing some study again, and found the truth in this phrase: “No one school has all the teachers.” (An ancient Polynesian saying.) A book I recently released, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book launch, Book Publishing, content marketing, platform, publishing, self publishing, success
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