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How Reviews Help Authors Readers choose books based on recommendations. Leaving an Amazon review is like telling your friends how much you enjoyed your latest read. After 20-25 reviews, Amazon includes the author’s book in “Also Bought” and “You Might Like” lists. This increases the visibility on the site and helps boost sales. After 50-70 … Read more
Look, I run a marketing company. I’ve done research on what it takes to sell books. Not just other people’s books, but mine as well. I’ve seen the studies and the ad results, but I’ve also heard the advice of the people who know best – successful authors. And now I see the results for myself.
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As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve added green smoothies to my diet. I haven’t taken anything away yet, but drinking one honking large smoothie every day, packed with lots of fruits and leafy greens, has been enlightening.
I bought a Bella Rocket Extract Pro. It’s a lot less expensive than the Nutri Ninja or Magic Bullet. I can pack that sucker full of stuff, turn it on and within 3 or 4 seconds – usually no longer than 5 seconds – the whole thing is mixed.
by I had a preliminary mastermind meeting with a woman a few weeks ago. Among other things, I told her what I had planned to write for 2015. “How do any of those things help you accomplish your goals for your marketing company?” They don’t. The things I planned to write were books I want to write, … Read more
Bryan Cohen, whom I know from his podcast Sell More Books Show, has been doing multi-author events online. He’s doing another one soon, but this time he’s opening it up to the general indie author populace. Yeah, that’s me – and you too, if you’re an indie author. But you’d better hurry, if you’ve got … Read more
“Life is what happens after you make plans.” Ain’t that the truth. At the end of last year, I had been steamrolling through book writing projects. I sat down and wrote out a schedule of the books I wanted to produce in 2015, including timelines for each title. Today was supposed to be the day … Read more
Every Monday morning at 9 AM Eastern, a motivational quote pic gets posted on my Agile’ Marketing blog. You can find them going back almost the entire way through 2014, and I’ve got them planned out all the way through 2015. (I also post them on LinkedIn as well.) Of course, they’re meant to inspire … Read more
It’s Friday night. While others are out partying, I’ve been working on putting together a presentation I’m making next month for my book, Profitable Web Hosting. I’m not sweating or breathing hard, but I’m having fun. It’s a short presentation – sort of a verbal sketch of the contents. Maybe 65 or 75 minutes, depending … Read more
I’m going to talk about myself and my book sales. It’s certainly not to rub it in anyone’s face, but rather as an examination of marketing efforts. And frankly, I can’t use anyone else as an example because I don’t have access to their sales figures. 3 so far On June 29th, 2014 I published … Read more
Lately, instead of writing new ebooks, I’ve been writing scripts.