Archive for the 'Publishing' Category

Steve Weber has a great article on getting Free Exposure for your niche book on Amazon.com
Regular bookstores - even the huge ones with 100,000 titles and an espresso machine - can only hold so many books. Highly specialized titles cannot be found. This is due to the physical limitations shelf space and the cost of […]

Steve Weber has written a great article about using a website for book marketing.
I think he’s right. If you’ve got the discipline to type out a coherent book that’s actually good enough to sell, you’ve got the skills to market your book worldwide very cost effectively and sell it yourself or through vendors like Amazon.com
If […]

I got an email today from Michelle Dunn a lady who got her start in home based debt collections. Now she’s writing about the business.
She’s using a Cable Access TV show to promote her book and evidently a different author per week is using the show as well. Got a book you want to promote? […]

Here are my notes on this great article from Joe Vitale via NicheGeek
1. Does it reveal something that nobody knows?
2. Do you have the credentials to give you authority? (Or can you borrow someone’s credentials?)
3. Does your book have lots of engaging stories? The more the better.
4. Does the book challenge people to have a […]

Do you need help keeping track of your inventory pricing on Amazon? Or finding great deals for items on your wishlist? Hoping the price will go down? Or Up? (If you’re selling) Here’s help.
RSS feeds for Amazon.com products promise to be an amazing “Marketing Intelligence” tool for people selling books and other items on the […]

My Teens Make Money Blog using one of the new Blogger editable templates started getting traffic from Google within 10 days.
It was started (first posts put up) on September 15th and started getting traffic Sunday evening the 24th.
Here’s the proof… I turned the search results into a PDF file just in case something changed instantly!
The […]

Here’s Ben Bleikamp’s take on it.
There is a learning curve if you want to make money online. There is a learning curve for any job. Some require a college degree - that’s a 4 year learning curve and can cost as much as $150,000…maybe more. Lets not even think about graduate school. So what’s the […]

Have you ordered “Write an Article a Day the Easy Way and Writer’s Workshop yet?My advice is NOT to buy it under the following circumstances…
1. You can easily create new articles daily without breaking into a cold sweat.
2. You have a proven system for overcoming “writer’s block”
3. You have an article template on your computer […]

From Paulette Ensign:
Periodically the question pops up about distribution into grocery stores and drug stores.Today brought one of those emails.
My response was this: Though you may envision your booklet there, it will not happen, nor, in fact do you really want it to happen. Those publications come from sources that distribute many titles, first of […]

You’ve heard you need to ask for the order in a variety of ways.
But how many ways can you do that and not repeat yourself?
Here, experienced copywriter Galen Stilson shares 7 ways to ask for the money!
By Galen Stilson via MelissaData.com
Noted copywriter and consultant Galen Stilson shares his advice on how to convert […]