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Vampires and Witches ... and Monstrous ET/Reptilian Derivatives are the subject matter of many of the fiction pieces I receive from teenagers who aspire to become professional six-digit earning Stephanie Meyer derivatives.
After receiving yet another episode from a teenager whose works are ... Views: 2788
Congratulations on writing your first book! And you want to sell it. Here's what you need to do.
1) Write a book proposal. Seems counterintuitive, doesn't it? You already have a book why write a proposal?
This is what agents and publishers want to see.
A book proposal gives a ... Views: 8052
It is oftentimes advised to aspiring affiliates to come up with their own unique products to sell online instead of just re-selling other affiliates’ products. However, most affiliates would always enroll in affiliate programs and begin their internet marketing career by selling other people’s ... Views: 2173
The title of your book is the billboard for the words and ideas you are giving to people. Those four to seven words or so are most critical of all the words you write.
A dear friend of mine, John Harricharan, author of best-selling, “When You can Walk on Water, Take the Boat,” explained to me ... Views: 1328
A is for Advertising. Do very little paid advertising. Try to get publicity first. If you need to advertise, use co-op advertising to share the expense with other publishers, and only advertise in publications that will reach your target market.
A is for Amazon. Once you’ve published your book, ... Views: 1606
The desire to write is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because it taps some of our most creative resources and forces us to find a way to express ourselves in the symbols we call words.
It’s a curse because getting it right, or even close, can be agony. Ah, but when it works, its ... Views: 911
Studies show that up to 80% of people have considered writing a book. If you aspire to become an author and need some help getting started, here are eight key strategies to finally get your book written. It might just be easier than you think.
1. Decide on a Topic
Start by identifying your ... Views: 1382
The elements of a good read are largely personal, individual to each reader. While a literary story draws one type of reader, the action/adventure draws another. Tastes and needs differ. This is why there are so many genres in fiction, so many categories in nonfiction.
Take for example the ... Views: 1016
Have you been thinking it's time to finally write that e-book or special report? Perhaps you want to give it away to gain more subscribers for your list. Or maybe you would like to increase your passive income by selling an e-book or report.
Whatever your reason for creating it, turning your ... Views: 840
A lot of people would say the eBook publishing is the easiest way to have your very own writing published these days without requiring so much writing talent from you. Publishing an eBook is considered to be a lucrative business since a lot of people profit on ebooks nowadays. With a minimal ... Views: 1179
What are the characteristics of an entrepreneurial author as opposed to a traditional author? Entrepreneurial authors differ in twelve ways:
1. Traditional authors use as big a budget as possible; entrepreneurial authors substitutes time, energy and imagination for money.
?2. Traditional ... Views: 1603
Most publishers would say they care about what is happening to the economy if for no other reason than the current downturn affects the number of books they sell and the profits they can realize. Yet, there are a few publishing companies who go a step further and demonstrate how much they care ... Views: 1049
When writing copy, one thing you must pay attention to is making it concise. To quote Strunk and White's book, The Elements of Style, it says, "Omit needless words." This applies to writing copy as well. When your copy is concise, your sales message is strengthened. It gets straight to the ... Views: 1438
“After you’ve written your book, found an agent, gotten a publisher, and your book is finally in the bookstores, five percent of your work has been done.”—Jack Canfield
You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure ... Views: 1076
More than 1,100 titles are published in the U.S. each day. There is no way anyone can know and rank them. That is why the book industry relies so heavily on blurbs.
A blurb is a short sales pitch or review of a book usually printed on the jacket or in an advertisement. The word was coined by ... Views: 1449
If you need to get the word out about a product or service you have then a Press Release is going to do that for you. Press Releases are a bit different than your normal article marketing, but lets take a look for a moment on some of the things that you can do to master the art of press ... Views: 812
If you're considering hiring copywriting help for your next sales letter, brochure, website, or marketing project. Congrats! You should get great results if you hire a pro to do it right.
Many solo-preneurs have valid concerns about letting an outsider develop their content. After all -- it's ... Views: 1007
Have you ever wondered if you could write a book or report and sell it online, with dozens of people downloading it a day? We call downloadable books and reports "ebooks", (for folks that are new at this sort of thing), and they can sell very well on your website.
Don't worry, you don't have to ... Views: 1781
Do Publishers print garbage?
Do they deliberately produce toxic waste in order to raise enough money to invest in “real books” –or “is there no lid for the can” because they know this is what people are hungry to buy and eat (read)?
Does the precious money raked ... Views: 2006
When you include a joint venture in your book marketing campaign, you add value to the customer’s order without asking them to pay more for your book.
Everyone loves bonuses; the word "free" is magical. It can imply specialness--WE buyers are getting a special deal. Why? Because we're here at ... Views: 2909
After you learn how to create a sales campaign for your published book, you can use the same strategies for selling your online and offline seminars, workshops and other special events.
By adding audios and videos, testimonials from satisfied customers and other enhancements, you now have your ... Views: 3439
The key to successful marketing is learning how to create your own internet community.
“Community” is defined by dictionary.com as “a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.”
A group of ... Views: 2540
Does anyone really know how to market your books online?
Yes, and no. Almost every day a new book or another online marketing guru appears with yet another Success Formula or end-all CD or DVD, with success stories to back up their products.
I’ve lost count of how many books and articles ... Views: 2702
Make your book-selling website operate like a busy international airport.
Fly-in traffic arrives through hyperlinks. An example of a hyperlink is the name of your web domain. My writing services domain name is ET Disclosure Time.
Other “fly-in” traffic can come from:
**Your newsletters that ... Views: 4281
If you plan to make your published book the hub of your online business, you will want to have a website or web presence.
On that site, in addition to answering the "W" and "H" questions (who, what, where, when, why and how), you’ll have places where visitors:
Offer comments and ... Views: 2197
“How to make your book your business” may seem like an oxymoron. Whatever you write about is obviously “your business” because it’s about you: your stories and experiences and what really matters most to you.
The business I’m referring to is the commercial ... Views: 2102
A virtual book tour is similar to a traditional book tour in that the author makes several appearances in an attempt to promote and sell their books. On a traditional book tour, authors make contact with several bookstores or other suitable locations to spend a few hours at those locations ... Views: 1484
Almost anyone can tell you how to publish a book but practically no one can tell you how to market it.
How can that be true? The internet is glutted with marketing experts begging to show you how you can easily $ell everything from kitchen $inks to $ink cleaners.
Almost daily one or more of ... Views: 2017
Every individual has unique experience, skills and knowledge. The general public craves enrichment in the form of such information. Information such as how to plaster a wall, repair a car engine, succeed at mathematics or cultivate plants. Yes, this sort of information can usually be found ... Views: 839
So you want to know how to publish a book book—no, that’s not a typo. It’s simply a way of pointing out that many published books that look and feel like books, are not.
How can you tell if a book is a book?
More important than answering this question is to ask another: does it really ... Views: 1744
Ebook publishing hit media headlines on Friday, October 24, 2008 with Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of Amazon's Kindle.
From Forbes.com, David M. Ewalt writes:
Amazon.com's Kindle electronic book reader has been on the market for almost a year now, and by most accounts has been a pretty ... Views: 2314
A book is like a painting. It's very hard to put down and leave alone. But at some point you must leave it alone. You must give yourself a strict deadline or else your book will be an eternal work in progress. Here are four reasons why people don't finish their books:
1. No target market.
No ... Views: 1732
Authors like Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, John Maxwell and others put out books based on their experiences, life examples, victories and struggles among other things. Facts tell, stories sell. It is easier to share life experiences because they come from within. They are yours. As you begin to ... Views: 1105
As long as there have been published authors, there have been book tours. Face it, books don’t often sell themselves. Strong promotion and marketing is the key to most merchandise sales and it’s no different with books. When a customer looks at a product, most often, it’s very clear what exactly ... Views: 1291
You want to know how to publish a book of memoirs that’s going to end up being a box office hit and light up your name on the marquee along with Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Lopez... AND... it will also make enough money to put all four grandchildren through ... Views: 2249
Ebook publishing is one of the fastest growing niches in the media industry. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, salesperson, practitioner, motivational speaker--whatever your business or career--online marketing and promotion through ebook sales and bonus freebies is one of the easiest and most ... Views: 1869
Book Publishers publish books. Book Publishing Services provide all or most of the necessary steps leading to the publishing of a book.
It is very important to know the difference between the two if you have written a book and plan to publish it.
Ram Pramschufer, a person I highly respect for ... Views: 1363
You want to know how to publish a book without taking risks… yet, if you love celebrated American author Ray Bradbury’s cliff-jumping aphorism* as much as I do, and if you want to see your book in print, you’re more than ready to make that leap.
*[“You’ve got to ... Views: 1818
Would you like to know how to write a book that’s liberated from all the “5 step/6 step/7 step/1-2-3-How-to” paint-by-the-number formulas?
“But it’ll never sell if I don’t follow the rules!” cries your Critical Voice (Can you hear the fear?... Don’t you know that you’re destined for failure ... Views: 2702
Book Publishers cannot possibly know what it’s like to write a book unless they’ve written one themselves. How do I know that? Because I am a professional writer and a publisher. Until I completed my first book-length manuscript, I was clueless about those unavoidable labor pains!
I also had ... Views: 1986
Googling for Book Publishers opens the floodgates to over 14,700,000 entries which predictably by tomorrow will have already grown by several hundred more.
Browsing through the glitz of ads and special offers or strategically structured sales pages of celebrity testimonials can leave you ... Views: 2351
In the fast paced and extremely competitive world of
internet business today, savvy business owners and
webmasters alike are finding more and more creative and
effective ways to monetize very nearly every aspect of
their businesses.
These internet marketers, both huge conglomerates and
modest ... Views: 718
Publishing and writing is much more than producing books and articles. It is a statement of who you are: your values, commitments and passions.
Whatever you write—journalism, fiction, memoirs, children’s stories, poetry—let your work reflect the “look & feel” of who you are, why you believe ... Views: 1009
Book printing has taken a giant leap forward not only off the page and into space, but also reincarnating in digital format through an amazing automated “book making machine” known as the Espresso.
Jason Epstein, former editorial director of Random House and founder and CEO of On ... Views: 2129
With so much commercial hype about how to publish a book, I was delighted to come across an article by Jim Barnes titled "Publisher Up!" in Independent Publisher (Volume 8 - Number 7).
Preceding the article is an excerpt from an essay by Jonathan Karp, editor-in-chief of Twelve, an imprint of ... Views: 1878
Ebook publishing faces the same issues as music and other types of downloadable products sold on the internet. How can ebooks be protected against piracy and theft?
Will Ebook theft cause people to stop writing?
Several months ago in an article that appeared on the internet, the Society of ... Views: 4965
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Publishing. Publishing includes the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution of books, newspapers, magazines, musical works, ... Views: 1602
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning; originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display ... Views: 3072
Do you want your book to open doors, or do you just want to hold your own words, bound and printed? How you publish affects your income, reputation, and your leverage.
Let's look at three options:
1. Publish With a Traditional Publisher
You'll gain prestige, credibility, and a nice ... Views: 969
Tracing your roots can be one of the most rewarding experiences of one's life, and when the researcher is a professional writer, the project can turn out to be a published book that reunites the family clan.
Dandelion author, Laurel Johnson, has written a memorable account of her ... Views: 1793