Having ideas it’s easy. The hard part…
Writing
Marketers are beggars
Is your Facebook post telling a story? Are you going to be a rich marketer beggar or a poor one?
How relevant are the Amazon sales reports for your book?
Amazon offers sales reports from Kindle Publishing Direct, royalty reports from Create Space for print-on-demand, and you have sales and author ranks from Author Central.
You’re a self-published author. Good for you. Now grow-up.
While bleeding on the inside, you listen. Being a quick learner and resilient by nature you humbly accept the truth and decide to learn more and become a better self-published writer.
When you have success as a self-published author, you are ready to outsource
Anybody can self-publish an eBook or use POD (print-on-demand) services. What publishing houses are still very good at is book selling.
Why the new pay-per-page Amazon system means more money for me
The entire pay-per-page drama is about the fact that Amazon sells your books also by page and pays more for this than what you get paid for the normal sale of a book.
A traveller befits the road
The Traveller is a generous God. In return for seconds, minutes, hours, days, years spent in trains, cars, walking through cities, villages, forests, sea shores, He gives me souls.
Bindge Reading
Yesterday I decided to indulge myself with some Steampunk and got from amazon Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina.
Kindle MatchBook program by Amazon
Of course I chose to give the Kindle edition for free!
3 Social Media tips for writers
1. Don’t get carried away by the ease of communication online
2. Let the book go when it’s ready and don’t wait until it’s perfect
3. The killer gene must be controlled
Social Media Marketing for writers
In essence, a writer uses social media to promote himself and his books, but also to provide better customer service to his clients. A professional makes money from the products and services he provides and the customer relationship management that goes with it. A writer must do the same.