Sentences with phrase «selling author book»

But then they might actually do a better job of selling their authors books and give us indies more competition.

Not exact matches

Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which authors it chooses to work with.

David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, with now three editions of updated rules of marketing speaks about his newest version of his best - selling book.

For the sake of consistency, we need to realize that Amazon is now effectively claiming the right — and perhaps the obligation — to vet every author prior to agreeing to sell his or her book.

I'm a self - published author, and while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.

According to Robert Cialdini, author of best - selling books Influence and Pre-Suasion, social proof is one of the critical elements to creating influence and trust in minds of others.

David Burkus, best - selling author of three books and an award - winning podcaster, has contributed the first four questions on this list from an interesting article he wrote for Harvard Business Review.

If as an author your plans are to write the book and expect others to sell it... do not write the book.

asks marketing guru Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow, the best - selling book about how companies can transform themselves by becoming remarkable.

Publishers will have to explore how to listen to authors, observe what sells books and find a way to adapt and be useful in that scenario.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a compSell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a compsell a company.

Anthony Parinello is the author of the bestselling book Selling to VITO, the Very Important Top Officer.

He is the best - selling author of the book Earning Serendipity and contributing writer toHuffington Post and Harvard Business Review.

Brock is the author of five political books, including his 2002 best - selling political memoir, «Blinded by the Right,» «The Republican Noise Machine,» and «The Fox Effect.»

Jim is a popular keynote speaker and the author of the best - selling book, «Great CEOs Are Lazy» - grab your copy to today on Amazon

John Warrillow, who sold his own consulting and services business, and author of the book «Built to Sell,» is offering this intimate, hands - on workshop on building a sellable business.

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.

Pamela Yellen is a financial investigator and the author of two New York Times best - selling books, including her latest, The Bank on Yourself Revolution: Fire Your Banker, Bypass Wall Street, and Take Control of Your Own Financial Future.

He has shared his sales and business expertise as a motivational speaker and author of five books: Sell to Survive; The Closers Survival Guide; If You're Not First, You're Last; The 10X Rule; and Sell or Be Sold.

Best - selling author (and Inc. magazine columnist) Paul B. Brown's latest book, Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us, has just been published.

Tony Parinello is the author of the bestselling book Selling to VITO, the Very Important Top Officer.

In his best - selling book, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi, author David Maraniss explains what happened when Lombardi walked into training camp in the summer of 1961.

All those years ago, when everything was still possible, book publishers might have sold authors instead of books, and magazines and newspapers might have done the same with journalists and commentators.

J.K. Rowling, author of the best - selling children's book series «Harry Potter,» knows a lot about achieving success — and failure.

The notes, found at the farmhouse along with a typewriter Provenzano was believed to have used to write them, later became the basis of a book by Sicilian best - selling author Andrea Camilleri.

He's also the author of the new book EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional Intelligence, as well as the best - selling The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.

He has co-written two books with best - selling author Jim Stovall.

At the dinner, I was seated next to a sponsor for two hours, and the Chairman introduced us by saying «Neil's a New York Times bestselling author who's sold a million books and Nancy wants to be a writer.

Michael Ruhlman, a chef and author, does just that in his book «Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America.»

New York Times business reporter and author Charles Duhigg uncovers the psychology behind what makes customer and employee behavior turn into habit in his best selling book, The Power Of Habit.

If Canadian best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about this year's presidential election, he said his title would be «I'm heading home.»

In addition to wearing their writer's hat, self - published authors need to do just about everything that goes into packaging, marketing, and selling books, like building an author platform.

Steve Scott, a top - selling indie author of self - help books on Amazon, often turns to Facebook communities to crowdsource his next book titles.

Here are 10 social media strategies successful authors use to engage with readers — and sell more books:

So does Ryan Holiday, the author of the best - selling The Obstacle Is the Way (a really great book) and the compulsively readable Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.

Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flounder?

Steve Case is the co-founder of AOL, the chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, and the author of the best - selling book «The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future.»

A publisher pays the author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars, and then invests an enormous amount of resources in producing and marketing the book without any guarantee that it will sell.

Recently, I finished reading a book by New York Times best - selling author, Dean Graziosi called, Millionaire Success Habits.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

Amanda is a best - selling author of «Make Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more productive.

Danny Iny (@DannyIny) is the founder of Mirasee, host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best - selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!

Bender also co-authored the book «The Ultimate Success Guide» with best - selling author Brian Tracy.

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Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of the top - selling book, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leadbook, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For LeadBook For Leaders.

IMPORTANT: Jack Canfield (co-creator of the Chicken Soup series), Jim Hightower populist organizer and speaker, best - selling author of many books, and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Robert B. Reich (former US Secretary of Labor), Anne Holland (founding publisher of MarketingSherpa.com) Ken Evoy (founder of sitesell / com and siebuildit.com), and several other prominent people endorsed the original, self - published version, Principled Profit: Marketing that Puts People First, but did not respond to requests to update their endorsements.

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best - selling marketing series in history, Guerrilla Marketing, plus 59 other business books.

Not only is he a top inspirational guest speaker, but he is also a best - selling author of the book «Always Forward.»