Almost always, they were writing in popular genres and had great books, with great covers and knew
enough about book marketing to get the visibility they needed.
You hate marketing!Learn
enough about book marketing to make an informed decision about how to spend your precious book marketing time.
Not exact matches
Your approach to the
market should be to learn
enough about price action and technical analysis so that you can begin reading the
market like a
book and identify areas on the chart you'd like to trade from before the
market gets there.
There's no «right» way to arrive at a price yet oddsmakers typically have their hands forced to an extent by the
market Rather than going rouge, hanging a line at -2.5 for a football game when other
books sit -3 says
enough about taking a strong position instead of just using pick and then being shocked when every public bettor and professional buries PK.
You can still submit your
book, and if an agent cares
enough about the idea or story, they may edit it for free, and sell it to a publisher, and the publisher may support it and
market it.
Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious
enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie
books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook
market, and then in the very next paragraph babble
about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.
Marketing is
about creating so much interest in your
book that people want to buy it — they'll make the purchase without you ever having to ask for it, or a subtle reminder that your
book is available for purchase will be
enough to make the sale.
Marketing your
books is tough
enough, but when you aren't being strategic
about it, it is a lot tougher.
There's a lot out there
about book marketing and
book promotion, specifically for indie authors, but I've decided there isn't
enough about promoting a series.
I've been working at it for 3 years now, and am still told that my platform isn't quite big
enough for the type of
book I am
marketing (
about to write.)
A
book review is a powerful
marketing tool because it means that someone loved or hated your
book enough to write a short note
about it.
However, I'll concede here that success isn't always quick: most authors publish, are excited, aren't happy with their sales, and over the course of several years learn
enough about book design and
marketing to improve.
So I can not say this
enough, do your homework and be specific
about what you expect from your
book marketing efforts.
While there have been entire
books written
about marketing your book online [see D'vorah Lansky's Book Marketing Made Easy and my Kindle book, Author's Quick Guide to Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making
marketing your
book online [see D'vorah Lansky's Book Marketing Made Easy and my Kindle book, Author's Quick Guide to Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making succ
book online [see D'vorah Lansky's
Book Marketing Made Easy and my Kindle book, Author's Quick Guide to Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making succ
Book Marketing Made Easy and my Kindle book, Author's Quick Guide to Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making
Marketing Made Easy and my Kindle
book, Author's Quick Guide to Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making succ
book, Author's Quick Guide to
Marketing Your Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making
Marketing Your
Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making succ
Book Online and Off] the five quick tips in this article should give you
enough information to revise your current online presence or start off on the right path toward money - making success.
A few authors are doing pretty well, because they hustle and work and write amazing
books that readers love and learn
enough about marketing and
book design and launching for their
books to be successful.
All it would take is a huge advance — huge
enough so that I don't care
about the
marketing and selling of my
books.
At this point, I have
enough feedback from reality that I know that my judgment
about how to handle my
books is generally good, and that I can do what it takes to move with the times and improve my
market share.
And that's
enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking
about an e-book «slowdown,» even as digital
books remain the fastest - growing part of the
market.
If your
book doesn't stay near the top of the bestseller lists after you've gotten your first 100 readers, it probably wasn't satisfying
enough for people to enthuse
about it — in which case more
marketing and advertising won't help.
We are always saying we don't have
enough time to do what we need to do, yet procrastinating
about doing what we need to do to
market our
books is wasting the time you need.
After
about 6 months, we have given out samples and review copies until the
book has
enough positive, sincere reviews to awaken the Amazon
marketing machine.
Believe in your
book enough to want to share it with others, to want to
market actively so that others will learn
about it.
While it's easy
enough to set up a link to Amazon or other on - line
book retailers, they don't tell you anything
about who is buying your
book, and you have no opportunity to get in touch with future
marketing.
USA Today noted the e-book numbers showed «
enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking
about an e-book «slowdown,» even as digital
books remain the fastest - growing part of the
market.»
Although I talk a lot
about book marketing, I've said before that I refuse to take people's money unless I can guarantee results (good
enough results to justify the expense).
«In big companies today, there's not
enough time for anyone to think
about many, many of the
books and give them the kind of attention they need to bring to
market.
Another distinction: Do - it - yourself publishing, where the author attempts (with varying degrees of success) to self - edit the
book, learn
enough about typography and design to come up with something reasonably professional looking, do the same for the cover, create and execute a
marketing plan, etc., etc..
In my small unique
book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations
about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward
enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock
market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into
about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this
market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the
market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
Again in the early 2000s we see the
market correctly predict
book values are
about to shoot up, and soon
enough,
book values shoot up thereafter.
After thinking
about it for some time I realized that although we had both read a ton of business and
marketing books and discussed various business ideas that would be related to our real estate investments what it really boiled down to was getting frustrated
enough that we actually took action.
I also think it is misleading to draw the conclusion, from the
marketing you get in the media, that you can save all dogs if you just knew more
about «dog psychology», and I didn't find that stressed clearly
enough in his
book.