Okay, so, you were on the show last year or the year
talking about book sales descriptions.
Not exact matches
Glenn Fogel,
Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody
talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter
sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.
In his
book Predictable Revenue, author Aaron Ross
talks about how forward - thinking
sales companies like Salesforce.com moved to a specialized sales role model of selling (for example, Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, e
sales companies like Salesforce.com moved to a specialized
sales role model of selling (for example, Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, e
sales role model of selling (for example,
Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, e
Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, etc.).
As I
talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning worrying
about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting sucks.
Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not
Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's
book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with
sales exceeding half a million copies to date.
Anne T. Henderson, author of the best - selling
book Beyond the Bake
Sale,
talks about school culture and parents.
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The other thing too is to just be real, don't be a
sales machine, and
talk about your
book.
Sometimes it doesn't bother me at all that iUniverse and Author Solutions (and now Penguin
Books) have one - sided conversations with the world
about how great they are, because there are plenty of customers willing to step up and
talk about what it's really like to work with companies that habitually overcharge, under - deliver and make harassing
sales calls.
In this episode, Steve
talks about using it as a way to gauge potential
book sales in a niche and when to not worry
about it.
(Also, the more speaking you do at libraries, the better your bookstore
sales will be, because at least some of the patrons who come hear
about your
book at your library
talk will then go out and purchase the
book at their local bookstore.
Amazon is
talking about ebook
sales going to authors while print
book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared
about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print
books, discounting print
books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining
about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.
Then use this sentence in your
book's
sales copy, back cover copy, marketing pieces, web site, business card, and anywhere you're
talking about your
book.
Create new income opportunities — In a future blog post, I am going to
talk about the 8 ways an author can earn money besides
book sales, but suffice it to say, a
book gives you ways to sell you and your services in a way a blog alone does not.
When Amazon has 95 % of the
book sales market, let's
talk again
about the M word.
Inspire people to
talk about it (like I'm doing here), which leads to
book sales, consulting gigs, speaking engagements, etc..
When your
book is published, your network of readers can be your best
sales force if you give them tools to
talk about your
books and encourage them to do so.
In this episode, Pamela and Jeff
talk about best practices for each stage and how to position your
book to maximize
sales on launch and in the future.
It's great if it can also truthfully represent the
book, but it's always better to use a powerful cover that doesn't quite represent the
book accurately, but doubles your
sales, than it is to represent the
book accurately (a mistake most authors make) with a shitty cover crammed full of exact details and pictures and scenes and meanings that you can explain and
talk about for an hour but nobody else gets (or even likes).
In the news, we
talked about sales rank metrics, the new pulp movement for indies, an individual author subscription idea, BookBub's new Author Follows feature, the controversy behind the
book Girl Online, and Hachette's direct selling efforts on Twitter.
As far as this effecting ebook
sales, got me, readers read, sometimes join
book clubs to
talk about reading.
Of course, much of the data is
talking about ebooks over print
sales, but as Walsh's assessment from AuthorEarnings shows, print
book revenue for the actual author is nothing compared to their digital income.
When I
talk to authors
about their promotions sometimes they feel strongly that discounting the
book by $ 1 or $ 2 is sufficient to drive
sales.
It's a cash - in, a quick attempt to trade Tyrese's fame for
sales of an amateurish comic
book about a walking,
talking cliche in a cliche of a story fighting cliche villains.
The rankings and readers interest gets the blogs all
talking about the
book, and the big
sales seem to follow.
But most authors will deliberately avoid
talking about sales or marketing and say things like «it's not
about the money, I'm happy if just one reader enjoys my
book!»
With «The Lion's Gate,» the
book that we were
talking about here, that had to be brought out by a mainstream publisher, it was too big a
book, and it needed the push that a publisher could put behind it, getting it in bookstores and having a
sales force and all that.
Bella and Hugh Howey particularly
talked about the
book itself as marketing — the brilliant story, delivering on the promise to the reader, a consistent production schedule, covers that evoke the emotion of the story, the author's name, the title and sub-title, the
sales description and keywords, email and newsletters.
However, there was a lot of
talk about how pricing ebooks too low can actually have a detrimental effect on
book sales.
Today, Michael Kozlowski and Jeremy Greenfield of DBW
talk about Hachettes reliance on Amazon and how financially dependant they are for
book sales in the US and UK.
Today on the show they
talk about how the Hachette / Amazon contract negotiations will likely play out and how authors have seen a dramatic decrease in
book sales The RT Booklovers... [Read more...]
Jeff answered our questions on Smashwords formatting, Jo
talked about his experience with pre-orders and whether they're a good idea for increasing
book sales, and Lindsay
talked about her experience in KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited (with her pen name).
Kim Duke, aka The
Sales Diva,
talks about her new
book Ugly Baby: How To Get Over Fear And Give Birth To Your Odd Idea, Start A Business, Or Invent Something Cool.
If they wrote a great
book with a great cover and a great active blurb, and get it out there, readers will slowly find it and if the
book is worth
talking about, the readers will start passing the word and the
book will gain speed in
sales.
How are you going to harness that band of potential
sales reps who've just finished your
book and really want to
talk with someone
about it?
The internet has been alive the last week or so with authors
talking about how BN's choice to either not stock their
books or to not reorder them is hurting their
sales.
However, if you only focus on
talking about your
book instead of trying to make connections and build relationships the interview can end up coming across as one long
sales pitch.
While not a traditional customer
sale, getting your
book into the hands of many readers means your
book is
talked about more, and a recommendation from a friend has the most influence on readership among mystery readers.
This helped keep the
book buzz strong because others were constantly
talking about my
book, the search engine optimization was fantastic, and my
sales rank on Amazon stayed high because people were constantly buying the
book.
(Go buy her
books — she's sold a ton of them, yet
talks about how My
Sales Numbers Do Not Determine My Worth.
In this show I
talk about the importance of having confidence in your product and how not having it can affect
sales, regardless of the quality of your
book.
As part of Nielsen's inaugural Romance
Book Summit at the Romance Writers of America conference, a panel of publishers
talks about globalization,
sales, and diversity challenges.
Book idea validation, a / k / a book market research, doesn't guarantee sales and success — I'm not talking about a silver bul
Book idea validation, a / k / a
book market research, doesn't guarantee sales and success — I'm not talking about a silver bul
book market research, doesn't guarantee
sales and success — I'm not
talking about a silver bullet.
Nicole's children's
book, Parents for
Sale, has been racking up an impressive list of awards and honorable mentions, and we're thrilled that she could
talk with us
about her self - publishing journey.
Digital piracy A pair of interviews
about the unexpected
sales spike following the bootleg posting of Underground on 4chan: Comic
Book Resource's Jonah Weiland
talks with co-creators Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber, while Techdirt's Mike Masnick chats with Lieber and studio mate Erika Moen.
If management is not overly enthusiastic
about selling your
book,
talk to the membership
sales consultants.
They
talk about why it's important to build up a large collection of
books to sell and how to best leverage that growing inventory into increased
sales.
You
talk about how it justifies the $ 10 ebook price and increases
sales because users feel they get more value by being able to lend their
books once.
Canongate says that Life of Pi is racking up
sales of 10,000 every day, meaning that even at a conservative measure of the other titles relative performances, we might be
talking about 10 % of the overall e-book market that is
books selling at 20p.
J. A. Konrath put up a post
talking about how he's making $ 1,250 a month off of his
book's
sales — these are unpublished
books that he's giving away for free on his website and selling for $ 1.85 on the Kindle Store.