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Since I talked about freedom of speech in yesterday’s Bad Nick Blog, I decided I’d go ahead and post some thoughts on freedom of the press as well, because a lifetime in the small town newspaper business taught me that it is probably one of our least understood rights. For our purposes, the press is [...]
All of my life, I have believed in setting goals, both personally, and in business. I have always felt that if you don’t have a goal, how can you know where you are going, and which path to take to get there? I also believe that goals have to be specific. It’s easy to say [...]
This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]
As self-publishers, we often think of our books as our children, After all, we created them – they come from inside of us. And just as with our children we love them unconditionally, and tend to overlook their flaws. Unfortunately, this can be a mistake. Because just as with children, some grow up to be [...]
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I uploaded my mystery Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle program on Sunday, May 22, and by noon May 25th I had sold 100 copies. By the end of the month, sales topped out at 169, or an average of almost 17 books a day. Within a couple of days of uploading Big Lake, I uploaded [...]
I have made my living as a self-publisher for most of my life, and if I have learned one thing, it is that the writing is only part of the business, and it’s the easiest part. As in any business, self-publishing requires a knowledge of finance, marketing, and customer relations, just to name a few [...]
Writing your book is the easy part, in my experience. Marketing is where the real work starts, and most successful self-publishers I know spend more time on their marketing efforts than they do in the writing process. // As you may already know, I sell very few books through traditional bookstores. I use Lightning Source [...]
In addition to advertising revenue, don’t forget the power of your blog as a marketing tool. We hold two RV rallies a year for our subscribers, and as soon as I announce the dates in my RV blog, registrations start rolling in. When I announced in my RV Blog that we now have T-shirts made [...]
The newspaper industry is currently in a transition state. Just as you once purchased a pound of coffee, and now the container only holds about 13 ounces (for the same price), over the years newspapers have been going to smaller paper sizes to save money. A lifetime ago, when I was a greenhorn youngster just [...]