Publishing E-books
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 [...]
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 [...]
I will admit that I was slow to embrace online publishing. It cost me a lot of money. I had my original website www.gypsyjournal.net online for several years, but saw it only as a secondary marketing vehicle for our RVing books and guides. I had heard of blogs and blogging, and affiliate advertising programs, but [...]
That’s all there is to it. You don’t have to be a published author to call yourself a writer. You don’t have to be currently immersed in a book project. You don’t have to be actively involved with sending out query letters. But you do have to write. I write a daily average of anywhere [...]