How to Shift into Online Business Gears You Probably Don’t Know Exist Imagine that you had a car that only had two speeds – reverse, and low. Wouldn’t that be frustrating? You’d probably be able to go faster backwards than you could forwards. Yet this is the scene that most businesses have. Because people aren’t [...]

Would you believe me if I said I had proof of Amazon KDP being a bully? How about that they are trolls as well? Well, it happened to me like this: I had a book up which got a DMCA complaint that wouldn’t resolve. You see, you can use DMCA to complain about someone else’s [...]

Can you actually write less and profit more? Introduction Deep in the heart of the ever-growing Amazon Kindle jungle, there’s a profitable under-served market which is not easily discovered. It sits in a clearing by itself, much like a massive stone temple rising above the forest. A temple with some gold-filled rooms. Just my kind [...]

The Beginner’s Book Launch – How to Survive and Prosper It’s time I collated all the material on book launches to sort out how to do this and give myself a plan I can follow. The biggest problem with book launches is that they are either undocumented at the beginning stages, or don’t really tell [...]

Missed Profits Following Conventional Wisdom Conventional Wisdom (which is usually 95% wrong) says you should be happy with your ebooks and how they are selling. The problem with that logic is that the biggest sellers aren’t doing that. The biggest sellers make more income from hardcopy sales than ebooks. Traditional publishers know this, even though [...]

A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]

A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]

A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]

Self-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Know I stumbled across these while researching and testing. I haven’t seen them anywhere else, and they they are extremely practical ideas. First, You Have to Change Your Thinking 1. Authors are Producers. They generate “books-as-containers,” creating all possible versions of that title. Leverage is in multiple versions, as well [...]

Courses – The Final Frontier of Book Publishing To boldly publish where few authors have gone before… Most people have heard and swallowed the hype that ebooks are all there is to self-publishing, that making 6-figures with a few Kindle ebooks is the trophy every player wants to walk away with. Unfortunately, that’s all but [...]