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Multiply your book’s sales by also turning it into 6 ebooks

Here’s how that works. Let’s say that you have written a book that is 240 body-copy pages long, excluding the front matter, table of contents, bio, and index. Let’s also say that before you wrote the book you created an outline. That outline included an intro/explanation chapter, four systems chapters (each including a different concept […]

Sunday March 1st, 2015 in articles, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, iBook, Kindle, Kindle, LSI, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off

4 proven ways to sell 75%+ of your freelance writing

MAGAZINES and NEWSPAPERS   1. Here is the two-item formula for selling nonfiction copy to magazines and newspapers: (a) You sell more than 75% of your freelance writing by writing only when you have better than a 50% chance of a sale, and (b) You have better than a 50% chance of a sale by […]

Friday February 20th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, fiction, freelance articles, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, pre-testing, proofreading, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, seminar income, simultaneous submissions, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

Sample evaluation sheet for seminars and other programs

If you are sponsoring or giving seminars you want to know what the attendees think of the presenter’s presentation skills, the worth of the information offered, and how that topic might be offered better. The speakers want to know the same thing. (I have given 2100+ paid programs so I think I have distributed and […]

Monday February 16th, 2015 in articles, back-of-the-room sales, booking seminars, corporate seminars, emceeing, finding a seminar subject, hospital seminars, kinds of seminars, markets for seminars, pricing seminars, public speaking, school seminars, self-sponsored seminars, seminar attendees, seminar descriptrion, seminar feasibility study, seminar guidelines, seminar income, seminar locations, seminar promotion, seminar sponsors, seminar title, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, setting appropariate seminar times, speaking | Comments Off

How much money do you actually earn selling through Amazon and LSI?

“Is it worthwhile selling your book through Amazon or Lightning Source?” has to be an early question that a niche publisher must ask. “And how much worthwhile?” That’s important because my niche publishing firm already sells 85% of our products directly to our target niche, much of that through its associations. ———- A pinch of […]

Thursday February 12th, 2015 in articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Nook, pre-testing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off

Great way to find your Smashwords earnings!

I’m a publisher with a stable of six gifted authors, so knowing how many books each of them have sold at any particular time is a pesky problem. Especially if they want to know their Smashwords sales, where we had to wade through a mind-boggling list to make even an approximate tally. Until now it […]

Thursday January 29th, 2015 in article writing, articles, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, publishing, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off

How do you find interviewees for your articles?

You almost always need at least one interview for a magazine or newspaper article. But it makes much more sense to get three or four, and even many more if you plan to rewrite the original piece again and again. (And if Reprints, Rewrites, or Reprints of Rewrites are your plan: bravo. My $2.99 Kindle […]

Tuesday January 27th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, first draft, humor in articles, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, publishing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, second draft, travel writing, writing | Comments Off

Profits from reprints, rewrites, and reprints of rewrites

As long as you have written a fetching article that an editor wants readers to read on his/her pages, why not sell the same blend as reprints, then mix the same magical facts, quotes, and anecdotes into a rewrite or two with different slants? You could even sell some reprints of the rewrites later on! […]

Wednesday January 21st, 2015 in article writing, book title, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, freelance articles, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, travel writing, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off

Trees and Kids (from Teachers Change Lives 24/7)

[I’m a publisher and I read all the mail that our readers send. Sometimes (not very often) we have a story or a section of a book that brings lots of spontaneous letters of joy and praise from readers. “Trees and Kids” is the hands-down winner. It’s by Jim Burgett in his 2007 book (in […]

Wednesday January 7th, 2015 in ancillary publishing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, English teachers, fiction, Jim Burgett, K-12, K-12 administrators, K-12 school boards, K-12 school districts, law and the school board, new school board members, niche publishing, novel writing, product development, publishing, school board, school board members, school board president, school superintendents, self-publishing, writing | Comments Off

Can you sell the same article to a magazine, newspaper, and blog?

(1) Can you sell the same article to a magazine and a newspaper? (2) And can you use the same article or item in both print on paper and in the digital market, like blogs, at the same time? The real question for both is “Should you…?” With a big healthy dose of caution and […]

Monday January 5th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, first draft, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, open publishing, proofreading, publishing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, second draft, writing | Comments Off

How to make editors vomit…

I’ll tell you how in a second. A more important question is, “If you’re trying to put your kids through college by churning out magazine articles, and hoping to sell a couple of reprints from every original piece that you got in print, why in the world would you even put “editor” and “vomit” in […]

Monday December 22nd, 2014 in article selling, article writing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, first draft, freelance articles, humor in articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, second draft, travel writing, writing | Comments Off