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A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

You want to get paid for your wordsmithing by some deep-pocketed, eagle-eyed editor who refuses to rewrite your mistakes, here’s something that can keep you poor and quickly rejected. Even worse, it’s easy to spot before the editor reads a word. Learn how and when to use the “en” and “em” dashes right every time. […]

Tuesday September 29th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, first draft, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, novel writing, proofreading, second draft, self-publishing, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

Promoting Your Own Seminar: Planning and Implementation

To promote your seminar other people must know about it. Making them aware of its existence can cost you more that all of your other costs combined. So success with self-promoted seminars is directly related to how you inform potential participants, its cost, and the sign-ups resulting from that information. Some things help before you […]

Saturday July 18th, 2015 in articles, back-of-the-room sales, book title, booking seminars, corporate seminars, empire building, finding a seminar subject, freelance articles, hospital seminars, kinds of seminars, markets for seminars, niche marketing, niche publishing, open publishing, pricing seminars, school seminars, self-publishing, 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 | Comments Off on Promoting Your Own Seminar: Planning and Implementation

The most important / most profitable reason to self-publish

I enjoy and learn a lot from Bob Bly’s frequent missives. (See www.bly.com). We sort of walk and work the same side of the street regarding professional writing and publishing, and we both agree on the importance of strategizing first, then following up with processes that work. So the other day when Bob offered five […]

Tuesday June 30th, 2015 in articles, Blurb, Bob Bly, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, empire, empire building, iBook, iPad, keynoting, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, open publishing, pre-testing, product development, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, speaking, webmarketing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on The most important / most profitable reason to self-publish

How to calculate your 2015 monthly Amazon-based royalties

This was a gnarly problem earlier. Whether it was you alone closing your books at the end of the month or you had to calculate royalties for all of the authors in your publishing crew, it was a brainbuster to figure out where or how the Amazon outlets shared the good news. It’s better now. […]

Tuesday June 2nd, 2015 in e-publishing, fiction, Kindle, niche publishing, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on How to calculate your 2015 monthly Amazon-based royalties

Also use Nook Press to publish your own book–free!

I’ve been selling my e-books through Nook Press for four years and it’s a good way to get your book posted for sale at Barnes and Noble, which runs it. (Its platform was earlier known as Pubit!) It’s probably the easiest free ebook press site to use. (The others most used are Kindle and Smashwords.) […]

Thursday May 21st, 2015 in blog, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, iBook, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on Also use Nook Press to publish your own book–free!

Why was your article query rejected again?

Who writes articles in 2015? At least 1,486,000 writers had a journal article published in 2010. Some were written by two or three authors. And that’s just journals. And that was five years ago. 2,000,000 blog posts will be written today. Today. Another 2,000,000 tomorrow, and so on… The difference is that articles must be […]

Wednesday April 22nd, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprints, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, webmarketing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on Why was your article query rejected again?

Can we sell two new books by using 12,200 jumbo postcards?

At 11” x 6,” the postcards are big enough to cover other books already on the potential buyer’s desk. But the real issue is, are the cards clever enough to lovingly pick the buyers’ pocket? Said another way, it will cost us about $6500 to get the sales missive done right and delivered on time. […]

Wednesday April 8th, 2015 in articles, book title, e-publishing, Jim Burgett, K-12, K-12 administrators, K-12 school boards, K-12 school districts, Kindle, law and the school board, Lightning Source, LSI, new school board members, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, principals, public speaking, publishing, school board, school board, school board members, school board president, school superintendents, speaking | Comments Off on Can we sell two new books by using 12,200 jumbo postcards?

Multiply your book’s sales by turning your book into 6

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 on Multiply your book’s sales by turning your book into 6

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

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 on Great way to find your Smashwords earnings!