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5 Ways To Get More eBook Sales

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Many authors who publish their eBooks have dreams of being able to get hundreds (or even thousands) of sales every day. However, the problem new authors face is putting in a lot of work and not making many sales. Some authors’ eBooks do not make a single sale until several months after the eBook gets published. However, it is possible to get more eBook sales. Not only is it possible, but it is also not as challenging as people think to get more eBook sales. These are some of the ways to get more eBook sales:

  1. Write eBooks frequently. Some authors publish 1 eBook every month. By publishing at this frequency, customers are easily able to become returning customers. However, as you increase your frequency, you need to be sure that you are not throwing away quality. If you do not publish 1 eBook every month, you do need to make sure that you are publishing multiple eBooks every year.
  2. Get more reviews. Contact the people who you know bought your book and ask them if they would like to write a review. If you ask a customer this way, the customer is more likely to say yes. Include your social networks in your book so you can have conversations with your customers. In addition, you can ask for a review at the end of your book. Say something like, “After you read this book, I would greatly appreciate it if you wrote an honest review for my book on Amazon.”
  3. Build the buzz. Many people make the mistake of not building the buzz. The people who have been reading my blog for a while know that I am writing a book called Lead The Stampede that will be published in the summer. That’s because I have mentioned my upcoming book in several blog posts. In addition, people have already contacted me on Twitter saying that they cannot wait for the book to come out.
  4. Use HARO to get pitches. After reading The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz, one of the things I noticed is that there were a lot of examples of other people using various methods included in The Pumpkin Plan. Mike Michalowicz got many of these stories from using HARO and submitting a query. I decided to do the same thing for Lead The Stampede. Several people’s stories will be included in Lead The Stampede. The people whose stories are going to be included in Lead The Stampede have asked me when the book will come out and want updates. I get more sales and promote others. It’s a win-win for everyone!
  5. Get the big guys and gals to review your book. If you get a review from one celebrity, that’s all you need. The people who have a deep respect for that celebrity notice the review. At the back of The Pumpkin Plan is a review from Seth Godin. It did not take me long to realize that The Pumpkin Plan needed to be on my reading list.

Those are 5 ways to get more eBook sales. What are your thoughts about the list? Do you have any additional tips you would like to recommend? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

How To Jump Start Your Blog

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Jumpstarting Blog Statistics

Whether your blog is about gardening or food, you can easily jump start that blog. As you continue writing blog posts, your blog will eventually see a dramatic rise in traffic. That’s what plenty of the experts say, but there is a shortcut. Although this shortcut requires more work on your part, it will allow your blog to become successful at a much faster rate. In order to jump start your blog, you need to build a targeted following on your social networks.

The numbers game no longer works. Tools like TwitterAudit are being used every day to find out who has the real followers and who has extra cash in their pockets to buy fake followers. Building a targeted following is the only option we have left to be successful on social media. The blogs that we all know about were created by a blogger who now has a big presence on a social network.

Having a targeted following on a social network guarantees that your followers like the content that you post. In addition, these followers are eager to click on your links and read your blog posts. The reason this blog experienced exponential growth over a span of several months is because I got targeted followers at a much faster rate. Although the exponential growth has sizzled down, I will expect to see more exponential growth in the summer. That’s what happened last year, and this year should be a repeat.

The moment it becomes much easier (and free) to schedule pins, my traffic will be able to exponentially increase. The reason is that I have over 10,000 targeted followers on Pinterest. In addition, I gain hundred of targeted followers on Twitter every day.

Ever since I started to focus on gaining targeted followers, I have seen a noticeable increase in my blog traffic. In August 2013, I got 587 views. Less than 6 months later, to start off 2014, my blog got 11,709 views for the month. That is what exponential traffic looks like, and in order to get that exponential traffic, you need to grow a targeted following on your social networks.

Social media has played a big role in this blog’s success, and social media will continue playing a big part in this blog’s success. My prediction is that once my blog starts to gain traffic exponentially again (last year, this started in the fall), my blog could reach 100,000 monthly views by the end of 2014. If you want to give your blog a big jump start, do not focus on the search engines. Focus on growing a targeted following on your social networks. In fact, building a strong presence on a social network improves your SEO.

 

A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish

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Shooting Star

It is easy to give yourself a goal and write it down. Getting that goal accomplished is not.

Most people go into their goals without giving themselves any kind of plan to get there. If you want to double your sales, how are you going to make that happen. The only way to make your goal happen is by giving yourself a plan and implementing that plan.

I find it annoying when people wish upon a star. Most people who wish upon a star simply wish for something to happen, and just by making the wish, most people expect that wish to automatically happen. No matter how many stars you wish upon, that goal will not get accomplished without a plan.

A goal without a plan is just a wish such as becoming a professional athlete and have a big house. How could those things possible happen? Creating the right plan will allow you to experience the results you want to see.

Stop wishing and start planning.

 

Why You Need To Take A Part In The Squidoo Challenge

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I have been on Squidoo for several years and have been able to make several thousand dollars on the platform. Squidoo is a great way to meet new people, build strong connections with potential customers, and learn a lot about writing quality content. Many of the lessons I have learned about writing quality content for this blog and my eBooks came from Squidoo’s writers.

Squidoo encountered an unexpected decline in traffic and went from 1 million daily visitors to 250,000 daily visitors. A contributing factor towards Squidoo’s decline were new changes, some writers leaving Squidoo, and the 1% who used Squidoo to promote spam. However, Squidoo is on the rise. The revenue per page on Squidoo is going to grow dramatically in the next year, and taking advantage of Squidoo’s future revival and further success is not time-consuming.

In my Squidoo Challenge, I mention how easy it is for Squidoo to rebound from its current 250,000 daily visitors to 1 million daily visitors. In fact, Squidoo could even go back to 2 million users and some pages on Squidoo would end up making a guaranteed $100 every month. The people who help bring Squidoo back to where it was are going to benefit the most when Squidoo gets back to where it was.

Squidoo has a great community of writers who enjoy sharing each other’s content and advising new writers as well. By becoming a part of that community, you will be able to learn more about writing quality content and build more connections while making money at the same time! If you do not have a Squidoo account, then what are you waiting for? Join us.

 

Why Posting Your Tweets To Facebook Is A Bad Idea

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Posting Tweets To Facebook Settings

There are too many people who connect Twitter and Facebook together so all of their tweets are automatically posted on their Facebook accounts. Some people who connect their Twitter and Facebook accounts do so just to make sure something appears on their Facebook account every day while others think they are effectively systematizing their Facebook accounts.

However, if your Facebook and Twitter accounts are connected, all of your tweets will get posted on your Facebook account. If you are having a conversation with one of your friends or business partners on Twitter, all of the tweets you send during that conversation will also get posted to your Facebook account. The two problems that occur is that some people will not care for the conversation, but the bigger problem is that the people viewing your posts only get to see your part of the conversation. They do not get to see how your friend or business partner is responding to your tweets.

While it is possible to schedule posts, it is not possible to run a successful, systematized social network. It is possible to run a successful social network, but attempting to systematize that social network results in you sacrificing the most important thing about social media: being social. Instead of trying to systematize Facebook by posting your tweets to Facebook, you should create quality posts on Facebook (scheduled or at the moment) and respond to the people who respond to your Facebook posts.

Social media was created to dramatically increase the ability for people to communicate with others in the same town, city, state, country, continent, and world. In order to be successful on social media, we need to use social media for the reason it was created in the first place. Connecting Facebook and Twitter in an attempt to systematize your Facebook account is not the right way to get the job done.

 

The Only Good Change Is The One That Matters To The Customer

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Time For Change

It has been established that innovations are critical towards getting more customers. Instead of doing what everyone else does, you have to be different. Whether you are different by raising your prices or offering a high quality product, you need to differentiate yourself from the competition.

However, this idea has brought forth the idea that any innovation is a good one. That is simply not the case. There are several innovations that are not effective. The only innovations that are effective are the ones that people notice. If your customers do not notice your innovation, then it’s not going to work.

Authors who add content to already published books do not just add a few pages. Adding a few pages would be a minor change that went unnoticed. Instead, when authors update their already published books, they are adding several pages to those published books. Some authors write an additional 40 pages that get added to an already published book. The people who purchased their book the first time will end up purchasing their book the second time because 40 pages is a lot of new content. 40 pages is a noticeable change which results in more sales.

When you make changes to your business model, you need to make positive changes that your customers will notice. Electric powered cars get noticed because they are safer for the environment.

Before you make a change to your business or product, ask yourself if your customers would be able to see and appreciate the change that you are going to make.