Archive for the ‘Self-Publishing’ Category
5 Reasons to Independently Publish Your Next Book
Unedited Guest Article by Tom Cannon
For generations, the only publishing option available to would-be authors, was the traditional method of publishing, where you submitted your manuscript to one of the big publishers and hoped for the best. Modern technology has changed that paradigm. Now, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can successfully publish a book, in a plethora of formats. And most surprisingly of all, especially for those who grew up linking publishing success with the big publishing houses, is the fact that bestsellers don’t have to originate in New York or London anymore.
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How to Write a Book and Choose Your Publishing Style
Unedited Guest Article by Steve Manning
A lot of people don’t like the idea of self publishing or publishing on demand because they feel their book wasn’t really ‘published,’ didn’t undergo the scrutiny they suspect any manuscript would have to endure and surpass if it was purchased and produced by a ‘traditional’ publisher, and that it wouldn’t be looked upon favorably by distributors and bookstores around the world as a viable product worthy of promotion and marketing efforts.
How to Sell Booklets the Easy Way for Free
You don’t do booklets? Well, play this game: Every time you see booklet replace it with ebook or whatever infoproduct you happen to be publishing. Heck, you can plug in blog and this article takes on an interesting “how to promote your blogs” angle. — EES
Unedited Guest Article by Kim Hillman
Have you been wondering just how you’ll build your booklet business once your booklet is ready for market? Here’s a little marketing secret for you. Every booklet you create will market all of your other booklets, as well as other products and services you may have to offer.
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Print-On-Demand (POD) Publishing – Clarifying the Confusion
Unedited Guest Article by Shaun Fawcett
I have been successfully writing, publishing and marketing my books and ebooks via various online channels for more than 7 years now, so I know a thing or two about the subject. That’s what leads me to write this article in an attempt to demystify and clarify the meaning of the term “POD publishing”.
The Market for Your Booklet is Much Larger Than You Realize
Unedited Guest Article by Kim Hillman
The market for booklets is wide and varied. There are many possibilities for sales with a well written, informative title. You might choose to sell to individuals. Or, your might decide to sell to businesses, corporations, non-profit groups, churches, website owners, the government, schools, gift shops, museums, historical societies, special interest groups, and any number of other places. There is a great advantage in selling to businesses and organizations in that they will buy many copies of your booklet in a single sale.
How to be a Best-Selling Self-Published Author
Unedited Guest Article by Daya Doolin
Things you will need after reading the article.
- Patience with yourself.
- Patience with the process.
- Desire to see the finished product in your mind’s eye.
- Desire to serve others.
- Copyright form for starters fo register you book.
- An openness to the Universe when gifts are ready to be bestowed upon you because of your receptivity.
How to Break Through Any Barrier to Get Your Book to Market
Article by Douglas Robert
No question about it — a completed book in hand with your name on the cover can change your life in a positive way. Upon completion, your book becomes an asset that can earn you income for many years. But until it’s finished, it’s nothing more than a collection of papers or another document on your overloaded computer.
Market Your Book While You’re Writing It
Article by Yvonne Perry
A book is not a baby as some authors tend to believe. Even if the book were a baby, would you leave it to survive on its own? A book is a product and being an author is very much like running a business. If you don’t market your book, it will not sell. Don’t wait to start your marketing. There’s plenty to do while you are still writing your book.
Get Your Book to an Amazon #1 Ranking… Free!
Since I’ve got nothing up for sale at Amazon right now, I’ve put this in my “good to know” mental file. You should do the same. — EES
Promote Your Book – How to Hit #1 on Amazon For Free – Tag You’re It!
Article by Todd Fonseca
Our Shared Story
Like any author, you spent months, perhaps years writing your novel. Hours of writing and re-writing, conversations with your editor, discussions over format and typesetting, more editing, self doubt, cover design, back blurb, reviews, placement, on and on. Now it’s published but how do you get that visibility that will translate into book sales? You may have written the next Harry Potter but without marketing how will anyone know?
5 Reasons to Self-Publish Your Own Book
Article by Bob Baker
Every March, book people across the country celebrate Small Press Month. While the term “small press” can refer to a modest-sized publishing company with multiple titles from various authors, it most often applies to self-published authors. That’s another term that is subject to interpretation: “self-publish.” In the old days it was considered something you were forced to do if you couldn’t get a “traditional” publisher to put out your book. These days, however, self-publishing is a different ballgame. But many aspiring authors I meet still wrestle with that old stigma.
eBook Speed Writing Trick
Good, effective speed writing technique… I don’t use it, but I have no doubt it works. Do note that Winslow never says the books are good or well-written, just that they are pumped out, and pumped out quickly. And for infoproducts, really, if your ebook’s got the info and delivers it to your reader, hey, you’re in business… the publishing biz! — EES
E-Book Speed Writing Considered
Article by Lance Winslow
How do you write an industry eBook quickly, accurately and still make it relevant? Many people believe they need to take off a year of work to write a book. Not so, and perhaps you have noticed how fast some books appear on the shelves after a major world event. Sometimes it just blows you away doesn’t it? Well, it is because these folks use some power writing tricks.
Write a Book and Grow Your Business
Pretty good, short piece. Not much more that I can add to it, really, except for this: I find this info useful as a way to help sell our services to business prospects. Ghostwriting, editing/proofing, consulting… you name it, there’s an opp out there in this very area. And right now. — EES
4 Ways to Grow Your Business by Writing a Book
Article by Douglas Robert
Writing a book of your own has many benefits for the entrepreneur or small business owner. It gives you a clear and distinct advantage over competitors who haven’t taken the step to craft their own book and get it out into the marketplace.
Having a book may offer an obvious advantage to the marketing consultant or public speaker. But there’s no reason every business owner couldn’t benefit in multiple ways too. Yes you can grow your business by writing a book and sharing what you know.
Marketing Your Book Online
The article needs more work, but instead of donating more of my editing services, I’m trying something else today. I’m putting what I think are the key points of the piece down in my Wordpreneur Executive Notes at the end of the article. Hmmm, now that I think about it, I think I’ll just start doing a WEN as needed instead of sucking up my time and energy editing and cleaning up someone else’s article. I may actually end up getting more done that way, and possibly get more delivered to you faster to boot! — EES
How to Market Your Book Online
Article by Victor Epand
Whether you are a writer or a seller of books if you want to make a profit, you can still go online and do it. However, you need to be smart, prepared, and do a lot of research about the market that exists for books.
POD Marketing Plan and Tips
Very good tips and suggestions. Funny thing: I’d say the majority of traditional non-fiction book authors would do even better to follow what the article advises too!
POD, by the way, stands for Print-on-Demand. If you’re interested, two POD services to check out are Lulu and CafePress. You can read more about them and PODding in Sell Your Books Online Without a Blog or Website… for free! — EES
Freelance Writing Isn’t the Only Way to Make Money Writing
Although I’ve trumpeted the benefits and joys of taking the freelance writing career route, I’ve also talked about many other ways writers (or writing types) can generate income… publishing online in particular. Maybe I’ve talked so much that you’ve gone deaf to my preaching. So, here, another one of your peers talking about trying a different route. — EES
Forget Freelance Writing Jobs, Build Financial Independence Writing for Yourself
Article by Lindsay Buroker
If you enjoy writing and you’re looking for a way to quit your day job or make money working from home, you’re probably looking into freelance writing. There are quite a few freelance writers out there in the blogosphere who will tell you all about how to get started finding jobs and how to manage your time and how to interface with clients and everything you can imagine related to the subject.
This article isn’t like that.
A Self-Publishing Case Study
Three reasons why I decided to post this article:
- For our interests, it’s actually quite informative, despite it being undoubtedly a promo piece for the design company.
- The work described is fairly straightforward and simple… meaning, who said you can’t take this idea and run with it, offering the same kind of service in your neck of the woods?
- This is a good example of informative PR, something that stands a much better chance of actually getting noticed and printed than the usual “company news” press release, which often can usually be best described as “stuff no one else but the company really gives a hoot about.” You can write this sort of thing, can’t you? Of course you can… and for clients. For pay.
Sell Your Books Online Without a Blog or Website… for Free!
Ideally, you’ll want your own website/blog “working” for you and your book publishing promotions/sales. The expense isn’t a killer. Cheap, even (as I mentioned a number of times previously, I get my domains from GoDaddy and use Site5 budget Web hosting).
But, I got to thinking, what if you don’t really want to hassle with one?
Give Away Your Books to Sell Even More
Here’s a really interesting promotional idea worth trying online — something the author calls the Used Book Effect. And it’s not limited to romance novels, or even fiction (say, you’ve written and are selling a series of related instructional ebooks). This is a particularly good way for you to put an old title of yours that may already be out-of-print (or maybe just not selling that well anymore) back to work, helping generate even more sales of your current work.
Software publishers have been doing this sort of thing for the longest time (shareware, freeware, donorware, etc.). But I can see now how the model works far, far better for “serial” writers. Very, very interesting. — EES
Typesetting Books With Microsoft Word
I’m sure you don’t know that I used to design fonts as a hobby. Man, that was over a decade ago when I last futzed around with it, using a program called Fontographer. A cousin turned me on to it; she worked for Monotype then, part of the team that converted typefaces to “TrueType” for bundling with the launch of Windows 3.1. Now she’s a freelance type designer.
And that’s just the tip of my involvement in the graphic arts. Seriously, I think that’s what I should have gone to school for, instead of for the Info Systems degree I ended up with (was interested and good at that too, but already knew it and didn’t learn squat). Lucky me, “publishing” brought all my skills and interests together into a single field.
Infopreneuring Content Secrets: 4 Methods
Here’s a decent vintage Wordpreneur piece on developing content for publishing projects and products. If you’re a freelance writer, you may want to show technique #3 to prospective ghostwriting clients. — EES
Article by Stu McLaren
If you don’t have good fresh content to use for new products, your momentum comes to a crashing halt and so does your business.
So the question begs itself, how do you consistently create new content?
Here are your four basic options: