In this post, author Nicholas C. Rossis summarises an article in The Economist about how arbitrary advantages given to start-up projects can be beneficial. (The results may surprise you.)
“I love it when science meets book marketing! If you wonder what I’m talking about, just read on. I am an avid Economist reader. Every issue has a small section about Science and Technology …”
An excellent resource for bloggers.
Continuing my paying-it-forward series of posts, I present to you today another one of my new friends, Duke Vukadinovic.
You may or may not be aware that in my day job, I’m a web developer whose company, Istomedia, has developed over 450 websites and blogs since 1995. This, however, is an expense that many authors would rather not make. And yet, they still need to have an online presence. So, what are they to do?
Duke has come up with a great resource, the First Site Guide. Freelancers – and writers in general – will find there all they need to build their first website on their own, along with helpful tips, how-tos, and loads of free advice.
Take it, Duke!
If you’re a freelancer, you need your own website. It doesn’t have to be great or fancy…
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Author Nicholas Rossis has once again generously shared an experiment for advertising, this time using Facebook. Note that he’s also created new websites.
Curious about the appeal of your book cover? Trying to choose between different potential covers? Read this helpful post–and useful comments–by best-selling Amazon author and blogger Nicholas C. Rossis.
I’m currently finishing my second collection of short stories. In fact, once I’m done editing the last story, the book will be ready!
However, I still need to design a book cover. Lorelei Logsdon recently informed me of this great website the other day, and I now consider it one of the the best resources of its kind.
Called Rate Book Cover, it allows authors to test possible book covers for reader feedback. Basically, you upload your book cover and that’s it. Visitors will rate it using one to five stars, and that will allow you to know instantly if a cover has traction with readers or not.
That’s not all, though! You can also browse the site to see what kind of covers people like. It’s like an instant trend-o-meter!
All this is available for free. There are two paid options: for a daily fee of 99c…
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Now why didn’t I think of that? Well, actually, I did, but Nicholas says it much better in his blog. Don’t forget to read bestselling author Jonathon Gunson’s original post at==>BestsellerLabs!
Effrosyni Moschoudi was the very first one to suggest to me this little trick, and I have since used it with all my books. Now, Jonathan Gunson has written a great post with the same easy way to sell more books, as a comment on a presentation by Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler.
In a survey of Goodreads’ 15 million strong membership, he found that the main driver of eBook purchases was, unsurprisingly, ‘referral by a friend’. But when a follow-up question was put to readers, another powerful sales strategy for authors emerged.
They were asked: “What do you want to do when you get to the end of a book?”
The telling response was that 83%wanted tosee what else the author had written.
Here’s the actual slide from Chandler’s presentation:
If most readers finish books and immediately…
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