Book Selling University has courses to help you produce better books and sell more of them. Today's featured course is BSU 150: Copyrights, and Avoiding Scams and Lawsuits, By Helen Sedwick. See it and more at https://bit.ly/2IAQn55 View each course up to 5 times.
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Today's trivia: Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal category.
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Today's trivia: Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal category.
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Know the "What" and "Why" (your objective) and the "How" will come to you.
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Book Selling University has courses to help you produce better books and sell more of them. Today's featured course is BSU 150: Copyrights, and Avoiding Scams and Lawsuits, By Helen Sedwick. See it and more at https://bit.ly/2IAQn55 View each course up to 5 times
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For many people, the hardest part of being organized in business is deciding what is the next thing to do. The answer? "Work as close as you can to the revenue line," says Julie Morgenstern in her book, Making Work Work. That is the point where you are actually making or saving money.
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Sync or sink. Coordinate your marketing actions so you have the right product, delivered most conveniently at the right price to each target audience. Then promote the relevant benefits of your content to each segment.
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Do you want to sell more of your fiction books? Find many ways and places to sell it other than through bookstores at http://bit.ly/2NTh6zd
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"A character without inner turmoil or contradictions belongs in vestments or in a coffin, not in a story." John Long
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"Give characters a valid grievance. A character without a purpose is a story without a cause." John Long
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Stop selling your books. Start selling the benefits that people receive from buying your books. Retail-store managers want increased traffic and profits. Demonstrate how your promotional efforts will drive people into their store. Librarians are not profit driven, but they want to help their patrons. What do your customers need and how can you help them meet their needs?
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Literary Hub (www.lithub.com ) focuses on literary fiction, and "presents personal and critical essays, interviews and book excerpts" by a wide range of book-publishing groups.
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Should you print a large or a small number of books initially? The answer is, it depends. There are four factors that should be considered when deciding upon the optimum inventory level: timing, volume, variety and velocity of revenue.
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Ten Things to Quit in 2020
1. Trying to please everybody
2. Worrying about what happened last year
3. Overthinking about how to outperform
4. Thinking you are not good enough
5. Being afraid to be different
6. Thinking you have no purpose
7. Marketing your books like everyone else does
8. Inability to rid yourself of negative thoughts that could be dragging you down
9. Letting the naysayers hold you back
10. Ignoring non-booktore buyers
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Book is a 4-letter word. Like work, love or life, what matters is what you do with it.
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During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic, "Moby Dick" sold only 50 copies. ("The Book of Useless Information," by Noel Botham)
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12 Ways to Find Potential Buyers for Non-Bookstore Sales – Brian Jud's blog for Book Business Magazine at http://tinyurl.com/h7lkn3w
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"The only writer to whom you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday." David Schlosser
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Just because something is obvious after the fact doesn't mean it could have been predicted. Perform a premortem (vs. postmortem) by imaging yourself in the future and experiencing some problem. Use "hindsight" to think about how to avoid it.
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PartnerShip®, an APSS member-benefit provider, has a report on the 2020 FedEx and UPS rate increases. Learn more about what you can expect: bit.ly/2rzQdbG and more about the APSS discount for shipping through both at www.bookapss.org
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Spend 30 minutes per day on self-improvement (reading, practice, researching). How much better off would you be now with 182.5 more hours of self-improvement in the past 12 months?
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Sales presentations that work include a story. Carmine Gallo (in the "Costco Connection") has six storytelling rules: Don't tell a boring story. Do tell a story with a clearly defined villain (could be your prospect's problem). Don't pretend you've never had to struggle. Do embrace your past and the experiences that define you. Don't end the story in the middle. Do provide a happy ending (your product as the solution.).
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You can sell more books when you realize it's not the money, it's the message. The money follows if the message is right.
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Happy New Year: May your troubles be less. Your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door!
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