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Nov 28 2016

Let Your Customers Do The Talking

Remember the old Yellow Pages ads that said, “Let your fingers do the walking?” (Yes, I just aged myself.) The phrase was clever slogan meant to encourage consumers to shop by browsing the yellow phone book page listings for a product or service. In the modern era of marketing, I encourage you to embrace a

Nov 21 2016

How to Turn Website Visitors Into Repeat Book Buyers

As a contributing writer for Book Business Magazine, one of my latest articles was included in their print magazine edition (yes, there are still a few print magazines left in America). But, they recently added the article online for the public to view. If you’re a publisher or author who sells books from your website,

Oct 31 2016

How To Increase Author Income

After 10 years training over 400 authors, I’ve met a lot of writers struggling to make sufficient income from their books. I’m not surprised, especially based on the following statistics from Digital Book World: The average self-published author makes less than $5,000 from their books. The average traditionally-published author makes less than $10,000. As you

Oct 24 2016

Advertising Without Emotion Puts People to Sleep

When it comes to advertising, the human brain can easily filter out and ignore the images that we see. Besides the avalanche of ads most people view everyday, it’s common for consumers to sit through advertisements while talking to someone else, looking at a mobile device, daydreaming, etc. It’s not surprising recall rates are so

Oct 17 2016

The Author Amazon Infatuation

The desire to be a bestseller can be so intoxicating that authors will do ridiculous things to claim the title. Worse, there are now unscrupulous scam artists telling naïve authors they can guarantee getting their book to #1 on Amazon. Get the details…