How Brian Sold Over 500,000 Books When Brian Rathbone got himself kicked out of high school, no one would have guessed he would go on to sell more than half a million books. No one knew who he was. No one was waiting to buy his next book, but somehow he managed to build an audience from scratch. Brian shares his mistakes and successes, so you can benefit from his experiences. Introduction - Who the heck is Brian Rathbone? The Basics – Don’t put the cart before the dragon Audience Building – Engage the geek magnet Hyperlinks for Authors – Transporting the reader to your world Readers Versus Units Sold – Treasure the dragon, not the hoard Email Lists – The dragons are in the list Mailing List Rental – Other people’s dragons Giving Away Content – No such thing as a free dragon Distributors Versus Publishing Direct – Here, you deal with the dragons! Conventions, Events and Book Signings – Beware the unicorn traffic jam Give The Reader Options – What color is your dragon? Meta-data – People who ran from this dragon also ran from that one Know Your Retailer – Befriend the gentle giant Team Up With Others – There is strength in legion Where To Spend Your Money – You can’t take hoard with you Web Sites And Email For Authors – hotone @ grumpydragons.com Twitter For Authors – Wookiees, Peanuts and Shapeways SEO For Authors – Invisible books don’t sell and they scare me a little Analytics For Authors – Counting your dragons. Marketing Nonfiction – How dragons can help you, too! Conclusion – Group dragon hug.

With 1,500 books published each day, how will yours get noticed? If you're ready to get your book the attention it deserves, 52 Ways to Sell More Books! will put you on the fast track to success. Packed with handy insights, insider tips, and marketing wisdom, 52 Ways to Sell More Books! is a powerful guide that will not only show you how to save money, but also help you gain the exposure you need to rise above the noise. Should you do book events? Spend all of your time on social media? Go for a radio tour? 52 Ways to Sell More Books! breaks this down with handy worksheets and a series of questions that will enable you to zero in on your market. 52 Ways to Sell More Books! is the only guide you'll need for ... • Leveraging local media to ramp up your celebrity status and sell more books • Jump-starting your book sales and online promotion • Getting on radio and TV ... today! • Getting book reviews • Secrets of social media success • Securing free publicity on Amazon • Effective book signings • Zeroing in on your target market • 3 unique ways to build your book promotion network • 5 tips to build your own website sales machine • 3 overlooked venues that can really help you sell books • Enticing your friends & family to buy an autographed copy of your book • 5 other formats for your book to attract more readers and fans • Getting your book on Kindle and other e-readers -- hassle free • Fresh insights into blogs and e-zines

This book will show you how to accurately price your book, how indies should operate pricing and printing vs traditional press norms, and how to create a pricing strategy and communicate value to shoppers. You’ll also learn how an indie author’s flexibility is one of their greatest assets when selling books at live events! Pricing Hacks is a bonus for those who have read Sell More Books at Live Events. For those who haven’t yet read it, Pricing Hacks is a perfect introduction to the material which author Christopher D. Schmitz uses to sell thousands of paperbacks each year directly to readers. Schmitz regularly invites indie authors to work alongside him and learn his methods to replicate that success. Sell more paperbacks at your live events with expert advice geared to help you succeed in face-to-face sales encounters. Additionally, in Sell More Books at Live Events you’ll learn: How to link a sales dashboard to an inventory tracker and your website so you know how many books you have on hand at all times How to easily take credit cards and add manage sales tax Managing your live events so you earn profit instead of loss Expert sales tactics to make people excited to purchase your book Tips to immediately on-board new customers onto your newsletter so you can engage them and turn them into repeat buyers and superfans Strategies to help you get hundreds of sales per live event And so much more!

Sell more paperbacks at your live events with expert advice geared to help you succeed in face-to-face sales encounters. Do you lack the confidence or the knowledge necessary to sell books at events? Do you wonder where to even start finding conventions, seminars, conferences, and expos to sell your books at? Have you tried this before and did not get the results you hoped for? Christopher Schmitz sells thousands of paperbacks each year directly to avid readers and regularly teaches other authors best practices on how to do exactly the same. This number is not inflated by selling courses to other authors or with any sort of giveaway. Selling thousands of novels or nonfiction books is absolutely possible—and Schmitz regularly invites indie authors to work alongside him and learn his methods. This book will show you how to confidently pitch your book, teach you how to narrow down the best places for you to sell at by finding your target market, and explain how to optimize your sales booth and author business for success. Additionally, you’ll learn: How to link a sales dashboard to an inventory tracker and your website so you know how many books you have on hand at all times How to easily take credit cards and add/manage sales tax Managing your live events so you earn profit instead of loss Expert sales tactics to make people excited to purchase your book Tips to immediately onboard new customers onto your newsletter and engage them Strategies to help you get hundreds of sales per live event And so much more! This book will show you the methods I use to sell thousands of paperbacks every year directly to readers at live events (mostly at conventions) and teach you how to replicate that success!

You’ve written a wonderful book. But you know that it won’t sell itself. You need to let folks know just how good your book is, why they should care about it, and why they must choose your book over millions of others. This is a step-by-step, short, pragmatic guide on how to establish yourself as an expert and a leader on one of the largest social networks—LinkedIn. Keywords: author platform, self-publishing, book publishing, social media, blogging, book advertising, LinkedIn, free, freebie

Has your book sold less than 3000 copies? If so, then thank God you found this book because those sales are about to take off as a result of learning and applying what you will learn in this book. There are 4 pillars which are integral to your book's success and they are: 1) Marketing 2) Publicity 3) Distribution 4) Sales Those pillars, when mastered, will lead to steady book sales every year until you die or until you stop using the techniques laid within this book. I first published my first book in 2011 and it didn't even sell a single copy, then published my second one and it sold some copies but just not enough especially since I wrote that book for two years and worked very hard researching my topic and so forth. It sucked so much because I knew that the content of my book was brilliant and that it was about something that was and still is a very serious topic. Ever since then I have learned about how to really sell books directly and also digitally, I have learned about how to reach the right people who will actually buy your book and not make comments about it, I learned about how to handle my finances so that I can reinvest the money from book sales back into making more book sales...I have learned so much after publishing 4 books of mine and selling over 10 000 copies, that number sounds small and insignificant next to bigger ones but trust me it's not easy to sell that many books but I have figured out what worked and what works for me and I hope that it works for you too. Are you ready to give your book the chance to really be successful? Get my book, it's a short read and it's also very practical by asking you to do certain things which will help you to understand the material more. What more is there to say, let's start selling more books!!

eBay, Amazon, Etsy, & Fiverr So many choices How do you decide? Which site is right for your online business? Many books promise to share the secrets to getting wealthy selling online. They tell you to sell this or that product, or to try this top secret listing method, or to sign up for this course. But, that's all they are - promises. Sell It Online is different. It's written by a real eBay Power Seller and Top Rated Seller. One who's been selling on eBay and Amazon for over fifteen years. Most importantly, Sell It Online doesn't make any crazy promises that you'll make a million dollars overnight selling on any of these sites. It's not going to happen. It also doesn't tell you that you can make three thousand dollars a month following my method, because those kinds of promises don't make sense. Anyone can make money selling online. But, you aren't going to make a fortune following someone else's plan.

Whether you are thinking about publishing your own book, or your book is already in print, this practical step-by-step guide tells you how to lead a successful marketing campaign to raise your profile as a published author and sell more copies of your book. Every author wants to do his or her part to help their book reach its intended market. This book gives you the knowledge to do so. The marketing activities explained in this book are set out in sequential order from pre-publication through to post-publication over a three-year period. This book tells you everything you need to know to make your book the commercial success that it deserves.

The sales manager's step-by-step guide to better team performance As an experienced sales manager, how do you improve your team's performance? Which selling skills, developed to their fullest potential, have the greatest impact on revenues and profitability? You Can Always Sell More will guide you through a proven step-by-step system for evaluating, training, and coaching your sales force. It will help you establish a simple and effective evaluation and improvement planning process for even your most successful salespeople. Proven in a wide array of industries, this will also show you how to improve your ability to coach and lead a team of sales professionals. Jim Pancero (Eden Prairie, MN) is the founder of one of the country's most advanced sales and sales management training and consulting firms. He has conducted training sessions for over 200,000 experienced corporate sales-team members, association attendees, and graduate-level university students.

Read this if you want to sell more books, make more money as an author, or rank higher in your category. My name is Nick Vulich. The first thing you should know about me is I'm not a writer, and I'm not an expert on self-publishing either. I never worked in the industry, and I don't have any experience working for the big publishers. In fact, the only thing I consider myself an expert in is how to sell on eBay, Amazon, and Fiverr... So why should you listen to me? Like most indie authors, I came into publishing through the back door. I had a story to tell, and one day I just sat down and let it all come out. What I wrote wasn't pretty, or polished...but, it helped a lot of people sell more stuff on eBay. What I couldn't say with fancy prose, I made up for with enthusiasm. Because of that, my books sold. I'm not going to lie to you. It wasn't easy. I read just about every book available on self-publishing. I studied up on KDP Free days, Countdown Deals, price pulsing...