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How You Too Can Become a Best Selling Author on Amazon.com

  
  
  
  
  
  

Focus on the Benefits of the Reader

If you’re writing copy for a non-fiction book, you have to focus on the benefits of how your baby will solve your readers’ problems.  You can do that my presenting bulleted lists of your benefits.  Then you strategically place the FREE bonuses the reader is going to receive within the body of the copy. You’re taking the reader on a journey of what they’re going to receive when they order by a certain date. For best results, you should have a 48 hour deadline. You want the most books bought it the least amount of time to increase the book’s ranking.

You’re going to have to invest sweat equity. Give yourself 6 weeks before you’re ready to launch your campaign. Go to chat rooms, forums, do a Google search of popular websites that are in your particular self-help genre to locate marketers who might team up with you. To reach bestselling status, you need ezine list owners that are a compliment to your book. Be prepared for some list owners to not respond.  Be persistent.

Make no mistake:  If you wrote a self-help book for women, an Internet marketer with mostly male biz-opp names is NOT going to want to get involved with you!

Don’t Let List Owners Take Advantage

When they give you the freebie without mailing to their own list, they’re being selfish and piggy-backing off your hard work. This is a joint venture where everyone that’s helping you will also benefit when buyers of your book become subscribers of their ezine.  It’s a win-win for everyone.  Also, instead of using text copy in an e-mail, get a web designer to create an inviting, pleasing landing page so everyone could get the offer. 

Outsource Tasks For Better Results

To become a bestselling author yourself, to get people to open their wallets, you need:

  • Strong, compelling copy, along with a short deadline for the reader to take action by.
  • An inviting and pleasing website page, NOT long, wordy copy in an e-mail.
  • Present your offer to the properly targeted list and you’ll sell LOTS of books. 

When you make it all happen according to your plan, then you can brag to family members, friends, and foes that you’re a best selling author!!! Won’t that be fun?

Comments

Hey-Nothing in life is black and white, including marketing and sales. You cannot say this will work, or that will work in the jungle of life and sales and such. I do agree, make no mistakes, that is the firm foundaion of creating a win-win situation in life, business and war. Not too mention love! Love of war and winning my way to the top! By the way-If I step on anyone, don't take it personally, apparently we all have choices! I believe that bragging about book sales or hair color changes, in certian circles, is not the motivating factor, the bottom line is though....but what is that? Everyone who is anyone talks about "the bottom line" that works, my best advice as a private writer.... Make the plot juicy, the premise soggy, make the climax unique, the ending unforgettable, and you'll seduce readers at the book registers, water coolers, and online!(That's what I was just thinking). 
 
 
 
Cleopatra (without a wig today).
Posted @ Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:12 PM by Octavia?
I think that the first sentence says it all. This may not be that easy to do with fiction, though.  
How can you convince the reader that his book about ten headed Martians is going to benefit a reader's life? 
That's the challenge, isn't it?
Posted @ Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:32 AM by Niki
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