Amazon Kindle is one of the hottest niches on the web right now and this is where every author should be. The traffic is truly amazing. I know that from personal experience. Without much advertising on my part (yet!), my books are selling and one has even reached #2 on the Kindle BestSeller List in the prophecy section.

I want to know how to move them even faster and found an interesting-looking program from Ken Sar. I have purchased it and am about to extract what I can effectively use. I thought you might like to take a look as well. I know you – like me – want to publish and sell more books. We want our voice to be heard.

According to top researchers, nearly $1 billion dollars worth of ebooks were sold last year and by the year 2015 that number is expected to grow to over $3 billion dollars…

Ebooks are changing the face of the publishing industry as we know it.

This is what Ken is offering in his Kindle Publishing Course:

• 10-professionally created MP4 Video Modules
• 10-professionally created MP3 audio files
• Kindle Publishing System EBOOK
• Mindmaps
• Plus Extra Bonuses that you will love

You may check it out HERE.

Content of the Ten Modules:

• Module 1: Learn the differences between traditional and self publishing.
• Module 2: Learn about the Kindle Bookstore and what it is.
• Module 3: Learn how to understand your readers and what they expect.
• Module 4: Learn if you should target a specific Niche Audience.
• Module 5: Learn about Kindle pricing Strategies.
• Module 6: Learn about Professional or Self Editing methods and what is best.
• Module 7: Learn about the Importance of Creating Attention Grabbing ecovers.
• Module 8: Learn about using Specific advertising Techniques to promote your Kindle ebook.
• Module 9: Learn Step by Step How to Publish your ebook on the KDI Network.
• Module 10: Final Recap and Summary, Bringing it all together.

Visit Ken’s site for more information about The Kindle Publishing System.

My Kindle Publishing Made Easy eGuide takes you step-by-step through the process of formatting your book and uploading it to the Kindle site, but to make more sales, we need to get very involved in marketing and this is where Ken’s course may be of benefit to Kindle authors.

To Your Publishing Success!

Val

The vast majority of your prospects aren’t all that passionate about your offer.

Truth is, they’re kind of lukewarm. They’re interested, but they’re not taking their credit card out. Instead of making a buying decision, they decide to “think about it.”

Of course you know what happens: They forget about your offer. They don’t return to your store or sales page. Some of them may even make the conscious decision to NOT buy your product.

So what can you do to get your prospects to get excited and take action NOW?

Simple: Offer them an incentive if they order now. Do it right, and you’re virtually guaranteed to make more sales!

Generally, an incentive can take two forms:

1. You offer a discount. One idea is the straightforward discount, such as offering a percent-off. Another ideas is to offer a discount on the overall package, such as by offering free shipping.

Tip: You can even make it a limited-time discount so that your prospects feel a sense of urgency.

2. You offer one or more bonus products. Again, you can even make the bonus offer limited to increase the sense of urgency.

Offering a discount is a pretty straightforward incentive. So let’s talk about how to offer a bonus as a buying incentive.

Here then are the seven keys to offering bonuses that generate extra sales:

• Make sure the bonus is desirable. Point is, if your prospects don’t care about the bonus product, then it won’t help you generate any sales. So make sure it’s something that your prospects already want. Something that gets them excited!

• Create a valuable bonus. Just because you’re giving the product away for free with a purchase doesn’t mean this bonus should be worth little to no money. Quite the contrary – it should have a high perceived value in the prospect’s mind.

• Choose bonuses that are easy to deliver. This is particularly true if you’re selling downloadable products online, such as software or information. Point is, you want to be able to deliver the bonus instantly – right alongside the main product – without you having to manually deliver the bonus.

• Supply an exclusive bonus, whenever possible. If the prospect can get the bonus somewhere else, he might just do that. So try to offer exclusive bonuses to help make the buying decision easy.

• Offer a bonus that compliments the main product. For example, let’s say you’re selling a book about retirement planning. Offering retirement-planning worksheets and software as a bonus would be a great incentive.

• Sell the bonus. If you’re selling via a sales page, don’t just list the bonus. Instead, sell it just the way you’re selling the main product, meaning you should list the benefits of this bonus product or service.

• Remember that you can offer products OR services. Let’s say you’re selling exterior landscaping supplies and information. As a bonus you can offer a free consultation where you provide specific landscaping ideas for buyers. Or if you’re selling a copywriting product, you can offer a sales letter critique.

Conclusion

Offering an incentive is a simple, yet highly effective way to generate more sales and grow your business. To discover still more ways to grow your business, visit  Jimmy’s site – you may just learn strategies you never even knew existed!

These are strategies we can use as authors to make our books go viral.

Val

P.S. Membership of the iBusiness Owner’s membership site is just $10 per month at the moment. On March 7 it will go up to $47. Jimmy is an ethical internet marketer and a Christian and he offers outstanding advice, resources and help for ebook authors, infoproduct creators, affiliate marketers, membership site owners, bloggers and others who own internet businesses. Really worth a look!

The Kindle Link Bait guide shows you several incredibly powerful promotional ways to gain more sales and help your Kindle book go viral, without inadvertently putting your Amazon account at risk.

One of the most important things I learned from this guide is that Amazon does not allow you, under any circumstances, to use reviews posted on their website, even if they are for your own books. If you do that and their automated software discovers it (and they will), your account will be closed and that will be the end of this very lucrative opportunity. If you have done that, delete the reviews immediately. Fortunately, I haven’t used any of their reviews, but in my ignorance of their Terms of Service, I could well have done this in the future.

It would have been worth buying this guide just for this information! But there is much more.

The methods of promotion Sam shares are time-tested, simple, quick and easy to set up. They not only help sell more books, they also protect your account.

You will also discover two simple and cool WordPress plugins that could send your Kindle sales upward and gain viral Facebook reviews and traffic.

My goal is to sell one million Kindle books this year and I will be following as much of their advice as I can. Perhaps you should too.

Click here to view the product.

Val

The bottom line is that any writer who sells books is a writer who gets personally involved in marketing their book. Their advice in this area is practical, helpful and sure to result in increased royalties for those who take it seriously.

The Amazon/Kindle marketplace are the two largest sources in the world today for new sales. Vincent Zandri sold over 75,000 copies of one of his books in just five weeks. John Locke sold one million in five months. The traffic is huge and hungry.

D.D. Scott said that when her books were listed in the first 100 best sellers, her royalties increased from $3,000 per month to $14,000 in December, 2011.

Three things that took my attention in Professional Kindle Marketing were:

• Listing your other books and contact details on the last page of your book.
• Encouraging people to sign up to an autoresponder so you can keep in touch with them on an ongoing basis.
• The value of good reviews. Customer testimonials are one of the most effective sales tools on the product page.

There is so much more, like great advice on pricing strategies and how to use social marketing to your benefit.

We need to stop treating our books like a hobby and start treating it like a real business!

Professional Kindle Marketing is the perfect companion to my eGuide “Kindle Publishing Made Easy”. I tell you how to publish a Kindle book and Professional Kindle Marketing tells you how to create a buzz around it.

It is an excellent buy.

Here’s the link:
http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/professional_kindle_marketing

Val

I want to recommend an ebook I purchased recently. Professional Kindle Marketing not only covers marketing a Kindle book in-depth, it also shows you how to market any book advertised on the multitude of Amazon web properties.

But more than that, “Professional Kindle Marketing” will teach you how to market your books Inside and Outside of the Amazon/Kindle marketplace.

This book covers Kindle Marketing, Amazon Marketing and General Book Marketing principles in great depth.

In 70-pages, this book will teach you everything you need to know, in order for you to:

Explode Your Book Sales!! AND Dramatically Increase Your Book Royalties!!

* Has your book been published by a print publishing house?
* Are you self-publishing your book?
* Have you published a Kindle book yet?
* Do you have book titles listed for sale inside of Amazon?
* Are you selling any books online?
* Are you still selling any of your books/reports as PDF documents only?
* Are you wondering if you should publish your book on Amazon / Kindle?
* Do you know how to price your books to maximize your royalties?

If you have answered Yes to any of these questions, then I really really recommend getting your own copy of the 70-page book marketing guide called, “Professional Kindle Marketing”.

This product focuses exclusively on marketing books inside and outside of the Amazon/Kindle marketplace.

It does not teach people how to format and upload Kindle books, a topic adequately covered in my eGuide “Kindle Publishing Made Easy.”

Here’s the link:

http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/professional_kindle_marketing

Get Your Copy Today.

Val

P.S. This is a perfect companion to my eGuide “Kindle Publishing Made Easy” available at http://kindlepublishingmadeeasy.com

Walk with Val Mitchell and myself for four months and we will show you how to start your own online business writing and selling small informational products.

Click HERE for more information.

How did he do that? In his Kindle book “How I Sold A Million Books In 5 Months” he shares some of his methods and I thought this group might find it interesting. Here’s
a short link to the description page on Amazon: http://ow.ly/64amA

Briefly, this is what he advises:

* Define your General Target Audience – the people who love the kind of books you write and would buy them if they knew about them.

* Create your book – write specifically for your General Target Audience. He very consciously writes a novel that he believes will delight his General Target Audience — and nobody else. He really doesn’t care if he offends everybody else.

* Create your platform – when you create your platform (including a web site, blog, Facebook page, etc., you should do everything in your power to make it as appealing as possible to your General Target Audience.

* Launch your book – when you launch your book, you should do everything in your power to reach those people in your General Target Audience. If you accidentally reach other people too who somewhat like your book, that’s fine, but your General Target Audience will be the ones who love your book and spread the word.

* Grow your platform – continue to focus on building an online presence that makes your General Target Audience happy. You’ll focus on adding them to your e-mail database, and they’ll be delighted to be there, because there’s nothing they want more than to hear when your next book comes out.

* Market your book – focus on crafting a message designed to appeal to people in your General Target Audience. You reach them; they’ll reach everybody else. Use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

I think he really makes a good point. He’s not just “going fishing” and hoping for the best, but specifically going after a particular niche of people within a targeted group.

Something to mull over…

Val

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1. Author Reputation – 52%

2. Personal Recommendation – 49%

3. Price – 45%

4. Book Reviews – 37%

5. Cover Blurb – 22%

6. Advertising (including online) – 14%

Makes you think, doesn’t it? We must get our books and eBooks “out there” so people can become familiar with us as authors.

There is a very cost-effective way to do that by publishing your paperpack edition on Amazon.com via Createspace and your Kindle edition in Amazon’s Kindle Store.

Want to know more? Take a look here:

http://kindlepublishingmadeeasy.com with bonus eBook about publishing with Createspace.

Val

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The internet has opened up tremendous opportunities for anyone who wants to have their own online business. The sky is the limit for creative writing.

Previously, people dreamed about owning a business, but became discouraged at the high costs involved.  Technology has now made it possible to run an online business with very little financial capital. In fact, some very successful online businesses have been built, quite literally, out of “thin air”.

The lifeblood of internet business, whatever type of model you use,  is TRAFFIC. You can have the best website, the sharpest squeeze pages, the greatest products in the world, but if no-one comes to see them, you’re dead in the water. If you’re willing to do some work using the right methods, you can go a long way to getting that traffic!

There are basically 2 ways to get the traffic. You can BUY it, or you can ATTRACT it. Many have worked hard at advertising an online business and ended up with little more than a maxed out credit card for their trouble.

Here are some methods you can use:

1. Viral Marketing
2. Giveaway Events
3. Membership Sites
4. Article Marketing
5. Social Sites – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
6. Squidoo
7. Forums
8. Traffic Exchanges
9. Joint Ventures
10. Ad-swaps
11. Free gifts with affiliate links

If you want more information, I recommend Phil Morgan’s “Minimum Budget Maximum Traffic” audio course, where he shares some free (or almost free) techniques on how to attract traffic to your product without breaking the bank.

More information here:  Minimum Budget Maximum Traffic

Remember, no one will buy your product if they don’t know it exists!

Blessings!

Val