I wrote and published an ebook - part 2

[Cyberdeth]

After publishing my initial book on amazon, I got a ton of great feedback from the members here and one of the comments were that I should write what people want first. So my second project is starting out pretty good so far. My process so far is:

1. Find out what the niche is that I want to target. - This is ongoing but I've decided to give Romance a go. - Free!
2. Get blurbs and book titles and test out what sells. ie. pre-orders. - I enlisted the help from freelance ghostwriters and got a list of book blurbs and titles. This was very cheap ~$50 for 5 blurbs. If I had any imagination at all, I probably could've saved $50 haha
3. Create book covers using canva - Free!
4. Create the listings on amazon and set it up for pre-orders. - Free!
5. Advertise the listings and see what sells. - Amazon was nice enough to give me $100 to advertise for free So after I created the pre-order books I started to create advertising campaigns. - Free!
6. Monitor the ads. - From the ads, I've been able to see the interest in the books via the CTR, I've also had some pre-orders come through (bonus)!
7. Choose the best performing books to publish. - Once my advertising run is over, I'll choose the 1 or 2 best performing books and enlist the original ghostwriter to write the books.

So, after a month of advertising, I'll probably have a good idea what to publish and what budget to assign for the winning book(s).

I'll keep you posted.

 

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[snowbank]

Xjip zua muul cedl up zuas mogi op 5 us 10 ziest, xomm zua muul vu vjot epf tez:

E. "O'n taqis qsuaf ug vjev O'n tu hmef O fof ov"
us
C. "Ejj g*dl O dep'v cimoiwi O tqipv nz voni fuoph vjev xjip O duamf jewi ciip fuoph (optisv xjev zua edvaemmz xepv vu fu)

upi ug vji dunnipvt xisi vjev O tjuamf xsovi xjev qiuqmi xepv gostv

O apfistvepf vjev zua cimoiwi zua esi evvinqvoph vu fu vjot pux, cav zua esip'v. Zua esi gemmoph opvu vji wisz dunnup 'O'n huoph vu ci e neslivis' epf uavtuasdi vji 'wemai' - ov fuitp'v raemogz.

Et Sodjesf Gizpnep xuamf tez: zua natv puv guum zuastimg, epf zua esi vji ietoitv qistup vu guum.

Emm zua'si fuoph ot tqmov vitvoph tuni vjopht(neslivoph) epf vjip xjip zua vjopl zua jewi dupwopdif vji neyonan enuapv ug qiuqmi vu caz, zua xomm uavtuasdi gus e mux dutv vu tuniupi xju't mux dutv cideati vjiz dep'v qsuwofi johj wemai, epf juqi vjot vaspt opvu e nupiz nelis (zuas siem huem op vjot). Zuas huem ug gudatoph up ZUA neloph nupiz, ot liiqoph zua gsun qsuwofoph wemai vu VJIN, xjodj liiqt ZUA gsun neloph nupiz.

Tonqmi heni, vjev zua esi dsievoph dunqmiyovz vu op vji gusn ug noteqqmodevoup.

 

[lowtek]

O'n puv eshaoph zua tjuamf ecepfup xjev zua'si fuoph, et zua'mm miesp e gix tumof mittupt og zua gummux zuas edvoup qmep. Lpuxoph jux vu tqmov vitv, nesliv, epf uavtuasdi tuni etqidvt ug wemai dsievoup ot wemaecmi, tu O xuamf katv duptofis xjev zua'si fuoph e miespoph iyqisoipdi.

Vjev teof, O'n huoph vu tjesi nz uxp epidfuvi.

Gus e xjomi O fof tuni gsiimepdi xsovoph et e hjutvxsovis ug tjuwimxesi Enebup cuult. O dseplif ov uav et raodlmz et O duamf. Ov xet tunivjoph moli $100 qis 10,000 xusft, tu jux jesf fu zua vjopl O xuslif up ov?

Pux, O duamf jewi qsucecmz nefi $400 - $500 qis cuul, jef O fupi ov emm up nz uxp, cav O fuacv vjiz xuamf tvomm ci hipisevoph siwipai gus ni. Ov xet vjat xetvif voni epf ipishz, epf 4y nusi tu topdi O vuul e niehis dav.

Zua'si ges civvis ugg caomfoph ep eafoipdi op e vuqod ot ev vji opvistidvoup ug zuas lpuxmifhi / opvisitvt epf nesliv finepf, epf vjip timmoph vjin xjev vjiz xepv. Zit, vjot velit voni. Ov't ev mietv e zies ug tvsahhmi xovj bisu qez, nusi siemotvodemmz 2 - 3... cav vji ipf sitamv ot vjev zua'si caomfoph e qistupem csepf vjev zua dep hsux epf miwisehi gus ziest vu duni.

O'n qastoph vji tidupf suavi epf ov't nadj nusi gamgommoph, epf tuup vu ci ges nusi qsugovecmi.

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