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    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

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    Can you elaborate on this? Is this one of the gigs where they tweet about your book, or is it something different?
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    50 Shades of Grey?

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    Yeah, he's good for sure. I nosed through his blog and beyond the above average writing skill, many of his posts are polarizing, meaning you are forced to either love him or hate him. This happens to work very well in popular culture, and probably has something to do with why 50 Shades has done...
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    Why "The Fault In Our Stars" Is A Success

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    I stumbled across a post by John Green, the guy who wrote The Fault In Our Stars. Most of you know what book I'm talking about. It's been #1 for months and the movie grossed almost 50 million opening weekend (on like a 5 or 10 million budget). Here, John Green talks about why he thinks the book...
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    Legalized Scamming (Rental Property Stories from HELL)

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    I've got a story, though it involves me as a tenant who lived with bad roommates who caused some trouble. 2012 I was renting a room for a few months short term. I wasn't as picky as I normally would have been because I had been looking for a house for a while and didn't expect it to take much...
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    50 Shades of Grey?

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    This book is proof that being a good writer is not what sells a book. It's marketing, getting people to talk about your book with others, right genre at the right time, book cover, etc. Fiction writers pay attention: writing well alone will not sell your book, though you should try to write much...
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    Finish My Book and Publish

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    From what I've seen, it's how many authors use Twitter to sell books. I actually read about it in a marketing book of a guy who sold a ton of books. Way better than saying "buy my book!". The idea is to build intrigue and get people to click. Beyond that, it's a way to get more Twitter...
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    Finish My Book and Publish

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    The book is currently published on Kobo, Nook, and Google Play. Amazon should go live later today. Going to get it on ibooks once they get their shit together and approve my tax info (there's a reason why Apple is in 5th place). Anyway, Amazon will obviously be the most important, so most of my...
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    Older and feeling behind

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    I feel this way sometimes as well. I'm 31 now, so I've still got a lot of time left (I hope), but I can also remember being 18 like it was just yesterday. I'm older than many people who are uber successful and worth tens of millions of dollars, many I could have gone to school with. But, it's...
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    Will Your Lambo make U happy?

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    I love when I hear people talk about what they would do if they won the lottery. I always pay close attention, because the way they answer that question tells me what kind of person they are. If they immediately start talking about what they would buy, I know immediately that they'd lose in the...
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    I agree somewhat on this, but there are potential problems doing it this way. The problem with playing in Amazon's pool exclusively is you give up control to be a part of their system, which is dangerous to me. It will yield royalties short term, but could end up hurting years down the road as...
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    I agree with you, but I'll take it a little further: --Being a content creator is definitely not the easy way to do it versus creating one product for the masses. The content creator is in a constant state of creating, while the person who creates one product or service only does it a few...
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    This is what I'm doing right out of the gate. I'm putting it everywhere They will have challengers though. Just wait until Apple steps up their game and releases some sort of super e-reader. It will happen eventually. And get those books in print! It is more work (and a larger cost up...
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    Kindle Unlimited... Authors in trouble?

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    In the music business, CDs and downloads have dropped dramatically, but you know what has steadily increased over the last five years? Vinyl sales. Vinyl sales have tripled over the last five years and will continue to go up. Yes, the value of the ebook will go the way of MP3s at some some...
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    How to raise 5M on Kickstarter and Become an instant Millionaire

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    Most successfully funded Kickstarter campaigns: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101829861?slide=1
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    How to raise 5M on Kickstarter and Become an instant Millionaire

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    43 days still left and at 5.5 million. He's going to set a new Kickstarter record, might even clear 20 million. It's amazing to me that a cooler is going to beat Reading Rainbow and Neil Young's Pono. The record is 10.3 million, and this guy is going to smash that.
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    How to raise 5M on Kickstarter and Become an instant Millionaire

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    6 months ago was the dead of winter, at least in the States and Canada it was. Now, we are in the middle of summer, when more people are thinking about coolers, seeing coolers, using coolers. This is a seasonal product (and a product that probably won't get used in Winter) and the demand is...
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    Finish My Book and Publish

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    I'm done editing, so the book is essentially finished. Now I just need to get everything formatted, write a description, and fire away. I don't know how long this part of the process takes, but I may be able to publish sometime next week, or it may be the week after. My plan is to release the...
  18. Magik

    What is your number 1 productivity tip?

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    Eliminate, Automate, Delegate (or outsource), Defer, and Do 1. Eliminate the things that you do not need to be doing. Remove anything from your life that detracts from focus. This could be a job, a negative person, a bad habit, etc. 2. Automate whatever you can, which won't be much beyond...
  19. Magik

    An AMAZING thing happened to my INCOME when I traded-in my rusty Honda for a Viper

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    And you make a good point that sidewalkers don't think about when they buy (or should I say, finance) these cars. It's not just the payment you have to worry about: insurance, maintenance (tires, oil change, ect.), repairs, plus the risk of someone breaking into your car or damaging it just because.
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    An AMAZING thing happened to my INCOME when I traded-in my rusty Honda for a Viper

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    There is something that is more valuable than money, more valuable than things, and one could make an argument that it is more valuable than time. What is this one thing? FREEDOM. As far as I'm concerned, freedom reigns supreme, but now the sad part? No one gives a shit about it anymore. Sure...

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