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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    @Berliner030 I started looking into the physical-print side of things, and naturally ran across CreateSpace. Any thoughts on pros/cons of that avenue, other than the relative ease of doing it? I'm also wondering about the advantages or disadvantages of buying custom ISBNs, or if that even...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Thanks for the advice. Interesting about paperback, I will explore that one. Re: price, I guess the only way to find out is to experiment with it. Lots to think about here, much appreciated.
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    Gym in the morning nutrition

    Ok guys, I should have couched that one as "this is my opinion." As long as we're so certain, let's throw some links around and help the OP out. Depends on the protein source, and a bunch of other factors...
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    Gym in the morning nutrition

    I used to have a similar routine. I agree with the previous posters, it is better to work out on an empty stomach, particularly if weights are involved. Here is what I did: Take two shakers: one with your pre-workout drink (creatine-based or whatever). This is already mixed, drink it 30 mins...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Back for another update. Since my last post, I enrolled in KDP select and have been hard at work doing blog postings and trying to boost my social networking skills. Thanks to a well-known person in the field giving me a bump (and me giving him a public thanks) I am starting to see a few more...
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    Charnell's eBook Progress Thread [Here we go, it's getting serious!]

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    Just curious, what are those unit numbers?
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Thanks for the link, will check that out.
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Update: this past week, I experimented with more Facebook-based ads, but I was not seeing results that I wanted (probably due to my own challenges with writing copy). That experiment is not over, but I shifted gears and enrolled in KDP select (@ChickenHawk :-) .....) to see how that goes. I...
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    Charnell's eBook Progress Thread [Here we go, it's getting serious!]

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    Curious to know how your Smashwords experience goes :-)
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Latest dashboard below. These are almost entirely sales from people that I know. They also don't seem to want to post Amazon reviews despite giving me positive feedback verbally :-( Still doing homework on that dreaded thing called "marketing". One of the folks that is pretty successful on...
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    {PROGRESS + ACCOUNTABILITY} LAURYN'S RECONSTRUCTION: GETTING TO 50 SHADES OF PAID

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    Lots of pearls of wisdom on this thread. Way to tough it out and thanks for all the sharing.
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    First eBook Sale Yesterday

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    Way to go!
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Update on this thread....last week I ran a facebook "promotion" to see whether I could generate page-likes to the book facebook page. I ran it for three days, filtered by certain countries and heavily filtering by interest area (all technical or software related fields). That exercise...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Thanks for that, I might have completely missed it!
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    So, holding my nose for a moment...I am not a marketing person either... I'm thinking of it as something of a social experiment. Given the niche as @ChickenHawk rightly points out, facebook, linkedin, and stackoverflow seem like the places to really connect to such audiences, simply because the...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Anti-marketing, that's funny :) Thanks for the comment. I tend to think it is a combination of many of your points. Certainly the niche is small, relative to something like novels for example. I considered the Kindle Select avenue, and still might do that, but the same problem appears to...
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Latest sales dashboard attached. Pretty humble, proof that one needs to market ebooks :-0
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    Ok, I decided to do a science experiment. I will pick a day next week and start a promotion on facebook in several countries that I know have large software dev populations. Then I will monitor the traffic and the sales and see what happens. Why not, right?
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    Lex DeVille's: How to Make $1,000 a Week with no Degree, no Feedback, & no Portfolio.

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    >They care about what they care about, and if you don't show em' you care about the same, then you're not getting shit. Well said!
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    icey502's Publishing Thread

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    I like the idea. I was thinking about reaching out to tech recruiters that place junior to mid level people. Either way, your point is salient, I will put that on my list. Not entirely sure how to use a promotional code with Amazon, but it seems that periodic "free" promotions might be...
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