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  1. ctcrompton

    Dip Them Toes In...

    PUBLISHING 
    Hey @Selfy ! The business is doing well, but it's gross not, monthly net. So now I'm about at 12k almost, but this isn't monthly. In other words, not enough to quit my slow lane job. However, I consider reading and writing a hobby of mine, as well as a creative outlet, and making money off of...
  2. ctcrompton

    Dip Them Toes In...

    PUBLISHING 
    1. I always immediately put new books out for the 5 days of promotional use. I have not yet advertised any books. 2. For my non-fiction books, a few people left reviews randomly, and that I believe has helped my cause. 3. For fiction, the name I use the most has a website to go with it. And I...
  3. ctcrompton

    Dip Them Toes In...

    PUBLISHING 
    So just about one year ago, I began writing short stories and publishing them on Amazon. I outsourced most of the stories, spent more than I earned initially, and then moved on to other ideas. I now have a business that's done a little over $10k since it began a few months ago, so the "process"...
  4. ctcrompton

    Mental Break-Through

    EXECUTION 
    Holy shit, I think I'm having a mental break-through. Thanks to everyone in this forum, including @zen******* and @Laverdure @MJ DeMarco and more. It seems failing fast is great and easy. Once you lose your fear of spending money, you can test out different ads on different platforms. Right now...
  5. ctcrompton

    ADWords Help

    MARKETING 
    Would you mind explaining this a bit more in depth @Andy Black? Great info!
  6. ctcrompton

    18 Advanced AdWords Tips

    MARKETING 
    I'm enthralled with the idea of setting up a new campaign with two ad groups, and one keyword in each - exact match. My only issue now to get a product to sell so I can experiment with Adwords in these ways. The ebook writing (my current fastlane project) is going well but I don't know how...
  7. ctcrompton

    18 Advanced AdWords Tips

    MARKETING 
    Dude. Been reading through your blog... Great advice. I love the experimental mentality that you have with Adwords. It's not just buying traffic to increase sales, it's buying traffic to see how efficient you're operating, and then as you optimize, sales almost seem to be a by-product of...
  8. ctcrompton

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

    PUBLISHING 
    MUCH Appreciated!
  9. ctcrompton

    Beta Readers...

    PUBLISHING 
    @Rem: Thanks for the input! Back when I produced music, I'd play it for others to receive feedback. I'm not too much concerned about criticism, considering I've only been writing for a few months. I'm primarily curious about where to find such a group of beta readers. That aside, I will...
  10. ctcrompton

    Beta Readers...

    PUBLISHING 
    I've been writing erotica for about three months now. I started outsourcing it, but then switched over to writing it because I feel I can write better than the freelancers I was paying. I've been seeing the same thing. And even then, the Erotica and Romance breaks down further. There appears...
  11. ctcrompton

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

    PUBLISHING 
    Thanks for the response Aubrey! If you had to do it over again, would you repeat what you did by starting off in Erotica? Or would you just jump right into Romance?
  12. ctcrompton

    Beta Readers...

    PUBLISHING 
    Makes sense lol. What do you call the people that receive free copies in exchange for reviews? Either way, I'm interested in both.
  13. ctcrompton

    Beta Readers...

    PUBLISHING 
    In my attempts at cracking the Amazon charts of Romance and Erotica books, I've studied a lot of things about self-publishing. It seems one of the successful promotional tools is providing free copies of a book to beta readers, who then offer reviews on Amazon. Where are such readers found...
  14. ctcrompton

    Lurve stories for fun and profit [progress thread]

    PUBLISHING 
    I find that quite a few authors I've met have started off in Erotica and eventually switched over to Romance. Is it a better-paying genre? I've mostly been writing erotic short stories under a few pen names, and they're hit or miss for me. I'm just intimidated by writing a full-blown romance...
  15. ctcrompton

    No network? No money? No idea? No education? NO PROBLEM!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Just wanted to chime in here. I've been doing my own reaching out and have been keeping detailed reports of who has responded, who's been interviewed, etc. I've so far emailed/Facebook messaged/website-contacted 43 industry experts. 20 have responded. I've sent interviews to 19 of them, and...
  16. ctcrompton

    At the very beginning...

    PUBLISHING 
    Not sure how exactly accurate it is, but here's what I do: 1. type in an inspiring author's name in salesrankexpress.com. 2. Look up the sales rank of books published by said author. 3. Use either the chart on this page -> http://www.theresaragan.com/p/sale-ranking-chart.html or one of these...
  17. ctcrompton

    At the very beginning...

    PUBLISHING 
    Been a bit since I've been on Fastlane here. All good reasons, like how I've been spending my time actually writing. I've officially been self-publishing for three months now, and I'm really enjoying it. After a bout with outsourcing, I felt that I couldn't achieve the same desired results as if...
  18. ctcrompton

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

    PUBLISHING 
    I read through some tutorials and indeed they are helpful. They also jive with what I've learned so far. If and when you begin such a publishing/promotional service for writers, please count me in! P.S. Another question - would such a service apply to writers outside of romance fiction?
  19. ctcrompton

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

    PUBLISHING 
    As someone still very new to self-publishing, I would gladly sign up for this, especially since, as @COSenior said, half of a lot is more than all of nothing. However, as someone who barely has a following now, would there be help along the way? By this I mean that if you do all the marketing...
  20. ctcrompton

    My Take on Self-Publishing

    PUBLISHING 
    Are these mostly novel-length books?
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