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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Hey Pete,
I have another question. Currently I am self-publishing Erotica on the german Amazon platform. Now they made some changes and unfortunately all books that are in the Erotica category don't have a Amazon Best Sellers Rank anymore. You still can see if it is in the top 100 in erotica but not the general ranking. Now I can not see how well a book sells which is hard for research.
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I can see that some authors started to publish their erotica in general romance to have more visibility. But my books are too short for romance, only 5K words long which is fine for erotica but would get probably bad reviews in other categories.
What would your recommend? Should I change the category to romance and let my freelancers write more words?
Or would you stay in erotica and trust the top 100 for my research (without Best Seller Rang visibility)?
10) When sales start to slide, take a screenshot of your highest monthly earnings and build a $500 course around earning 1K on the side.
@ped89 I read my post again, and while I don't regret what I wrote, the tone could've been nicer towards someone offering to share. There's good and bad ways to do anything and I shouldn't jump to conclusions. Of course I think self-publishing is a viable fastlane, given the commandments are respected. Also, there's nothing wrong with the marketing techniques of building a respectful sales funnel through email, blogs and leveraging amazon itself. Just weary of the internet marketing circus.
Thanks for your reply and advice Pete!600 position in US store for erotica is GREAT.
Hey Ped, I was wondering if you could elaborate a little more on your process of hiring and working with writers?
This is probably naive of me but it sounds as though you're approaching writers on the cheap (as it's Fiverr!) and they'll delivering an eBook a week later. I'd imagine the quality would be pretty poor (as I've used Fiverr in the past and I wouldn't have a tremendous amount of faith in them delivering a quality 10k word eBook in 7 days) but you've already stated that quality is really important to you. What am I missing here?
- Do you approach them with a subject and a list of resources that you want them to reference from?
- Are the ghost writers specialists in a certain area or just generic writers who you are approaching to churn out specific content?
- What is your process for deciding what the subject matter should be about?
Thanks in advance!
This is only my opinion. I hope the OP's offer is great.
But my experience is this is an outsourced pump and dump "model", like Kindle Money Mastery, etc. I call it pump and dump because these ghostwritten books straddle the fence between mildly helpful and junk. They're short, cheap, and say just enough to call it a book, but not enough to be genuinely helpful, nor anger people enough to ask for their $2 back. You typically invest $1000-$3000 to create 20 or so small books, include a copycat cover, clickbait title, email opt-in and related affiliate links in the book's text and cross sell them against each other.
pro-ebook covers is awesome. She is really good.Hi Pete,
what is your source for covers (non-fiction and fiction)?
If you are using Fiverr for cover design, can you recommend a specific contact that you had good experience with?
Thanks!
@ped89 i have no capital to buy a cover for my fitness book, i have no idea what to do. Tried messing around on photoshop but it ends up looking very unprofessional
You can get very decent covers on fiverr to start with. I am sure you can invest 5$?!
Something to watch out for with Fiverr covers is whether or not they supply a photo. I thought about using Fiverr to speed things up the other night, but noticed a lot of the samples don't have people on them, which leads me to believe they're mostly artistic creations. These covers can work well for a variety of different genres but for a fitness book it could be a problem since he probably needs a muscular body in the image.
The one time I used Fiverr for a cover it turned out well, but I had to supply my own image.
This is such a coincidence, I am actually also using Angie (pro-ebook covers) on Fiverr and yes, she is awesome!pro-ebook covers is awesome. She is really good.
AWESOME!I just made my first sale. I wrote short story yesterday, done a bit of research on the patterns and book reviews, saw comments "i need more of these!", made cover, and by the night I made my first 2.10 dollars. I know it's nothing but for me it's motivating!
Thanks Pete! Now I guess I have to scale it up!
well if you want to write a book to sell, check out genres that has competition (on amazon). (as icecream kid says) if there is competion there is a need. but given most dont want to market, you need to also delve into deeper genres in such cases.Question for you all: Would you read a book about a college kids experience and journey in shanghai?
Probably sound pretty stupid, but the amount of people who visit the page, and ask for more posts is substantial. D
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or eroticame personally, "college kids experience" isnt much interest unless it is a thriller.
@ped89
Are you still focusing on this business? Just curious as to how everything is going and if you've changed your approach at all.
Hey, sorry on the late reply.
So, I'm not focused on this exact business, but still in the trenches every single day. I'll explain...
I scaled it up a bit then sold the business and teamed up with Austin from http://epic-launch.com
So, although I'm still in the industry not focused on the business this thread was about.
As far as what changed in my approach, the same model still works, it's takes a little bit more effort to make money from it as the market has become saturated so the things that are even more important than ever are VERY high-quality covers, descriptions and of course... content in the book. There's so much shit content avail. that quality is more important than ever.
Building out a series of books is still a key to getting as much organic traffic from Amazon as possible. And of course, collecting emails from books is crucial too.
Happy to answer any more questions
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