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What's Your Kindle Secret?

by drum.deborah
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I am sure anyone who publishes books has a kindle secret that think they do really well. Whether it is the writing part or the outsourcing part or maybe even the title keyword researching / picking great titles.

I would love to hear from you what your secret is. You don't have to give them all away (or you can if you want to)

Please leave a comment. I am working on some things to help book publishers help each other!

Let's make it together!

Debbie
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  • Profile picture of the author makingiants
    Using social media to hype your Kindle Book and get more sales.
    Try Ping.fm and Hootsuite, hook them up with a blog highlighting
    Kindle book subjects.

    Sound good?

    Hope this helps.
    Vince aka makingiants
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  • Profile picture of the author Norfolk
    Upload several books at once. Amazon loves when you publish more than one book in a go, and they reward you with better positioning.
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  • Profile picture of the author BrianTerr
    Keyword Tag, Kindle Select, and the very best front cover you can.
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisg942
      A really good cover can sell your books fast. That is something I like to do along with doing lots of research before I start writing.
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      • Profile picture of the author pianorosa
        When I first started, I didn't have time to write my own Kindle Books. So I uploaded about 150+ public domain books to put books on my kindle bookshelf to see if people would buy.

        The first secret: Know how to format the books. Get the .rtf files from Gutenberg and just format, add some illustrations, annotations, introductions & upload a book a day. I did that for about 3 months.

        I was surprised that people actually bought them. My first month had about $57. And even more surprising now is that a few of the public domain books get bought 2 or 3 times a day and these are not hungry buyers niche

        The downside is that with public domain books, I get only 35%. Even if I raise the price to $3+, it is still a very low income, but they are still able to pay my internet bills. This is all passive income.

        So when I saw these consistent sales with the public domain books last year, I started writing Best Sellers books that give 70% income with lots of sales/day.

        Rosa
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
    Not really a secret but many people don't do this and get it wrong...

    Write epic sh*t!
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Pick a strong niche that no one else is really competing.

    Then use a pen name so that marketers cannot figure out what you are doing. :p

    After all, if you did the first step right, you don't want a bunch of people, who did not do the proper research, copying you and competing with you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amy Harrop
    Not sure if it's really a secret, but don't see it listed here so I will mention it. Make sure to have an About the Author page in all of your Kindle titles:
    -List your other published Kindle title urls.
    -Include Your Amazon Author page url
    -Include your Website url
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
      Originally Posted by Amy Harrop View Post

      Not sure if it's really a secret, but don't see it listed here so I will mention it. Make sure to have an About the Author page in all of your Kindle titles:
      -List your other published Kindle title urls.
      -Include Your Amazon Author page url
      -Include your Website url
      Great points Amy. I would also include social media URL's and make sure all of them are also "clickable".
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    • Profile picture of the author gotmerunnin
      Originally Posted by Amy Harrop View Post

      Not sure if it's really a secret, but don't see it listed here so I will mention it. Make sure to have an About the Author page in all of your Kindle titles:
      -List your other published Kindle title urls.
      -Include Your Amazon Author page url
      -Include your Website url
      Great idea! I'm going to do just that.

      But, this makes me wonder.

      If I edit a Kindle book (add an "About the Author" page) that's already for sale , and has been for awhile, will that affect the rankings I've earned in my category, as well as the position when someone searches relevant keywords?
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    Try to connect with readers of your books and books in your niche on Facebook and Twitter. Promote your books there.

    When looking at topics, I usually find topics where there are a few books there with reviews but not to many. (Anywhere from 5 books to 60 works for me.) Make a point to read the reviews of other books and see why they got anything other than 5 stars so you can make your book BETTER than the other ones.

    Get a great cover. I get mine on Fiverr because I managed to find someone who does covers I love. EVERY one she has ever made me has been fantastic. Try different cover designers until you find one you like.

    If you are doing a lot of books in the same niche, brand yourself! Make a logo that you can put on ever cover and pick a brand name.
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  • Profile picture of the author webboy
    Hi all I have lots of secrets that would like to share
    one tip that I would love to give away is a good book cover will get you a long way also another have you even used the kindle select feature , PM me for more info.
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    • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
      Originally Posted by webboy View Post

      Hi all I have lots of secrets that would like to share
      one tip that I would love to give away is a good book cover will get you a long way also another have you even used the kindle select feature , PM me for more info.
      Why PM you? Why don't you just share what you know here in this thread so that everyone can benefit?
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by webboy View Post

        Hi all I have lots of secrets that would like to share
        one tip that I would love to give away is a good book cover will get you a long way also another have you even used the kindle select feature , PM me for more info.
        Originally Posted by R Hagel View Post

        Why PM you? Why don't you just share what you know here in this thread so that everyone can benefit?

        Yeah, no kidding. We can PM you all day long, but you cannot respond to us, because you don't have enough posts.
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        • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          Yeah, no kidding. We can PM you all day long, but you cannot respond to us, because you don't have enough posts.
          He's a War Room member, though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Lawrence
    I'm looking to get started with Kindle but I don't really know where to begin. I've never written an ebook. I've had a ghostwriter but I'd like to start writing my own ebooks.

    Can someone point me in the right direction?
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    • Profile picture of the author WriterWahm
      Originally Posted by Bill_Lawrence View Post

      I'm looking to get started with Kindle but I don't really know where to begin. I've never written an ebook. I've had a ghostwriter but I'd like to start writing my own ebooks.

      Can someone point me in the right direction?
      What kind of ebook are you wanting to write: fiction or nonfiction?
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      PM me if you want a romantic fiction ghostwriter.

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  • Profile picture of the author InfoStudio
    write only one or two books, and put whole effort in marketing this books instead publishing hundreds of books!
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Carl
    My question is: are all of your published ebooks instructional in nature (how to, etc.), or are they something else? I have never published a Kindle book before, so I am curious as to what types of ebooks you have been successful with.
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