Episode 225 – Audible Bounties, Book Description Keywords, and Make or Break Moments

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Question of the Week: If you were forced into a “make or break moment,” what would you do differently with your author business to get the money you needed in time?

What’s your do or die author strategy to get the money you need for your business? Jim tells us a little about AuthorAccelerate.com and how it can benefit authors with a big bundle of helpful services including one-on-ones. The Happy Book Reviews winner is Allen Alright. Bryan thanks our fabulous Patrons – Email Lists Made Easy for Writers and Bloggers, Sanyare: The Last Descendant, and The Ten-Year Turnaround: Transform Your Personal Finances and Achieve Financial Freedom in The Next Ten Years. The Hot Tips this week include how IngramSpark allows you to personalize your paperbacks for $1 per copy, why a writing routine is critical for author success, and what you need to know about keywords in your Amazon book description. The five stories that made the cut this week are which trademark dilemma is rocking the author world, why the Audible bounty increase may have a hidden downside, how constant care and attention to your marketing and content can add to your bottom line, how book stuffing and gaming the system is losing momentum and indie authors are finding huge success, and why giving readers something they don’t know they want can pay off BIG! Question of the Week: If you were forced into a “make or break moment,” what would you do differently with your author business to get the money you needed in time?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How you can personalize your paperback for just $1
  • Why you need a daily writing routine
  • What you should consider when trying to get more organic Amazon traffic
  • How another author has gotten into some trouble with trademarks
  • Why ACX’s increased bounty comes with strings attached
  • How David Berens hit $50k by tweaking his way to success
  • Why self-publishing’s recent news shows the industry is maturing
  • How one author Wrote to Opportunity to create her own genre
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