by Chris O'Byrne | Mar 25, 2018 | Authors, Blog, Book Marketing, Business Growth, Self Publishing, Writing A Book
Limiting beliefs are those beliefs that hold us back from accomplishing great things in our life. I’m going to talk to you about 10 limiting beliefs about writing and publishing a book, something that most of us don’t think we can do or that we think is...
by Chris O'Byrne | May 3, 2016 | Authors, Blog, Business Growth, Self Publishing
Sometime last year I was listening to a podcast that featured Dan Norris. I had never heard of him before. The focus of the podcast was Dan’s successful company, WP Curve, but he also mentioned his book, The 7 Day Startup. Being an entrepreneur and fascinated with the...
by Chris O'Byrne | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Self Publishing
There are many ways for a fiction author to “make it.” The following is method of research, testing, and analysis one way to get started and build financial success as a fiction author. Step 1: Research The basis of this approach is to make the business decision to...
by Chris O'Byrne | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Book Marketing, Self Publishing
Building your book distribution network will require some effort on your part. If you plan your end game in advance, you will be ahead of most people and have the advantage. Your short-term end game, of course, is to sell books, and some people think that is their...
by Chris O'Byrne | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog, Book Marketing, Self Publishing
The most important piece of your book distribution network is a mailing list of people who will actually buy your books. Anyone can build a mailing list, and it’s not that hard once you apply yourself to the task. But how do you find people who will actually buy your...
by Chris O'Byrne | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Book Marketing, Self Publishing
I had a good conversation with a friend of mine about this issue of Amazon vs the rest of the publishing world. He has some very good arguments for why KDP Select is not a good thing and how its purpose is actually to kill the competition. He’s probably right. What I...
