book marketing twitter

Book Marketing with Twitter

If you have a book to promote, then Twitter is something that can be easy to get started with. If you’re setting up Twitter just for your book marketing, then use your author photo and include your topic area in your summary. Twitter is a platform that is useful for short, clear messages, with a hash tag… with or without an image. You don’t have to pay, but you can also choose to pay to promote a particular “Launch” tweet. Tip #1 – Ensure you have a Keyword in Each Tweet So you love your book title, but does it describe your subject area?  If your book is in say Marketing, make sure you put this in a hashtag, e.g. #marketing #books. Tip #2 – Direct to the Book Page Link If you use Freado’s Bookbuzzr it has a built-in automated tweet…
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Writing Habits with AI

Family Finances Not a Cause for Fury

When I think about my family finances, I do not get caught up in the emotional traps that others seem to. Perhaps because I believe that managing money has, at its base, simple accounting and mathematic principles. If you can understand what the words “income” and “expenses” mean, then you can probably manage a budget, if you don’t let emotions get the best of you. Some simply look at their income and unwittingly imagine that their entire salary is theirs to spend. Unfortunately, only a part of your gross salary is ever yours to spend. The rest goes in income tax, accounting fees, interest on loans, and all those fixed expenses. Justifying your shiny new car because of your high income/hard work is an example of letting your desires run away with you. (I wrote more about this trap in…
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Writing Habits with AI

How Easy it is to Get Scammed by Home Worker Offers

This morning I clicked on a pleasant-looking ad for working from home, claiming you can make $65 an hour without selling. It took me to a sales page for Online Wealth Markets trading, listing huge payout details in the thousands and ‘real user’ comments. It had a clever little ‘phone-shaped’ opt-in form to take credit card details and $5 ($7 Aus). Even though all the warning signs were there, I thought “let’s follow this white rabbit and see where it goes”.  It might help somebody. Inside is a bit about ‘members’ binary options trading with James Ulrich. Googled his picture; just a stock photo. Googled James Ulrich; not much on him except a SEC record for insider trading in 2007 — however, due to legal ramifications I must state that this trading record may not be for the same person…
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Claim Tax Treaty on US Withholding Tax
Self-Publishing

Claiming our Tax Treaty on US Withholding Tax

Australian authors, save yourself some time and trouble — I have researched about claiming the tax treaty on the 30% US withholding tax on US sales of books or ebooks. If you don’t recognise the platform name, then it won’t apply to you. Save up to 25% on taxes for American sales – as our treaty is 5%. Stop Press!  Most Australians do not need to apply for an EIN or ITIN to claim the treaty. You will need to fill out the W8-BEN form or W8-BENE form (for entities) and send in directly to your royalty payment issuer. If you are an agent, then another form applies and you will need the EIN (apply by phone–see bottom of page). The AMAZON Tax Interview will inform you of the correct form to use. Amazon Kindle or CreateSpace Tax Form Take…
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Writing Habits with AI
Home-Based Business

50 Things to Improve My Business

Today I’m documenting 50 things I can do to improve my business. For readers, there should be a few tips and observations which can help you also to get things moving! I will phone follow-up all enquirers, even those I spoke to with the possibility in their mind of putting out an ebook. Albeit slowly, I will finish fixing Udemy video course:  New Money Life. I will keep finding great local business listings to add to the RedcliffeQld or NorthLakesQld or ChermsideQld guide. I will keep in touch with all those people I connected well with at meetup groups or launches. e.g. LinkedIn connect, coffee date, or email. Use CRM as reminder. I will keep looking for ways to improve the ebook formatting process. I will endeavour to track time wisely with Harvest program. I will invoice all projects promptly and…
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Kindle Select ebook publishing
Self-Publishing

How to Publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle

Everyone, you can now publish to Amazon Kindle (KDP) with just a Word document. That said, you will need to ready it and learn the pros and cons of various Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) offerings, such as Kindle Select (exclusive eBook distribution for 90-day periods). Print on Demand publishing?  Read the complete “How to Publish a Book in Australia“. The Process of Formatting for EBook Automatic Conversion 1.  Strip out all headers and footers / page numbering. Your book will have a header in the end, don’t worry. 2. I assume you want to have reflowable text. Make images static and reasonable size (e.g. 150 kB and 72 dpi, not 2 MB). Take out all text boxes. Don’t bother with photo captions. 3. Put the hidden characters on, Check for tabs and take them all out. Take out all Word…
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