I put more time into these two books than the others I’ve written. These are great books – while the others fill a need and give good information. In my case – those that meet a clearly defined need – are selling well. These other two books – my fiction thriller and my latest motivational “Kicking Life’s Ass!” book, are flopping like squids on hot lava crust.
At Amazon Kindle – there are people making an outright KILLING in different genres… I thought my motivational book – Kicking Life’s Ass! would skyrocket to the top of the charts in days. So far in a couple days I’ve sold 4 of ‘em.
My description sucks – admittedly. I put about 30 seconds into it. My cover could not be any better. It just couldn’t. The price – $2.99 couldn’t get any better. At 99c who will take a motivational book seriously?
Keywords and categories – are optimized. Everything else that could be right – like formatting and the writing itself – is good. Great even.
Why do I have just 4 sales?
At this rate I’ll sell about 20 books in a month. That’s weak. No, that’s flatulence.
I didn’t slave over that book for months to sell 20 copies per month, 240 copies in a year and make $380.00 from it in a year, $2000 in 5 years.
This was supposed to be the book that puts me on the MAP in the motivational space.
Not sure what happened.
Maybe Oprah will read it and start throwing some love my way.
Maybe Tony Robbins will realize he’s been going about it all wrong, and start pimping MY book.
Maybe I’ll start writing more books that meet clearly defined needs.
If you want a freebie copy for review – let me know… I’ll give away 50 of them.
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Hi Mike, hopefully your motivational books will gather a bit of steam soon and start selling well. You have to be positive if you want to write motivational books I guess
I got a copy of the ‘kicking life’s ass book’ – thanks for that. I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to read it, but it looks good.
Thanks Paul – I’m positive about everything, I was just thinking about how I need to clarify my focus and start writing books I don’t necessarily give a shit and a half about, and just write what sells.
I think you follow Jakonrath.blogspot.com. I’d like to hit the big numbers with at least one book. Not sure what it takes though… they insist it’s luck really, beyond all the optimization an author can do for the book. That might be true…
Cheers man! If you’re ever in the south… do let me know.
hey, i’d want a copy of thailands sickest and kicking lifes ass for review.
It seems like you pour your heart into this blog. I have learned a lot about Thailand from you and appreciate the info. I’d be more then happy to provide a review for you if there are any copies left.