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I recently interviewed book author Martyn Stanley, also known simply as Mart, about his publishing experiences and overall success with the dynamic marketplace. The following information should give people an idea what it’s like to make money as an average indie publisher, provided you put a great deal of effort and dedication into your work. These questions are also meant to educate you about the things that generally make an author successful in the field. Granted, there’s a lot more involved than the answers provided in this short interview, but these should undoubtedly help get your feet wet in the event you decide to pursue book publishing. Enjoy!
Website: OnlineTogether.net
Topics: Make Money Online, General Internet Marketing
Yet another website added to the Blog Spotlight, where I occasionally point out startup and established sources for your enjoyment.
OnlineTogether.net is a website run by Dan, a prominent WarriorForum.com member. While the site seems a bit thin at the time of this writing, the information I spotted was pretty useful for those looking to get started on several IM-based opportunities. Dan generally explores various niche research tactics, releases occasional podcasts, and seems to present his blog posts in a no-bullshit manner (much like I do!)
A topic of personal interest so far? a neat explanation on leveraging YouTube for new product launches. Anyway, feel free to hop over if you’re ever in the mood to learn a thing or two, even if it’s not on a frequent basis.
Website: EarningForever.com
Topics: Make Money Online, Passive Income
The Spotlight is dedicated to bloggers and start-up entrepreneurs who show an exceptional amount of dedication to their online ventures. And Michael Cimicata, owner of EarningForever.com, is no exception.
Michael is the type of guy who doesn’t always update frequently, and this is often a much better move. Instead, he takes his time to ensure that every single blog post is packed with all the information his fellow readers could possibly need. The website’s main focus is primarily on making money online and residual income. Additional goodies include videos, case studies and a helpful free guide on ways to make passive income both online and offline.
Hop on to this ever-evolving website and check out his latest income reports and tips on creating different passive income streams.
Keep it up, Michael!
Many of you have heard about Kindle Worlds by now. But just in case, Kindle Worlds offers indie authors a chance to write fan fiction and publish it on Amazon. This enables you to write about your favorite music, movie, TV show, and video game.
The service pays a 35% commission for works comprising of 10,000 words or more, and 20% of shorter items of 5,000 to 10,000 words. This is an exciting opportunity to get your creative juices flowing, especially if you love any particular character, TV show, game or movie.
Amazon have so far secured a license with Warner Bros. for shows like The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars. More shows and licenses are on the way, making this already-awesome opportunity simply irresistible.
Visit the official Kindle Worlds for Authors page for more details, as there are quite a few things you should know before you start writing. These includes the exclusion of pornographic material, offensive content, infringement, excessive use of brands and more.
How do you feel about this? Will it provide a golden opportunity for indie publishers, or is this just a way of filling up the Kindle marketplace with crap?
As many readers have noticed, I typically post my monthly book income around the 15th of every month, and this date always makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. I anxiously wait for Amazon to post my monthly earnings just to see if I managed to increase my income over the previous month. If you recall my earnings for November and December 2012, they averaged around $230 and $330, respectively.
Thankfully, so far this year hasn’t disappointed me as these earnings have shot up at a healthy pace.
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“Att: Kindle & Online Publishers: Tool Removes Your Biggest Publishing Problem~Completely Automated”
I have seen an abundance of Kindle-related products since I started publishing in 2011. If you’re a frequent Warrior Forum visitor or happen to be into Internet Marketing in general, chances are that you, too, have seen it all. Many of us have purchased countless WSOs, read a ton of free guides, watched videos and absorbed an endless amount of case studies in regards to making money with Kindle books. And I’m the type of guy who gives credit where credit is due, as most Kindle info products have been nothing short of a goldmine of useful information. In fact, it is thanks to these products that I have made thousands of dollars from Amazon books over the years.
After exploring so many Kindle products, however, I began to notice a slight decline in their quality, as some of them simply repeated or rehashed whatever the previous one instructed. While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing for first-time customers, it certainly made the rest of us wonder whether yet another Kindle product was worth purchasing.
And just when I thought I’d seen it all, Deborah Drum revived the world of Kindle publishing with her new software, Publisher’s Review Accelerator.
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Last night I went to a local T.G.I. Fridays with my brother and a friend to watch a basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks. Despite a few good moves by the Celtics, in the end they simply didn’t stand a chance against their opponent. It was a terrible loss for Bostonians, and you should have been around to see their faces by the end of the night.
Anyway, we had a pretty decent time and walked out of the bar around 10pm. And like most people do, we have a tendency to talk about random crap and anecdotes before parting ways, which led us to jump into one of our vehicles to chit chat for a bit. At some point my friend and my brother got into the subject of building and renting homes one day (not now, of course, as we’re all broke.) Meanwhile, I merely played the role of a listener from the back of the car, going with the flow as they elaborated on these so-called big plans.
They touched upon some pretty decent strategies and whatnot, involving ways to buy homes for cheap and fixing them up themselves and ultimately start profiting.
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