Some progress in courses. Used life's situations to inspire a book - or used a book to defuse a life situation. Either way, it worked. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 37 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 123/371 (Actual vs. Reported: 33.1%) 4 non-IF subscribes. 417 no-openers moved off. StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3115 (Overdue overboarding disguised this as "slow growth". New giveaways producing new readers. 3 new giveaways started Sept 1 and are producing more than others, right according to strategy. Yet these overboard in the same percentages. People wanting free giveaways are freebie-seekers, by definition. Maybe 20% will stay on, and 70% of those don't intend to buy - ever. I'll try to fit in another survey this week of people who have stayed … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 37 Results
Some progress on upgrading alpha to beta. Lost a couple of days on farm work (exhausted) and a real-world test of goal-achievement techniques. (Lesson - stay away from ebay - they've had to build some intensive anti-scamming systems in place.) The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 37 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 68/282 (Actual vs. Reported: 24.1%) 1 non-IF subscribes. 8 no-openers moved off. 143 in 90 day inactive, 1 in 180-day inactive. StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3379 (Continuing slow growth. New giveaways producing new readers. 3 new giveaways started Sept 1 and are producing more than others, right according to strategy.) Book sales this week: Draft2Digital – 1, Gumroad – 1, PublishDrive – 0, StreetLib – 0, Kobo – 11, Amazon – 30 = Total Week’s … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 27 Results
Felt good to do nothing but writing (and farming). All the various interruptions on July 4th showing up midweek, then fireworks for four days around it (drives some dogs nuts) - all lent to distractions. But I've got two books ready (nearly) to publish and another anthology to proof... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 27 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 53/181 (Actual vs. Reported: 40%) 4 non-IF subscribes. StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3262 (small drop, and continued slow onboarding from IF, while fewer stick. Means their mailing list isn’t expanding and they don’t have a finger on the pulse.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 11489, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 25 Results
Mostly into research all week. Silva Method, if you must know. Because these time-shifters started it with their simultaneous time. That led back to non-local quantum mechanics, which in turn led to remote perception and influencing - a great course on this from Nightingale-Conant... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 24 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 29/101 (Actual vs. Reported: 29%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3179 (slow decrease, and continued slow onboarding from IF.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 3960, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Fiction Books re-published with updates: Total: … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 21 Results
Publishing takes a lot longer than editing. By far. All I really worked on - besides an interesting article I sent out to my tiny list of IF authors (says that your ads have to make over 120% in order to be profitable (and pay the increased taxes). If you want 50% of your income spendable, they have to be about 300%. Really. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 21 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 25/103 (Actual vs. Reported: 25%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3471 (big drop from list "hygiene" where I overboarded over a hundred non-openers. IF has slowed down.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1623, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 11 Results
Still working just to get everything done - finally got my opt-in ad worked out for fiction. Not too surprising, the paperback versions of these new fiction books don't sell. Their reason for being there is to make the ebook look like a bargain. Non-fiction always has paper and hardbacks selling along with the ebooks. And some audio - where I have it available. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 11 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 256 StoryOrigins: 2 Overall Total: 3875 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 3173, Else: 0 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: None Books In Progress: 0 Book sales … [Read more...]
