Category: How to Be Successful

Opportunity Cost for Authors

admin February 15, 2020 0 Comments
Opportunity Cost is a concept used a lot in Finance and Business. It's not used much in Books & Publishing, although it should It is an incredibly important concept. One you can use both for your career as an Author, and for your personal life What is Opportunity Cost Opportunity Cost is the cost of choosing one alternative over another It's the benefits you lose out on when you choose Option...

Why do Stores & Platforms try to create infinite competition and commoditize suppliers & vendors?

admin February 9, 2020 0 Comments
One of the common characteristics of modern technology companies (those started in the 1990s and 2000s and 2010s) is that they try to create Platforms and Ecosystems which have Infinite Competition You can see how search engine companies create infinite competition between newspapers, websites, and blogs for search traffic You can see how advertising platforms create infinite competition between...

How to Compete when there is Infinite Competition (Strategy for Authors)

admin February 8, 2020 1 Comment
Platforms built by technology companies are usually set up to have Infinite Competition This is done for a variety of reasons, including Divide and Conquer reasons (dividing creators to benefit the platform), keeping people dependent on the technology company, and ensuring no single creator or company or supplier can become large enough to be independent of the platform, and preventing the rise...

What are 5 big author pain points which authors can eliminate?

admin February 4, 2020 0 Comments
Here are 5 big author pain points, which authors can actually eliminate themselves Not Getting Reviews Here is how you can eliminate this pain point First, just accept 100% that you are not getting reviews because Either your book is not polished enough Or you are selling it to the wrong readers Or Both It has to be one or both of those reasons. Otherwise, people who read books, usually review...

10 Key Things to Consider before Writing a Romance Novel

admin February 4, 2020 0 Comments
Here are 10 key things to consider before writing your next/first Romance Novel Top 10 Things to Consider before Writing a Romance Novel Who are you writing for? Exactly who are your target readers? It's not enough to select a Romance sub genre You need to know exactly who your readers are What are their lives like? Why are they reading romance novels? Are you going to delight them? If you...

Blue Ocean Strategy for Authors

admin February 2, 2020 1 Comment
Blue Ocean Strategy is a seminal work - Wikipedia explains what Blue Ocean Strategy is The Official Website for Blue Ocean Strategy Basically, Blue Ocean Strategy dictates that a company/business/entrepreneur should constantly innovate and find new untapped markets These new untapped markets are called 'Blue Oceans' They are completely new and there is no competition You have to innovate and...

Why Non Fiction Books have such a huge Quality Problem

admin February 2, 2020 0 Comments
For most book categories in the ebook store, we have 5% of books are well written and somewhat well polished 5% of books are well written and not polished 10% of books are badly written but well polished Remaining 80% are badly written and not polished Basically, only 5% of books are diamonds, 5% are unpolished gems, 10% are polished rocks, and 80% are just brutally bad In Non Fiction, we see a...

Why it’s so hard to be a Children’s Book writer

admin February 2, 2020 0 Comments
Being a Children's Book writer is extremely difficult, far more than any other type of writer It's really tough to be a Children's Book writer for the following reasons Absolutely anyone can write a children's book A Historical Fiction novel is usually 200 to 500 pages and requires a few years of research and writing Even less research intensive book genres requires 3 months to a year to write a...

11 Reasons Self Published Mystery & Thriller Authors are doing less well than they could

admin February 2, 2020 0 Comments
Mystery & Thriller authors are not doing as well as some other genres (Romance, Non Fiction). The fix is actually pretty simple Here are 11 Mistakes Mystery & Thriller authors need to fix Not Writing what Readers want to Read We do not see any other genre where authors insist on writing 'what they want to write' and completely ignore what readers are asking for Abject Lack of Cooperation...

15 Reasons self published romance authors are doing well

admin February 2, 2020 0 Comments
For Non Romance Authors: Authors in other genres could benefit greatly by learning from what romance authors are doing right. Do not hide behind 'oh romance is an easy genre to write in'. If you want to succeed, then learn from Romance authors, and from what they are doing Here are 15 reasons that self published romance authors are doing very well Writing what Readers want to read Perhaps the...