Popularity in Internet terms is derived by how many unique visitors come to any given website in a given time period. As you poke around the Internet and see awesome websites, you might think to yourself “wow, I bet they get a lot of people hitting this website every day.” Well, there is a free [...]

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has filed a lawsuit against book publisher and promoter Airleaf, LLC (formerly Bookman Publishing) for taking money without providing the promised services in return. The lawsuit is seeking consumer restitution for at least 120 customers.
“More than 120 people are named in the lawsuit, including many from Indiana who lost thousands [...]

Disguised as “faster shipping and fulfillment”, Amazon announced this week that all print on demand book titles sold by Amazon MUST be printed by them (BookSurge.com). They claim:
If the POD printing machines reside inside our own fulfillment centers, we can more quickly ship the POD book to customers — including in those cases where the [...]

1.    Pick a target date for holding the first copy of your book in your hands – Staying focused on this date will help you remain productive and avoid procrastinating. Many first-time authors pick dates that have special personal significance, like their 50th birthday or their wedding anniversary.
2.    Figure out the best time and place [...]

Until a few years ago, the term self-publishing usually entailed the likes of AuthorHouse, iUniverse, or Infinity Publishing taking a raw manuscript and converting it into a printed book via print on demand. Nowadays, self-publishing is being redefined as a “do-it-yourself publishing” process where you go online, upload your manuscript, format it, and then use [...]

Join me at theNextBigWriter.com’s Brown Bag Lunch where I’m hosting a question and answer forum on the topics of self publishing and internet marketing. They do charge a fee to join, but for all you writers, they have a lot of online support and contests to help you in your writing journey. I spent two [...]

I was reading an interesting article today in Time Magazine entitled “One Day in America.” A few interesting stats are quoted in the article:
At some point today you will say a prayer, not floss, take a shower for 10 minutes but not sing in it, drive an eight-year-old car to work, spend 95% of the [...]

The wild wild west of self-publishing has a new marshall in town: AuthorHouse and iUniverse.
According to Publishers Weekly, there are an estimated 86,000 self-publishing companies in the United States. With over 200,000 new titles per year flooding the book market, primarily because of self-publishing, consolidation of the space is a good thing for everyone.
As I [...]

I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Manitou Springs, Colorado at the “AuthorHouse Author Fest of the Rockies” writers conference hosted at the historic Cliff House. For a second-year conference, the volunteers from the Manitou Springs Public Library did an exceptional job.
One of the highlights of the trip was introducing and meeting [...]

The best web stats software on the market today is Google Analytics. Why? Because it’s good, doesn’t reside on your server, doesn’t require a licensing agreement, and it’s free!
That’s right, free.
And to help you get started with Google Analytics, they have posted several instructional videos on YouTube.com to help you understand conversions, the role of [...]