I am always looking for ways to enhance my Kindle books and just came across an incredible online facility that enables you to make really beautiful Kindle covers without the need for any extra software.

Getting covers done quickly and professionally can be costly, but Sam England and Lina T have a superb web application designed to help you create attractive and professional-looking Kindle book covers online. You don’t need any software. Just fill in the blanks, select a picture from one of the more than 150+ royalty-free stock photos – or upload your own – and adjust the cover details to suit you.

When you are satisfied, “right click” and save the cover to your computer harddrive. It will be exactly the right size for Amazon Kindle books and the quality is excellent.

You buy access rights to the online software only once – it is a really good deal – and make as money covers as you wish, using the special unique license key you receive on purchase of this facility.

I tried it out and it is stunning.

Take a look here:
http://www.warriorplus.com/w/a/d0wfg

Val

If you are doing online marketing of any sort, it is vital to have a responsive list of people to share news of your books. “If you don’t tell them, they won’t come!”

Kathleen Gage, the Streetsmart Marketer has produced an excellent 3-part free video series that gives some great advice about building responsive lists. This will really help you learn how to build your opt in subscriber list strategically (and profitably through focused effort).

You will learn simple, yet powerfully effective, ways to build a list. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or have been online for years,
you WILL find this information priceless.

Here’s the link – and there is NO charge:
http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/building_responsive_lists

You’ll learn:

- The incredible opportunities available through list building.
- How to effectively build your list to become profitable.
- And… the most common challenges to list building and how to overcome them.

You will:

- Discover why list building is absolutely essential to your business success.
- Learn fast and easy methods to create a profitable list.
Uncover secrets to turn your social network connections into opt in subscribers.
- Find out where to start .
- Build a profitable list from the ground up.
- Find out when you should and should not use advertising to build your list.
- The #1 most effective method to build your list.
- Discover wow to make real money from your list.
- Learn 7 surefire ways to build a list fast.

http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/building_responsive_lists

You will also be given the opportunity to post your comments and questions below the videos and to read what other’s are saying.

Kathleen Gage is personally known to me and I highly recommend her work. It’s definitely “out of the top drawer”.

So.. watch those free videos and LEARN some great strategies.

Val

http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/building_responsive_lists

This is the time to register for a very special “hands-on” Writer’s Seminar.

TOPICS:

1. Publishing Your Book Locally and Globally by Val Waldeck. 

• How to get your book written quickly.
• How to get it published locally at minimum cost.
• How to get it published globally with Amazon at no cost.
• How to get it published in the Amazon Kindle store at no cost.

2. How To Prepare Your Book For Printing by Clive Thompson

• Book format and what programme to use.
• The Pro’s and Con’s of designing your own book.
• Adding colour sections: Cover / photo gallery / graphs.
• How to prepare PDFs to match Printer Specifications.

VENUE:  Westville Conference Centre, 18 Burlington Drive, Westville, Durban.

TIME:  09h00 – 12h30

COST:  R390 pp. But register before May 11 and get a R40 discount! Pay only R350.

Download the REGISTRATION FORM here:
http://pilgrimpublications.biz/durbanregistration2012-05.pdf

ENQUIRIES:  val@valwaldeck.com

They say you don’t judge a book by its cover, but in the world of publications you certainly do.

Think about the last time you visited a bookstore. Unless you went there to purchase a specific book and were totally focused on that, you would have been attraced by certain covers.

Research has shown that people send a few seconds on the front cover, then they turn the book around and spend a few longer seconds on the back cover. If the front cover says “Pick me up” and the back covers says “Buy me”, it is likely you will do exactly that.

In the world of digital books, there is no back cover so your description fills that gap. It is your advertising copy and you must take great care in crafting it.

A good advice is to focus on around 70 words and capture the essence of your book.

The cover must be very attractive and that is not easy for amateurs so I recommend you hire a graphic artist for the job. I generally use www.getclive.com for all my work. He is very reasonable and very professional.

Sometimes though, you just want to make a cover quickly without cost and there is a very useful Warrior Special that helps you make really nice covers.

It’s called Instant Kindle Cover and 3-D eBook Cover Creator and offers very nice templates to build book covers. Follow this link to take a look.

Instant Kindle Cover and 3-D eBook Cover Creator

To your Kindle Publishing Success.

Val Waldeck

Kindle Publishing is certainly an exciting venture. My experience is that Kindle books are flying off the virtual shelfs at an amazing rate. That is not surprising when you know that Amazon are said to be selling over one million Kindle readers a month. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are iPads, smartphones and other digital devices with Kindle apps bringing a ready market to the Kindle Store. This is definitely the place for authors to be.

One of our major problems, however, is being noticed among the millions of other Kindle books. Of course, our titles and keywords help immensely, but we need to do a lot more marketing.

Those who have reached the million best-seller status all have one thing in common – they promote their books seriously.

I have acquired a 36 page PDF eGuide that has really opened my eyes in this area. It tells you just about everything you need to know about promoting your Kindle book. It is easy to read and clearly explains each type of promotion, demonstrating how to use the free tools already on Amazon plus some other great no-cost resources in an easy-to-follow plan.

This guide shares :

- An simple 10 step plan to promote your Kindle books.

- Easy ways to increase your book exposure.

- A replicable system for every book published that does most of
the work for you.

- Visual instructions that walk you through each step of the
process!

- Resources to easily outsource part or all of your efforts.

There are some really good tips in this guide. One of the things
that really interested me was how to get book reviews in a way that
is completely acceptable and encouraged by the Amazon management team.

I recommend you take a look at it.

Here’s the link:
http://valwaldeck.com/recommends/KindleKickstartPromotion

To your Kindle Success!

Val

P.S. I am .20% on my way to selling one million Kindle books! One day that will be 20% and then 60% and then 100% !!!

Val Waldeck
Author of Kindle Publishing Made Easy
http://kindlepublishingmadeeasy.com

eBooks are very popular and much sought after. This is an ideal medium to share your expertise and passion with the world at very little cost. More people are buying and reading electronic books than ever before and Amazon.com tell us they are selling more eBooks than hardcovers.

“Eyeballs are moving from print to online. eBooks are the future.”
– Dan Poynter

Here’s a brief summary of how to go about writing ebooks:

* Choose a title that works.
* Outline your topic.
* Include four to seven headings in your outline.
* Add three to five sub-headings under each main heading.
* Write an  introduction.
* Write some explanatory paragraphs to support each heading and sub heading.
* Finish with a short conclusion.
* Add your website and contact details and a special offer.

Discover how easy and profitable it is to write, publish and sell your own eBooks with the minimum of fuss and expense.

eBook – Instant Download from Pilgrim Publicatiions SA

Amazon Kindle is one of the hottest niches on the web right now and this is where every author should be. The traffic is truly amazing. I know that from personal experience. Without much advertising on my part (yet!), my books are selling and one has even reached #2 on the Kindle BestSeller List in the prophecy section.

I want to know how to move them even faster and found an interesting-looking program from Ken Sar. I have purchased it and am about to extract what I can effectively use. I thought you might like to take a look as well. I know you – like me – want to publish and sell more books. We want our voice to be heard.

According to top researchers, nearly $1 billion dollars worth of ebooks were sold last year and by the year 2015 that number is expected to grow to over $3 billion dollars…

Ebooks are changing the face of the publishing industry as we know it.

This is what Ken is offering in his Kindle Publishing Course:

• 10-professionally created MP4 Video Modules
• 10-professionally created MP3 audio files
• Kindle Publishing System EBOOK
• Mindmaps
• Plus Extra Bonuses that you will love

You may check it out HERE.

Content of the Ten Modules:

• Module 1: Learn the differences between traditional and self publishing.
• Module 2: Learn about the Kindle Bookstore and what it is.
• Module 3: Learn how to understand your readers and what they expect.
• Module 4: Learn if you should target a specific Niche Audience.
• Module 5: Learn about Kindle pricing Strategies.
• Module 6: Learn about Professional or Self Editing methods and what is best.
• Module 7: Learn about the Importance of Creating Attention Grabbing ecovers.
• Module 8: Learn about using Specific advertising Techniques to promote your Kindle ebook.
• Module 9: Learn Step by Step How to Publish your ebook on the KDI Network.
• Module 10: Final Recap and Summary, Bringing it all together.

Visit Ken’s site for more information about The Kindle Publishing System.

My Kindle Publishing Made Easy eGuide takes you step-by-step through the process of formatting your book and uploading it to the Kindle site, but to make more sales, we need to get very involved in marketing and this is where Ken’s course may be of benefit to Kindle authors.

To Your Publishing Success!

Val

The vast majority of your prospects aren’t all that passionate about your offer.

Truth is, they’re kind of lukewarm. They’re interested, but they’re not taking their credit card out. Instead of making a buying decision, they decide to “think about it.”

Of course you know what happens: They forget about your offer. They don’t return to your store or sales page. Some of them may even make the conscious decision to NOT buy your product.

So what can you do to get your prospects to get excited and take action NOW?

Simple: Offer them an incentive if they order now. Do it right, and you’re virtually guaranteed to make more sales!

Generally, an incentive can take two forms:

1. You offer a discount. One idea is the straightforward discount, such as offering a percent-off. Another ideas is to offer a discount on the overall package, such as by offering free shipping.

Tip: You can even make it a limited-time discount so that your prospects feel a sense of urgency.

2. You offer one or more bonus products. Again, you can even make the bonus offer limited to increase the sense of urgency.

Offering a discount is a pretty straightforward incentive. So let’s talk about how to offer a bonus as a buying incentive.

Here then are the seven keys to offering bonuses that generate extra sales:

• Make sure the bonus is desirable. Point is, if your prospects don’t care about the bonus product, then it won’t help you generate any sales. So make sure it’s something that your prospects already want. Something that gets them excited!

• Create a valuable bonus. Just because you’re giving the product away for free with a purchase doesn’t mean this bonus should be worth little to no money. Quite the contrary – it should have a high perceived value in the prospect’s mind.

• Choose bonuses that are easy to deliver. This is particularly true if you’re selling downloadable products online, such as software or information. Point is, you want to be able to deliver the bonus instantly – right alongside the main product – without you having to manually deliver the bonus.

• Supply an exclusive bonus, whenever possible. If the prospect can get the bonus somewhere else, he might just do that. So try to offer exclusive bonuses to help make the buying decision easy.

• Offer a bonus that compliments the main product. For example, let’s say you’re selling a book about retirement planning. Offering retirement-planning worksheets and software as a bonus would be a great incentive.

• Sell the bonus. If you’re selling via a sales page, don’t just list the bonus. Instead, sell it just the way you’re selling the main product, meaning you should list the benefits of this bonus product or service.

• Remember that you can offer products OR services. Let’s say you’re selling exterior landscaping supplies and information. As a bonus you can offer a free consultation where you provide specific landscaping ideas for buyers. Or if you’re selling a copywriting product, you can offer a sales letter critique.

Conclusion

Offering an incentive is a simple, yet highly effective way to generate more sales and grow your business. To discover still more ways to grow your business, visit  Jimmy’s site – you may just learn strategies you never even knew existed!

These are strategies we can use as authors to make our books go viral.

Val

P.S. Membership of the iBusiness Owner’s membership site is just $10 per month at the moment. On March 7 it will go up to $47. Jimmy is an ethical internet marketer and a Christian and he offers outstanding advice, resources and help for ebook authors, infoproduct creators, affiliate marketers, membership site owners, bloggers and others who own internet businesses. Really worth a look!

The Kindle Link Bait guide shows you several incredibly powerful promotional ways to gain more sales and help your Kindle book go viral, without inadvertently putting your Amazon account at risk.

One of the most important things I learned from this guide is that Amazon does not allow you, under any circumstances, to use reviews posted on their website, even if they are for your own books. If you do that and their automated software discovers it (and they will), your account will be closed and that will be the end of this very lucrative opportunity. If you have done that, delete the reviews immediately. Fortunately, I haven’t used any of their reviews, but in my ignorance of their Terms of Service, I could well have done this in the future.

It would have been worth buying this guide just for this information! But there is much more.

The methods of promotion Sam shares are time-tested, simple, quick and easy to set up. They not only help sell more books, they also protect your account.

You will also discover two simple and cool WordPress plugins that could send your Kindle sales upward and gain viral Facebook reviews and traffic.

My goal is to sell one million Kindle books this year and I will be following as much of their advice as I can. Perhaps you should too.

Click here to view the product.

Val