Review: Highly Useful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2013
Anyone who has written and self-published a book will understand what author and marketer Steven Schmitt describes as the related agony of trying to sell something you've worked so hard to write only to see it ignored on the book shelves. This book, `How I Sold Millions of Books', recounts his own personal experience with selling not one, not a dozen, but millions of books, most of them written by others. A bold claim, you may ask and wonder if it's all BS. But as you read the book, the truth dawns on you: Steven knows what he writes about, and his competence shines through every word, every line of this book.Essentially, the book serves as Steven Schmitt's calling card--he does offer his services as a marketing consultant to any self-publishing writer out there who wants to get the personal approach. And for a compelling reason: here is someone who has helped a lot of authors sell sick numbers of their books.Steven Schmitt reveals it all in `How i Sold Millions of Books': his clever marketing plans that have helped other authors sell millions of their books, and how you can apply it on your case. What is notable about Steven's strategy is his knack for innovation--he draws the distinct line between thinking like an author and thinking like a businessman, and there's the rub. But what's more, it's also a fun read--one can even consider Steven as some sort of a maverick, boldly going to where others would not. I particularly enjoyed how in the early days he'd crash in other people's seminars only to sell his own books, and how he often got away because he owned a shiny pair of big brass balls, so to speak.Overall, this is an enlightening little book for self-published authors. At the end of the book, you can even give Steven a call and personally discuss with him your own concerns regarding how to market your own book. For this chance to actually reach out to the author, this book deserves more than the maximum of five stars I could give it.