Review: Some Killer Tips, Some Not-So-Killer Tips, & Some Tips That Might LITERALLY Kill Your Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
As the title of this review hints at, I have mixed feelings about this book.While some of the techniques this book teaches are quite helpful, others are really kind of lame and some of them could DEFINITELY get you on Amazon's naughty list.To illustrate my point I'm going to draw several examples from this book:1) GOOD TIP:Change book categories often. This is a really great tip that can generate A LOT of extra sales, yet I've never seen it anywhere else.Throughout this book there are several sections like this that contain KILLER tips, that can really help increase sales.2) BAD TIP:Ask for reviews at the end of your book.Seriously?Everybody already does this. There's no need to write a whole section about something THAT basic.There are numerous sections like this that contain tips so basic it's almost funny that the author even considered them. Sections like these seemed, at least to me, just a way to pad the word count.3) REALLY BAD TIP:Frequently update the publication date of your book, so that you can stay in the Hot New Release category...forever.Everybody knows that honesty is the best policy (to quote a clichéd phrase) and yet the author still advises to do things that are rather shady and skirt around the edges of dishonesty.This tip, in particular, really ticked me off.I know, from a reader's standpoint, it is REALLY annoying when the same book stays in the Hot New releases for months at a time. I, along with all other readers, want, well...Hot NEW Releases.Not Hot OLD Releases.We want fresh NEW books to read -- not the same old thing over and over.FINAL ANALYSIS:Really the review title sums everything up.There are some great tips, some lame tips, and some tips I would HIGHLY recommend you never even consider.Overall, I believe this is a good book that you can benefit from -- but only if you pick and choose which techniques you actually use.-Mark LeGrand Messick, bestselling author of Secrets To Selling Ebooks On Amazon and creator of [...]