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Make A Killing On Kindle (Without Blogging, Facebook Or Twitter). The Guerilla Marketer's Guide To Selling Ebooks On Amazon [Kindle Edition]

Michael Alvear
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Book Description

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Increase Your Book Sales By 50% In Less Than Three Days

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<center>I’ve sold hundreds of thousands of my own ebooks with a proprietary methodology I call Attract•Engage•Convert.

I’m going to show you how to use it to become a Kindle Best Seller. </center>

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This Book Is Designed For Writers Who Don’t Understand Technology Or Marketing

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There are only 12 steps to successful Kindle selling and I show you how to do each of them with step-by-step directions, including picture tutorials. You’ll learn how to:

Rank On Page 1 Of Amazon’s Search Engine Within 24 Hours.


You can’t be bought if you can’t be found. As an SEO expert I’ve gotten every one of my books on Page 1 of Amazon’s search results, and I’m going to show you how you can do it, too. The secret is using Amazon’s little-known “Leading Indicators,” a series of clues that tell you exactly what keyword phrases people use to find books like yours.

Sell More Books On Kindle By Using Photos And Font Styles Like Bold or Italics In Your Book Description


<img src="http://bit.ly/TOnW5V" align="left" /> I’ll show you simple ways to use font styles like italicize, bold, and utilize <span style="color: #ff0000;"> color</span> and pictures to make your page look like a million bucks. Notice how the formatting on this page sets it apart from the competition. It reads better, looks better and communicates value. You can create this kind of look in your own book page with my step-by-step guide to using Amazon’s HTML code. Just copy/paste and you’re done.

More Things You’ll Learn about Kindle Publishing & Marketing


This guide will show you how to:

• Create magnificent book covers and develop must-click titles
• Pick the right categories to list your book
• Pick from five of the most effective launch prices
• Test post-launch prices
• Get reviews that make people want to buy your book
• Use the Look Inside Feature to sell more books on Kindle

Read Vivid Case Studies Of How I Turned My Client’s Underperforming Books Into Bestsellers


I’m a book marketing consultant as well as a successful independent author. See how I used the principles of my Attract•Engage•Convert book marketing strategy to dramatically increase sales of basement-dwelling titles (the authors and publishers allowed me to use their real names).

Find Out How Many Books Your Competitors Are Selling!


I commissioned a statistician to develop a formula showing daily sales for every book on Amazon. Just check your competitor’s sales rank then look at the chart in Chapter 15—it’ll tell you how many books they sold that day!

This Book Will Save You From The Time Sucking, No-Value Vortex Of Blogging, Facebook and Twitter


I will show you convincing industry research that social media is the least effective way to sell books on Kindle.

<img src="http://www.flirtytextmessagehelper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GreenCloseup150x190.jpg" align="left" /> About The Author
When I published my first books on Kindle, I’d check my anemic sales and let out a string of cuss words that made my dog blush. Then I developed my Attract•Engage•Convert strategy and sales took off.

As word got out that I sold over 100,000 ebooks, authors and publishers flocked to me for advice, attracted to the methodical ways I turned guerilla marketing tactics into stellar revenue. These strategies work for me, they work for my clients, and they will work for you. Believe in your books. Nobody believed in mine and now I make a great living as a writer. You can too by following my formula.

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259 of 279 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
What author doesn't want more sales? This book is filled with many actionable and reliable pieces of advice that can improve results on Kindle and frankly also for indie print books as well.

I have some raves and some BOOs.

OK the bad first.

Chapter 6 - forget it. Skip it entirely. The author should just plain REMOVE IT.

You can't put "as the author of..." with a clickable link in an amazon review. They'll pull it down. Amazon gets very touchy about this even though they should be glad because any clickable item mention makes them money. Go figure, but there it is.

I DO agree - and I tell my mentees this - that reviewing competitors books is a good thing, because people who like and read those books will also likely want yours. I've never known books bout the same topic to have fights on bookshelves or rip up kindle readers from the inside out. Who doesn't own several books on a similar topic.

So reviewing books makes sense, as described in Chapter 6, but do not try linking to your own book.

Chapter 11 likewise suggests something I'm quite sure would put you on Amazon's naughty list.

Reviews are important. Come by them honestly. If you have a small circle of friends, ask them to each write a review and say the other friends' reviews are helpful. The anatomy of a good review in this chapter is sound.

NOW on to the FANTASTIC parts of this book.

Chapter 8 teaches something I have seen nowhere else, and I truly shouted WOOHOO! Woke the dog. Startled the cats. Yep! Positively brilliant and very useful. Worth the price of admission for sure!

The techniques for the title, cover, and research are rock solid and definitely I would follow all of that to the letter.
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131 of 141 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Some Good Info, Bad Info and Missing Info August 17, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was loaned to me. I found some of the information about social networking, titling, keyword research, categories etc to be very helpful. But the advice on getting reviews and inserting your book link into a review for another book could get you in hot water with Amazon. So I'd be careful there. Also, if you want to format your book page with bold characters, bigger fonts, bullet lists etc all you have to do is create an Author Central account, add or claim the book as yours and edit the description page. You don't have to touch HTML code to accomplish that. Finally, when talking about book promotion you can enter your book into KDP for 90 days. If you do that you get 5 days where you can set your book to free. This can be a great way to get downloads that expose your book to readers. It can also translate to sales when you come off promo. But the other thing missing in this book is the powerhouse sites where you can list your book's free days. For example, if EreaderNewsToday or Pixel of Ink list your book on its free days it can REALLY translate into significant sales after your book comes off of promo.

So I gave this book a 3 star review because it has some good information, some bad information and it was also missing some helpful information for authors.
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82 of 88 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars You've Got to be Kidding Me! September 30, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have a hard time recommending this book. I'm sure that the stratigies that Michael Alvear shares in this book may help someone, but I can't do it. He advises driving up your sales with reviews, which I understand...if the reviews were real. Alvear doesn't seem to care about real, though. He advises you to have your friends and family write reviews for you, or worse, tells you that maybe you should open several fake accounts on amazon and write your reviews yourself. That's just dishonest, and borders on lying to your customers. I have a couple of fiction books out myself, and whereas I don't have alot of reviews (about 7 per book) they're at least real reviews and most are good ones (one for my lastest release almost drove me into a review orgasm!). He even suggests that you write reviews for other books with the express purpose of linking the review to your book (which is against Amazon's rules). To me that's hijacking your customers. Plus I think it could seriously damage your career in the long run if you were to get caught writing your own reviews (not to mention the embarrassment). Instead, look in to goodreads groups for Read to Review threads. You give away a few gift codes and in a week or two you get that many, for good or bad, honest reviews. If you set your book price to $.99 for a week you can give away 10 books and get 10 reviews for $10. Not bad, and you get REAL reviews. Alot of what Alvear suggests may work for some people, but for the most part it sounds very shady.
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85 of 95 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Overall But Some Bad Advice July 14, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Overall a good book that goes over what is needed for success publishing on Kindle. There is one section where the author suggests putting an "ad" on others reviews this is against the Amazon TOS under review guidelines

What is not allowed:

* Sentiments by or on behalf of a person or company with a financial interest in the product or a directly competing product (including reviews by publishers, manufacturers, or third-party merchants selling the product)

As the author and publisher you clearly have a financial interest in the product(your book) and you are the publisher. This is clear as day that this is not an approved tactic that could very well risk your account.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This really works!
I downloaded and read this guide a month ago and published my first book using the tips shared by Michael Alvear. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Bianca James
5.0 out of 5 stars believe in your books
That is the initial and final message of this book.
I read other books about the topic, but this is the most practical and easy to follow one. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Fabian A. Proano Zabala
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the money
I am writing my own Kindle books. I spent a couple of hundred dollars on various online courses that cover the topic of writing and marketing books for Kindle. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Patrick Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
The best I have seen on the subject How to sell on kinkle. It will be my bible in the future
Published 8 days ago by Adiel P. R
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book!
What I liked most about this book was the useful, down to earth strategies about getting books noticed. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Colin
1.0 out of 5 stars Some Good But More Bad
I enjoyed a good bit of this book initially, except for the parts that others have mentioned being unethical (putting up your own reviews or having others write reviews for other... Read more
Published 13 days ago by scarmor
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, humorous, and exceedingly helpful!
If you like being entertained while digging out useful information while you read, I highly recommend this book. Straight to the point. Clear, no-nonsense, no-hype writing style. Read more
Published 17 days ago by lovetoread
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great book for anyone interested in self publishing on Amazon
I recently published my first book on Amazon and have seen some early success. I can contribute much of this to Michael Alvear's advice, which is contained in the book- Make a... Read more
Published 18 days ago by kirrentas
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book. I recommend it to all my friends who write
How To Make A Killing On Kindle by Michael Alvear is a GREAT little book.

I bought it four months ago, read it, talked about it with all my friends who are writing, or... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Tim Hast
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Information - Morally Wrong
For the most part, the book is great! It gives you a lot of information about I am sure that it will help me sell more books in the future. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Petar Mihaylov
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