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Planning
3 Steps to Profitable Business Planning
A Meeting of the Minds
I Only Have "-ize" for You
Monkey Traps and Marketing
Never Stop Learning
One Size Doesn't Fit All
Stop and Pick the Roses
Goals Are Worthless...
New Rules for Planning
The Declaration of Dependence
Don't Just Do Something Stand There
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
The Buck Starts Here
4x4 Marketing
The Point of No Returns
Misunderstood Marketing
Put Off Your Procrastination
Mid-Brain Marketing
Book Marketing Timeline
Midyear Measurement
Forecast Your Sales
Volume and Velocity of Revenue
33 Tips for Successful Book Marketing
Customer value propositions
Planning for first-time authors
Steve Jobs and book publishing
Succeed in a changing market
Multiple Streams of Revenue
Hidden Power of Marketing
Marketing Strategy Rules
Marketing Choreography
Maximize ROI - Return On Ideas
Measure of Marketing
Nine kinds of sales opportunities
Seven Ways to Find New Book-Marketing Ideas
Reinvent for sustained growth
Get the Most from Your Consultant
Four Steps for More Profits
Short and Long Term Exposure and Sales
Two Ways to Become More Creative
Left-Brainstorming: Creative Problem Solving for Analytical People
Marketing from the Customer's Perspective
Update Your Marketing
Time to Try Something Different
Should You Redefine Your Business Model
A New Way to Generate More Ideas
Define Your Target Buyers
The Equation for Book-Marketing Success
Marketing Planning for First-Time Authors
The fiction of prediction
How to Maximize Your Income
Create Good Marketing Habits
Think Minimum Instead of Maximum
10 Things to Do This Year to Reach Your Goals
Large Sales are Worth the Wait
Seven Secrets for Successfully Selling Books
Planning For An Unpredictable Future
Strategy Before Action
March Marketing Madness
Your Worst Book-Marketing Problem
The Guide to Long-Term Profits
The Best Marketing Tool Never Used
How Market Research Can Help You
Lead With The Next Big Trend
Your Guide to Profits
The Next Big Trend
Possibility Planning
Avoid the Coming Plandemic
Four ways to increase sales
How To Become More Creative
Sell More Books More Profitably
Create Your Personal Year in Review
Book Marketing Bracketology
How to Build Your Personal Brand
Self-Promotion Without Bragging
Product Development
Cradle-to-Grave Marketing
Sell No Book Before Its Time
Stop Selling Your Books
18 Tips for Creating a Winning Book
Distribution
Three Myths About Distribution
24 Quick Tips for Effective Book Distribution
New places to sell books
Create Successful Distribution to Retailers
Reasons distributors will not take your book
Pricing
Price is Right?
Pricing for Profit
Don't Judge a Book by its Price
Do You Want to Increase Your Sales?
8 Tips for Pricing Your Book Profitably
Retail v Non-Retail Pricing
Price for Maximum Revenue
Promotion
Get Your Words' Worth
How Much Will a Tour Cost?
How to Conduct Telephone Interviews
How to Turn Publicity Into Profits
Mix and Match Your Promotion
Multiply Your Promotional Impact
Practice Makes Permanent
Success is a Matter of Perception
Take the "Junk" out of Direct Mail
Trade Show Success is as Easy as PIE
Free Advertising
TV or Not TV?
Using Your Best VOICES on the Air
How to Write More Pursuasive Marketing Copy
It's About Timing
Sell What Your Book Does
Phantom of the Oprah
Celebrity Testimonials
Smile, Dial and Pile Up Your Sales
25 More Secrets for Succesful Book Promotion
25 Secrets for Succesful Book Promotion
How to build a mktg platform
Mktg Platform -smaller is better
Advantages of Print Ads
Eight Ways to Write More Persuasive Marketing Copy
Are You Really Communicating
Special Sales
Map Your Course to Greater Profits
Special Sales: Divide and Conquer
Basic Special Sales Marketing
Selling Books to Gift Shops
How to Sell More Books to Corporations
Make the Grade in the Academic Market
Sell More Books To Airport Stores, Supermarkets And Drug Stores
Think Inside the Box
Three Steps to Special-Sales Planning
Prioritize Your Prospect List for More Sales
How to Segment Markets
Questions to help you sell
Secrets of Negotiating
Selling to the Military - Domestic
Selling to the Military - Overseas
How to Get Started Selling Books as Promotional Items
Use a Map to Reach More Buyers
Ten Steps to Profitable Selling
Prepare to sell books to companies
How companies use books
17 Ways to Find Potential Buyers
Know Your Prospect's Needs
How to Make a Sales Presentation
How to Write a Sales Proposal
Negotiating Large Quantity Sales
How to Sell to the World's Biggest Retailer
Negotiate Large Book Sales (Part One)
Negotiate Large Book Sales (Part Two)
Retail Compared to Non-Retail Selling
Pre-Negotiating Preparation
Don't Leave Money on the Table
Ask Questions That Lead to Yes
Use Questions to Control Negotiations
The More You Tell the Less You Sell
How to make large sales
How to develop new markets
The Process of Negotiating
Emotions of negotiating
Managing Post-sale emotions
The Most Overlooked Step in Book Selling
Ten Tips for Sales Presentations
Negotiating Book Sales with Deceitful Buyers
Three Steps to Making Large Sales to Corporate Buyers
Making Your Pitch from the Buyer's Perspective
14 Ways to Find Potential Buyers
Getting to Yes After You Hear No
The New Way to Market Books
Segment Your Potential Buyers for More Sales
How to Find New Places to Sell Your Books
Prioritize Your Prospect List
Marketing From Customers’ Perspective
Selling With Certainty
How to Succeed in a Changing Market
Selling Books at Local Events
Selling to Businesses - Start Small
Five Touchpoints to Any Sale
How to Relax in Sales Presentations
Customize Your Pitch to Each Catcher
Get More Business From Existing Customers
Who Says Rhyme Doesn't Pay.docx
How to Sell Through Retailers
How to Get Appointments
What is Non-Trade Marketing
Sell Children's Books to Non-bookstore Buyers
B2B Marketing Tips
Negotiation Strategy
Know where to Sell Books
Selling Books During a Pandemic
Selling Books to Homeschoolers
Ask the Right Questions and Increase Your Sales
Four Tips for Negotiating Large Book Orders
How to Create Multi-Book Campaigns
The Pizza Pie Theory of Selling Books
Relax During Sales Presentations
10 Red Flags to Watch Out for in a Sales Call
Buffet on Book Marketing
Avoid Buyer's Remorse
How to Get Buyers to Buy
Most Profitable Way To Sell Books
Update Your Marketing
Selling to Different Personalities