How I Fouled-up Self-Publishing My New Book Series

(Yes, I know - Fouled up isn't the same as Fowl, which isn't a cute chickie...)

Setting up self-serving links in your ebook files.

● Set up a “bibliography” for the whole series rather than just a single landing-page link in back.

● Should have all been bit.ly links – for analytics.● Fortunately, these are all trade paperbacks, so

links don't matter.

Publishing trade paperbacks first.

● Ebooks will tell you what the demand actually is for any market.

● This is fine-tuning, since you've already done your market research.

● The plus to paperbacks is that you can hold them, dog-ear them, use real bookmarks.

● Amazon can't/won't reject them like your Kindle version.

Getting Social Signal Syndication Set First

● IFTTT (if this, then that – ifttt.com) isn't set up, or verified. IFTTT can distribute your content for each book (video, audio, PDF, blog post, book cover images) to over 14 other places auto-magically.

● Had to pull the existing landing pages (convert back to draft-mode).

● At least I found it before I missed this chance.

A Central (Membership) Site Instead of Another Standalone Blog.

● Looking forward to investing Synnd coins on a central site, rather than a lot of small ones.

● Main content will be posted to a Rainmaker Membership site first, then syndicated to Blogger-hosted site.

● Standalone site will become a single place to get all this data – and will link back to (and opt-in for) the central Membership site.

● [Synnd: http://j.mp/synnd-signals ][Rainmaker: http://j.mp/newrain-maker ]

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