Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 19
January 5, 2011
Goodreads Urtaru Book Giveaway II is open for business!
Goodreads Book Giveaway Urtaru by Armen Chakmakjian Giveaway ends March 04, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Filed under: Random
January 4, 2011
Goodreads book giveaway a success!
I was very excited that 717 people were willing to put their name in to have a chance at one of ten copies of my book in my Goodreads book giveaway. Today I sent off the 10 copies of my book Urtaru. In the process I've requested from the powers that be at Goodreads to try [...]
January 2, 2011
2010 in review (from my wordpress blog POV)
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2010. That's about 7 full 747s. [...]
December 31, 2010
The year that was……..Awesome
As 2010 closes down, I'm not going to delve too deeply into what my plans are for 2011 or any resolutions. The truth is that 2010 was a great year, and even though there were some really rough patches and some things I wish didn't have to be, I'm looking forward to next year. Here [...]
December 28, 2010
Book Giveaway
Urtaru by Armen Chakmakjian Giveaway ends December 31, 2010. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Filed under: Random
November 30, 2010
OK now for something completely different…
I made a smoothie in the blender this evening: Bananas Strawberries Blueberries Pomegranate juice Cauliflower (didn't have Broccoli) Baby Carrots Lemon Juice Ice tastes great, very healthy. Filed under: Random
November 29, 2010
The hardest part about self-publishing…
So I'm trying a lot of stuff now. I've joined reading communities and writing web sites. I've tweeted my ads and built analytics into my website. The issue becomes the thing in marketing/sales that is not really scientific, but deals with lots of data. The question is conversions. How to convert a person browsing [...]
November 14, 2010
Figured out part of it…GA
because I was using forwarding and masking, the tracking code I was using on GA was no longer seeing the traffic. I disabled masking to see if the next set of tracking can be tracked. Filed under: Random
November 12, 2010
A question about how google analytics work
So I've got google analytics in my book website, and I can see what traffic comes through my site. However, Google expects people to come through the site, does it treat redirects from my new domain the same as someone who went through one of my old links that are here and there. The domain [...]
November 11, 2010
My book is now in PRINT (Drumroll please, Smitty)
About 2 years ago, about this time of the year, I published a science fiction novel, Urtaru, on the Amazon Kindle that I had written. It's been available for a while and I've sold some copies (and even had to file a schedule C…boy did I felt made when I received the 1099 in the [...]
