Becoming a bestseller is easier than you think
The great thing about Amazon is that it’s easy to become a bestseller in your specialty.Here’s why.
According to the book Bestgorize by Joe Oye, Amazon has 3847 categories. And, the really great thing is when you dig down into each category, they number the top 100 bestsellers in each category.
If you want to be a top ten bestseller, that gives you 3847 opportunities.
Below you will see a screenshot for the bestsellers list in the eBay category. The books are presented twenty to a page. You can see it is labeled Amazon Best Sellers, and just before it begins showing thumbnails of the books, it says Best Sellers in eBay.
Think about it for a minute. Most of us will never be a number one bestseller, or even make the top one hundred bestseller list on Amazon. There’s just too much competition for those spots. And, for a lot of authors, the subject matter of their work further limits these opportunities.
But, with a great book, and a thorough understanding of how the Amazon Marketplace works, just about anyone can become a top ten best seller in their chosen category – Maybe even a number one best seller.
That’s what all of the information in this book is about, how to use the tools provided by Amazon and Kindle to propel your book to best seller status. Forget about all of the BS out there telling you why you need to build an author platform and why you need to start blogging, Tweeting, and putting it out there on Facebook.
Social Media is not the answer!
When was the last time you looked for a book using these methods. NEVER! Most people go to Amazon when they’re ready to buy a book. They browse and search for titles and subjects using the Amazon search bar. People don’t use Google to find a book they want to read. They may use Google later to find out more about it, but before they do that, they have already found your book on Amazon.
So before you do anything else optimize your book's marketing opportunities on Amazon.
When I published my last book, Freaking Idiots Guide to Selling on Fiver, I offered it for free for three days in the Kindle Free Store using the KDP Select Program.
At the end of this three day run my book was number 416 in the entire Kindle Free Store. It ranked number one in its subcategory within Computers, and ranked number 2 in the entire Computer Category.
All of this brings up the next topic. By offering your book in the Kindle Free Store you have 3847 additional opportunities to make your book a best seller. Amazon recalculates best seller status hourly, so you have even more opportunities to make the top ten.
And the great thing is, once you make it there, you can make a screenshot of it to show everyone that you wrote a bestselling book.
(This is an excerpt from my book - Freaking Idiots guide to Writing a Kindle Bestseller).
According to the book Bestgorize by Joe Oye, Amazon has 3847 categories. And, the really great thing is when you dig down into each category, they number the top 100 bestsellers in each category.
If you want to be a top ten bestseller, that gives you 3847 opportunities.
Below you will see a screenshot for the bestsellers list in the eBay category. The books are presented twenty to a page. You can see it is labeled Amazon Best Sellers, and just before it begins showing thumbnails of the books, it says Best Sellers in eBay.
Think about it for a minute. Most of us will never be a number one bestseller, or even make the top one hundred bestseller list on Amazon. There’s just too much competition for those spots. And, for a lot of authors, the subject matter of their work further limits these opportunities.
But, with a great book, and a thorough understanding of how the Amazon Marketplace works, just about anyone can become a top ten best seller in their chosen category – Maybe even a number one best seller.
That’s what all of the information in this book is about, how to use the tools provided by Amazon and Kindle to propel your book to best seller status. Forget about all of the BS out there telling you why you need to build an author platform and why you need to start blogging, Tweeting, and putting it out there on Facebook.
Social Media is not the answer!
When was the last time you looked for a book using these methods. NEVER! Most people go to Amazon when they’re ready to buy a book. They browse and search for titles and subjects using the Amazon search bar. People don’t use Google to find a book they want to read. They may use Google later to find out more about it, but before they do that, they have already found your book on Amazon.
So before you do anything else optimize your book's marketing opportunities on Amazon.
When I published my last book, Freaking Idiots Guide to Selling on Fiver, I offered it for free for three days in the Kindle Free Store using the KDP Select Program.
At the end of this three day run my book was number 416 in the entire Kindle Free Store. It ranked number one in its subcategory within Computers, and ranked number 2 in the entire Computer Category.
All of this brings up the next topic. By offering your book in the Kindle Free Store you have 3847 additional opportunities to make your book a best seller. Amazon recalculates best seller status hourly, so you have even more opportunities to make the top ten.
And the great thing is, once you make it there, you can make a screenshot of it to show everyone that you wrote a bestselling book.
(This is an excerpt from my book - Freaking Idiots guide to Writing a Kindle Bestseller).
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