Authors: Are you selling enough books?

Authors waste too much time worrying about the wrong things when it comes to selling books online.

They spend precious time, for example, fretting about the perfect shade of lavender, the primary color at the site, so it doesn't clash with the green cover of the book that's displayed prominently.

Missing are a gold mine of free articles, a link to a content-rich blog, pages optimized for the search engines, and one of those obtrusive boxes that bounces down from the top of the screen as soon as a visitor arrives.

Yes, those boxes are indeed annoying. But they capture email addresses quickly, and they bypass the pop-up box filters. Still, authors think the boxes are too "over the edge" for them. Then they wonder why they sell only an armful of books from their website within one long year.

Tom Antion and Adam Witty would rather see authors worrying about other things. Like which web pages pull in the most traffic. Or which pages lose the most visitors. Or how to blog about their topic. Or how to manage their own websites without having to rely on expensive techies who take two days to fix one lousy typo.

Tom, an internationally acclaimed expert at Internet marketing, and Adam, founder and CEO of Advantage Media Group, a leading publishing house, want authors everywhere to stop relying only on bookstores to sell the bulk of their books. They want you to know about their "three-pronged attack" for making books fly out the door, thanks to a website that goes ka-ching, ka-ching.

We've bribed them to be our guests during a complimentary teleseminar for authors and aspiring authors. It will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, January 31, 2008. It's called "How Authors Make Money on the Internet...FOR REAL."

Curious? Sign up for this complimentary teleseminar at http://www.blogsquadteleseminars.com/click

The class will be recorded and you will need to register in order to get the audio.

In addition, you will learn:

---How to build a website that makes you money for less than $200 dollars.

---How to build a list that can literally make you millions

---How to become a "product machine" and turn your book into at least 10 other high-margin information products

---How sending just one e-mail made me over $100,000

--- 2 social networking sites that everyone should use…or your absence will be obvious

Comments

[business writing]

If the seminar is half as good as the copy itself, it'll be worth attending. I hope I won't be disappointed.