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Lessons Learned from Seth Godin

08/10/2021 by Debbi

Personally, I think one of the most interesting blogs today is Seth Godin’s. I read his blog daily, because 1) it’s easy to read, 2) he gets to the point (usually) without a lot of filler words, and 3) he has a lot of good suggestions to offer for anyone in almost any career.

If you haven’t read Seth’s blog, here are my take-aways from the last few blog posts I’ve read:

About “Not for Diana”

This story is ostensibly about the ability to sell a necklace that says “Diana” on it.

Imagine how many more you could sell, one man says, if it read “Not Diana”, because there are so many more of those!

A Kindle Publishing Story of Rags to Riches (And Vice Versa)

01/23/2018 by Debbi

I ventured into self-publishing by accident really. I intended to release my out-of-print novel to get the work out there, for what it was worth. This was in 2009. At the time of its release, I discovered Kindle publishing (the only game in town, at that time). When Nook became available, I hopped onto that, too.

The volume of sales my book had at $0.99 turned out to be much higher than I could get when I priced the book higher. So even though I was earning a lower royalty rate, the volume of sales was so much higher, I was actually making more money.