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My Office Organization Project – Revisited

12/17/2024 by Debbi

Step Three: Clean off a counter. Or in this case, a small table.

Hi. It’s Saturday and I am organizing some stuff in my room today. Boy, these files are a mess. I have stuff in here that I haven’t looked at in so long that I don’t even know if it’s really relevant anymore. Bunch of stuff about Amazon. Oh yeah, here we go. Amazon. Amazon for Authors. Tell your story, reach your readers, whatever.

Let’s see, what else was funny in here? There was a lot of funny stuff in here. This is great. Yeah. Where was it? I’m looking, I’m looking. Oh, price. What they recommend for price.

“I recommend a $1.99 to $2.99 for your books. Little-known authors need to have their books at a low price to make it an easy buy for potential readers. It’s better to have 35% of $10,000 than 70% of $4,000.”

Yeah. Well, that used to be the way I operated. I figured, okay, I’m selling more at 99 cents than I am at $2.99, so I should go for that. Right?

But I’ll tell you, that did not last long. I was losing sales fast after the Amazon exclusivity thing started, and it was just a race to the bottom. Literally, I felt like I just couldn’t win at that point. I didn’t know what to do.

Oh, yeah. You can also run 99 cent sales for a week, occasionally, simply to find more readers. Whether they actually read the book or not is another thing. Yeah. Okay.

Chapter Two: Developing a Social Media Plan.

[She slams the plan to the floor with a loud THWACK!]

Yeah, that’s what I think about that. What is this here then? This is, okay, change tokens. Oh, this has something to do with something that I probably don’t care about anyway.

The BS Free Indie Author Guide. Oh yeah. This was a book I want to come out with. Maybe I’ll come out with it someday.

Copyright checklist. Now this could be useful. I might hang into this one. Yeah. When I do the copyright thing that I want to do at some point.

So yeah, I’m really trying to plow through some of the bullshit here in my files and stuff that I never, ever look at. And just get down to the brass tacks, because really when you come down to it, the thing I need to do right now is get my act together, because it is not together, I got to tell you.

So maybe that’s part of what I can do as part of the community. Talk about how to organize an office so that you can find things. I dunno. It’s just something I’m thinking about. By the way, I’m wearing my Bugs Bunny shirt today. How do you like that? Hey, Bugs Bunny, my hero! My cartoon hero! Bugs Bunny. Alright, that’s it then. Talk to you later. Be seeing you as Patrick McGoohan used to say in a certain show.

My Mid-June Update

06/18/2024 by Debbi

FYI: This was obviously recorded earlier than the date published here. Thank you!

Hey. Yes. Hi. I’m going to try to sit up straight here. Yeah. I am in the midst of reevaluating how I’m doing this month. It’s June, the middle of June. Pretty much. We’re getting to the middle of June. It’s the 10th, right? What day is it? Is this a weekday? I dunno.

How to Focus on Your Goals

04/05/2022 by Debbi

Hi everyone. Well, I’m gonna start talking more about screenwriting and what I’m doing along those lines. And one of the things I’m doing is I’ve signed up with a mentor. I have a mentor through Women in Film and Video, and we haven’t started yet, but we are working on having our first meeting, I guess. And one of the things that goes with this mentorship is that I’ve been getting assignments, so to speak, from Women in Film and Video. Things to watch, read, listen to. And there’s a really great video I just saw about focus, and it’s interesting because I thought, “Oh, I know this.” And it’s like, well, okay. Yeah, I know this. But then I really started to listen to it. And I thought, you know, something? This is well worth listening to. It’s well worth everybody listening to, so what I’m gonna do is include it in whatever blog post I put this in.

Final Update for 2021

12/28/2021 by Debbi

Hi. Well, let’s see, it’s the end of the year. And so what I want to do is start establishing some new habits. Now it’s interesting that this coincides with the end of the year, because I always say, I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions and I don’t, but I do believe that you can change at any time.