Kindle Blog Statistics

by JulieD on February 11, 2011

Amazon offers subscriptions to blogs within their Kindle platform. Every day when your readers wake up, your new content is waiting on their Kindle. Since the Kindle home screen’s default setting is to show newest content first, you could be the first thing they see every time they look at that home screen. How’s that [...]

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Publish Your Blog for Kindle

February 9, 2011

Kindles aren’t just for books. People also subscribe to blogs on their Kindles. It usually costs around $1.99 a month (the price is set by Amazon) and is a great way to offer your content to all those new Kindle owners monetize your blog increase the prestige of your blog (‘available through Amazon’ automatically makes [...]

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The Best Investment You’ll Make This Year

January 20, 2011

Watch me rave about Mike Stelzner and his awesome roster of guests at this year’s Social Media Success Summit 2011. No travel required, all online. Sign up by Thursday, April 14, 2011 (that’s today!) to save 50% on the registration fee. Even if you miss the discount though, the training will still be great value [...]

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Blog Topics For A Month – in 30 Minutes

January 3, 2011

I just took 30 minutes and came up with 16 blog topics – some of which will become three or four posts as I begin to write – and they are all things that my target readership feels passionate about. That’s 3-4 weeks’ worth of hot blog topics for half an hour of work – [...]

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No End Of Year Round-Up, Please!

December 22, 2010

Everyone and his dog is writing an End Of Year Round Up. If you feel like it’s time to start on yours: please, don’t! Apart from the fact that everyone is doing it (so it’s boring), it is a waste of your blogging time. 1 Why End Of Year Round-Ups Exist. End of year round-ups [...]

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Who Needs Publishers? Amazon’s 70 Percent Royalties For Kindle Books

July 7, 2010

Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) program allows you to compete on a level playing field in the ebook space, even if you have never spoken to a traditional publisher about your title. If you have a business book, a recipe collection, a memoir, a romance about vampires and wolverines, Amazon says, simply upload your title [...]

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How MailChimp Gets It Right By Doing Everything Wrong

June 9, 2010

By rights, I really ought to hate mailing list service MailChimp. Their corporate tone is jokey (their mascot is a talking chimp who has something silly to say every time you log in), they admit it when they make mistakes, they put a ‘loading’ page in front of the site after the latest upgrade which [...]

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13 Essential WordPress Plug-ins For Business

February 22, 2010

I use Wordpress to host and run my websites. Plug-ins let me do everything from put headlines in my sidebars, to helping me track how many people visit which article, to creating sign-up forms, and create those cute little ‘link to me’ buttons at the top of this article. Here are the ones that allow me to build websites that make my clients go “ooooh!”

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You Can’t Afford To Be As Secretive As Apple

February 1, 2010

Hardly anyone knew anything for sure about Apple’s new tablet, the iPad, before its vaunted launch last week. Within 13 minutes of the word “iPad”‘s first public utterance it was the top trend on Twitter. But are you sure you have Apple’s reach? Not The Apple Approach Last week, something else happened that got less [...]

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New eReader from Barnes & Noble: The Nook

October 21, 2009

Barnes and Noble have released a new eReader, which looks suspiciously like the Kindle with a few “Look I’m Different” features….Should we be concerned that too much power is in too few hands?

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