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This is great advice. The biggest take away for me is that you are able to market it. Without any marketing, the book will most likely flop. I wrote and publis
by yitchelle 10y ago
This is great advice. The biggest take away for me is that you are able to market it. Without any marketing, the book will most likely flop.
I wrote and published on Leanpub, (https://leanpub.com/successfulunittest https://leanpub.com/successfulunittest). My marketing was not good enough as I am not that good at it. I only managed to sell about 10 books. In my next book, I would build up the audience as mentioned in the linked article.
Congrats on the success now and in the future.
- hackits 10y agoJust a outsider note, I've never heard about your book before now or like I say `It popped into existence`. I had a look at the url you posted. Although I couldn't find a sample of your book, let alone a couple of pages to judge it's quality or value. The table of content's was straight forward but lacking any substance. Maybe consider allow downloading a sample number of chapters?
- hgdfjd 10y agoAgreed, and I would suggest that the fact that the title sound is ungrammatical ("Guide to Successful Unit Test"? Not, "Unit Testing"?) and there is at least one typo in the description. That kills it for me.
- yitchelle 10y agoThanks to you and hackits for the feedback. I will take these two suggestions on board.
- hackits 10y agoLet me know when you have a sample up would love to take a look at it.
- yitchelle 10y agoHey, just updated my book[0] at Leanpub with a book sample up. I have sampled the introduction and a chapter on tools. Any feedback would be great! [0] - https://leanpub.com/successfulunittest https://leanpub.com/successfulunittest
- thewhitetulip 10y agoUse Reddit and HN for traffic, I do that for two of my books, https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ and https://leanpub.com/antitextbookpy/ https://leanpub.com/antitextbookpy/ If your book is good then reddit is very supportive.
- yitchelle 10y agoI thought about Reddit but I believe the key is announcing it in the right sub-reddit. Thanks for the advice.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoYes, my entire traffic originated from reddit