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Dan, I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep. I would put a book cover in the right sidebar of your wordpress si

Dan, I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep. I would put a book cover in the right sidebar of your wordpress site too to give a bit more visuals. Possibly also redesign the hero area to give it more pop. You're also not prompting for a newsletter signup anywhere. Happy to give you a few minutes of loom or zoom feedback if you think it would be helpful to optimize the site better since your content is already good, its your marketing that could use some help.

mooreds 6y ago
> Dan, I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep. Agree! I don't have much control over pricing (traditional publisher) but I should probably raise the issue with them and see if there's anything I can do. Thanks for the offer of feedback! Let me take what you've already given and see what I can do. I see you have contact info in your profile so will reach out after I've implemented it.
- ghaff 6y ago
  That can definitely be a downside of a traditional publisher. It's even more the case when you're not really trying to make money with a book but are using it as a more reputational thing.
  - mooreds 6y ago
    Yes. I had previously published an ebook through leanpub and wanted the traditional publisher experience. The jury's still out, but it definitely has downsides.
    - ghaff 6y ago
      The biggest win for me is that, rightly or wrongly, a fair number of people have a higher opinion of books that come through a traditional publisher. A publisher also provides editing services and so forth but, in my experience, they're pretty lightweight. I'm actually doing a new edition of one of my books right now and I'm finding more copyedit misses than should be the case. You may well make more money depending upon the sales. But, to be honest, what I make off the book is so trivial compared to what I make indirectly by having written the book that it doesn't really matter to me. Deadlines are both a blessing and a curse--especially for the original book. On the one hand, they probably forced me to go heads down when I might have been inclined to work on other things. On the other hand, you sometimes have to do those other things too.
mooreds 6y ago
I am working with a platform that has limitations but I did try to make the email list easier to sign up for. I also added the form right on the page, instead of requiring a click. I feel like more customization would probably require a platform change or upgrade, so I'll think about that. Thanks again for your feedback.

mooreds 6y ago

> Dan, I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep. Agree! I don't have much control over pricing (traditional publisher) but I should probably raise the issue with them and see if there's anything I can do. Thanks for the offer of feedback! Let me take what you've already given and see what I can do. I see you have contact info in your profile so will reach out after I've implemented it.

ghaff 6y ago
That can definitely be a downside of a traditional publisher. It's even more the case when you're not really trying to make money with a book but are using it as a more reputational thing.
- mooreds 6y ago
  Yes. I had previously published an ebook through leanpub and wanted the traditional publisher experience. The jury's still out, but it definitely has downsides.
  - ghaff 6y ago
    The biggest win for me is that, rightly or wrongly, a fair number of people have a higher opinion of books that come through a traditional publisher. A publisher also provides editing services and so forth but, in my experience, they're pretty lightweight. I'm actually doing a new edition of one of my books right now and I'm finding more copyedit misses than should be the case. You may well make more money depending upon the sales. But, to be honest, what I make off the book is so trivial compared to what I make indirectly by having written the book that it doesn't really matter to me. Deadlines are both a blessing and a curse--especially for the original book. On the one hand, they probably forced me to go heads down when I might have been inclined to work on other things. On the other hand, you sometimes have to do those other things too.

mooreds 6y ago

I am working with a platform that has limitations but I did try to make the email list easier to sign up for. I also added the form right on the page, instead of requiring a click. I feel like more customization would probably require a platform change or upgrade, so I'll think about that. Thanks again for your feedback.