Jim Stroud and I are on a weekly mission to discover new and useful marketing news, tools, and resources for online business owners.
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If You Like The Blog, Why Not Buy The Ebook?
Chris Dixon, entrepreneur and blogger, has set out on a new digital publishing experiment. He’s gathered 100 of his best blog posts and he’s now offering them bundled as an eBook on the Kindle.
This approach, though not an original idea (see Seth Godin), is a great way to package your content for a different audience and marketplace to make more money with your blog. People are buying content for their Kindles and iPads just to be able to read it on their favorite devices – and despite the fact that some of that content is free and available on the web.
Have you ever tried to find the “best-of” posts on any blog? It’s not fun or easy. If I like someone’s writing, I’ll easily plunk down $2.99 to have it delivered without all the hassle. And I’m not alone.
Ebook Sales Beat All Other Book Formats
In late January, Amazon.com announced that for the first time, paperbacks were outsold by e-books at its site (hardbacks had been eclipsed six months before). Read more...
The Shocking Success Of The New Yorker’s Facebook ‘Like’ Campaign
The magazine’s Facebook page gained 17,209 likes between the posting of the story and the time they took it down on Monday morning — about 1,200 more than the 16,000 figure reported elsewhere. Read more…
Twitter Buying TweetDeck for up to $50 Million?
As it looks to add tools for power users, Twitter is also in advanced talks to purchase a program used by many Twitter users to view and manage tweets, Tweetdeck, for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said. Read more…
Matt Cutts discusses how non-optimized sites can outrank well SEO’d sites