Your Participation Is Important
By Jerry D. Simmons | October 30th, 2006 | No Comments » (Click to add yours!)
This past Thursday I asked each of you in my newsletter for some help in filling out a survey. Thank you to those who took the 15 or so minutes to share some valuable information, the problem is I am far short of what is needed so please step forward and help me out.
If you are wondering what this is all about well the short answer is to help self-published and print-on-demand authors sell books. The long answer is that I have been working on a sales model that will provide writers and authors with a platform from which they can display and sell their books to a huge audience. However, the platform must be sold to booksellers and book buyers and that is not possible with survey results that are statistically inaccurate. That is why it is important to have a minimum of 200 respondents.
Over the past three and a half years I have become increasingly aware of the problems individual authors face trying to sell books, especially when they don’t have the distribution, marketing, promotion, or publicity to get books out into the marketplace. I’m confident based on my 25 years of experience selling books, that I have one component solved but in order to support my position I need data from authors who have published a book. Writers without books are certainly welcome to participate and your input is valuable, but the key is hearing from authors who have gone through the process of getting their manuscript published.
I’m going to provide the link to my survey at the bottom of this page and I hope more authors will particiapte. If not, well it seems ridiculous to try and sell my solution without sufficient data to back up my claims. Thank you for your help in this very important matter.
Click here for survey link.
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