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Sell books as you would Coca-cola

How can you make more money selling to non-bookstore buyers? Consider this example. A consumer buys a 24-pack of Coca-Cola for about $ .25…

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0 Sep 24, 2014

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A new way to track your sales

Did you read the best seller by Michael Lewis (or see the movie), Moneyball? It describes how the Oakland Athletics changed from an intuiti…

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0 Sep 23, 2014

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Access-based positioning

The third theory of creating a brand image is access-based. Access is a function of your customers’ geography or size. Serving a small rath…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Sep 10, 2014

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Need-based positioning is a second option

The second way (one more to follow). to create an image for your books in the minds of your customers is need-based positioning. This arise…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Sep 9, 2014

APSS Staff

Try value-based positioning

An important factor in an independent publisher’s ability to thrive in the long run is the image it holds in the minds of its current and p…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Sep 8, 2014

APSS Staff

Your comments on a pocket planning guide

I created a weekly planning guide seen at www.bookapss.org/planpocketguide.doc. Would you please take a look at it and let me know if it “w…

Started by Brian Jud

2 Sep 8, 2014
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Fish where the fish are

Finding new ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old place where everyone else is looking you will only find tapped…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Sep 4, 2014

APSS Staff

Product form is a variable

Find an existing need for information and then satisfy that need with the appropriate form. This may be a book, audio book, ebook or MP3, a…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Sep 2, 2014

APSS Staff

Do not use the Christopher Columbus method of planning

Some publishers use the Christopher Columbus method of planning. They do not know where they are going. When they get there they do not kno…

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0 Sep 2, 2014

APSS Staff

A different way to look at planning

The marketing-planning process is similar to using a kaleidoscope. There are a finite number of pieces, but you can create an infinite numb…

Started by Brian Jud

0 Aug 28, 2014

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