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Hi all,

This is just a note to tell you that if you are seeing this message, your enrollment in the Strongest Start Class is complete. Anita will be posting a welcome message shortly. In the meantime, please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Sol

Hi all,

I wanted to start a thread on the best book marketing tactics. What have you done that has worked well. I'll start. In marketing the books that WorldMaker Media published we found purchasing Facebook advertising to be very effective. When we did it, we saw a definite spike in sales. This translated into a higher Amazon Sales rank which led to more exposure, a higher rank, etc. It became a virtuous cycle.

We also found advertising on some online publishing sites to be effective. In this case, we own and operate Booksie.com so we put the ads up there and also saw an increase in sales which translated into a higher Amazon Sales rank.

The bottom line was that anything we could do to increase the Amazon Sales rank helped. As the publishing world knows, starting off with a blitz is better than a lower level, steady stream of advertising. It's best to get a book onto some list and let that exposure catapult the book even further.

I'd be curious to hear what others have done that has proven effective.

Sol

Hi all,

We released a major change to the points system today based on your feedback. Now, once you post content using points, you can post it to any other points group without having to pay additional points. This means that you only pay points once.

If any group moderators want to change their No points groups to Points with this change let me know. The reason to do it is if you want to make sure that users who post to your group have paid points at some point for the content they are posting.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sol

The functionality now exists so that group moderators can launch writing contests or challenges for their groups. For now, the moderators will have to send me the details and I will upload it into the group. Once that happens, members of the group can enter the contest/challenge, just like the Strongest Start or the 7-Line poetry contest.

If a moderator wants to launch a contest, please include the following:

- Contest start and end date.
- Contest description
- Prize (doesn't have to be monetary and there doesn't even need to be a prize).
- Theme
- Any other contest requirements.

Thanks,
Sol

Hi all,

Today we did a new release today that includes some fixes for iPad users. The most prominent should be how the text editor responds. The editor should now scroll on the page and it also should not display some of the erratic cursor behavior. If iPad users could take a look and let me know if those problems are resolved, that would be great.

Thanks,
Sol