Sell Your Book To Make It A Best Seller

A big portion about writing a best-selling book is not the writing only, it's the selling. That's why it's called "Best-Selling Book" and not "Best-Writing Book". You have to sell it really well.

Here are some of the efforts that I have taken to ensure that my books become bestsellers.

The first thing I did was arranging for a lot of book talks. Anytime I could get an opportunity to go out there to speak and sell the book I would do that.

So what I did was to approach all the major bookshops in Singapore. MPH, Times, Kinokuniya, Borders and Popular and arranged book talks every single weekend. So every single weekend I would go out there to speak and draw crowds. In fact, it is during my talks that I sold the most number of books.

Another promotion effort I did was to arrange free talks in schools. These talks were usually held during the school assemblies. So I would speak during the allocated time for the assemblies. And I conducted them over a 4 month period. That was what drove the sales of the book. That's what got people talking about my book.

The other thing which I did was to put advertisements in the papers
Some of my friends thought it was a stupid idea because it was expensive.
One small ad would cost about $3,000. They said "Adam, you are never going to make back your money!"

It did eventually, and by placing those ads, it drew the crowd into the bookshops.

Which leads me to an important thing, you have to make sure the bookshops give you good shelf space. How do you make sure you do that?

It's all about going there, building rapport with the person in charge of book placements, talking to the person and asking the person to place the books at better spaces.

I would go to the bookshop every weekend to look at where my book is and if my book is in a lousy position, I would take my book and replace it with other books which were at a good position. I know it's a dirty trick but I did that.

The other thing I did was to create artificial demand. Initially, when I first wrote my book, no one wanted to display it well. A lot of bookshops didn't want to bring it in because I was a local author and no one knew me at that time.

So what I did was I got a lot of my friends to call the bookshops up, asking about the book. They would go, "Excuse me, have you seen this book called "I Am Gifted, So Are You"?" and the bookshops would say "Oh, we don't have it yet."

And my friends would reply saying "Hey, but it's a very good book, how can you not have this book?" I also got all my friends and relatives to write in to the bookshops complaining that it was a best-selling book, they wanted to buy it but they couldn't get it. So that got the bookshops to start ordering it and it created that cycle.

You will notice that sometimes it takes a little thinking out of the box and effort to make your book a best seller. Ultimately, in order for your book to be a bestseller, you have to take the necessary measures to sell your book.

Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and a self-made millionaire by the age of 26. Discover his million dollar secrets and claim your FREE bonus CD '6 Ways To Achieve Anything In Life' at Paving The Way To The Top.

Samsung G Series Bestsellers - Samsung G600 And Samsung G800

The Samsung G600 and its counterpart the Samsung G800, are beautifully designed phones with the compatibility to function on all the best networks available. Both the handsets have multimedia capabilities supported by excellent connectivity options and increased memory storage capacity. The reason why these mobiles have emerged as best phones lie in their inherent quality to connect efficiently and bring entertainment too.

The Samsung G600 is known for its capability to work on 2G networks. This gadget is GSM enabled and is available in dimensions of 101 x 47.8 x 14.9 mm. GSM keeps the phone connected anywhere and its dimensions pave the way for easy carrying of the handset. It is also light and weighs only 104 gms. The G600 is fitted with parts such as control buttons, keypad, camera and music player. The screen gives a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and measures 2.2 inches. The 5 MP camera of the phone is highly useful for capturing sharp pictures at a resolution of 2592 E 1944 pixels. The handset is good for entertainment purposes and can play music files in formats such as MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+ and WMA. There is also the FM radio that is known to entertain people with its programs and music. The gadget is connected with options such as GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB port. It has 55 MB embedded memory and the battery gives standby time of 300 hr and talktime of 3 hr 30 mins.

The G800, on the other hand, can work on networks such as 2G and 3G. This gadget is also GSM enabled and the presence of HSDPA software enables the easy access of the Internet on the mobile. It is also light with a net weight of 134 gms including the battery. The dimension of the gadget are 101 x 51.1 x 18.8 mm.

The Samsung G800 comes preloaded with MP3 and polyphonic ringtones, music files and videos. However, there is also the option of downloading games, music, and ringtones due to the presence of the Internet option. The WAP browser is handy for browsing the net at fast pace. So, the gadget is good for entertainment purposes as one can play fascinating games and record videos and pictures with the aid of the 5 MP camera. This phone remains connected with options such as GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth and USB port. Thus it is possible to transfer files to other gadgets wirelessly. Any text attachments received can be viewed with the document viewer of the mobile. There is 160 MB of internal memory and the battery can give 220 hr of standby time and 3 hr 20 mins of talk-time.

Adam Caitlin is author for telecommunication industry. He has written quality stuff about samsung mobile phones and latest mobile phones.