Tag Archives: social media
Consulting Blues – The Expensive Customer
Recently I put a bid forward on a “Request For Quotation” (RFQ) as part of my telecom consulting job. Unfortunately, the potential customer’s RFQ was essentially “go watch this YouTube video, and build something like that. It should be easy, so I only want to pay $200″. The video was essentially someone talking about a proof-of-concept project they had done. None of the back-end infrastructure was discussed; it was apparently Asterisk based, and used a database of some kind to …
Paid Advertising For Your Book – Don’t bother, I tried that already
Back in February, I posted an article titled “More Thoughts on the Economics of Authorspace – It’s a business … who knew?” . In it, I ran through a few numbers based on my own very limited and new understanding of being an Independent author. Part of those numbers was an estimate of $450 in promotion/ advertising. It is that number and how I’ve spent it that I want to talk about. I’ll drop a table on you here in a moment, …
Lost Le Carrés
Again today I was treated to another “go get ‘em tiger” writer-motivation tweet about how many times some famous author was rejected before finally being accepted by a publishing house and going on to fame and fortune. I’m sorry, that doesn’t make me feel motivated. It makes me feel mad. Allow me to explain. When I first considered being a writer, 20-ish years ago, I would have been leaving a word out of my job description. That word would be …
The 80-20 Rule
Guest Post By Curiosity Quills Press I read an article this morning in The Guardian about “Why social media isn’t the magic bullet for self-epublished authors.” It makes a lot of great points and ultimately compares social media as a sales tactic to the tech bubble of the 90s and 2000s—and it hypothesizes that it will burst in the next 18 months. It’s a fabulous post. Go read it. As someone who has been around since the early days before …
