Posted in Financial, General on Apr 15th, 2007 No Comments »
It was an 11-hour-long tax form session.
The tax system is unbearably and unnecessarily complicated and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t do anyone any good to have it that complicated - at least not those paying or receiving the taxes, it’s just the intermediaries that benefit.
Why was it so rough?
Last summer I had a severe garage [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, General, Writing/Publishing on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I spent some time today browsing small-press book and anthology publishers trying to get more information about how they run and the way they do business.
The reason I’m doing this research is because I’ve discovered that there is a serious lack of markets for fantasy and science fiction in the Novelette to Novella range, i.e. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I now have the results of my mailing list invitation.
Of the 373 people I invited to join the mailing list, 116 signed up. That’s 31%. I now have the beginnings of an email list. Let’s hope I use it wisely.
Another question I have to answer is: How do I handle those who have bought single [...]
Posted in General, Marketing on Apr 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I mentioned a few days ago that I had signed up for the http://www.aweber.com autoresponder and mailing list manager service. Although I’ve had a subscribe form sitting on the PulpSource site, that’s still moderately under construction and doesn’t get any traffic yet. I’ve just added subscribe lists to the All Possible Worlds and [...]
Posted in Financial, General, Writing/Publishing on Apr 1st, 2007 No Comments »
So, for the month of March, here are my results:
All Possible Worlds: 7 subscription sales, 17 single issue sales (brings the total to 11 subs and 19 singles counting preorders)
Google Ads: $9.61 with just over 14k page impressions. Google terms of service prevent me from giving any more info than that, but [...]