How Do I Boost Sales Of My Book For Kids?

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Pat Flynn

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🗓️ 1 January 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today's question comes from Dennis, whose books sales in person are high, but his online sales aren't as good as he'd like. He has a lot of advertising in place—what else can he do? Dennis's site is http://www.thegreedyfish.co.uk/. In this episode I mention another author, Katie Davis (http://katiedavis.com/), as well as KDP Select promotions (https://kdp.amazon.com/select). Do you have a question about selling your books? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Check out my new book on validating your idea for a business, Will It Fly?, at http://willitflybook.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.
0:10.7	What's up, everybody?
0:11.8	Welcome to episode 509 and also welcome to 2016.
0:17.7	Man, I can't believe it's already 2016.
0:19.9	I appreciate you spending a little bit of your time with me at the beginning here
0:23.1	of this year with me.
0:25.2	And I definitely am excited for a lot of the questions that we have coming up here on the
0:29.0	show and also everything that I'm doing on smart passive income to enhance your experience
0:33.6	through the brand.
0:34.6	But more importantly, to help you with your online business, which is why I'm here. And again, for those of you who are just joining me for the first time, what I do here
0:42.0	is I answer voicemail questions from people like you five days a week. And if you have a
0:46.0	question that you'd like asked on the show or to have your voicemail question featured here
0:50.3	on the show, just head on over to askpat.com. You can ask right there on that page.
0:54.2	And today's question is from Dennis over in the UK. He's a great question. And why don't we hear
0:58.7	it right now? Hi, Pat. Thanks for your fantastic podcast and website. I listen to them every
1:04.8	day and absolutely love them. My name's Dennis Thompson. I'm from the UK and last year I wrote,
1:09.5	illustrated and published a children's book that I made for my daughter, Heidi, who was three years old.
1:14.6	The book is called The Tale of the Grady Fish and was originally funded for a Kickstarter.
1:18.6	I've had great success selling the books in school visits where I read the book to the children, answer any questions and then set up a store to sell the books afterwards.
1:30.6	The kids genuinely love the book has to the parents and teachers.
1:37.7	I've got a website, greedyfish.co.uk, and have about 300 fans on a greedy fish Facebook page,
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