Learn how to make more sales as an author

Writers often have trouble know how to market their work.
This article reveals seven tips on creating more sales.

Multiplying Your Sales

Often, time is an enemy of writers. Sales seem slow
and checks too small. How does one make the most of
their effort? Here are some tips that will multiply
your sales.

1. Companies taking manuscripts from freelancers offer
copies of their writing guidelines and sample copies.
Assume there's a reason for them. Study them. Study
their web sites as well. What do they tell you about
the publication's readers? The Internet will save you
much postage and time from when I started.

2. Think ahead. Lead times for publication are rarely
short. Writers' guidelines often teach Christmas is in
July. Lead times can be shorter for the Internet.
Learn what they are. Submit accordingly.

3. Take advantage of your research. Write more than one
manuscript for the same effort. This adds to your
productivity. Interviewing a camp director? Write a
feature article on how to select a camp for more than
one market. Write a filler article. Write an article
on finding work at a camp.

4. Resell the same manuscript multiple times. My record
for off-line for publication with one manuscript is
seventeen reprints. It is easy to surpass this on the
web.

5. Resell to editors. Once you sell to a company, send
another query or manuscript to its editor. Some
companies may buy from you for each issue, others will
buy only once every so many months. Learn what they
want before you submit. Learn this from studying their
publication before you query. If they like what you
do, keep them happy.

6. Use query letters whenever possible. When an editor
has OK'd a query letter first you usually succeed at
selling the manuscript . This saves valuable time!
Kill fees are more often offered if article results
from a query letter as well.

7. Take a look at your sales. What has worked for you?
How can you multiply your sales?

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