Showing posts with label book marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book marketing. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2016

The Beginner's Guide to Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers - FREE


The Beginner's Guide to Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers has been written as a result of the following consideration: The line of e-books How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers had come to 8 and required kind of a catalogue to navigate through.

Thus I have decided to create a "Book of Books" with the list of the already published e-books on the topic of selling properties to the foreign buyers in some logical sequence with a long description of each book's content, and put it on Amazon free of charge. Then I checked and found out that it was not possible: Amazon only allows any book to be offered free for 5 days in each 90 days period.

Ok, there is nothing that I can do about it...  So, I have added a number of useful practical tips for international real estate sellers from each e-book to its description (to justify a purchase for the readers), put a low price on the Guide and published it anyway.



It will be FREE for 5 days at the beginning of November (watch for the exact days on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MED0JTH ).

I had such free promotion for the Book 4 of the E-Series (look for one of my older posts about that) with the idea of getting reviews from the readers as a sign of recognition, but no one of the people who downloaded the book was courteous enough to post a review or even sent me a word about their honest opinion on the book (I asked for that in my announcement of the free promotion)... So, I'd say it didn't work in terms of getting the reviews...

Thus this time I am not waiting for reviews (and actually what to review in a catalogue?), but have a hope that reading the FREE Guide some people would be encouraged to buy some of my books with more information on the topics that pique their interest). We'll see. 

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Amazon Pricing Experiment


The new seventh book of my *E-series: How to Beat You Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* by the title *How to Use Free Online Translation in Real Estate Business* has been priced differently from the rest.

All the six previous books of the series on the topic on marketing and selling real estate internationally are $9.95 each.

Most of the books on Amazon in Global Marketing Department are pretty expensive - probably for a reason, so I have decided to stay somewhere at the bottom of the pricing range, without going too much below.

Alas, some commentators on LinkedIn say that it's too expensive for a rather short e-book on a rather narrow topic (hmm...) and advise the price of $2.99 to have more sales for a low price, but they think the total will be more...

Well, I believe that pricing too low would diminish the value of the professional knowledge and suggest that there is nothing useful in a book even from the point of view of the author.

Anyway, the new e-book *How to Use Free Online Translation in Real Estate Business* is for people who are looking for the free stuff on the internet and thus I have decided to price it at the "everybody's favorite" $2.99 as an experiment - to see whether the low price would bring more sales and the larger total as a result.


Tuesday, June 28, 2016

I wish Amazon could allow some flexible options like "Buy 1, Get 1 Free"


My latest two books in the *E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* at http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen actually are the two sides of one coin.

As we already know, marketing a property online consists of two equally important major processes: (1) arrange the traffic to your site (or listing) and (2) when the visitors are already here, convert them to buyers.

The Book 5 *How to Be the First on Foreign Google* is about attracting foreign visitors to a property for sale online - the more the better. It covers the basics, educates in major internet tools, and gives the general ideas about bringing foreigners to see the property for sale.

The Book 6 *How to Convert Foreign Internet Visitors into Real Estate Buyers* is about the art and science of converting online visitors into buyers.

It would be very useful for readers to get both books, if they want to find foreign buyers for their properties, and I'd let them have both for one price, but there is no such option on Amazon unfortunately... (To preserve the style of the E-Series I have to have these two topics as two separate e-books, but they are connected in a sense - have visitors and then make them buy.)

http://www.amazon.com/How-First-Foreign-Google-Competition-ebook/dp/B01H0Q2ZGI?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc

http://www.amazon.com/Convert-Foreign-Internet-Visitors-Estate-ebook/dp/B01H2BA00Y?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc


Wednesday, June 22, 2016

My Second News Release to Real Estate Associations


News Release. Real Estate Marketing to Foreign Buyers on Amazon

For Immediate Release:

Two new parts have been added to the *E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen . The E-Series will eventually summarize All-One-Has-to-Know to successfully market and sell real estate to international buyers. Each e-book centers on a particular aspect of marketing and selling properties to international buyers.

The e-book *How to Be the First on Foreign Google* is about attracting foreign visitors to your property online - the more the better. It covers the basics, educates in major internet tools, gives the general ideas in the internet traffic building and answers the following important questions:

* Why to be on the foreign internet is a must for your marketing?
* How to be found and seen on the foreign internet?
* What are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC)?
* How to promote your property foreign website?
* What is better: Your own website or ads on real estate portals?
* How to be the first on Google in any language?

The e-book *How to Convert Foreign Internet Visitors into Real Estate Buyers* is about the art and science of converting online visitors into buyers. It discusses the following significant for your success issues:

* How to convert internet visitors into actual buyers; 
* How to find and organize the content for your property foreign website;
* How to attract more foreign buyers by a property video;
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO);
* What is your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)? 
* How to save on high quality translations.

All of the already published books of the E-Series are on Olga Kellen’s Amazon Author’s page: http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen . (The new ones will be added in the near future.)

One can read these Amazon Kindle e-books on any device (laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPad, etc.) with a free Kindle application that can be downloaded from Amazon for any and all types of devices.

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Sincerely,

Olga Kellen,

"Tap Russian markets with my help!"
English - Russian Translator,
Associate member of ATA,

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

News Release for Real Estate Associations


Here's my simple up-to-the-point News Release about my new publication "E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers" that I'm sending to Real Estate Associations (hoping they'll spread the word among their members):


For Immediate Release:

The new *E-Series: How to Beat Your Competition Selling Real Estate to Foreign Buyers* has been started on Amazon. The E-Series will eventually summarize All-One-Has-to-Know to successfully market and sell real estate to international buyers. Each e-book centers on a particular aspect of marketing and selling properties to international buyers.

All of the already published books of the E-Series are on Olga Kellen’s Amazon Author’s page: http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen . (The new ones will be added in the near future.)

The E-Series so far consists of the following four books:

Book 1. *How to Find the Best Foreign Realtors and Make Your Offer of Cooperation in Sale Irresistible to Them* is a complete guide for marketing and selling international properties with the help of foreign realtors.

Book 2. *How to Efficiently Advertise Your Property for Sale Internationally* is about the option of selling properties by marketing directly to potential foreign buyers and conveys the best cost-effective ways of direct advertising to the general buying public in a foreign country where you want to find a buyer for your property.

Book 3. *How to Sell Real Estate to the Russians* is the expert advice for realtors, developers and private property sellers from all over the world who are looking specifically for the Russian buyers to broaden their buying pool and thus improve their real estate sales.

Book 4. *How to Plan and Budget for Success in International Property Sales* is about creating the most cost-effective marketing plan based on any marketing budget for any property for sale to the foreign real estate buyers.

More e-books on the topic of international real estate sales will be added in the near future to http://www.amazon.com/author/olgakellen .

One can read these Amazon Kindle e-books on any device (laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPad, etc.) with a free Kindle application that can be downloaded from Amazon for any and all types of devices.

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I know that the text is not up to the standard press release that one sends to media - some parts are omitted by choice as I only want to supply the important information for realtors, not entice somebody into writing an article or something... We'll see how it'll work or will it work;-)