I was an author who has published more than seven years and if something can not stay on the industry's expected! While waiting for the book through the production, hoping to hit store shelves, waiting for someone to buy, until the first payment and, more importantly, waiting to see how my book is done.
Any person who wrote all previously published has probably affected by the same anguish and frustration at the time it takes to get feedback on their valuable work of art. I remember the first time, I wrote an entire book myself (up 'till then mainly worked on the works of other peoples') – I spent most of the first week after publication of update the Amazon book page to see if there were any new reviews or if the sales rank has improved.
To do this, soon became very boring and when he had always wanted to know how I did my book, I could not lose more time and more looking on the same page over and over and over again. The worst thing is that while it is always good to see the range of lower sales to thousands or hundreds of top down, from time to time, I really could not know it was … not really!
Looking around on the Internet was a little disappointing because it seemed that many people believe that the Amazon sales rank says nothing and I had wasted his time. This seemed strange because it seemed that Amazon has put much effort in building sales Rank Facility – certainly not to suck his thumb in the figures?
Over time the release of my next book, I started to use that effectively gives RankTracer sales estimates and the tracking sales lines. Setting up an account needs to complete the 3 steps below:
1. Register RankTracer
2. Using your subscription form to enter an ASIN (a unique number assigned to each product sold on Amazon) Product (s) you want to follow – it will add the product (s) to your shopping subscription (De in fact, have a small form that allows to determine the ASIN for a product you want to follow before purchasing a subscription).
3. Order and pay your membership – its only $ 2 per month for a song title, or $ 1 to receive updates to automatic review.
RankTracer also gives you 3 million to prove that the written notice of registration (for a limited time), so it is really free to try for a month or so. They also sell the credit, you can buy to make purchases faster and easier – you do not reach your credit card each time you renew a subscription. Once you buy some credit you can even send any money to others for use in RankTracer.
I took all my books and a few others from using this service, and instead of checking me RankTracer Amazon send notifications comments or my sales rank falls below or above a certain point.
Moreover, I have to send me a PDF of all securities that I follow every week and every month, which is good because I ended up being too lazy to even visit the Internet to check how my books are (now that I did not). They have a sample report on their website if you want a look. As you will have the full range of statistics of sales, weekly or monthly sales totals as well as charts and review product information.
What I find really interesting is how the site is built for you to compare and contrast the information you record. They have what they call a workstation, a single Web page that uses AJAX to provide a friendly and intuitive interface to interact with the information in your Fila – there are many options that allow you to display information your group and a variety of ways.
For example, I wanted to see how the new book by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, he sold compared with my own tracks (not that I expect my sales to compete in any way, but only to see the difference turnover). Using the GUI construction RankTracer called me for this one-week period using the 3-D graphics (which have different types of graphical data):
The God Delusion is the track before (yellow), my league table of sales blue. NOTE: If you can not see this image, please visit my website
Ok, so the actual image may not be very clear here, but I hope you can make that my book is late Mr. Dawkins. Note that the image appears almost flat due to its classification has averaged 19 last week, while mine is on average 19 000. At the bottom of the graph must also be able to see the sales estimates for each title. In this case, The God Delusion has sold about 510 copies this week, but my book only sold 31.
I followed the book much more time to give an example of another way of looking at data, I took a picture of my sales league table in the last month using a standard format, grouped on a daily basis (instead of in an hour, as shown in the chart above):
My sales rank range grouped by day during the month Note: If you can not see this image, please visit my website
From this page you can see that sales have increased for a few days in early January, after a bit of a slowdown in December – each bar indicates the range of the rank best and worst for this day. As always, the sales estimate RankTracer engine that provides an estimate of the month – in this case there is an even 130 copies sold in an average range of about 20 000.
In addition to tracking Amazon sales rank for his book, I feel very good piece many titles of my competitors "to see how I do it in the context of my little niche. It is very useful to know exactly how everyone does, because I think it helps me determine where I got things right and wrong.
Especially since the sales rank information is obtained on an hourly basis, I can say almost in real time the impact of any advertising or articles that I or my editor was published. It is amazing to see the falls in the rankings as articles or comments posted on different sites – Once my book has a great review on Slashdot and found RankTracer improved sales of approximately 3 weeks after that.
It reached the point where my editor I am often asked how my book is done because it is easier for me to know that, for him to pick up your records. Finally, I assume that all publishers need to wake up and start offering this service to its authors, but for now I am happy to receive my weekly updates to follow what is happening in the world of the Amazon — I'll leave analysis of competition for vendors, publishers and advertisers.
There is currently a little more to do and see on RankTracer website, but I hope there will be a good idea of what is proposed in the process of tracking and sales estimates Amazon Sales Rank Amazon . Enjoy …