
Trying to make sales go up.
Most Amazon Kindle authors (surprisingly not all) know what the Best Seller Rank is – kinda. We all know that we want to be as close to #1 as we can be. But, most of us will never attain that.
Thankfully the clever folks at Amazon gave us categories, and sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories, sometimes even more. So, now at least I can say I’ve reached #1 in a sub-category and a sub-sub category – however they calculate it – and I can tell you I felt like a winner – kinda.
Despite reaching the top of a sub-category – which, by the way, may help boost sales – the actual number, or indicator of success, is the Best Sellers Rank. But if we’re making money (or not), what difference does Amazon’s Best Seller Rank make, if it’s only an indicator of sales? To make the number better, I need to sell more books. Selling more books is the only way that number changes. So why should I even care about the rank? Why not just focus on getting sales?
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