How to Get a 5 Star Amazon Book Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin

Do you have your book listed on Amazon? Do you want it to have a great review so it can appeal more to buyers?

If you have a book for sale, it will most likely be in Amazon like every other book on the planet. You may be already familiar with the site and as you may know, it has system that people can give reviews for future buyers to base on. People can rate your book up to 5 stars as the maximum.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have high a rating (even perfect, 5-stars) and great raves about your book? Of course it would be! Having a 5 stars rating next to your product generates great impact and enormous appeal.

You can achieve this by using these techniques to get a 5 Star Amazon.com Book Review. Here’s how to do it.

Post an email into your email marketing software and send out an email requesting for a positive review. This works great as a part of your autoresponsder service. If you don’t have an autoresponder, you can do this with forums that tailor to your target readership.

Make it polite and appealing by giving an incentive to those who carry out your request. Consider this as an example:

Subject: Free Surprise Gift

Hello! Many of you have asked how you can help me with my book, (insert book title here). Here’s an easy way to help me out a lot.

Go to (insert exact URL of the book on Amazon) and give me a five star review. In turn, I’ll email you a free surprise gift!

# # end # #

Notice that the subject is written as ‘Free Surprise Gift.’ It is tailored to entice the reader to read on and discover what the message has to say. It will give the recipient motivation to continue reading.

The message is brief, straightforward, but cordial. The letter ends with an offer; an additional incentive to those who adhered to the request. Remember that people tend to think what’s in it for them before doing anything. So, it is imperative that you must provide a payoff for people’s efforts no matter how simple it may be.

I have personally used this technique before and will continue to use it until proven ineffective. In my experience, an immediate response of 6 reviews had shown up. It all happened within 2 hours of my bulletin post. Not bad for 2 minutes of almost effortless work. It is very likely that the people that will give the maximum reviews have never even read your book.

As a gesture of your gratitude, send each of the reviewers a free.pdf version of your book or other online resources at your disposal. The reviewers will greatly appreciate it! The gifts you will send will cost you nothing but will be of value to the recipients.

You can follow these same principles and send an email to your contacts, or post more bulletins, offering them a free surprise gift, in exchange for giving you a testimonial or a review.

I don’t think it’s necessary, or even helpful, to tell your readers what gift you are going to give. People like to be surprised, and they’ll write you a quote just to find out what the surprise is.

Amazon Kindle How-To Series – Convert Free E-Books to Kindle Books

Posted on August 26, 2011 by admin

While the Kindle wireless reading device lets you carry literally hundreds of e-books, newspapers, and magazines anywhere you go, your Kindle is actually pretty picky about the types of documents it will let you read. Free e-books, articles, white papers, and other documents you might wish to read on your Kindle are everywhere on the Internet. The problem is that they are not in a format that is “Kindle-friendly.”

The Kindle “naively” supports the following document formats -

Kindle documents (.azw)

Text documents (.txt)

Mobi Reader documents (.mobi or .prc)

But, if you have a document you wish to read on your Kindle that is in another format – for example = a free e-book that is an Adobe Reader (.pdf) file or a Microsoft Word (.doc) file then you have to convert it to the proper format for use on your Kindle. Fortunately this is not something that is hard to do.

Amazon has a service for which they charge a nominal amount allowing you to convert documents such as .pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader) files to Kindle files. To do this you must first have an active Kindle e-mail address. You can make sure you are set-up with a Kindle e-mail address by visiting the “Manage Your Kindle” section of the Amazon web site. Typically, your Kindle e-mail address will be “yourusername@kindle.com”.

1. Make sure the document you want to convert is in one of the following formats

Microsoft Word (.doc)

HTML (.html)

Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf)

2. Check to be sure the file is not “protected.” This can occur with e-books you have purchased with DRM (digital rights management) restrictions. You also might have documents that include passwords or other means to restrict access. You will not be able to convert these files.

3. Create an e-mail to your Kindle e-mail address and attach the file you wish to read on your Kindle.

4. Send the e-mail – Amazon will convert the document and send it to your Kindle via the wireless connection.

5. The cost for this service is $.10 (ten cents) per document.

If you want to convert your document at no charge, or are in an area where you cannot access the Kindle’s wireless service you can do so with a slight change in the steps above.

Rather than send the e-mail with the attached document to your Kindle e-mail address send it to “yourusername@free.kindle.com”. Amazon will convert the document and send it back to the originating e-mail address. When you get the e-mail back from Amazon you can transfer the document to your Kindle using the USB cable connected to your computer.

It’s as simple as that!

A few important things to remember. First, as stated above, if the files you wish to convert have any sort of DRM (digital rights management) restrictions then the file won’t be converted. Also – this is an “experimental” service for Amazon. Documents with complex formatting, or certain .pdf files, may not convert as expected. While this may not prevent you from reading the document, it will make it a bit more difficult to navigate through and around your e-book.

Congratulations! Now you know how you can quickly convert e-books in Microsoft Word, HTML, and Adobe Acrobat Reader format to “Kindle-friendly” e-books. This process can help you add a lot of great content to your Kindle wireless reading device.

Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor

Posted on August 25, 2011 by admin

Charles Phillips had been with Oracle since 2003 and for seven years with the company, he had helped expand its revenue by 300 percent. He had the position as its co-president and his career really shined while he was with Oracle. However, overall he has over 20 years working experience. Before he joined Oracle, he was working as a managing director for software for Morgan Stanley and before that he was working for Wall Street. He had also been a part of the US Marine Corps which taught him about discipline.

Jim Schaper of Infor was looking for an extra hand to make his company more successful. Infor had reached the 2 billion mark in annual revenue because of Jim, the founder and CEO of Infor. However, when he heard about Charles’s decision to leave Oracle, he immediately wanted to get him for Infor. And that’s what he did. He gave his position to make way for Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. He also gave him a spot as a board member for the company while Jim retains his position as the Chairman of the Board. The position of Charles in Oracle was given to the former CEO of Hewlett Packard Mark Hurd. He is a close friend of the Oracle’s founder, and he’s also expected to do a good job. Filling in on the big shoes left by Charles wouldn’t be easy but with his expertise and skills, many eyes are on him too.

Charles Phillips, CEO is excited with this new challenge facing him. He had said that Infor is the 3rd largest company for enterprise applications all over the world having more than 70,000 customers in many countries. Infor has more than 8,000 employees and had integrated in more than 70 companies. Charles is eager to lead a great team with Infor. According to him, when he was still with Oracle, he had achieved big success, but he didn’t do it on his own. He was just one member of a great team who helped each other to reach a far greater success. He is hoping to do the same now that he’s CEO of Infor. His arrival to Infor is just the perfect timing as Infor was about to launch the Infor ION which is a next-generation application that will be providing monitoring and management for common workflow and for business processes. Jim Schaper had also added that he is expecting Charles would be driving more publicity for Infor. A lot of indications show that the intention of Infor is to initiate a public offering. They are aiming to get public. Indeed, Charles is a remarkable man with remarkable achievements in the past. Just by attaching his name to Infor already made a big wave in the industry and a lot are to be expected from Infor now.

Networking Your Business The Right Way

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

You would want to make sure that your network was up and running and as strong as possible. After all, your network is often what drives your business and without your network, your business would quickly come crawling to a stop. That is why it is important when choosing IT equipment that you make the right decisions as to what is going to benefit you the greatest. One thing that you should not overlook, however, is the cost of that equipment and how much you are able to save when you purchase something that is used.

An example of this is the used Cisco equipment that may be available for use within your network. When you purchase something that is used, you need to consider the fact that it may also be remanufactured. The reason why this is significant is because remanufactured equipment is often held to higher standards than new equipment when it comes to the testing process. In other words, the equipment that you are purchasing may be used but it is actually going to be in better shape than if it were brand-new.

Of course, it is not always necessary for you to get new equipment in order to keep your network up and running properly. You might also want to consider having Cisco repair services done on your existing equipment. Just like purchasing something that is reconditioned, having new components inside of the existing equipment will often make it stronger than brand-new. When done properly, it may outlast many of the new products that you have in your possession.

Sandi Vito: The Pride of Pennsylvania

Posted on August 23, 2011 by admin

Sandi Vito was called to be the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry in 2008. She was commended by Governor Rendell for her dedication to help hardworking individuals in finding better jobs. It is her duty to ensure that every worker, whether a blue collar or a white collar, gets the best benefits from their employers and from the state itself. One way to do that is to create a program that could track all of these in an instant, and then Job Ready PA was born. Job Ready PA did not just revitalize the workforce development system of the state. It revolutionized it and played a critical role in the establishment of Industry Partnerships. It had a profound effect on the state’s economic growth strategy, while giving citizens a chance to have high-wage jobs.

During her leadership, the workforce development system of Pennsylvania won multiple awards and honors. It was named as one of two “Demand Driven” workforce states by the Department of Labor in America. It was also chosen by the National Governors Association as the incubator state to establish state rules and regulations. And through the Job Ready PA, Pennsylvania workers gained valuable experience, which led to wage increases of 6.62 percent. Sandi Vito had been truly served as an inspiration for the entire Pennsylvania Labor sector.

The Pennsylvanians will never forget Sandi Vito. They appreciated her great contribution in her field. She is one of the few public servants who truly magnified her responsibilities. Her influence for good has a far-reaching effect to the lives of people she worked and helped with. In Pennsylvania, she has already received compliments for those people she worked and helped with. In spite of the honor given her, Sandi Vito considers it a privilege to work with employers, employees, educators and professionals who are likewise committed to the improvement of Pennsylvania’s workforce through education and training opportunities that would help individuals meet their personal and professional goal. This had been very evident in Pennsylvania where they have improved the value of society thus inviting more investors who equaled to more business and employment opportunities; this in turn would bring more income to the government by way of taxes and income from business licenses.