If you are not a successful author yet, incorporate following ten secrets: 1. Treat your book as a business.

You spend many hours creating a masterpiece to help your audience. It follows then, you need to set up a regular time schedule to market and promote it.

2. Create a flyer for each book you offer.

Hand out your flyer at business meetings or at any public place. Ask your audience to pass flyer along to friends and associates. Offer one free report or ezine on flyer to get new email addresses to send promotion to later.

3. Create a line or two about your book in your signature file that goes on every email you send.

After your name, title, and benefit statements, add something like: eBk: "Write your eBook or Other Book--Fast!" Include your addresses and phone numbers too.

4. Invest some money in book marketing.

Contact a book coach and schedule a low-cost introductory session to see if you are a match and will get what you need. Many authors print too many copies or use an expensive service to get book finished instead of putting aside an equal amount to market it.

5. Take a teleclass on how to market your book.

These low cost and low time investments can make your book great seller it should be. Discover inexpensive ways to market via phone and email. How convenient!

6. Don't get fooled by high-cost services.

Now don’t get it wrong… some of these are quite great and can be useful to someone who just wants to have their name in a book, but idea and how they go about this is a complete scheme.

The ways winners are chosen have nothing to do with “best poem.” It is a complete scam.

Sites like Poetry.com offer daily prizes as well, however they aren’t chosen truthfully. Well, to an extent. What they do, is select a certain number of poems randomly and then read them, and select best poem out of those. They probably don’t even do that… but you get point. They do not read ALL poems. They read a very select few. As far as we know, they select a random poem as winner and read it themselves and see if it totally doesn’t suck… and if it does they select another random one as winner.

If you do not believe this article, try it out yourself.

Create a poem which totally sucks. Something like:

Poetry.com is full of them They offer money and choose a winner But winner is not them It is poetry.com