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Archives for November 2018

Kindle eBook Pricing Strategies (Free PDF)

November 29, 2018 by Arun Leave a Comment

Learning how to price your ebook is both science and an art. In this short and useful guide, you’ll learn few strategies I have used to decide what to price my ebooks.

This one is FREE for you!

Go ahead, and download your free PDF report now! 

Filed Under: Blog Posts

How to Start a Page Number from a Specific Page in Word

November 27, 2018 by Arun Leave a Comment

In today’s blog post, we will see how to start a page number from a specific page, like the Chapter 1 or any Front Matter section like the Foreword section.

Thus, by simply following the steps given in this article, you can make Page numbers for your paperback books look professional.



Pagination for PaperBacks

The secret to adding page numbers starting at first page for your first chapter is in using ‘Section breaks’. You might have used page breaks to separate different portions of your front pages and all the different chapters.

However, if you want to see different stylings for your page numbers, then go for Section breaks instead of Page breaks.

To organize what we learn, I have divided this instruction into three different categories:

  1. Creating sections
  2. Adding & formatting page numbers
  3. Deleting page numbers

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If you don’t have time to read this blog post, simply watch this on YouTube here:

Creating sections

First and foremost, for the page numbers to be customized the way you want it to be, you need to create ‘Section breaks’ between different sections of your book – like the pages within the usual Front matter (copyrights, foreword, introduction, dedications), Chapters 1, 2, 3, and so on.

Page breaks won’t be helpful when it comes to creating page numbers in our footers. To create a ‘Section break’, just go to the Layout tab, click on Breaks and choose ‘Next Page‘ under the Section Breaks.

section breaks

Create a ‘section break’ in between all your different sections and move to the next step.

Adding & formatting page numbers

First double-click on your footer section of the page where you want to add the page number.

Once you double-click, the Header & Footer tools tab gets activated with its Design tab shown.




Now, click on ‘Page Number‘ and select ‘Bottom of Page‘ (you can choose whichever position you prefer here) and add page number.

add page numbers in footer

Formatting page numbers

Then, click again on the ‘Page Number‘ and select ‘Format Page Numbers…‘ and choose a Number format from the first drop-down option given. If you’d wanted to select ‘Roman Numerals‘ for your Front Matter section, this is the time to choose them !!

Format page numbers in Word

Additionally, if you want to customize the ‘starting’ page number for your chapter, you can change the number to start at a different number from the ‘Start at:‘ counter.

customize page numbers in word

Deleting page numbers from the first page of a new chapter

Professional editors choose not to show page numbers on the first page of a new chapter. You can also do that by simply selecting this checkbox which says ‘Different First Page‘.




 

different first page in word document

This is how you add a different starting page number for your first chapter.

Here’s a question for you: what’s the real challenge in self-publishing your first book, in case you haven’t created any yet?

Let me know in the comments below and I will see if I can help you in any way through a video or a blog post or just directly answering your questions.




Filed Under: Blog Posts, Paperback Publishing, Technology Tips, Word Tips

YouTube Journey: Some Best Practices

November 25, 2018 by Arun Leave a Comment

An year ago, I was standing at 100 subscribers!

That was a great feeling, indeed. Getting my first 100 subscribers took me a full 3 months’ time of weekly regular video uploads.

Fast forward to today, exactly (or almost) an year later, I have crossed 1050 subscribers, while being semi-regular with my video uploads. (It’s a slow growth, yes) – although helpful tools like TubeBuddy, TuberTools, and people like Backlinko’s Brian Dean, VideoCreators, Nick Nimmin have helped to a great extent in making this smooth.

Nevertheless, there is always an idea of what to upload next to YouTube on my chosen niche of Amazon KDP – all thanks to the author community’s questions!

With this incredible journey (although, it’s just the beginning) so far, I have learned a thing or two about really making it on YouTube. I just wanted to document my thoughts in this blog post about those lessons learned.

tubebuddy link

Although, these are just a few, it took a year for me to really get these! Will keep adding more to this list in the coming years.

  1. Responding to comments improves the overall watch-time: the logic behind this observation is that when people get their replies via the comments from the channel owner, the credibility tends to improve. The people who comment and get a response, start to feel that there is a person behind the scene who ‘really’ responds to their queries. This builds trust, improves chances of them watching our next videos without any question (assuming they also subscribed).
  2. Hitting on the ‘Like’ button tells me that a viewer just liked what he/she just watched. But hitting on the ‘Subscribe’ button tells me that he liked what he saw, but he also expects more of such videos in the coming days. Same goes for ‘follow’ on Facebook or Twitter – the expectations are for future content mostly, than for what they saw just now. That being said, consider that the very content that made them come to your channel, is sold. That’s why they want to see more of similar content.
  3. Contrary to the popular belief of ‘asking’ people to subscribe, I have observed that when I focus on creating extremely useful content, I don’t need to ask people to hit on the subscribe button; they naturally do (am guessing, FOMO is at play here). This is because when the content they came to watch has already connected with their intrinsic expectation of some value in what they are watching, there is no need to ‘ask’ them to ‘check the time’ when you’ve already sold them the ‘watch’ – they will automatically do that.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYupwP5yK6CSyiXT3KRs8Tw/videos

 

Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: YouTube

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