Amazon sales rank, book promotion, social marketing, seo, reviews

Entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses clearly have money to spend when it comes to educating themselves with content and knowledge from leading entrepreneurs like Eric Ries, Crystal Paine and Napoleon Hill.

In my previous article in which I compared the leading titles by marketing gurus, entitled "InfoGraphic: Guy Kawasaki's "Art of the start" outsells other titles by marketing gurus", Guy's book outsold its competitors three to one over a five day period, selling an average of about 60 copies a day. The story is different when it comes to starting and running a business.

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Amazon sales rank, book promotion, social marketing, seo, reviews

I thought I would compare the online sales of the marketing books written by a random selection of leading marketing gurus to see how they stack up against each other.

Now I should point out that making too direct comparisons on the relative popularity of each book is not quite fair because the books were published at different times, and are different sizes and prices.

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Amazon sales rank, book promotion, social marketing, seo, reviews

Do a search on Amazon for books on advertising, and it's no surprise that Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" shows up first. It's been a smash hit for quite some time now - around ten years and counting.

The premise that a well considered and precise action can induce desirable effects far in excess of the initial "push" is clearly an infectious one in itself.

Ok, so the book is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Neat. But I wanted to see exactly how it stacks up against other top advertising books.

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Amazon sales analytics graph comparing life of pi and currency wars

Check out this 3d bar graph created with Ranktracer's custom graphing tool (part of our analytics service).

We've compared the sales performance of Life of Pi by Yann Martel with Currency wars by James Rickards. Both books are absolute best sellers on Amazon.

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Market research and competitive analysis using the Amazon sales rank

Far more than Amazon sales rank tracking

RankTracer offers something far more valuable than simple Amazon sales rank tracking and analysis. With powerful analytics, custom graphing and access to any product sold on Amazon, you can perform fine-grained market research like never before - at a fraction of the cost and effort. We're completely unique.

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This is a fantastic short course that is packed to the rafters with great information about how to build up website traffic using the power of social marketing. If you haven't managed to gain thousands of followers on twitter, or, if you just can't seem to generate enough interest in your blog...

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Amazon sales rank, book promotion, social marketing, seo, reviews

Charles Weinblatt, author of Jacob's courage recently wrote in to tell us:

"I enjoy your service very much, especially as it assists me in tracking sales of my recent novel, Jacob's Courage."

We're pleased to be helping Charles track and analyze the sales of his book. Here's a bit about the title:

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Amazon sales rank, book promotion, social marketing, seo, reviews

Greetings,

I trust that you are all now familiar with the recently introduced social media integration for your sales and analytics accounts. Using these stats as part of blogs or marketing efforts can really give your title's sales a shot in the arm. But, I digress...

New marketing and promotion services

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Just as movie stars are sent out into the world to promote their latest films at premieres and gala events, so to are authors required to sell their latest works. It makes sense then that publishers would start eyeing out the best ways for their authors to promote titles.

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Its easy to use RankTracer

RankTracer is a subscription based service that allows customers to track virtually any product sold on Amazon, anywhere in the world. Want to track your book sales in the US and the UK? No problem. Want to track the sales performance of your eBook in France and Germany? No problem.

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RankTracer is now integrated with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn!

Share Amazon sales rank data socially

The new social media buttons allow you to share individual bits of information with your friends, colleagues and social groups at the click of a button.

When logged into your account you will now notice small sets of three icons grouped below each important piece of statistical information - such as best rank, current rank, daily sales and so on. Click on a button to share that piece of information on the social network of your choice.

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Anyone who sells or markets products through Amazon

Thousands of people use RankTracer to track their Amazon sales ranks and provide accurate sales estimates for their books and products. In particular, the following professions and businesses are most common amongst our customers:

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Good promotional review of this title

Without a doubt this is one of the best albums ever created in any genre of music. It has a range and depth of music and lyrics that is hard to match - especially in today's popular music. With songs like "So far away", "Money for nothing", "Walk of life", "Brothers in arms", "Ride across the...

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What's special about this book is not the science contained therein, although Bryson does a great job of including the most fascinating topics you can find, it's the way he writes about it that makes this such an enjoyable book. The prose transforms you into a curious child and you spend hours...

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I'm slightly bias because I love science so a book like this would naturally appeal to me. What's great about it is the fact that it really does do a good job of placing the theories within their contexts and talk about who had a role in fighting or promoting the ideas and how things were...

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It's hard to know which adjective to use to describe this book. There are many. I'm going to go with 'bizarre'; but in a good way. The writing is infectious and immerses you completely in not only the book, but the character as well.

Everything that happens is seen from the point of view...

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This is an odd way to start out a review, but hear me out. I was sitting in a dingy little pub in Oxford when I noticed a plaque on a nearby bench. Enquiring about it, I was informed that this was the table at which C.S. Lewis and Tolkien would sit together and have drinks. On one particular...

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This book is one of the most evocative and powerful I have ever read. Having been brought up in the South African schooling system (admittedly much later on), there are definite tinges of similarity between what Peekay went through and my own experiences - South African boarding schools used to...

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I'd like to quickly run through the huge changes that RankTracer has undergone recently.

What's changed

Our service has been expanded to include special book and product reviews. In order to offer the best search engine, social and SEO enhanced review service possible, we had to redesign the homepage to show the latest reviews on our high traffic homepage. Newcomers now have the option of going to the analytics homepage (http://www.ranktracer.com/amazon-sales-tracking.php) or adding a new review (http://www.ranktracer.com/content/book-product-review).

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I'm not going to rattle off a long story about plot and characters and who's who and whether the creatures involved in the story come from Norse or Celtic mythology (or both, and then some). What I want to say about this book is this:

I read it when I was child. I have never forgotten it...

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