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Tracking your sales rank can do a lot more for you than you think! Well, that and the fact that it helps prevent you from obsessively checking your sales rank every ten minutes...

So you've written a book and had it published. Maybe your company has just released a new software package. How about stylish accessories? Whatever you've done, if you are selling something on Amazon then there are a number of reasons to track Amazon sales ranks with RankTracer:

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Amazon don't release their individual sales figures to anyone - although it is possible to obtain a general PoS number from Nielsen bookscan. But that doesn't mean you can't get a really good idea of what you are selling on a particular Amazon locale.

Take a look around the net and see what people say about the Amazon sales rank. If you look at a hundred different pages, you'll probably get a hundred and five different opinions (some people disagree with themselves).

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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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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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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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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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