Ep 112: Databasin'

In this episode, I discuss:

1:29: Announcements:

Be sure to read my Building a Copyright Database blog series if you’re interested in my database adventures: http://www.authorlevelup.com/copyrightdatabase

If you are Excel-savvy and would like to test my macros, feel free to email me at www.authorlevelup.com/contact. The macros will be free for you to use if you find them helpful. Otherwise, I’ll share them for free soon once they’ve been tweaked.

2:34: Wins for the Week:

I successfully learned basic Excel VBA in about 48 hours. I wrote about 10,000 lines of code that worked flawlessly.

6:06: Lesson Learned This Week:

Business Lesson: Excel is not as evil as I thought it was, but it’s still not intuitive for most writers, myself included.

Copyright Lesson: Ebook.bike copyright infringement case, and how it’s a lesson in how expensive it is to litigate pirates. Read the article at http://file770.com/john-van-stry-wins-suit-against-book-pirate/

10:07: Idea of the Week:

A Marketing Optimization Engine (MEO), or what I affectionately call Moogle. It’s like Google, but for marketers…

15:20: Topic(s) of the Week:

I’m plugging along on my database adventures and should have a working, showable product to display in about 1 week

I conquered the sales problem and found an unexpected solution to the age-old problem of calculating royalties

Shout-out to one of my listeners, Tom Donahue, who helped me out tremendously.

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