Yay-y-y, We've Sold 500 Copies

We can say that “The Diamond in Your Speech” has been a fair “success” – FYI, we secured our 500th sale at 08:46 PM today!

That's right! We’ve offloaded all 500 books! Yay-y-y!

We should acknowledge the monumental efforts of the two authors themselves – and with great support from Myriad Ventures and CV+. It took us 5 months of writing, two-and-a-half months to get the book published and about 5 months (156 days to be precise) to completely sell everything from our first print. 

And we did this on the cheap. We didn’t have a marketing budget and even our social media presence was limited. Yet, we proved that if we stay focussed and we ourselves are actively engaged with this book project, we can entice five hundred people to get a copy of this book.

I can recall having said on January 28 that “doing sales is not for the faint-hearted. Still, we are aware that the success of any sales efforts often come down to patience, persistence and positivity. And we know too that a personal touch is just as important. After all, sales, at its core, is about the relationships we build”. 

That’s why ninety-eight percent of our sales thus far have come from our network of friends and family. Of course, we understand that we need to really go beyond friends and family – and so, the decision to print another 500 copies means we must now turn to selling to strangers too. 

Indeed, Ahmad Fakhri and I shall take this opportunity to reiterate our firm belief in the value of "The Diamond in Your Speech"! 

When we officially launched “The Diamond in Your Speech” on World Speech Day (i.e. March 15), we were quietly confident about the said book. We know that it is better written, better looking, and more importantly, we are more serious than many other indie authors – and therefore, we should expect “success”. (Here, we are referring to book sales as one definite measure of success). 

As I have mentioned, from my multiple Internet searches, I learned that generally-speaking, indie authors sell around 250 books or less. And that’s average. 

Most sources will tell you the average is skewed by just a handful of them selling tens of thousands of books. 

Therefore, we’re putting it to you that selling a thousand books is a good test of indie success. Truly, we believe so and we are determined as ever to sell 1,000 copies of “The Diamond in Your Speech”. 

Find out what five hundred people are raving about. Get our public speaking book “The Diamond in Your Speech”, for RM56 (includes delivery within Malaysia by Pos Laju). To order, go to this web link @ https://bit.ly/3r9BNd4