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Against my better judgement here are some thoughts.
1) Your beliefs and the way you view the world are what's stopping you from success. Not necessarily the piracy thing. Things at a deeper level.
a) You're interpreting everything negatively. That's the single biggest thing. If you can replace that with a filter where you assume everyone has positive intentions in what they say that in itself will guarantee you success.
b) You're focusing on getting value more than providing value.
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Consider what you wrote:
**Nevertheless, my plight has caught the interest of a few good MR members (and some who are, let's say, not so sympathetic), and resulted in various and sundry bits of advice meant to show me a way out of the tunnel. (I am choosing to ignore the advice designed to lead me headlong into an oncoming train... but only just.)
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Anyone who's writing in response to you is sympathetic. If they weren't they'd ignore you.
You're pre-filtering. So instead of evaluating the advice, you are only taking the things that you think are good advice.
However, that means you're just repeating what you were doing.
If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting.
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Take marketing. Every single thing you've mentioned (especially Facebook) is a waste.
Not only are these weak channels my guess would be you're doing marketing without specializing in any of the channels. There's a ton of work that goes into making your dollars work out. It's not just buying a slot.
Have you kept statistics? Have you kept a record of how many sales you see each day for each book from each site and what might have caused that sale?
Without that data marketing is pointless.
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At this point you can take snippets from what I've written and assume they are meant to attack you and shut things off.
OR you can think seriously about how you interpret things and your beliefs.
Your interpretation and your beliefs are causing you to fail.
You have to change them. Things like improving the quality of books are fine. However, all of that won't help if your beliefs and your thoughts invite failure and negativity.
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I don't know what to write because you're looking for something extrinsic when the solution is intrinsic and perhaps it would be too uncomfortable and too much effort to change your beliefs and the way you view readers and the world and the exchange of value.
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