These sorts of undertakings have to broken down completely. Hidden costs? $3K for six months. Does this include art work, printing etc. How many books would you have to sell to cover the cost (taking into your hourly rate as well)? This is a very expensive fun hobby (although, having said that, I'm a strong believer in "if you're enjoying yourself, go for it"). Although, unlike a collector or car/stamp/matchbook enthusiast, you may have nothing to show for it at the end of the three months.
What do you want/expect to get out of the whole experience?
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Oh and just a little food for thought. 2 is twice one. 3 is 3 times one. Just add zeros. So your friend could have gone from 10 to 30. 100 to 300. 1000 to 3000. My guess is the middle one since I doubt your friend could do a good publishing job for 3000 people in a month unless he had a staff.
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This reminds me of the "marketing" dept in my previous life. They were pushing to keep using an expensive, yet
largely unused, website live because after some
TV ads their hits "quadrupled".
They sure had though. They went from 10 hits per week to 40 (yes, those are actual visit stats and we knew that most of them were, indeed, the marketing people). It would've been cheaper just to take the whole audience of the year of the website out to dinner than maintaining the site.