Chart Those Book Sales
As I am an engineer, an analytical guy, and someone who loves lists and numbers, the easiest and most effective way for me to keep track of my progress towards my goals of selling 200 copies of my children’s book Frankenstein’s Science Project , is by creating spreadsheets. Monitoring your progress in the 2 nd M in the DREAMS Cycle ™ . For the selling of Frankenstein’s Science Project, I actually created four spreadsheets. You can follow the link to actual information I captured. 1) Expenses and Revenues This spreadsheet captures the money I spend on selling the book and the revenues I make. Capturing this information is not only an indication of the progress on the sales, but it will be very useful come tax time. This spreadsheet has two tabs, one for expenses and one for revenues. Every time I have an expense, I write the date, the expense, the vendor and an explanation. I do the same for the “reve...