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How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 3 – 21 Tips from Actual Comic Book Retailers

| June 22, 2015 | 0 Comments
How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 3 – 21 Tips from Actual Comic Book Retailers

21 tips on selling your small press books to retailers… from the mouths of retailers themselves!

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How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 2: The New Series Retailer Portal Site

| June 15, 2015
How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 2: The New Series Retailer Portal Site

Tyler James outlines the “New Series Retailer Portal Site”, a new tool in ComixTribe’s ongoing campaign to strategically sell more books to retailers.

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How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 1: Why Bother?

| June 8, 2015 | 3 Comments
How to Sell Your Small-press Book to Retailers Part 1: Why Bother?

Tyler James kicks off a new series about selling small press books to retailers with perhaps the biggest question of all… Why bother?

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What Shouldn’t You Be Doing?

| March 30, 2015 | 5 Comments
What Shouldn’t You Be Doing?

Let it go, kids! In this article, Tyler James shares a killer tip for identifying the things you should NOT be doing.

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We Should All Fail More

| March 23, 2015 | 0 Comments
We Should All Fail More

Tyler James delivers a pep-talk encouraging fellow creators to take more chances.

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5 Ways to Benefit from Your Backlist

| February 16, 2015 | 0 Comments
5 Ways to Benefit from Your Backlist

Tyler James shares five strategies publishers and independent creators are using to get the most out of their backlist.

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AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE Postmortem: Lessons Learned from ComixTribe’s Most Successful Direct Market Series Yet

| February 9, 2015 | 3 Comments
AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE Postmortem: Lessons Learned from ComixTribe’s Most Successful Direct Market Series Yet

Publisher Tyler James shares the lessons learned from publishing AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE, ComixTribe’s most successful series to date. This is serious #makecomics #smallpress inside baseball, people!

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Kickstarter Fulfillment With Amazon: Saving Hundreds of Hours, Thousands of Dollars, and a Million Headaches

| July 28, 2014
Kickstarter Fulfillment With Amazon: Saving Hundreds of Hours, Thousands of Dollars, and a Million Headaches

Tyler James into the game-changing nature of partnering with Amazon to make Kickstarter fulfillment a million times more manageable.

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Bundle is the New Black

| June 30, 2014 | 0 Comments
Bundle is the New Black

The wife and I just finished binge watching of the second season of Orange in the New Black this weekend. (Yup, we got our money’s worth out of Netflix…this month at least.) And while calling anything “the new black” is an expression now  well past its expiration date, I wanted to write a short post […]

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Another Creator-Owned Sales Monster in the Making

| May 12, 2014 | 0 Comments
Another Creator-Owned Sales Monster in the Making

Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson have a creator-owned hit on their hands with Nailbiter from Image. Tyler James breaks it down.

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What Free Comic Book Day Means to a Small Publisher

| May 4, 2014
What Free Comic Book Day Means to a Small Publisher

Tyler James shares some thoughts on the value of FCBD to a small publisher.

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Look Good While You Kickstarter: 7 Design Tips for Your Project Image

| April 14, 2014
Look Good While You Kickstarter: 7 Design Tips for Your Project Image

Your Kickstarter project image is the most important visual of your entire campaign. Here are some tips for getting it right.

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