Balkhis eBook about Magazine Theme – Results and Experience
Well, I am sure alot of you noticed that I wrote an ebook about How to Make a Magazine Style Theme in WordPress. Its been 2 days and I am very delighted by the results.
I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, I have never written an ebook or a book in my entire life. This was a first time and I was very nervous. One of the main reasons were the grammer. Knowing that english is not my first language, I was already frightened by the results. I didn’t ask anyone to proof read the book. I thought it would be worth a try if I write and just be myself in my book.
Apparently thats what everyone liked. Within the course of 48 hours, I have had 826 Downloads of the ebook. Usually it takes a while for my zip files to get these downloads. Specially this quantity. Within a day, I saw the book breaking the 500 mark and I was very happy that each of my reader got the copy.
Balkhis is still growing, and I cannot rely on subscribers to see how many readers I have. The downloads from this book and the comments I have recieved from multiple places were the true indication of how many readers I have and how happy they were to see this addition to the blog.
Before I begin to celebrate, I didn’t do this alone.
As you all know Blogosphere is more like a family where everyone helps each other out. My fellow friends helped me by writing about this book on their blogs, or at different places.
Jim Hutchinson, I met him on Plurk. If you are on Plurk do add him as your friend. Jim’s Plurk Profile.
Aravind Jose – He is a regular reader on balkhis and we have talked via email before. Thanks for the link buddy.
Some other Plurk friends who wrote about my ebook on their plurk pages. And everyone who dugg, stumbled and added it to other social media.
I try to do the most by helping other people and I believe the good Karma returned. When I needed people to blog about this ebook, some of my friends jumped up and did it.
I myself wrote it about on all wordpress related forums which also got me results. I have been getting very good reviews of the ebook. So if you haven’t checked it out yet.
With this kind of encouragement, I will write another ebook in coming time that will be a bigger and much better resource. It will list all the details that I know about WordPress, Marketing, SEO, Designing and much much more. Ofcourse since it have so much stuff, It will take time to write it.
Stay Updated.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
No problem at all Syed. I received a few emails and even a comment regarding your ebook! The comment on my website was from someone who really liked the book
so keep it up!
The ebook is really nice Syed. You’ll see a lot more downloads in the near future I suppose. I’ll blog about it soon too. Though the book has no grammar mistakes, just want to tell you that it is actually grammar and not grammer!
Keep up the good work!
haha you see what I meant about my english lol.
I cant wait for the next ebook
Thank you Syed for the mention.
Me too have got a nice response on the post about your wonderful eBook.
I’ve written a free eBook earlier which you can find here:
http://aravindjose.com/blog/2008/04/13/tips-and-guide-to-be-a-cool-netizen-or-online-life/
But, at that time, I had only low amount of readers and it dint pay off much. The response was not enough to compensate the work I’ve put in behind that.
I didn’t want it to happen to anyone else, that’s also a reason, why I’ve blogged about your book straightaway.
This book is an excellent example of “no-language-barrier” of the web!!
you have written a good book.
I didn’t read anything about your ebook am just reading about it today that’s strange, well i will check it out later good job.
good to be appreciated
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Thanks for the great ebook, I’m new to designing themes and this helped a lot
When are you going to release another ebook?
No estimated time has been decided yet. A book for very beginners are a bit hard because html knowledge will always be a pre-req.