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And now she is a best selling writer and one of the most popular people in the Internet.

I had a chance to have a quick interview with Gretchen which I am sharing below. I hope the stories will inspire you!

Please start with the short introduction about yourself.

I am the author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, an account of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from pop culture about how to be happier (Harper). On my blog, The Happiness Project, I write about my daily adventure and insights into happiness.

My blog launched in March 2006, and when my book hit the shelves in December 2009, it immediately shot to the top of the bestseller lists, with a debut at #2 on the New York Times list. It was spotlighted on the Today show, Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, and others, as well as countless blogs.

As a companion to my book and blog, I also started the Happiness Project Toolbox, a site that provides eight tools to help readers begin and track their own happiness projects.

How long did it take you to become a powerful social media user?

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Much has been written about how to launch an E-book to maximise sales with a big bang in the time surrounding a launch. I wrote a few weeks back about my own $72,000 E-book launch and received a lot of feedback from readers on their own big launches.

What happens after an E-book launches?

Once all the bells and whistles of the initial offer fade – do E-books continue to sell or do you need to keep launching new ones (or re-launching the old ones) to keep turning a profit?

Side Note: We just did launch a new E-book on DPS – this one is an introduction to understanding how cameras work.

These are some of the questions I’ve been pondering lately. Don’t get me wrong – a $72,000 opening week is fantastic – but what happens next?

One Strategy I’ve had Success With

After the launch week of the portraits photography book mentioned in the post linked to above the sales of the E-book did fall dramatically. Once the opening week special price ended and some of the buzz died down sales dropped to 5-10 per day. This was expected and not something I worried too much about – however as any entrepreneur I am always interested in increasing sales so I decided to start experimenting with adding some more subtle promotions.

One strategy that I’ve used is to integrate a promotion for the E-book into my newsletter auto-responder sequence.

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Techniques

I won’t go into too much detail about how these snippets work – they should be fairly self explanatory and working to understand them is a good exercise. Similarly, I’m not going to dwell on cross-browser fixes here, because I don’t want to start crying.

Don’t forget to open the CSS techniques demo page now, to see the techniques in action while you read the descriptions below.

Link icons

A nice easy one to start, that highlights links which pointed to external pages. It’s really as simple as this:

CSS:

a.offsite {
    padding-right: 12px;
    background: transparent url(offsite.png) no-repeat right center;
}

HTML:

<p>Please follow <a href="http://twitter.com/Distilled" class="offsite">Distilled</a> on Twitter.</p>

Putting Content in the Centre

HTML’s development has left a legacy of incorrect tags & properties that survive in the online conciousness – in particular those for horizontal / vertical alignment. I mention this quick technique because it’s correct, it’s useful, and I’ve applied it to some of the following examples, and wanted to ’show my working’ here.

CSS:

.centered{
    display: block;
    margin: auto;
}

HTML:

<img class="centered" src="kitten.jpg" />