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Welcome to my Work-At-Home-Mom (WAHM) blog!
I hope you enjoy your visit here on my blog, and I hope you visit often as I tell you stories of my selling just this one reading book thru the help of the internet.
Here you will read how I began selling online despite the limited knowledge I had back then.The book I am selling is "Teach Your 3- to 7-Year-Old Child How To Read In 90 Days!" which is now also sold as an ebook. I sell this material introducing the concept of simplified phonics for youngsters.
This is the story of how I, with the help and advice of my teacher-friends, came up with the reading concept of this material.
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To know more about the material and how selling it online was developed, please read my previous posts.
It is my goal to relate and share all the things I experienced in online selling of this book /ebook. In here you will find all of the tips I'm sharing; the websites and ideas that helped; the other websites I have in selling (especially now that Geocities is closing); the feedback of satisfied parents, even the only one bad feedback (which is not factual) that I received; the person who attempted selling this ebook for their own profit at a much, much lesser price - and how I blocked the piracy; the odd times I went through but thankfully the cheques kept coming in the mail; I also would like relate how "too dedicated" I am in attending to my duties of delivering books and ebooks on time no matter what happens. 
Hey, did you know that I stubbornly attended to my business up to the day I was having labor pains? (I was on the family way with my 5th in 2005) 
... I now laugh at that, really, as I look back to those days! Read that story soon here. The story - and more- are just to show how I put the parents/clients first and in a way assure everyone that I'm a very honest person when it comes to my "small business". I care for the feedback I get from the people who purchase from me. Hours after I receive confirmation of their payment, I get down to facilitating their order. And I'm happy that since I've started in 2001, I've maintained this business and continue to receive orders through word-of-mouth and social networking; what's more, I also accept orders from parents outside the Philippines... so I hope you come back often and read more that I would like to share.
Basically, this is my little way of encouraging someone, that if an ordinary person such as myself can sell online... then so can YOU!
Cheers!
I decided to offer these freebie sample pages for interested - yet understandably skeptical- parents. This egroup is also my offer to present that this material I sell is real and not a scam, as some people speculate (just basing on the email scams that exist and perhaps their personal online purchase experience with others)
. As you are reading this entry now I believe you must be wondering. The story will soon be posted here
Cheer up!
A preview of the material is available when you join this yahoogroup. A 10-page sample is downloadable; recommended for young readers between 3-5 years old. Membership is free for 7 days only for non-subscribers. You can email me or YM me (book_wagon@yahoo.com) for your other concerns, and I'll be glad to reply.
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This is the new eBook cover of the revised edition.
I worked on this ebook in 2005 and finally finished in May of 2006 just in time when I began selling it. It was hard work for me and more so that I was surviving on a shoestring budget. But special thanks to a friend from church, Victor, who had an internet cafe infront of Nepo Mall Dagupan and gave me free use of his pc and scanner.
Many parents have requested in the past for this format, so here we are!
It is the much improved edition from the old one. It contains much more than the old one and has colorful illustrations. More modules and lessons were added. Now 150 pages with a series of 61 lessons. The same simple methods introduced in the first edition are used.
I have added more lessons to it, plenty of home activities, games and some nursery rhymes too. A parent's guide is included in the first part of the material and it's easy to follow
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This format is usually sent via email as attachment, as it costs a fraction less than the book version. (This costs Php280.00 or $7.00). It was then accepted by parents/teachers as a more favorable method of delivery since it's convenient.
I think so too, but I've also offered the ebook in CD version for those parents who prefer to install the software onto their personal computer. As an extra companion, I've added the simplified Powerpoint version - this too is good for the review and for children much too young to understand the complexity of reading.
That is how the first edition looked like, in colors red and yellow. I was trying to keep printing costs low with this 100-page book. The pages were immaculate and quality book paper was used. The first printing was for 2000 units. 500 were sold out in a year.
I'm also glad to say I went the extra mile and registered this material for copyright at the National Library of the Philippines. I thank myself, otherwise I would be sorry by now if I had not done so.
Please find the status of the book at the National Library of the Philippines. You may check the status on the Search Form by keying in: Teaching Your Child How To Read In 90 Days.
This is the current screenshot of the website at geocities. You can find it on http://www.geocities.com/book_wagon/teach_reading
It's what I call my "bread and butter website" because it's one of my online selling websites where I sell so well and I take joy in it for it has helped my family since 2001.
I came a long, long way in selling. As I may have mentioned before in my previous posts, it had it's ups and downs because of my trial-and-error strategies.
Hardly believe that it's still doing well despite all the odds and to think that I just gradually developed it by just visiting other leading websites where I got more ideas. Who would believe that back then I didn't have my own computer and merely worked on this thru my frequent visits to the internet cafe in town? Yes, I spent hours and hours online, thinking how I can improve the website - and my online selling skills (which,honestly, I'm not really good at.) But thank God, the time I spent paid off.
I thought of putting up this website on Geocities (because it's also free!) so I can accept orders easily and at the same time give instant information to the interested parents/ teachers. That way they won't need to text or email just to inquire more about it, unless truly necessary, because it's all there.
Also, since I'm offline most times, I added an automatic order form which they can fill out in a jiffy. I got it from Createforms. This, too, is free. Purchasing customers can fill in their Name, Address, Email Address, Preferred payment method and book format. Two order forms are necessary to fill out and complete the purchase:
ORDERFORM1 and ORDERFORM2
This way, no request or inquiry is missed and every customer is attended to.
I also posted a "find a classmate" bulletin when I realized I can try posting an advert since it was also allowed. I posted about 5 bulletins on each school I came from. Days later I was surprised when a few parents replied to my ad and emailed me to order. It brought good results, and it was fairly easy doing so. Most especially, I no longer needed to pay for expensive ads at the local daily!
Yes, I agree, it just brings a few customers to purchase but the results are far better than with advertising on the newspapers. The most advantage I get is that it's free and I can post on as many sites or forums as much as I'd like!
It was a lot of help from posting ads at alumni.net, then later on other satisfied parents posted ads for me too on other forums and email groups. Since then this book gained sales thru free advertising.
know more on my next post...
How this all started is a long story, with a few gaps in between the years that passed. Basically I just thought of the concept when my eldest was 7 years old and a struggling reader. During those times I was always on the lookout for books that can help him. But well, we lived in the province in 1995 when there were no books or materials that can really help. And believe me, I think I bought all the pre-school books that were labeled "For 3-5 year-olds" and still it didn't work out. So to help my eldest in his learning, I think this is unusual of me - I wrote all the sight words and words with the same phonograms to fill one notebook just so he could practice reading and eventually read well!
That alone didn't work so I searched more from the teaching resources in the libraries and some bookstores. There were plenty of articles to choose from, but mostly I would get tips from the non-conventional teaching and Montessori methods. The write-ups from the parenting magazines were a great help too. I compiled all of those write-ups, most of which back up the studies of teaching experts that phonics is still the simplest method in learning to read and is best suited for children between the ages of 3-5.
I saw this on a parent's viewpoint and thought of the idea that if the method was simplified then it would be easier to learn reading.
This is the story of how I, with the help and advice of my teacher-friends, came up with the reading concept of this material.
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