Write Your Own Excel E-Book?

Charley Kyd recently posted a new article on ExcelUser.com about writing your own Excel-related e-book. Interesting...

Maybe I should write my own e-book on Google "hacks" using Excel and VBA. Maybe an e-book on building your own direct email marketing system using Excel, Outlook, Outlook Remption, and VBA...

Charley's article lays out a nice example of how writing an e-book might stack up against writing a traditional book, financially, and she talks about her most recent e-book on Excel Dashboard Reporting. She doesn't say exactly how much she's made with that book, but I can tell you this much: I've been an affiliate marketer of her book on dashboard reporting for a few months, and I've helped her quite a few already...on my tiny little blog!

I'm going to mull around this idea of writing an e-book for awhile, and I'll keep you all posted.

P.S. I want to pass along my sincerest thanks to all of my loyal readers, including the growing list of Excel_Geek Blog_Mail service subscribers. It's you all that make thoughts of writing an e-book on Excel even within the realm of reality.

Thank you,

Excel_Geek

Update on the Excel Dashboard Kit - Quantity Discounts for companies

I just got a note from Charley Kyd over at ExcelUser, and they're rolling out a new quantity discount program, so that companies can get ahold of the kits for multiple users, and save substantially. Here's what she wrote:

"The Excel Dashboard Kit is licensed to a single user, not to an entire company. I recently received a request from a lady who wanted to purchase a quantity of kits. Here is the discount schedule I gave her:

Units Discount
2 = 20%
6 = 30%
10 = 40%
300 = 50%
500+ = 55%

These are approximiateldy the discounts that book publishers offer, except that they are slightly more generous for small quantities."

If your company is thinking about implementing a dashboard reporting system (or beefing up the one you have), be sure to check out Charley's prouducts.

Have you guys checked out Excel User®'s book on dashboards?

I just recently stumbled upon Charley Kyd's definitive book - Dashboard Reporting with Excel - on creating and managing Excel-based management "dashboards," which are streamlined, multi-metric management reports that visually represent key data and trends in one easy-to-grasp document.

In a past life I worked for a company that was very into management dashboards, and this book would have certainly given me an edge. The book is available for less than $30, but if you're serious about starting a management dashboard system or enhancing the one you've got, spring for the whole kit, which is still less than $50.

I say, get a copy, read it.

Out.