What do YOU think of when YOU hear the word \”bestseller\”?

The results are in! I want to thank everyone who participated in my recent informal survey, What do YOU think of when YOU hear the word bestseller? If you don\’t know what I\’m talking about, here\’s the email I sent out to my subscriber list last month…
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NAME – really quickly…
My business coach and I are having
a bit of debate about what constitutes
being a BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
At the end of the day, it really
doesn\’t matter what my
business coach and I think –
It only matters what YOU think!
With that, can you take this 30 second
survey so I get the information
straight once and for all!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JQ6FFMJ
Thanks for you help!
Dedicated to your success,
Alicia Dunams
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64.5% people say \”selling a lot of books\” constitutes a bestseller. But what is \”a lot of books\”? 10K, 100K, 1 million? From my experience, to become a Bestseller on Amazon.com in the top-20 category overall you need to move over 500 books in a 24 hour period depending on a number of conditions and moving parts. Yes, the stars must align and you have to be truly strategic to achieve top-20 category bestseller status on Amazon. 54.8% of you think getting on a bestseller list constitutes a bestseller, so which lists matter…

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Someone added that visibility and celebrity is a part of bestseller status:

 
 
54.8% of you think getting on a bestseller list constitutes a bestseller, so which lists matter…

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New York Times trumps the list and Amazon.com follows. But there are many ways to be a \”Amazon.com\” bestseller, which one matters to you….

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For 48.5% of you, becoming a bestseller is \”very important.\”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And, 57.1% have not written a book and the main reason it isn\’t complete is that it\’s \”in process.\”