April 11, 2013

We're Number One!


Every morning and every evening I check where 101 Contrarian Ideas... is on Amazon's advertising book chart. And every morning and every evening it's the same -- #2 behind David Ogilvy.

This has been going on for months. Every now and then it will drop down to #3, but then it pops back up to #2.

Obviously, with 19,352 books in their advertising category, there's nothing wrong with being #2. Whining about it is just evidence of being stupid and self-absorbed. Especially if it was you. But it's not. It's me.

And then tonight it happened.

A few minutes ago I checked and there it was at #1. I don't know why the hell this is so important to me -- I don't make any money on these fucking books and no one gives a shit about them but me -- but I have to admit, it is.

By the time you read this it will probably drop back down. But I don't care. For one shining moment I had Amazon's best-selling advertising book.

Thank you to all the people who have bought the book and recommended it to others. To those who have not bought it, WTF?

8 comments:

  1. Erin Rose PfeiferApril 11, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    Search engine optimists also derive great pleasure from being #1. Looks like you're not all that different from an SEO. Ponder that one, Bob.

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  2. adcontrarianApril 11, 2013 at 9:21 PM

    I only know search engine pessimists

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  3. Copywriter Northern IrelandApril 12, 2013 at 2:46 AM

    You're welcome.

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  4. Philip BirdApril 12, 2013 at 2:47 AM

    Must have been the copy I bought on Wednesday that did it

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  5. Sinjin EberleApril 12, 2013 at 6:40 AM

    I give a shit about them...I bought two copies and have one sitting here next to my desk so that I can reference it when I see some social meeedia noob ranting about how they are having conversations and creating customer value through some platform that only 0.3% of the world knows about...

    Boom.

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  7. OscarApril 13, 2013 at 12:09 AM

    Make it available through Amazon in the UK and I'll give you one more sale.

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  8. adcontrarianApril 13, 2013 at 8:27 AM

    Oscar,

    It's available as an ebook at Amazon in the UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contrarian-Ideas-About-Advertising-ebook/dp/B006CRF1OK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365866514&sr=1-1&keywords=101+contrarian+ideas+about+advertising). I don't know why the print version isn't available but I'll look into it.

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