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Publishers Weekly article
www.Conspiracy365US.com
USA's Conspiracy 365 website with the first chapter
preview, activity sheets and discussion questions
(nice for book clubs!)
Conspiracy 365 book mark in Publisher (you can
order nice ones from the Home Office)
Conspiracy 365 Order Form for Customers with
credit card spot
Conspiracy 365 School Flyer with payment and
info spots for you to fill in before printing
Keep watching for materials from the Home Office -
to get to the Home Office info to print:
log into company website
www.MyUBAM.com,
hover along left over DOWNLOADS, then FTP SITE, then
FLYERS BY HOME OFFICE, then CONSPIRACY365 - lots of
great things there and will continually be updated
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Conspiracy is available to order in OrderPro
on all order types. It's also available to
order on our websites. The individual books
can be purchased and added to other orders
as they become available throughout the
year.
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Letter to consultants
from Randall White, President/CEO of
EDC/Usborne Books and More
January 20, 2010
Hello,
Advanced Leadership Retreat
is an important event for Supervisors
for training, field input, and
significant announcements. Last year ALR
was the launching pad for the Kane
Miller product line. And this year ALR
was the launching pad for a bold new
policy change from the Home Office. We
announced that the Kane Miller product
line would, effectively immediately, be
unavailable to jobbers and wholesalers,
including Amazon. What does this mean to
you? It means you can approach schools
and libraries and not be closed out or
undercut in price. This is the most
significant event since announcing that
the school and library market would be
distributed through Usborne Books (at
Home) & More.
But... today we are announcing an
additional benefit to our direct sales
force, Usborne Books & More.
Effective today,
CONSPIRACY 365 will be
an exclusive product of Usborne Books &
More and will not be sold through retail
stores.
This definitely demonstrates my
confidence in YOU and
your group. But along with this
exclusivity comes responsibility. You
are now solely responsible for the sales
and marketing of CONSPIRACY 365.
I will post a letter on the FTP
site* on our letterhead today stating
these policy changes. Please notify your
groups as soon as possible with this
exciting news, the best selling product
in our complete line and you have it
exclusively!
It is a great time to be a part
of Usborne Books & More. It is time to
Giddyup!!
Randall White, President & CEO
Usborne Books and More
Educational Development Corporation
*FTP site: from your MY UBAM page, hover
over DOWNLOADS, click FTP, click FLYERS
FROM THE HOME OFFICE, click CONSPIRACY
365
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| Conspiracy
365 - an explosive new series! |
12 books in 12 months - an action packed chapter book
series. First book available for UBAM consultants
to order and sell NOW. It will be NOT available in
retail stores! It is exclusive to the UBAM
consultants.
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much do they cost? |
$10.99 hardback
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Conspiracy 365 part of the Accelerated Reader
program?? |
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Yes. |
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Selling suggestions from Patti McClimans, Supervisor on
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Most of my Conspiracy sales have been with
schools/libraries – Home shows are an amazing place to
get those prders too, so don’t forget to share
there just as much.
I mailed out to my listed schools (snail mail) the
information that HO has provided us.
All that information is on the FTP site. (log on to
company website:
www.myubam.com,
hover over DOWNLOADS along the left, click FTP, Flyers
from the Home Office, Conspiracy 365) I also
included something to remember me – usually bookmarks
available from the home office.
If
a school requests a book to preview – I’m ok with doing
that – everyone that reads the book will buy a
set (or 5) and most likely will tell other
media specialist so the small investment was well worth
it.
The
key to getting a sale is to follow up with a
phone call a few days later.
I
don’t ask if they want to buy it at that time – I ask if
they received the information, if they have any
questions and/or if they need any more information.
If they didn’t receive the info (or can’t find it on
their desk) then I ask them if it’s ok to send them the
link to take a peek at the trailer and read the first
chapter. They always say yes to that.
That’s pretty
much it. I do have to say that getting on the
phone is essential. I do hate the phone so that’s
such a hard one for me – you know the desk has to be
perfectly clean, laundry done, kitchen cleaned, Cathy
called, emails answered, Facebook updated (just kidding)
–anything but that phone – I know you do it too –Trust
me it is well worth following up with those schools.
Just Eat That Frog!
This is an amazing set of books – my media specialists
are extremely happy and the word is spreading quickly.
It’s such a fun time to be a part of UBAM…(and the
commission and override is pretty good too)
Let’s see how many of these books we can sell by the end
of the month. A bit of friendly competition always
helps too!
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Gabrielle Lord, author of Conspiracy 365 |
The series is written by
Gabrielle Lord, a bestselling Australian author of
adult crime novels. The Conspiracy 365
series is a thrilling suspense novel that runs for a
year - with a book released each month to continue the
story. The series is geared for ages 11–15.
Here's how the author herself, describes the series:
"15 year Callum
Ormond, is accosted on New Year’s Eve by a sick and
staggering stranger who warns him about something called
“the Ormond singularity” – a secret to do with his
family. While promising amazing wealth to the person who
can solve the mystery, the Ormond singularity brings
deadly consequences...
On the run and falsely accused of crimes against his
uncle and his kid sister, Cal is forced to survive on the streets.
...Not only does he have to survive life on the run and
stay one jump ahead of the police and the two criminal
gangs who are also after the secret of the Ormond
singularity, Cal must try to crack this huge family
secret – before the Ormond singularity runs out and
whatever it promises fades into history.
Cal must solve
the mystery before midnight of December 31st – and
survive to do it." Read
the 1st Chapter
The story is told in real time, and the books include
codes and clues/pictures to help readers figure out the
mystery about who wants Callum dead. The pages are also
numbered backwards, beginning with 192 and working down
to 0 - with each book ending with a cliffhanger.
All the clues readers need to unravel the mystery are
found in the books.
AND...in a Skype interview with Gabrielle Lord from our
2011 UBAM National Convention, she mentioned that she's
currently working on...Book #13, with the title of
REVENGE! |
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| What
does Nancy Ann's family think about Conspiracy 365? |
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IT'S GREAT!!!
What a page turner! My mail came right before I
picked up my little darlings from middle school, so
I took the book with me, hoping to get to read it a
bit in carpool line. Arriving right as the kids
came out of school, Camille (age 11) quickly spotted
it and knew right where the online preview chapter
left off. She read it all the way home, walked in
the house reading and parked herself on the couch
until she was done. All I heard was "shhhh
Mom....not now." When the household was all asleep
I was sneaking out of bed to get the book and
couldn't find it! I checked the living room, dining
room, great room (you get the picture) and finally
looked in Martin's room (age 13) and there it was
(!) with his bookmark about 2/3 into it. I took it
to bed and read it in about 2 hours, ending at
1:30am, then took it back down to Martin's room
incase he woke up early in the am looking for it.
:-)
It's a real page
turner! That sweet Callum is so dedicated to
his family. And he is trying to do all the right
things, altho he gets into some pretty sticky
situations, some of them are pretty desperate, as
you probably read from the teaser online. In the
Publishers Weekly article you might have noticed
that it states the pages are numbered backwards -
this is interested when reading, as it's like the
whole count down thing, counting down the 365 days.
The language is always clean - this
is a question that I hear over and over again.
Randall and Kira have assured us that there is no
cussing in this series, so you can pass that along
to your consultants and customers if they have
concerns. :-) This
series is fantastic for us!!! I
hope you're thinking about how you're training your
team to really tap into the middle school market.
We have a HUGE benefit by it being exclusive to
the consultants and now we just need to be ready to
move thousands of copies in to the hands of kids!
Once they read the first one, they'll be eager for
the subsequent books the day they're available.
How much could your check increase from this one
title??? Amazing!!!
Our family can hardly wait for the next Conspiracy
book!!!
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How can I promote this
series now? |
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Start talking about it at your shows, booth events and
school/library appointments. You can also refer your
customers to the Home Office's promotional website:
www.conspiracy365us.com. The first chapter is
also available as a link from the book on your shopping
cart website - go check it out! There's a great
marketing email for Conspiracy 365 too!
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Happy Selling!!! |
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