Happy 2012!! Yeah .. we made it. I had this whole blog written up thanking all my readers and supporters… wishing all the best and stuff. Well, started drinking and cooking and totally forgot about to post it. Even had the top 10 popular posts of the year. When I went to bad I just closed all my windows without saving. FFFFFUUUUUUUU! Oh well .. you know I love you all.

Let’s start off with this awesome game .. have fun!!!

Game link: Gravitas

- Highlights of our last year of traveling

We turned now our last year of traveling into 4 separate Travel eBooks. So from each past 3 month stays (Savannah, Oviedo, Buenos Aires, Bolivia) we produced books available now as Mobi, PDF file and available as an eBook on Kindle. That’s all good but how do you get people to buy your book?

Well, we generated couple of sales and the books being mostly sold are the Savannah and Buenos Aires Book.  Oviedo is very slow but right now it’s not the season to travel there ( too cold and rainy) and Bolivia was just released couple of days ago.

Maybe the main selling point is probably the connections our blog readers have with our site, purchasing the book because they enjoyed reading our site. The price of it  $7.99 seems fair and after the cut from the Bookseller we still make a decent amount from it.

We asked our readers to mention it on their twitter and facebook which really helped in increasing the sales.

But what are other ways to market the travel books? I invested couple of $$$ in Adwords but can’t really tie back a sale to those ads. I was looking to submit the books to eBook directories but most them are only for Free Books! No luck, I wish there was a directory for pay travel books!

Now selling the books on Amazon opens the door to a lot of potential buyers, that said the eBook market will multiply by 10 times in the next 5 years ( Thanks to the Kindle fire) but it’s almost like it’s with Google, you need to show up in search results as high as possible on the keywords which apply to your book.

For example if I take the keywords “buenos aires guide” for the Buenos Aires book I land on page 2 position 22 (checked again, now it’s # 17). That’s not terrible butd I wish we would be on page 1! Now how can I increase that position?

The more books you sell, reviews being written about it, stars given, liked and tagged the higher you will rank in the Amazon search results = the more sales you will make.

Today I’m running a special promotion on the Savannah Guide, it’s enrolled to the Amazon Select program (more by mistake) they have a great promotional tool where you can set up days to offer your book for free. This promotion is running right now!!!!

Check it out (only today 12/30/2011): Free Savannah Travel Guide

We are hoping to receive couple of stars, tags, likes and reviews. So feel free to secure your Savannah For 91 Days guide now and we hope you like it enough to give some feedback.

Also, if you published eBooks feel free to let us know. I will start a list of Travel eBooks below.

How do you promote your eBooks, do you have any tips for us? Please leave a comment!

Here now the list of awesome eBooks (staring with ours )

• Savannah Guide
• Oviedo Guide
• Buenos Aires Guide
• Bolivia Travel Book

This week the season finale of Burn Notice not only entertains – it puts its characters to the test like never before. It’s a star-studded finale extravaganza with guest appearances by action mavens like Dean Cain, Eric Roberts and Kristanna Loken. Plus, USA is excited to offer unprecedented access to their stars on Burn Notice Character Chatter– “Burners” can ask no-holds-barred questions to legend Bruce Campbell online during the finale event!

To celebrate the finale, airing on Thursday, December 15 at 10/9c on USA Network, Random Good Stuff is giving you the opportunity to win a Burn Notice Super Fan Pack valued at $200!

Also, for an additional contest entry, you can tweet "What Would Sam Axe Do? I’m asking him …_________ on #BruceChatter  http://bit.ly/BNchatter during the #BurnNotice finale! http://bit.ly/vLsBuX #randomgoodstuff

The Fan Pack includes:

• Custom Tote Bag
• Season 4 DVD
• Bar Set
• Mojitos 101 Book
• Branded T-Shirt
• Branded Hat

BURN NOTICE Season Finale – Thursday, December 15^th at 10/9c

“Fail Safe” – Tensions reach a boiling point in this action-packed season conclusion. Michael and the gang move closer to ending Anson once and for all, but with a new CIA mission on the radar will Michael be able to close the deal? Readers can get answers to their own burning questions from Bruce Campbell himself during the episode (east coast airing only) on Burn Notice Character Chatter – follow along #BruceChatter.

Guest Stars: Jere Burns, Lauren Stamile, Dean Cain, Eric Roberts, and Kristanna Loken

This is how you take part. Leave a comment telling us about your favorite Sam Axe moment and for and extra entry tweet that above tweet.

I’m going to announce the 6 lucky winners on December 22nd.

Good luck to you all!

The cool people from Jlab got in touch with Random Good Stuff to show off their latest products and to sponsor this giveaway. This time you have actually pretty got chances to win since you can win 1 of 3 JLab products of your choice.

It’s super super easy to take part!

1. Please visit the JLab product page and pick the product you would like to win
2. Post the URL of the product as a comment within this post, this will earn you the first entry
3. If you do the same on the Random Good Stuff Facebook Fan Page page you will earn an other entry
4. Like the JLab Fan Page and you will now have 3 entries now if you do all above
5. Tweet about this contest with a link back to this post and you just earned an other entry!!!
6. Do all 4 and you will earn 8 entries!

I will choose and announce the lucky winners on July 5th! Good luck y’all!

Thank you again to JLab for this awesome giveway!!!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Baron Bob Giveaway! The 3 lucky Winners have been chosen. Congratulations to following Random Good Readers:

• Chantel
• Marielys
• Christy Long

You are soon in possession of the things you wanted most from the Baron Bob under $10 bin. Isn’t that exciting? For everyone who didn’t have much luck this time rest assured the next RGS giveaway is right around the corner. And if you are sad that you didn’t win and still want your Baron Bob goody head over to his site and do some serious shopping !

Link: Baron Bob

Solitaire with a cute new time rush twist. If you are fast enough you can move into the castle and move on to the next level. If you run out new cards and the Solitaire Tower is still up – you loose. Haha! And you have to sleep in the streets. Or you can try again. Ahh and one other thing is – there are wild cards! Not wild as in making you crazy but wild as in gets you further when stuck.

Game Link: Tower Solitaire

- Drinking T-Shirts

Congratulations to:

• SjTempo
• Tom
• Mandie

Upset you didn’t win a shirt? Now worries, the next RGS giveaway is right around the next corner.

Also, even tough you didn’t win – consider an other visit to the 604 Republic website. They have some really neat shirts and they add new ones pretty frequently. Stay on top with their latest creations by following them on Twitter and Facebook.

Link: 604 Republic

604Republic likes Random Good Stuff and RGS love their T-Shirt design.  So much love even you readers can profit from it. We are giving 3 T-Shirts total away, one to 3 lucky winner! Just head over to:

604Republic

and start browsing. Check out the different designs and come back to this post!

This is how you can earn entries:

• Leave a comment on this post with a link to your favorite 604Republic T-Shirt (this will earn your 1 entry)
• If you post your favorite shirt on the Random Good Stuff Facebook Fan Page page you will earn an other entry
• Tweet about this contest with a link back to this post and you just earned an other entry!!!
• Do all 3 and you will 5 entries!!!!

On February 26th I will announce the 3 lucky winner. As usual everyone can take part and 604Republic will ship worldwide.

Link: 604Republic

The way how humans currently behave maybe should be punished, fine. But why are we punny? Are they watching our comedy shows? Do we look funny? Or what’s up? Stupid aliens, can’t even pronounce words. Yeah – bring it on little cheap looking aliens and let’s see who wins. Sorry, got carried away. Actually you are controlling the aliens – dooming mother earth.

Game Link: Punny Humans Must Die

- Punny Bargains

This is going to be a quick giveaway. Christmas is right around the corner and people might want to use this one time $25 giveaway shopping spree for Christmas presents. To make is quick and painless … I will announce the one lucky winner this upcoming Monday.

You only have to do 2 things to take part

• Click here to get to the Neatoshop and pick what you think is the cutest product.
• Then go here and post it

Done!

On Monday I will announce the one lucky winner of $25 giveaway.

Link: Neatoshop