FAQs

That depends on so many variables… And as I write that, I get that it sounds like a shifty one-liner. Here’s the reality: your sales will come down to the quality of your book, the quality and engagement of the delivery of your information too. If it’s funny, useful, story-based information aimed at a demographic hungry for useful, funny stories, it could sell really well. Or not. We can’t predict what will go viral any more than you can. We do know that the right information, delivered well to the right audience has a much better chance of selling well than when seemingly obvious boxes are not ticked off. If you put the effort in and do a great job on your book, then your book is going to work harder for you than your competitors’ books might work for them if they have taken short cuts.

If they arise we’ll let you know. Any additional costs are only likely to be based on how much you want to change things through the editing process, how many designs it takes to get you a cover you’re happy with (beyond those we’ve thought about and quoted already) and any advertising. Our quotation process is thorough and well thought out – also based on many dozens of books and author’s we’ve worked with.

How long is a piece of string? This is not an investment in gold bullion over a decade, with the reasonable expectation of gold prices increasing better than inflation.

If you do what we guide you to do, and invest in a strategy that involves stepping into branding and marketing development to promote your wisdom, expertise and experiences, it could take you a long time or a short time to start getting well-paid speaking engagements, book sales, opportunities for additional media exposure, and marketing success.

As Ron Tacchi CSP shared with a room full of professional speakers a few years ago, ‘It’s a seven year (average) journey from start to success for most speakers with practically no help at all’. What we’re offering is the help to reduce that time frame, based on industry experience, expertise and the ability to do what we do very well. How long and how far is up to you. If you are outstanding and willing to work on your skills and branding as a serious industry expert, we have the connections, knowledge and ability to help you fast-track towards well-paying speaking and authority opportunities.

$1–$20 per book, and $1,000–$5,000 per speaking engagement.
Depending on a number of variables – as quoted above.

Dixie has assisted hundreds of authors to write, publish and/or market approximately 200 books (as at July 2023) since 2004.

Please review the case studies and testimonials on this website, as well as our authors’ LinkedIn profiles and book information, then let us know who you would most like to talk with. We do not wish to pre-empt your thinking, so we’ll do our best to open the door for you to talk with someone whose project is most relevant to yours.

If your book is ready to go into production straight away, then yes, you can do that. If your book is not ready by our standards for us to work on, we’ll either let you know in the ‘Is my manuscript ready?’ session, or in an initial review. After all, we won’t work with something that could compromise our reputation any more than we’d expect you to. So let’s review your manuscript first and then talk about it.

We do offer some of our services as stand-alone options – again, it depends on you, your project, and what you’re trying to achieve. Let’s talk about that.

We use AI for reseach, planning, and sometimes for marketing strategy, but not for writing or development of authors’ content.  We also address the matter of AI use in our contracts to ensure you feel confident in how we handle  your files, your content, and your security around file management. 

Our chief editor is based in south Auckland

Our designer is based in the Waikato

Our website experts are based in New Zealand and Australia

We host our websites with mostly a NZ based globally operating company and also an Australian one sometimes.

Dixie’s admin team is based in Hamilton, NZ

And our sound engineer for Audio Books is based in Melbourne.

We know it’s important to many people to know who you are supporting in business, and that we’re not just outsourcing everything to AI or remote teams from Asia.  We are very hands-on and often sit down in the same physical rooms together to discuss our work.  However we do also get most of our work done by working remotely from each other – even when only a few miles might separate us.