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Note from Nick: This is a guest post submission from Cody over at Academy Success, and it’s a perfect follow-up to Tuesday’s post about book marketing plans. Consider using this exact tactic in your overall marketing strategy!

Being a bit of an efficiency addict, I believe there’s always a better way to do things, so when I ran a recent Amazon KDP Select promotion to promote my newest Kindle book (a pretty cool thing to do to grow your list), I decided to up the ante a bit from the status quo… and boy did it work well.

Rather than just going for the run-of-the-mill, “toss out a few emails” promotion, I coupled the KDP promotion period with a contest featuring an Amazon Kindle HD giveaway. Here are the results, and the blueprint on how you can do it too.

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How to Hack Your Sleep   Sleep Less, Do More, Feel Better: Part 3In the first parts of this series, we talked about why using and recognizing our natural tendencies as sleep-deprived humans can help us get more sleep, feel better, and get more done. Mostly, it’s through the use of naps, specifically and purposefully optimized and placed at a point in our day that provide us the benefits of the different sleep cycles. Depending on what we need, or have going on in our lives, that means we can use naps to give us more productivity, a quick motivational or focus-booster, and even let us “have two days in one,” as one Winston Churchill was known to have said regarding naps!

In this post, we’ll talk about the last steps needed to successfully implement a sleep schedule that allows for naps, and we’ll look at what ways can help us get to sleep, stay asleep, and feel better after we awake.

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How to Hack Your Sleep   Sleep Less, Do More, Feel Better: Part 2In part 1 of this series, we talked about why using and recognizing our natural tendencies as sleep-deprived humans can help us get more sleep, feel better, and get more done. Sleeping is great, and looking at what we need out of it–namely, what benefits we’d like to receive from our sleep–we can use different times of the day to enter into REM sleep, Stage 3, or another stage of sleep. These different stages help benefit us in different ways, all covered in last week’s post.

This particular post will talk more about how to nap–the different methods and ways to enter into a state of awesome, sleep-filled bliss!

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