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Self-Assessment Information for Authors
IS THIS PRODUCT RIGHT FOR YOU?
- If your book teaches a specific skill, and/or you already have a quiz in the book to measure a skill, the self-assessment is a great choice for you.
- If a self-assessment would be a great tool for your consulting practice, you can benefit from selling it right along with your book!
DEADLINE
- Not long after Author Day: You will need to add all the “preliminary information” listed below to your final manuscript. This way, the print book does a good job pitching your self-assessment.
- Two months before Pub Date: You will need to submit the rest of your inputs, listed below. (If you can submit any of these earlier, it gives us more time to critique and improve them!)
INPUTS- Please click here to see an excellent example of an author's self-assessment memo.
Preliminary Information
- Name your self-assessment (could be the same as your book title, or something different.)
- Decide on a url for your self assessment, aka: http://bkconnection.com/NAME-sa (the –sa stands for self-assessment)
- Create a short pitch for the self-assessment to insert into preface, introduction, or other appropriate area of your book. This pitch will refer the reader to the backmatter page for further details.
- The text for a back-matter page describing the self-assessment and providing the url.
Question Information
- Provide questions and answers: Berrett-Koehler assessments are typically 20-30 questions, although longer assessments are also possible with a higher price point.
- You will need to provide information on the scoring method for the questions (Example: 50-40 questions right = EXCELLENT, 40=30 questions right = GOOD, or any other scoring method you would like to use.)
- You will need to decide what type of graphic is best suited for displaying your test results.
Supplemental Text
- An Author's Welcome Statement that summarizes the value and use of the self-assessment, and explains how this is linked to your book.
- You will submit a Frequently Asked Questions section for the self-assessment, to cover all the questions people are likely to have.
- You will submit an Author's Closing Statement for the client to read after seeing their results. It will help them make sense of what their results mean.
EXAMPLES- Click green links to examine the products!
These are two of our best-selling self-assessments:
- Diana Booher’s Creating Personal Presence Self-Assessment
- Ira Chaleff’s Courageous Follower Self-Assessment
BUDGET & CONTRACT
A one-page agreement will govern the self-assessment product: click here to see agreement. You will receive the same royalty on the self-assessment that you would on an e-book, or other digital product.
PRICING
$9.99 for a 20-30 question self-assessment (our standard length.) If you wish to write a longer assessment, it might be $14.99 or $19.99.
OUTCOMES
If you make the self-assessment part of your consulting practice, it is guaranteed to receive steady sales. If people need to pass the self-assessment to be certified in a skill, all the better. However, we haven’t had much success yet in marketing the self-assessment to the general consumer market. We hope to get better at that in the future.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
The instrument allows for up to five tests to be taken within a one year period. The subscription automatically cancels after one year unless renewed. A "Past Results" tab allows the purchaser to compare past results if the instrument is taken multiple times within the 12-month subscription period.
