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Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield You’ve heard the numbers. Over a million new books were published last year, in this country alone. The numbers for 2010, when tallied, will be even more daunting. And that’s not including eBooks. So what do these numbers mean for authors? One thing they mean is that, with a million-plus books [...]
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Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 4 Steps to Success with Local Independent Bookstore Signings
December 8th, 2010 Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow Getting the word out about your book takes top priority for most authors. You want to spread the word about your book and doing book signings in your local community can build great buzz for your book. The reading enthusiast in your local community searches for any and all places where they [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Kindling Fires up Writers
October 27th, 2010 Guest Author: Ruth Francisco I want to share my experiences with Kindle, and to let everyone know that epublishing is a viable option to waiting around for a traditional publisher. Not only have unknown writers been “discovered” on Kindle and offered traditional DTB (dead tree book) contracts, but established writers are publishing original material to [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: So You’ve Written a Book. Now What? Part 2
October 20th, 2010 Guest Expert: Jim Magwood So You’ve Written a Book. Now What? Part 1 Okay, we’re on our way to making this manuscript you’re writing the very best book you possibly can. Make that little phrase your mantra as you go along. Publishers literally have hundreds of manuscripts cross their desks daily. Why are they going [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: How to Write a Popular Writing Blog
October 13th, 2010 Guest Expert: Lexi Revellian I’ve been blogging for over three years using Blogger. My blog is a writing one, with a 4/10 Google ranking, and I want to share with you my ideas about what makes a blog popular. You may not agree…which is fine. Every blog is different. Blogging basics • Blog regularly, at [...]
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7 Comments »Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: The Secrets To Selling A Ton Of Books On Your Book Launch Day
October 6th, 2010 Guest Expert: Jim Kukral I’m a first-time author. My first book, “Attention! This Book Will Make You Money” was published and released in August 2010, just over a month ago by John Wiley & Sons. So being a first-time author, I’ll admit it, I was kind of a rube when it came down the traditional [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: The Care and Feeding of Your MySpace Page
September 29th, 2010 Guest Expert: Susanna Carr Facebook dominates all social media and Twitter is growing exponentially. Authors are jumping over to these communities and ignoring their MySpace accounts. Website designers suggest a MySpace logo on your site looks antiquated. Should you delete your MySpace page? Not so fast! While activity levels are down at MySpace, your profile [...]
Posted in Book Marketing, Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, MySpace, MySpace Page No Comments »Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Write Posts That Soar Above Cemeteries of the “UnRead”
September 15th, 2010 Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva If your blog post doesn’t grab immediate attention it’s doomed to a plot in the cemetery of the dreaded unread. Here’s 5 tips that will keep your posts from being buried alive. It’s important to use at least one intriguing photo with each post, such as the one I used here. [...]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 10 Ways to Market a Book on Facebook
August 25th, 2010 Guest Expert: Breana Orland The face in Facebook has changed dramatically over the last five years. No longer is it a meeting ground for fresh-faced college students. Facebook has become a one-stop virtual home for friends, families and businesses to inform and learn about life outside the confines of the World Wide Web. This change [...]
Posted in Book Marketing, Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Facebook, internet, market, Marketing, publicity, publicize 5 Comments »Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: How Faithful Are Your Social Media Followers?
August 18th, 2010 Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva It’s so easy to click that Unfollow or Unfriend button. We work hard to connect with our niche on social media, so once we gain them how do we turn those followers into faithful followers who stay, and who will probably buy at some point. I can tell you in one [...]
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