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What is KDP Select? KDP Select is an option for KDP publishers from Amazon. Through KDP Select, for an initial period of 90 days your Digital Book is exclusive to Kindle and is included in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Program where it will earn a share of a monthly cash fund when readers borrow [...]
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Do the Number of Facebook Fans on Your Fan Page Matter?
January 20th, 2012 An author recently asked the following question on the BookBuzzr Pro Authors Forum: What kind of impact does the number of Facebook fans have on your book sales? To answer this question let’s do a thought experiment: Consider two authors of the same genre, both of whom are equally unknown to you. Let’s call the [...]
How to Create a Viral QuickQuiz
November 22nd, 2011 Some of you may already know about the new viral book marketing technology from BookBuzzr named QuickQuiz. This book marketing technology can be extremely powerful when used in the right way. This article gives you a few guidelines on how to create a QuickQuiz game that gets you the best returns on the time that [...]
Posted in Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado 
Tags: Book Marketing, Book Promotion, QuickQuiz, quiz 
5 Comments »Drumroll Please … The Next Generation of Facebook Marketing is Here!
October 13th, 2011 The problem with today’s Facebook fan pages So you’re an author with a Facebook fan page. You’ve got book trailers, polls, quizzes, photo and writing contests running on your page. You’ve even got a few hundred “Facebook Likes” for your page. And yet your book sales are not going up. You then compare yourself to [...]
How to Use the John Locke Principle to Market Your Book Through Games
August 26th, 2011 John Locke has sold a million copies of his various books. He has also written a very useful guide titled “How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months” that describes his methods. One of the key principles in the book is the idea of “transfer of loyalty”. While this is a well-known and much [...]
Why Good Authors Make Good Game Designers
August 12th, 2011 The Secret to Successful Games is the Secret to Successful Books What is the one attribute that every successful song, Broadway performance, blog post, Hollywood movie, public speech, TV ad, book and YouTube video has in common? While you mull the question, check out this short video. It’s quickly going viral on YouTube and Facebook. [...]
YouTube trailer for BookBuzzr
July 7th, 2011 We are pleased to announce that Sandie Lee a freelance writer has created the sneak peak trailer for BookBuzzr. She has done sneak peek trailers for several authors and also contract herself out (personally and through Ascot Media). Her company is called TattleTott Productions and her work can be seen through the YouTube channel at; [...]
Posted in BookBuzzr and Freado Tags: Author Videos, Authors, Book Trailers, Book Videos, book-trailer, BookBuzzr and Freado No Comments »The BookBuzzr Gold Rush Begins
June 21st, 2011 Update: Congratulations to our BookBuzzr Grand Prize Winner – Amanda Taylor (@a_k_taylor) on winning a basket of book marketing goodies worth over $2000 from experts across the publishing industry. A special thank you to all who participated and made the contest such fun. We enjoyed running this contest for all you authors out there and [...]
Posted in Book Marketing, BookBuzzr and Freado Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, contest, free prizes, Grand Contest 1 Comment »Celebrating Two Years of BookBuzzr with Nearly 7,000 Authors!
May 30th, 2011 BookBuzzr is celebrating it’s birthday month in June and we’d like to thank the author community for supporting us these two years! We’re celebrating with the BookBuzzr Grand Contest in the latter half of June. Watch our blog space for more details on participation in the weeks to come. We have some great prizes to [...]
How to Share Your BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget on Your Facebook Fan Page
April 12th, 2011 The first version of the BookBuzzr Widget worked flawlessly with Facebook. You simply clicked on the Facebook icon inside the widget, followed a few prompts and you’d have your book widget appearing on your Facebook profile. The instructions for this were presented in an earlier blog post. Then Facebook changed the rules. Under the new [...]
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