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 popular authors with tens of thousands of Fans on their Facebook fan pages. And you wonder what they are doing that you’re not doing.
Here’s what’s happening.
If you Read more [...]
Category: Personal Productivity for Authors
Author Showcase – Facebook Fan Pages
Here is the list of BookBuzzr Author Pro authors who have shared the BookBuzzr AuthorPage widget on their Facebook Fan Page.
A. Jarrell Hayes
A.K.-Taylors-Books
And The Beat Goes On
Barry Crowther
Belinda G. Buchanan
Brendan Gisby,Scottish author
Bryan Foreman
Cara Faith Donovan
Chappell Hill United Methodist Church
Connect With Julianna
CvdhruveAuthorPage
Dan McQuinn
Donna K. Fitch
Ever-Flowing Read more [...]
How to Get Your BookBuzzr Book Giveaway Badge
If you are a BookBuzzr Author Pro subscriber and are participating in the book giveaways on Freado.com to promote your book, you can now get some neat looking badges customized for your book. You can put up these badges on your Facebook profile, website or blog. They draw your visitors attention to the fact that you're giving away a copy of your book and increase interest in your book. To get your badge, simply login to your BookBuzzr account, go to your BookBuzzr 'Book Marketing Home' and click Read more [...]
How to Set up BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts?
As we've discussed in an earlier post, checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors.
So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book's sales rank improves.
We've been astounded by the number of authors who have adopted the BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts service. This article explains how to set up BookBuzzr's Amazon Alerts service for your book. Please note that this service is available only to BookBuzzr Read more [...]
Are you wasting time checking your Amazon Sales rank?
How often do you check your book's Amazon sales rank per day?
Does checking your Amazon sales rank make you more productive or less productive?
As an author, you feel compelled to check your sales rank because that's the only way you know if your book is selling. You visit Amazon several times a day to find out if your book's sales rank has improved. While this may take just a few minutes of your time, it does cut into your 'flow' ... sometimes with devastating consequences to your morale and Read more [...]
The Most Dangerous Way To Lose Time
I read an essay titled "How to Lose Time and Money" on Paul Graham's website.
The thesis of the essay?
People lose money not by spending it on outrageous luxuries but by making bad investment decisions. And they lose time not by vegetating in front of the TV but by doing the wrong kind of "work". Paul argues that we have built-in filters to guard against unnecessary spending of time and money. It's hard to go and splurge on a designer watch and not feel a little guilty. Or watch two movies Read more [...]
