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Guest Expert: Reno Lovison One of the best ways to build buzz around your book is through the use of video. The business of book marketing is changing and evolving every day. What worked five years ago will not necessarily work today and what worked five months ago may not still be working as well [...]
Book Trailers Are More Important Than Ever
June 3rd, 2011 
2Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Book trailers, similar to movie trailers, are an opportunity to showcase in pictures and sound what a book is about. In other words, a book trailer is a video that can be watched online. Now more than ever these book trailers are important because video has become so popular on [...]
Celebrating Two Years of BookBuzzr with Nearly 7,000 Authors!
May 30th, 2011 0BookBuzzr 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 [...]
Keyword Research Resources – How to Increase Blog Traffic Using Keywords
May 30th, 2011 6Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz Are you using keyword research resources to help your blog gain visibility in the search engines? If not, you could potentially be missing out on a lot of free traffic from the search engines. And if you have a blog, you are most likely looking for ways to increase blog traffic to [...]
Authors: Why Guest Blogging Helps Market your Book
May 27th, 2011 1Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow You are an author. You need to market your book and are looking for more ways to spread the message of your book. Guest blogging could be just the answer for you. Guest blogging is where you provide a blog post to another blogger to share with his or her blog readers. [...]
Q&A: How to Make your Author Blog Work for You
May 26th, 2011 1Our 18th May webinar on How to Make your Author Blog Work for You was interesting and packed with great info. Our panel consisted of Laurel Marshfield (professional writer, ghostwriter, and developmental editor at Blue Horizon Communications), Teresa Morrow (owner Key Book Promotions, keybookpromotions.com) and Joel Friedlander (proprietor of Marin Bookworks, TheBookDesigner.com blog). We faced [...]
Marketing by Creating an Online Blog Community
May 25th, 2011 0Guest: Bethany Ramos Published and unpublished authors alike need to have one discernible skill to stand out in a sea of competition: the ability to market themselves. If you are a new author hoping to make a break into the publishing industry, you can take the first step in the right direction by creating a [...]
Using Your Blog As A Virtual Hand Shake
May 23rd, 2011 0Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge As authors, it’s not long before we realize that networking is an integral part of spreading the word about our book. In a workshop I did in Richardson, Texas last week, I told the attendees that no one will love your book as much as you do, so you need to be [...]
Ten Reasons Why You Should be Blogging
May 20th, 2011 2Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri With all the Tweeting, Facebook Liking, and LinkedIn connecting going on, it’s easy to forget about blogging and finding the time to do so. Blogging, however, can be extremely useful for more reasons than just populating your website with content (although that’s important too). Let’s look at some reasons why [...]
If You Have a Book You Need a Website (You Can Update Yourself)
May 18th, 2011 0Guest Expert: Yael K. Miller Just to get something out of the way – yes, at Miller Mosaic we do put up WordPress-based websites for book authors, but that’s not why I’m saying authors need a website they can manage themselves. How do I know that, if you have a book, you need a website? [...]
