A few days ago, I received an email from Shelley Hitz that went something like this: “Congratulations! You’ve earned $ today.” Upon opening the contents, I learned that we’d earned about $20. Granted that the amount is not large. But it was still exciting since we seemed to have earned this money rather mysteriously. Upon digging […]
How to Market Your Book Through Google Ads
So you’ve written your magnum opus and you want the world to beat a path to your door. You’ve heard so much about Google Ads and decide to try it for your book. This article shows you how. First a Warning: Running Google Ads is an activity that is fairly involved. If you don’t know […]
The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 14 – 21)
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web: 1. The London Book Fair was held this week and a fair amount of Twitter activity with the hash tag #lbf12 was evident. Some interesting presentations are available online such as this one from Hot Key Books – a publisher of YA books. 2. Aggie Villanueva […]
Book Review – Amazon Categories Create Best Sellers by Aggie Villanueva
One of the best parts of my job is that I get to review books in the publishing business. Recently, I got a book review opportunity from Aggie Villanueva – an award-winning bestselling fiction & non-fiction author, author publicist, and mobile apps marketer. This short 43 page book is titled Amazon Categories Create Best Sellers […]
Readers Use CoverMatcher to Relax!
We recently received an email from authors and Freado regulars – Brenda Woody and Steve Tindle. They gave us feedback on the CoverMatcher game and also told us that they had made a new blog post about Freado. In the post, they write: Steve and I love to play CoverMatcher and have won several books and […]
Hunger Games Fan Festival Twitter Contest Winner Announced
As you may know, the Hunger Games Fan Festival is happening on Freado until the 30th of April. Before the festival began, we conducted a Twitter contest in which a number of contestants participated. We completed the prize drawing yesterday and the winner (drum roll please!) is Stephanie Norris. Stephanie walks away with the following: […]
The Indie-Author Lament
If you haven’t yet seen this video take a look. It will brighten your day.
The Book Marketing Technology Week in Review (April 7 – 14)
Notable blog posts, articles and happenings on the web: Joel Friedlander wrote up an inspiring blog post at his Book Designer blog. Read ‘The Profit in Persistence‘, to get the “Rocky Balboa” in you to wake up and start blogging. The Justice Department jumped directly into the fight over the future of digital books on […]
Why You Should Participate in the Hunger Games Fan Festival on Freado.com
The Hunger Games Fan Festival (THGFF) on Freado is an online celebration of the Hunger Games trilogy where fans of the series create quizzes and word games to win free Hunger Games merchandise. It started on April 10th and ends on April 30th 2012. We’re seeing a huge amount of interest from fans of in […]
March 2012 Facebook Page changes
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Major Facebook Page Changes Require Strategic Planning for Book Authors Now that Facebook has mandatorily changed all Pages (formerly known as fan pages) to the new format, it is time to assess the benefits and issues for authors. Let’s take as one example that you have a single Facebook Page […]
How to Market Your Book During the Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com
The Hunger Games Festival on Freado.com is an online book festival for fans of the Hunger Games trilogy with over 30 prizes to be won in 21 days. The festival is being conducted by BookBuzzr to draw the attention of fans of the Hunger Games universe and showcase the books of our participating authors in […]