Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith
Many Facebook users never venture beyond their profile, but there are several other ways to gain visibility on Facebook. Here are some suggestions for getting the most from this powerful networking tool:
1. First, be sure to take full advantage of the promotional opportunities on your Facebook Profile. Just below your photo is a small box where you can enter a concise description of what you do, including the title of your book.
The About Me box (under Personal Read more [...]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Recommended Reading, Listening and Help for Writers
From The Frugal Editor
Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
When we're learning something new we may need a real, honest-to-goodness college- type reading list so that we're aware of every aspect of the new subject we're learning. It's especially important for people entering into the publishing industry because there is much misunderstanding and so much new.
Such a list is especially important for writers because many just beginning to market believe that their publishers take care of all Read more [...]
Book Marketing Mondays: Innovative Marketing Techniques Sells Books
The New Decade: Innovative Marketing Techniques Sells Books
Guest Expert: Jo-Anne Vandermeulen
The New Decade: Innovative Marketing Techniques will dictate which producer will meet their ultimate goal and sell their products. For you to conquer all obstacles you will need to:
1.) Accept the changes in today’s marketing cyber-world.
2.) Understand today’s consumer. Consider your targeting audience. Today’s consumer is:
Able to search for valuable free information on the Internet.
Wanting Read more [...]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Inbound Marketing Rocks! Now what?
Crafting a Message Your Audience will care About
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri
So at this point, you probably all know that Internet/inbound marketing is not only the wave of the future, but the best way to sell yourself, your book, your product, or your service. So maybe you're on Twitter, Facebook, you might even have a blog that you keep updated but if it feels like nothing seems to be meshing.
Before you plug in another tweet, take a moment to step back and really focus on who you're Read more [...]
12 Ways to Market Your Book By Giving Away Free Stuff
This article offers 12 ideas to market and promote your book by giving away free stuff. Each of the ideas or 'models' is named after a person or company that I associate the model with. The idea is to stir your imagination and help you get creative with how you price and promote your book.
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Book Marketing Mondays: Don’t Go At It Alone
Book Marketing: Don’t Go At It Alone
Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge
Most authors achieve a lifelong goal when they write and publish a book. But it’s not long before the stark light of reality hits when they realize that they now have to put on the hat of marketer. For many, they have no desire to engage in book marketing, or sales activities, and yet the success of finding new readers for their book will depend on it.
One principle I learned early on is that you can achieve a lot more success Read more [...]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: 5 Ways to have your Author Website Work for You
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow
Just like any other business owner, you, as an author want to have a website that will showcase your book in its best light. However, knowing where to start can be a daunting task, leading your head to spin. The website is about you and to focus on the end result are just a few things to remember when thinking about your author website.
Here are a few insights to have your author website work for you and your book.
1) Showcase YOU – No matter what you showcase Read more [...]
How to Market Your Book on Twitter With BookBuzzr
As some of you know, BookBuzzr offers 4 ways to market your book on Twitter. You can set up all 4 ways to market your book in less than 15 minutes. In short, you can:
Tweet about your book when you set it up on BookBuzzr - This is a one time tweet.
Tweet about your book when it's read by a minimum number of readers in a 24 hour period.
Tweet about your book daily or weekly.
Set up milestone-based tweets (think of this as a little Twitter celebration when the reader count for your book Read more [...]
Kind Attention
Kind Attention: We have optimized our sites (fReado, BookBuzzr) for search engines in order to index the contents. So update the links that are in the old format. Old URL's will continue to work ... but over time we will phase it out.
For example URL http://www.freado.com/player/bookplayer.php?contentid=4792&authorid=3771&preview=1 has been updated to http://www.freado.com/read/4792/the-finger-of-god.
So please update your URL's.
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