We're pleased to announce the release of a faster, lighter BookBuzzr Book Widget. You will notice that the Book Widget loads with just one "Loading" message (earlier there were two messages.) The load time is also lesser.
If you're an existing author, you don't need to do anything. Just take a look at your own book in the widget and give us your feedback. If you're an author thinking about using the BookBuzzr Book Widget, here's another reason for you to do so now!
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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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TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Virtual Book Tours Offer Global Reach to Book Authors
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Thanks to the Internet a book author no longer has to travel from one city to the next cramming in as many book signings and media interviews as possible in the shortest amount of time.
Virtual books tours, Internet radio shows, and teleseminars have taken the place of the physical book tour as well as expanded the global reach of book authors.
Here’s how a virtual book tour works:
Either on your own or by utilizing a virtual book tour company (I Read more [...]
Book Marketing Mondays: The Power of Social Networking For Authors
By Yvonne Perry
Recently, I was asked, "What is the best tool for helping authors promote their books online?" Had you asked me that one year ago, I would have said blogging, and while that is still somewhat true, I have to admit that social networking is the best tool for helping authors promote their books online.
Social networking includes interacting or socializing with a number of people in a public chat-like setting except there is no live chat room. It retains the flavor of an email Read more [...]
