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Tag: Book Promotion

Announcing the Winners of the Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest (aka The BookBuzzr Olympics!)

A few weeks ago, we announced a Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest. Our in-house team evaluated a number of Facebook fan pages created using the BookBuzzr Facebook AuthorPage Widget technology.  This list of fan pages are available in the presentation below. Clicking on the links will take you to the author's Facebook fan page. BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget Samples from BookBuzzr   We confess that it was really hard in choosing a winner. Our in-house team of 3 judges made evaluations Read more [...]

How to Install the New BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget

The BookBuzzr team has released a new version of the popular BookBuzzr Facebook fan page widget (aka AuthorPage Widget). If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Subscriber and want to share your BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget on Facebook Fan Page here’s how you do it. This new version of the technology is designed to spice up your Facebook fan page and give your readers a chance to really get to know you and your work. We've taken care to build the pieces which Facebook does not give you. These include: Read more [...]

You Can Create a Facebook Page for Your Book

Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Since I first wrote an article on this subject for BookBuzzr in August 2010, Facebook has made many changes. Regardless of the changes, creating a Facebook Page for your book or books can be a good promotional strategy. (Note: Previously, you needed to create a Facebook personal profile before you could create a Facebook Page. That requirement has now been eliminated.) People “like” your Page instead of becoming a “fan” of your fan page (you Read more [...]

How to Market Your Book on Facebook Like a Best Selling Author (Without Spending a Fortune)

Have you ever had a pang of Facebook fan page envy? You know, the kind you feel when you stumble upon a famous author's fan page, and it looks really nice with lots of shiny little widgets and things to do? And then you move on with a sigh wishing that you had a large budget to be able to afford a creative agency to get your Facebook fan page done for you? Those days are now behind you. With the new BookBuzzr fan page widget releasing today, you will be able to customize your fan page with Read more [...]

I Have the Book to Prove It

Guest Author: Rebecca Elswick As we say here in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia – There’s more than one way to skin a possum.” I cannot boast that I ever skinned a possum, but I can boast that I “contested” my way to the publication of my debut novel, Mama’s Shoes. Do you ever think about entering writing contests? Do you hesitate because you think you don’t have a chance? Do you say, “Nobody wins those contests anyway.”? Well, I can assure you that someone indeed does Read more [...]

How to Be a Best Seller on Amazon: An Interview with Multi-Category Best Selling Author Judy Powell

  Today we’re pleased to present an interview with best-selling author Judy Powell. Judy came on to our radar when she recently subscribed for a BookBuzzr Author Pro Plus account. We were able to connect with her and request her to do this interview. Judy Powell is a writer and marketing consultant who lives in Ontario, Canada. Her works are diverse, featuring romance novels set in Jamaica, Chicago and New York, a historical novel focusing on Jamaican culture and history, and non-fiction Read more [...]

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 comes bundled with access to a companion site where Aggie provides persistent links to a variety of bonus articles, contests, and recommendation lists. Aggie’s Read more [...]

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 this festival with over 60 Hunger Games related quizzes and word games being created in 3 days. If you are an author catering to the Young Adult or Teen market, this festival offers Read more [...]

New Easter Egg Landing Themes from BookBuzzr

This Easter, wish visitors to your website in a unique way with new Easter landing page widgets from BookBuzzr. All landing page themes from BookBuzr now come in two sizes. One size is a large, overlay screen (useful when you really want to get the attention of your visitors such as when you are doing a book launch) and the other size is a slightly smaller version which can be embedded on your blog (see sample below): The widgets are available in 5 different colors. For ideas and inspiration Read more [...]

Announcing the New Landing Page Widget Technology from BookBuzzr

At BookBuzzr, we’ve been working for over 2 years with thousands of authors with just one goal in mind – get them to find more readers and sell more books through the use of innovative technologies. Our research showed that one of the major challenges an author faces is in grabbing the attention of their blog and website visitors and getting them to take a desired action. So we’ve come up with a nifty little new technology called the Landing Page Widget. What is a Landing Page Widget? A Read more [...]