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Guest Expert: D’vorah Lansky, M.Ed. and Author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online. You may be familiar with the concept of a traditional book tour. This is where the author travels from city to city, or state to state, signing books and doing book talks. This can be [...]
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Top New Year’s Resolutions for Book Authors
January 13th, 2012 Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith It’s that time of year again, when our thoughts turn to the future and what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. As you make your New Year’s resolutions, don’t forget to include resolutions for your book and your business. Here are five action steps to help you sell [...]
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Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, marketing goals, New Year Resolutions 
No Comments »Kindle Direct Publishing: The KDP Select Program from Amazon
January 9th, 2012 Guest Expert: Michelle Hughes As an exclusive Amazon user I was very interested in the debut kdp Select program that was unveiled this month. This program boasted of allowing authors the opportunity to distribute books through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, earn royalties from a new source, promote their books for free, and get instant [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, digital platform, KDP, Kindle Store, Lending Library 15 Comments »Amazon Still Deleting Books and Reviews Inexplicably. Or is There an Explanation?
January 6th, 2012 Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva Are We Unintentionally in Violation? Are Amazon book and review deletions actually inexplicable? I’ve been following the controversy about Amazon deleting thousands of book reviews, even authors’ entire books, with no explanation to them other than that they are in violation of Amazon rules. See Reviews Accidentally Deleted by Amazon or [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Bestseller, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Category, Reviews No Comments »Resolutions: Tis the Season for Supporting the Industry
January 2nd, 2012 Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Aha! It is resolution time! I’d love to give authors advice on setting goals for the New Year. Here’s the thing: I’ve done that and—in the doing of it—realize that no one author can help another set goals because each author and each title is so different. I guess I sort of [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Buy Books, christmas, Gifts, Mother’s Day, Resolution, Valentine’s Day 3 Comments »Q&A: How to Launch an eBook
December 19th, 2011 On 7th of December, we had an interesting and informative webinar about ‘How to Launch an eBook’. Our panel consisted of D’vorah Lansky (M.Ed. and Author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online), Phyllis Zimbler Miller (co-founder of Miller Mosaic Power Marketing) and Penny C. Sansevieri (CEO of Author [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, ebook, Kindle, Mobi 2 Comments »Got White Papers? :: How Nonfiction Authors Can Use “Nutritional Content” to Attract a Zillion Readers — Give or Take
December 16th, 2011 Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield The Da Vinci Code Model Around Christmastime, a number of years ago, I was browsing at a local Borders bookstore (now, sadly, extinct), looking for, among other things, thrillers by the mega-bestselling author, Dan Brown. A client of mine wanted to construct his thriller-in-progress in the “Brownsian” manner, using densely applied [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code No Comments »New Year’s Resolutions for Marketing Your Book: Say Yes to New Things
December 12th, 2011 Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Thanks to the Internet, the release date of our published or self-published books no longer matter as long as the books are available online. We can continue to market our books indefinitely. And this is a great time of year to look ahead and commit to trying new promotional opportunities. [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, New Year Resolutions 2 Comments »Have a Holly Jolly Promotion Season for Your Book
December 9th, 2011 Or How to Jazz Up a Writing Career with Holiday Promotions Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Have you heard of The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans? It was originally self-published. Evans believed in himself (and his book) when big publishers didn’t. When it did well, “lo and behold,” as they say in the Christmas stories. Someone [...]
How to Create Terrific Content for Your Virtual Book Tour
December 6th, 2011 Today’s guest post from Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer, is part of the virtual book tour for her newest book marketing guide, Virtual Book Tour Magic. Whether you’re writing articles or doing interviews, a virtual book tour is your opportunity to shine in front of a targeted audience of potential book buyers. Here [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Authors, Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Book Tour, Virtual Book Tour 3 Comments »
