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How to Stand Out on Those Overcrowded Online Shelves Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield Amazon.com is the world’s largest online bookseller. And if you’re an author with one or more books, it is the one place you most definitely want to be. Getting visibility, though, is no easy task. You are competing with millions of books, [...]
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Got a 5-Star Amazon Presence?
October 31st, 2011 
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing 
Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Marketing on Amazon 
6 Comments »The Amazon Launch for Your Book: What You Can Learn from My Mistakes
October 28th, 2011 Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher (updated and expanded to 416 pages!) As the author of The Frugal Book Promoter and other award-winning books in the HowToDoItFrugally series of books, I probably shouldn’t have made any [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Marketing on Amazon No Comments »How to Sell More Books on Amazon
October 26th, 2011 : A Book Review by Vikram Narayanan (CEO BookBuzzr) I recently had an opportunity to review the book “How to Sell More Books on Amazon”. This book is short at less than 40 pages. But it is packed with actionable suggestions which, if implemented diligently, can yield significant results to an author. Here’s what you’ll [...]
Posted in Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Marketing on Amazon, Review No Comments »How My Book Hit #1 on Kindle
October 24th, 2011 Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz Would you like your book to hit #1 in its category on Kindle and be able to say that you’re a “best-selling author”? Of course you would! It not only increases your credibility, but can also help you sell more books. Let me explain. The Key – Choosing Your Categories Wisely As [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Kindle, Marketing on Amazon No Comments »Amazon Author Page
October 21st, 2011 Guest Expert: April L. Hamilton Amazon has been instrumental in the rise of the indie author. Amazon provides do it yourself publishing platforms both for ebooks (Kindle Digital Publishing platform) and print (Createspace), as well as its own imprint for a print and ebook publishing model. But that’s just the beginning. Amazon takes things a [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Author Page, Amazon Marketing, Author Central, Author Page, Authors, Book Marketing, books No Comments »Why Reviews in Online Bookstores Matter
October 17th, 2011 Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Reviews and recommendations in online bookstores like Amazon.com and BN.com are a powerful selling tool. Many shoppers read book reviews before making a purchase, and reviews can be the tipping point that causes them to click the Buy button. In fact, a study by the Yale School of Management concluded [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Amazon reviews, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Marketing on Amazon, Online Reviews 2 Comments »Marketing on Amazon? I Thought They Just List My Book
October 14th, 2011 Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva Amazon is much more than just the world’s largest bookstore. As an author you’ve made sure your book is listed on Amazon.com because everyone in the writing/promotion fields says you must. So what’s the big deal? You’ve actually made more sales to family and friends on your own than through Amazon. [...]
Posted in BBMTC, Book Marketing Tags: Amazon, Amazon Marketing, Authors, Book Marketing, books, Marketing on Amazon No Comments »Book Marketing: ‘Do You Know Where You’re Going To’ Is Not Only A Diana Ross Song
October 12th, 2011 Guest Author: Emily Hill Whether one is a traditionally published author, or an IndieAuthor, the realization is soon reached that ‘nowadays’ book marketing lies squarely in the author’s lap if one is going to reach their readership potential. Any time I use the word ‘nowadays’ I enclose it in quotes because the original mention of [...]
Amazon Book Marketing: A Social Networking Experience
October 10th, 2011 Guest Expert: D’vorah Lansky, M.Ed. and Author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online. When you think of Amazon, the online “800 pound gorilla” of a bookstore what comes to mind? Do you think about the great price you are going to get on your book purchases? Do you [...]
How Amazon Recommendation Algorithms Help Sell Your Book
October 7th, 2011 Guest Expert: Joanna Penn A few weeks ago my friend Joel Friedlander sent me an email (partly shown left) that he had been sent by Amazon which recommended my novel Pentecost next to John Connolly whose supernatural mysteries I really love to read myself. I was absolutely overjoyed by the news! I put it on [...]
