1. Go to www.freado.com or www.bookbuzzr.com.
2. Click on Login.
3. Login to the website which takes you to the ‘My Books’ profile page.
4. Click on the ‘Upload’ option available which leads you to the ‘Upload Content’ page.
5. Next, Browse and upload the book to your profile.
As an author, you know that a lot of effort goes into your book’s cover – its title, the
imagery and so on. Of course, the cover’s aim is to get a reader to open the book and
sample your writing – and then hopefully, buy the book. In terms of marketing a book,
giving a reader the opportunity of glancing at the cover and flipping through the book’s
pages is the bare minimum required.
There’s nothing wrong with this approach except that it works only in physical
bookshops – the book will ultimately sit on a … Continue Reading
1. Replace your book’s cover image with the BookBuzzr widget
For starters, you can – and must – replace your book’s cover image with the widget
wherever your book appears. This would include:
* Your website
* Your blog
* Your profile on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace
2. Market your book in your email signature
BookBuzzr also comes in the form of an email signature, where a few pages of your book
turn like in a real book thus encouraging your email recipients to sample your book
online. You can download this email signature when you sign-in as an author to
BookBuzzr.
3. Gain more followers and … Continue Reading
1. Go to www.bookbuzzr.com
2. Sign-up
3. Upload your image
4. Add your personal information
5. Set up your Twitter details
6. Upload your Books
Go to www.bookbuzzr.com
Click on the Login button
Provide the email address and password .
You should see a page that lists your book (s). Click on the link that says “About” (you
should find this beside the “My Books” link. This should take you to a page that lists
your bio. Now click on the “Edit” link on the top right hand corner. This should take you
to a page that says “Edit Profile”. Here you can do the following:
1. Upload your profile picture (optional)
2. Change your email address (important)
3. Provide your website URL (if available)
4. Provide your Twitter ID (if available)
5. Click on “Save Changes”
Now click on the “My Books” link. This should take you back … Continue Reading
To share your widget on most social networks, all you need to do is to go to your widget,
click on the “Share” button and click on the appropriate social network. Then follow
along to the simple prompts that come up and you should be able to set up your widget on
your Facebook profile, MySpace page and more.
Go to your BookBuzzr widget. Click on the “Share” button. There you will see a line of
code with the text “Embed code” beside it. Click on the “Copy” button. Then paste this
code into the HTML area where your book-cover image usually appears on your author
website. Note that the widget is slightly larger than a book-cover image and so you may
need to re-arrange your HTML page layout to accommodate this.
Adding the widget to your blog is easy. Click on the “Share” button. There you will see a
line of code with the text “Embed code” beside it. Click on the “Copy” button. Then
paste this code into the HTML area where your book-cover image usually appears on
your blog. Please note that this option does not work for blogs running on Wordpress. It
works perfectly well for authors with Blogger accounts.
Click on Share. Click on “Email” (which is the third option after Post and Bookmark.)
Then enter your email address from the appropriate email service (Hotmail, Google Mail,
Yahoo Mail etc.) to send a mail to your contacts.
