2 Contests to Win the Nook Color
From one of the contest organizers: Just thought I’d post a note for everyone who couldn’t make it to the meeting regarding the contests that Tina and I are both running. The details for...
Category: book marketing
Your Clear Message: Get Your Potential Readers Curious Now by Beth Barany
Many authors think that book promotions are about giving away tchotchkes, like bookmarks, key rings, coffee mugs to get attention for their books. But actually, book promotions start with one the most powerful yet overlooked methods to promote your books: by what you actually say.
How Word-of-Mouth Marketing Produces Greatest Results in Book Sales
Often, authors are under the misguided impression that all they have to do is write a book and it will sell like hotcakes, flying off the shelves. Unfortunately, even the best-written books can produce...
Sell What Your Book Does: A Three-Step Program for Targeting Your Potential Customers
Guest post by Brian Jud. Reprinted by permission. You can sell more of your books if you can answer two questions honestly. First, how often do people think about your book? Second, how often...
Unpublished Authors Can Market Too: Top 5 Posts
The call to action in today’s 31 Days Blog Challenge is all about Sneeze pages. (Achhoo!) You know, Best Of and all that. Good for SEO, google love. So, I’m doing a Top 5...
Event Announcement: The Top 3 Secrets to Selling Books With Social Networking
Beth Barany shares some of her best secrets, insights and
approaches that have helped her clients become bestselling
authors.
This Week in Book Sales and Marketing
It’s Friday and here, in no particular timelime order… my reporting and cheeky opinion about this week’s news in book sales and marketing. If you have something you think should be included in this list, like a book marketing campaign that really helped your sales, or get publicity, email me using the contact form above, and I may include it in my weekly biased and random list.
This Week in Book Marketing and Publishing
Today, I’m instituting a new tradition here at Writer’s Fun Zone, and will list some of the best resources I’ve found on book marketing and publishing. Ideally, this will be a weekly post, but nature and the gods may have other ideas. For now, it’s an idea I’m rolling with…
How to find your readers online
Many authors think it’s enough to get their book into the hands of their publisher, and the publisher will do the rest. But actually, in today’s market, it’s essential that the author understand how to engage their audience directly. Once you know who your audience is…
What is the Writer’s Fun Zone?
What is the Writer’s Fun Zone? A place to play with writing… my writing. Your writing. A place to explore what book writing, book marketing and book selling are all about. A place where mistakes and failures are welcome words, where you can ask for and receive support — it’s a place of your making.
Market and Sell Your Book Now
You may think that marketing and selling your books is a scary prospect, but actually marketing and selling is essential to your career as an author. And if you uncover your style of marketing and selling, then ultimately you will sell more books. Active in several online social networks, Beth has sold books and gotten new clients from her interactions on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. But it wasn’t always this way…
12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books
Reprinted from “The Book Marketing Expert newsletter,” a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. http://www.amarketingexpert.com We’ve all heard this: capture email addresses on your website so you can market to...
Post Your Blog on Kindle
Authors, are you searching for ways to become more visible to your readers? Do you want to stay a step ahead of the crowd in terms of cool technology? Or are you just in love with the idea of getting more eyeballs on your books? Then, check out Amazon’s new publishing program, Kindle Publishing for Blogs.
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