What is Prezi?
Prezi is a new online software tool that allows you to create seemingly three-dimensional presentations. “Create astonishing presentations live and on the web.” See a Prezi for yourself. I’ve set it up so it...
Category: Book Promotion
The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Networking for Authors
by Dana Lynn Smith Online networking can be a terrific book promotion tool, but there’s sometimes a fine line between letting your contacts know about your book and being overly promotional. If you’re too...
Self-Published Authors Find Success on the Kindle
More and more romance authors are independently publishing on the Kindle. I sat down with two women from the San Francisco Romance Writers of America chapter to uncover more about this phenomenon and discover...
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Unpublished Authors Can Market Too: Top 5 Posts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.
What is GetGlue.com?
What is GetGlue? GetGlue is a service that helps you find your next favorite movie, book, music album or other every day thing (here’s a list of supported categories). GetGlue shows you things that you’ll like based on your personal tastes, what your friends like, and what’s most popular on GetGlue.
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…
To Market or Not To Market: The Double-Edged Sword of Self-Promotion
Thanks to Fabienne Fredrickson and her newsletter, Client Attraction, for this article. Authors, To be successful in our careers we must be constantly promoting. The Bestselling Authors Success mindset starts with educating yourself with experts at your side.
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…
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.
A Literary Agent Shares Why Writers Are on Twitter
In literary agent, Janet Reid’s post, she shares in a fun and concise way why writers are on Twitter. Reposted here, she says: It’s where your readers are. And you want to hear what...
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