Don’t Use Twitter If…
Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to have fun… Don’t use Twitter if you don’t want to connect with your readers. Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to experiment with writing in 140 characters or less. Less is better.
Tagged: book marketing
INDIE AUTHORS: Top 2 Tips to Selling Books
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
How to Sell to Libraries – Top 10 Strategies for Independent Authors and Publishers
Welcome to the Monday series on Resources for Indie Authors. This week I feature an guest post from Dana Lynn Smith, book marketing coach and author. Thanks Dana! All resources I use and cull from my life as an Independent Publishing Consultant and Book Coach, published author, and indie author in fiction! I’ve used some of these ideas to get featured in my local library.
Blogging as the Center of Your Social Media, Especially your Tags
This is a weekly post on social media for authors, usually appearing on Thursdays. Tuesdays is good, too. Authors, take note of this simple fact: “The more often you blog the more site visitors you will have, and the more people will know about you, and buy your books!”
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.
Unpublished Authors Can Market Too: Top 5 Posts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...
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…
Get Your Book in the Hands of Your Readers
One of my clients recently asked about the return on investment for his book. He’s self-publishing his book to support his coaching and speaking career. His book is in the category of investing. I...
Unpublished Authors Can Promote too!
What can an unpublished author do to promote when there’s no book? You may think that book promotions starts when your first book is coming out, but actually book promotions start as soon as...
Confessions of a Reluctant Marketer
You may think that marketing your books is a scary prospect, but actually marketing is essential to your career as an author. And if you uncover your style of marketing, then ultimately you will sell more books.
From Book to Bestseller: What it Takes to Crack the List (and why you might not want to)
In the past 15 months, we’ve had 10 books on the bestseller list. When I say “bestseller” I mean major lists: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, et al. Still, even after numerous books and a variety of lists, the “list” itself still confounded me, so I decided to do a little research to find out what it really takes to hit a list.
How to Use ‘Personality-Based’ Marketing to Market Your Books
As you may know, marketing is all about psychology. Most people think of the psychology of their readers because we must direct our efforts towards our readers’ needs and wants. While this is certainly important and I teach these ideas as well, equally important is the psychology of YOU, the writer.
Sell Some D*mn Books
If you want to publish your book, you need to think about sales. Many people think that writing and publishing a book automatically means a passive stream of income, passive revenue, easy money. But actually to succeed in the world of publishing you need to sell the book to make the money. And that doesn’t happen by itself. Here’s the bad news. Publishing a book and all that it entails is a business.
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