Bestselling Author @JennyMilchman on The Keys to Success
Thrilled to host guest author Jenny Milchman today to discuss success! Jenny is a USA Today bestselling author, published by SourceBooks. We met via BookBub (I keep telling authors, it’s a goldmine!), and she was kind enough to feature me and The BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge in her latest newsletter. I highly recommend…
Read MoreHow to Not Waste Your Valuable Time When Guest Blogging by @ThDigitalReader
What is Guest Blogging? Guest blogging ( aka “writing for exposure”) puts your work in front of a new audience, giving you the chance to find new readers or clients. It can be a great way to get attention, but that is only true if the host blog has an audience in the first place.…
Read MoreHere Are The Winners For #NaNoProMo Week Two
#NaNoProMo 2020 Week Two is over! Are you one of the winners? A huge thank you to all my amazing sponsors, experts, and YOU – all the writers who read, commented, and shared these terrific, informative guest posts and giveaways these past two weeks. It’s been a whirlwind, hasn’t it? Whew. This entire initiative is…
Read MoreHow To Write On Medium and Be Successful by Guest @ShauntaGrimes
What you need to know going into Medium, even if you’re not a new writer. I know a lot of writers. In fact, it often feels like just about everyone I know is a writer of some kind. And even if they don’t identify themselves as writers, I just see the writer in everyone. I…
Read MoreWill Your Novel Solve a Reader’s Problem? by Guest @Janice_Hardy
Marketing is a challenge for writers because marketing a novel is different from marketing a product. A core tenet of good marketing is to show how your product solves a problem, but with novels, the “problem” isn’t so cut and dry. Maybe it’s boredom, maybe it’s a love of reading, maybe it’s to entertain. “I…
Read MoreThis is How to Safely Choose Colors for Your Author Website by Guest @ThDigitalReader
Choosing colors for an author website can be daunting. I should know (I’ve built more sites than I can count). The colors on an author website need to send an important message to visitors, telling them what you write about, while at the same time bringing the visitor’s attention to the more important parts of…
Read MoreHow to Use Amazon’s Affiliate Program to Energize Your Marketing by Guest @GeniusLink
While every author is familiar with Amazon and Kindle, many aren’t familiar with Amazon’s affiliate program, officially known as Amazon Associates. Becoming familiar with the Amazon affiliate program is an important way to get insights into your own marketing, and can help you earn some additional money for promoting your books. Sounds amazing, right? What…
Read MoreHow to Start Heart-Centered Book Marketing by Guest @BethBarany
By the time I was ready to publish my first novel, I knew I needed to start thinking about marketing too. But I was scared. I felt like a young child daring to reveal her precious art to the whole world. I was small and they were huge. And their response mattered a lot. How…
Read MoreHere are the Winners from #NaNoProMo Week One
#NaNoProMo 2020 Week One is over! Are you a winner? A huge thank you to all my amazing sponsors, experts, and YOU – all the writers who read, commented, and shared these terrific, informative guest posts and giveaways. This entire initiative is about helping you thrive, especially right now when the world is at a…
Read MoreThis is What It Takes to Sell a Lot of Books by Guest @WritePubSell
What We Wish Would Happen…We Sell a Ton of Books! Finish writing our incredible book. Get it prepped for publishing. Load to Amazon. Miracle pixie dust… boom, bestseller status, and LOADS of sales! What is most likely to happen – everything up to the load to Amazon part and then a trickle of sales. Maybe…
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