Posts Tagged ‘Book’
Top 10 Ways to Market Your Book in a Month!
Book marketing can be daunting for authors, but it is essential for getting your book in front of readers to make it a success. In this blog post, I will share the most important and effective book marketing strategies authors can use to promote their books and reach a wider audience. Why a month? Isn’t…
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 Sell Your Book in 20 Seconds by Guest Sharon Goldinger
Could You Sell Your Book in Twenty Seconds? Picture this: You’re in an elevator, your book cupped in your hand, the title clearly visible to the other person in the elevator. While riding from floor 1 to floor 19, she asks, “What is From Fat to Fit about? You respond: “You’ll be inspired by the…
Read MoreHow to Prevent Amazon From Deleting Your Reviews by guest @IolaGoulton
Amazon Reviews All authors want them, because they show social proof on the world’s biggest online bookstore. That has an indirect effect on sales, and can help an author obtain an advertising slot with BookBub or one of the other big ebook advertisers. Readers also want reviews. Reviews provide social proof, a perceived indication of…
Read MoreHow to Write a Book In These 8 Steps by guest @TheLeighShulman via @BadRedheadMedia #Writing
You want to write a book? “I just have bits of scribbles on paper. I don’t know what I’m doing,” Adriana said on a call one day. We’d been working together only a short while, and she was frustrated. “Writing is a process,” I replied. “This is part of your process.” I say it all…
Read MoreHow to Create Pre-Launch Buzz for Your Book Right Now
In a previous post, I discussed how to pre-market your book and create buzz. Many writers are tentative about this process: how can I market a book that doesn’t exist yet? Oh, but you can, and today I’m going to share with you: specific, practical ways to do exactly that, when to start, and the…
Read MoreThis is How to Talk about Your Book by guest @PaulGeigerSpeak
I’m pleased to welcome Paul Geiger, professional speech coach, voice artist and performer, and now author of Better Business Speech: Techniques and Shortcuts for Public Speaking at Work, to the blog today to discuss top ways to talk about your book, whether in real life, interviews, conferences — and some general public speaking tips we can…
Read MoreHow to Use Social Media Management Tools to Promote Your Book with guest @LilachBullock
Promotion, as an author, is a lot of hard work. Particularly as an indie writer, it can be very difficult to stand out on social media and grab potential readers’ attention. But, if you have a good tool to help you manage your social media, you can not only save a lot of valuable time…
Read More10 Tips To Up Your Book Marketing Skills Right Now
Many authors are intimidated by the thought of marketing their books. As I mention in this post on my blog recently, the concept of an author platform makes most writers run away or start talking to the dust bunnies in the corner. What Is Book Marketing Anyway? The basic premise of book marketing is this: write…
Read MoreThis is Why I Love Working with Indie Authors by @EvatopiaLit
I have to admit…years ago I was a publishing snob. I had worked as an editor and publicist for authors who were published by the big houses: St. Martin’s Press, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster, just to name a few. The idea of self-publishing was still a no-no, but then I took the leap to…
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