There are over ten thousand daily, weekly and monthly newspapers in the United States and Canada. For the first time author they are a valuable source of free publicity. They are hungry for news and your new book is news. When approaching these papers there is a list of things that are frowned upon and [...]
Some of us write simply because we can’t not write. Ideas grabus, move us, and demand to be written. We strive to make it asreal as we possibly can, to improve at our craft every day,hopefully to make it into the realm of literature as well asentertainment. We want to craft an entire world where [...]
Recently, someone rated my “Online Book Marketing” article a 2 out of 5. That person apparently didn’t like the article. My guess is that he or she was turned off by the marketing angle. Writers write; they don’t sell. Some writers even view the concept of selling or marketing their work as somehow inherently wrong.
That’s [...]
Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, “I’m not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book” or “I just wish someone else could market my book for me”?
If you could market your book a pleasurable way, you may not think it [...]
Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, “I’m not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book” or “I just wish someone else could market my book for me”?
If you could market your book a pleasurable way, you may not think it [...]
How would you like to have countless people clamoring for your book and willing to visit your Web site to buy them? How would you even like to presell your self-published book before they are finished?
Most authors and entrepreneurs wait until their Web site is designed before they think about marketing their products on it. [...]
How would you like to have countless people clamoring for your book and willing to visit your Web site to buy them? How would you even like to presell your self-published book before they are finished?
Most authors and entrepreneurs wait until their Web site is designed before they think about marketing their products on it. [...]
Congratulations, you’ve written a book and even gotten it published! Now, all you have to do is get people to buy it.Getting people to actually enter a bookstore with the purposeof buying your book is not easy because you’re not a “brandname” yet. But you do have a potent weapon at your command–the telephone. Use [...]
Marketing your own book can seem like a scary task. You poured your heart and soul into the writing of it, and now when you think about marketing your masterpiece, you think, “I’m a writer, not a salesperson!”
But there is a simple way you can get the word out about your book. It takes a [...]
If you haven’t heard of the author C.F. Jackson or the novel Won’t Be Denied, you soon will. This author has taken marketing to a new multimedia level with the release of an online commercial.
The three minute commercial is an innovative way to walk in the world of Maré Alexander, the main character, who greets [...]