Welcome to this tour of QuickQuiz – the world’s first viral book marketing technology for authors. As an author, you probably realize the importance of reaching out to your readers on Facebook. As you know, most Facebook users are looking for fun and relaxation unlike average blog visitors. These users have very short attention spans […]
How to Create a Viral QuickQuiz
Some of you may already know about the new viral book marketing technology from BookBuzzr named QuickQuiz. This book marketing technology can be extremely powerful when used in the right way. This article gives you a few guidelines on how to create a QuickQuiz game that gets you the best returns on the time that […]
Announcing QuickQuiz – The World’s First Viral Marketing Technology for Books
At BookBuzzr, we’ve been hard at work creating a brand new technology that will allow you to market your book in a viral manner on Facebook through quick quizzes. We’ve spoken about this technology in earlier newsletters. We used to refer to it as QuizBuzzr then. We’ve now renamed the technology as QuickQuiz based on […]
Book Review: ‘Get Published Today’ by Penny Sansevieri
For too long, the publishing industry has been a mysterious, clubby, closed business. Authors have had to struggle with a number of unanswered questions. Questions like, “What makes a best-seller?”, “What is a Co-op?” or “What are Reserves against returns?” In her book, ‘Get Published Today’, Penny Sansevieri answers such questions and more. The sub-title […]
How to Sell More Books on Amazon
: A Book Review by Vikram Narayanan (CEO BookBuzzr) I recently had an opportunity to review the book “How to Sell More Books on Amazon”. This book is short at less than 40 pages. But it is packed with actionable suggestions which, if implemented diligently, can yield significant results to an author. Here’s what you’ll […]
Drumroll Please … The Next Generation of Facebook Marketing is Here!
The problem with today’s Facebook fan pages So you’re an author with a Facebook fan page. You’ve got book trailers, polls, quizzes, photo and writing contests running on your page. You’ve even got a few hundred “Facebook Likes” for your page. And yet your book sales are not going up. You then compare yourself to […]
How to Use the John Locke Principle to Market Your Book Through Games
John Locke has sold a million copies of his various books. He has also written a very useful guide titled “How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months” that describes his methods. One of the key principles in the book is the idea of “transfer of loyalty”. While this is a well-known and much […]
The “Gamification” of Book Marketing and Promotion
As part of my volunteering activities to serve the community, I teach public speaking to 14 year old school children at a local school on Saturday mornings. Sometime ago, one of the challenges I noticed was that students would not applaud and cheer when one of their peers completed a speech on stage. Worse, many […]
Book Review – A ‘Self Publisher’s Companion’ By Joel Friedlander
Joel Friedlander runs a popular and useful blog. He recently sent us a copy of his book ‘A Self Publisher’s Companion’ for review. This book derives much of its content from Joel’s blog writings. But this is not your average “blog-to-book” kind of book. In spite of being a long time reader of Joels’ blog, […]
Celebrating Two Years of BookBuzzr with Nearly 7,000 Authors!
BookBuzzr is celebrating it’s birthday month in June and we’d like to thank the author community for supporting us these two years! We’re celebrating with the BookBuzzr Grand Contest in the latter half of June. Watch our blog space for more details on participation in the weeks to come. We have some great prizes to […]
Why you need the new Facebook Fan Page Widget from BookBuzzr
A Facebook fan page (aka Public Profile) has become one of the most basic tools for authors to engage with their audience and find new readers. Almost every author that is serious about engaging with his or her readers has one. If you don’t have a Facebook fan page and you are a reasonably famous […]