How BookBuzzr’s New, One-Click-Win Feature is Different from Amazon Free Day Promotions Reviews! You can love them or hate them. But you can’t ignore them. All your marketing efforts will come to naught if your readers land on an Amazon page with just 1 or 2 reviews which look like they’ve been written by your […]
Why do so many writers use words that might be difficult for some readers?
I’ve never understood this. The message becomes more difficult to decipher, and more than half the time I quit reading due to the complexity of the article/blog/novel. Why wouldn’t you want a more simple message, that could target a broader audience? Read Quote of Laura Copeland’s answer to Writing: Why do so many writers use […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Best Selling Author Roberta Kagan
BB: Hello Roberta. We recently saw that your book – ‘All My Love, Detrick’ broke into a top 10 list on Amazon. Congratulations! Thank you so much. I appreciate your taking the time to interview me. The screenshot below was taken on March 26th, 2013. BB: Can you tell us a little about yourself? Since […]
5 Tips for Marketing Your Book Online
For the last four years I’ve been running an online digital publishing platform (which we’ve recently rebranded as ReadWave), that aims to help writers build up a readership online. During that time I’ve had access to a lot of data on what people read online, when they read, and most importantly, why some writers […]
No-Holds Barred Author Interview – How to do a Kindle Free Day
A few years ago, if you gave away a copy of your free book, you could expect at least a few readers to gratefully read through your book and leave a review. Today, the competition is intense with Amazon listing thousands of free books at any given point in time. Many authors struggle to get […]
BookBuzzr Author Sherrill Cannon Hits the Best Seller List on Amazon
We learnt today that Sherrill S Cannon’s book – Manner-Man has broken into the top 50 on Amazon. Congratulations Sherrill! And here is Sherrill’s book in the BookBuzzr flipper: And check out her cute little book trailer below:
Book Marketing Commandment 10 of 10 – Write Many Books
How I discovered Roald Dahl Growing up, I had never heard the name of Roald Dahl (for some reason, he was not a big name in India when I was a kid.) However, a few years ago, my daughter began reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I did not read the book but the name […]
Book Marketing Commandment 9 of 10 – Practice the Pareto Principle
As an author, you have a number of different book marketing opportunities. And it is easy to drown with all of the information (noise) that is out there. Should you blog? Tweet? Post on Facebook? Run a Pinterest contest? Setup an affiliate program? The ideas are endless. But your time is limited. And you need […]
Book Marketing Commandment 8 of 10 – Practice Generosity in a Creative Way
In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who wrote “The Alchemist,” was failing in Russia. That year he sold only about 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after he found another publisher, Coelho took a radical step. On his own web site, launched in 1996, he posted a digital Russian copy of “The […]
Book Marketing Commandment 7 of 10 – Experiment to Find What Works
(In the previous article in this series, we discussed the importance of getting sufficient reviews for your book. In this post, we take a look at running experiments to find out what works) If you can see a bandwagon it’s too late to get on it When the Amazon KDP free promo feature became available, […]
How to Have a Successful Book Giveaway
We’d written earlier about GoodReads Giveaways versus Freado Giveaways. The screenshot below shows the Freado side of this story. On Freado, readers win points and use those points to win books through an online auction. Sometimes the bidding reaches a fever pitch with plenty of bids and counter bids. When a reader finally gets the […]