Duolit is comprised of a team of two ladies – Toni and Shannon. They help authors with lots of free book marketing advice on their website – http://www.selfpublishingteam.com.They even have a very useful ‘book marketing kit’ which you get if you sign-up for their newsletter. We (the BookBuzzr team) got in touch with them in […]
How to Market Your Book Gangnam Style
If you’ve not yet heard of Gangnam Style or Psy, you’ve got to get your nose of that book or whatever else you’ve been doing, come back to planet Earth and take a moment to watch the video below. It’s garnered 600 million views (yes … that’s right … it’s over half a billion!) The […]
Why Your Low Priced eBook Pricing Strategy is Wrong
This post is not about the economics of ebook pricing. There are other articles out there that have treated this topic in depth (ex: this article by Joe Konrath.) Rather, it is a hypothesis about the psychological reaction from readers to your ebook’s low price. John Locke and the 99 Cents eBook Revolution A few years […]
Conversation Triggers – The Secret Ingredient of a Rock Star Marketing Strategy
This blog post was inspired from a case study in Emanuel Rosen’s book – Buzz. First, a Little Story about How the Pros Do It A few years ago Clairol Herbal Essences -the hair color brand – wanted to come up with an innovative way to get people to talk about its product. What the marketing […]
How to Engage With Your Fans on Amazon and Other Book Marketing Tips – An Interview With Amazon Best Selling Author, Alexandra Anthony
Picture this: Someone writes a negative Amazon review for your book without even reading it. Other reviewers, who are fans of your book, jump in and defend the book on your behalf. A third person comments that she decided to buy your book based on the passion with which fans defended the book! As an […]
How Best Selling Indie Authors Deal with Negative Reviews on Amazon
“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” – William Faulkner As an author you know that getting plenty of reviews for your book is important. They create social proof […]
How to Become a Best Selling Author on Amazon
BookBuzzr subscriber Steena Holmes has been zooming up the Amazon charts. Her book – Finding Emma – has hit the top of the charts on Amazon. Here are some stats for the book: # 1 in three different categories #13 on the Amazon best seller list. Over 125 book reviews The screenshot below was taken […]
Announcing Changes in the BookBuzzr Customer Facing Team … and a Fond Farewell to Freya
As most of you know, Freya has been with BookBuzzr and, in her role as Author Community Manager, has practically built the company from the ground up. Now, Freya is looking to pursue other interests including photography. You can follow Freya on Twitter or on her blog. Ranga, who has been the Author Success Manager […]
Directory of Book Cover Designers
Suggest a Designer Are you a designer with a flair for cover art? Do you know of someone good? Please suggest one in the comments section and we’ll add it in after vetting the link. Authorselvi We design high quality professional eBook covers, Email templates, Facebook cover banners, Web banners, ads, Flyers, Banners, Posters, […]
Announcing the Winners of the Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest (aka The BookBuzzr Olympics!)
A few weeks ago, we announced a Facebook Fan Page Widget Contest. Our in-house team evaluated a number of Facebook fan pages created using the BookBuzzr Facebook AuthorPage Widget technology. This list of fan pages are available in the presentation below. Clicking on the links will take you to the author’s Facebook fan page. BookBuzzr […]
Book Review – Top Tips for How to Market Your Book on Amazon and Facebook by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
This short book quickly gets to the point and helps the newbie author in getting a marketing presence created on Facebook and Amazon. Phyllis has spent time and played around with various available technologies in writing this book. On a variety of topics (especially when it comes to Amazon), Phyllis provides recaps of actual conversations […]