Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva When it comes to my main book trailers, I like to hire them done professionally if possible because I have absolutely no talent in this vital area. The book trailer is usually your very first public viewing, but today’s readers expect much more after that trailer hooks them; they expect to […]
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, […]
How To Create A Book Trailer
Guest Expert: Joanna Penn I love book trailers. I think they are an awesome way to gain attention for your book. They are evergreen and keep selling while you are sleeping BUT they are also hard work to put together! Here’s my book trailer for Pentecost and below are the steps I went through to […]
Marketing Your Book With Video
Guest Expert: Reno Lovison One of the best ways to build buzz around your book is through the use of video. The business of book marketing is changing and evolving every day. What worked five years ago will not necessarily work today and what worked five months ago may not still be working as well […]
Book Trailers Are More Important Than Ever
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Book trailers, similar to movie trailers, are an opportunity to showcase in pictures and sound what a book is about. In other words, a book trailer is a video that can be watched online. Now more than ever these book trailers are important because video has become so popular on […]
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 […]
Keyword Research Resources – How to Increase Blog Traffic Using Keywords
Guest Expert: Shelley Hitz Are you using keyword research resources to help your blog gain visibility in the search engines? If not, you could potentially be missing out on a lot of free traffic from the search engines. And if you have a blog, you are most likely looking for ways to increase blog traffic to […]
Authors: Why Guest Blogging Helps Market your Book
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow You are an author. You need to market your book and are looking for more ways to spread the message of your book. Guest blogging could be just the answer for you. Guest blogging is where you provide a blog post to another blogger to share with his or her blog readers. […]
Q&A: How to Make your Author Blog Work for You
Our 18th May webinar on How to Make your Author Blog Work for You was interesting and packed with great info. Our panel consisted of Laurel Marshfield (professional writer, ghostwriter, and developmental editor at Blue Horizon Communications), Teresa Morrow (owner Key Book Promotions, keybookpromotions.com) and Joel Friedlander (proprietor of Marin Bookworks, TheBookDesigner.com blog). We faced […]
Marketing by Creating an Online Blog Community
Guest: Bethany Ramos Published and unpublished authors alike need to have one discernible skill to stand out in a sea of competition: the ability to market themselves. If you are a new author hoping to make a break into the publishing industry, you can take the first step in the right direction by creating a […]
Using Your Blog As A Virtual Hand Shake
Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge As authors, it’s not long before we realize that networking is an integral part of spreading the word about our book. In a workshop I did in Richardson, Texas last week, I told the attendees that no one will love your book as much as you do, so you need to be […]