Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Facebook groups are a great place to meet people who share your interests and to subtly promote your book. For maximum exposure, join existing groups and start your own Facebook group. To find groups to join, enter keywords in the Facebook search box. When the search results come up, click […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Frank S. Adamo
Frank S. Adamo is a life coach, certified career transition coach, international trainer and instructor, a published author of “31 Tips to Becoming an Effective Presenter” and a contributor to the books “Discover your Inner Strength” with Brian Tracy, Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey and “Yes You Can!” with Jim Rohn and Dr. Warren Bennis. […]
How to Market Your Book Like Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has become a music superstar in scarcely a year. She has 3 million followers on Twitter and more than 5.6 million fans on Facebook. While many in the industry write her off as being a little too garish, industry veterans such as Simon Dumenco comment that “Lady Gaga understands viral marketing better than […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Social Networks
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri “I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: ‘Outlook not so good’. I said: ‘Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway’.” Author Unknown These days, you can’t go into a coffee shop, bookstore, or turn on your television without hearing about social networks like Facebook, and Squidoo. These […]
An Awesome List of Freelance Book Publicists
Yen who runs a website called “The Book Publicity Blog” has put up an excellent list of freelance book publicists. While the post is not exactly new, the information is still extremely useful. You can access the list here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6VporhrtSRVwqIdyt-XeCw A special thanks to Yen for her generosity.
Book Marketing Mondays: Blogging – The BEST Post
Guest Expert: Jo-Anne Vandermeulen Compare writing the best post to an elevator pitch—amazing content with impressive presentation in concise format. Cyberspace is filled with competitive blogs. Attracting viewers and increasing traffic to your site can be challenging….but, it doesn’t have to be. You can *conquer all obstacles*…increase the traffic….plus, have many of these initial viewers […]
What is BookBuzzr?
We recently received an email from an author asking “What is BookBuzzr?” As some of you, who have been following us know, we’ve grown from just one product (the BookBuzzr Widget) to several different technologies. The one thing that is common among all of our products and technologies is that they are all focused on […]
Will Book Readers Go the Way of Browsers?
In this excellent article – “Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iPad: Could Chris Brogan Be Wrong?” – Joel argues that Amazon’s strategy of trying to dominate the digital book business by offering it’s Kindle platform on a variety of devices is smart but not sufficient. His take is that a variety of reading platforms and ebook […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: 3 Key Elements to Super Charge your Blogging
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow Blogging has become one of the must haves in any author’s marketing arsenal to gain more exposure for your book. A blog reveals great tangible benefits, such as increased search engine traffic, for an author to help increase the marketing around the subject of their book. In order to increase the potential […]
The Most Dangerous Way To Lose Time
I read an essay titled “How to Lose Time and Money” on Paul Graham’s website. The thesis of the essay? People lose money not by spending it on outrageous luxuries but by making bad investment decisions. And they lose time not by vegetating in front of the TV but by doing the wrong kind of […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Author Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of “Garden of Heaven,” “The Sun Singer,” “Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire” and “Worst of Jock Stewart.” A contributing writer for “Living Jackson Magazine,” Campbell lives in Georgia with his wife Lesa. Campbell was graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in radio-television writing, with […]