Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow You sign up or join a writers or authors group because you want to meet people in your industry who live in your local area. You want to be around people who will understand, share and support your endeavors of writing and getting the word out about your book. However do you […]
Book Marketing Mondays: The 10 Commandments of Nonfiction Book Title Success
Guest Expert: Roger C. Parker The following Commandments are based on identifying the characteristics commonly found in successful nonfiction book titles. Used by themselves, and in combination with each other, these following can help you choose a nonfiction book title that accurately describes why readers should pay attention to your book, is easy to say, […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Create a Facebook Page for Your Book
You Can Create a Facebook (Business) Page for Your Book Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Facebook has made a lot of changes since Phyllis shared this post. You can read her updated post on Creating Facebook Pages here. You are probably already on Facebook (along with 500 million people around the world at the current […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 10 Ways to Market a Book on Facebook
Guest Expert: Breana Orland The face in Facebook has changed dramatically over the last five years. No longer is it a meeting ground for fresh-faced college students. Facebook has become a one-stop virtual home for friends, families and businesses to inform and learn about life outside the confines of the World Wide Web. This change […]
Book Marketing Mondays: The Single Best Marketing Tool for an Author
Guest Expert: C. Patrick Schulze In my last article for Bookbuzzr, I discussed the need to identify your niche market, those people who might purchase your book. Today, we’re going to discuss one of the major tools you use to market to those potential customers, your blog. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of a […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Ten Ways to Sell Books On Amazon
Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Know this: I hate talking about book sales for a whole lot of reasons. The thing is today I have to talk about them because I want to to talk about Amazon ratings and I can’t talke about them without talking about selling books. You may be asking why I don’t […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: How Faithful Are Your Social Media Followers?
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva It’s so easy to click that Unfollow or Unfriend button. We work hard to connect with our niche on social media, so once we gain them how do we turn those followers into faithful followers who stay, and who will probably buy at some point. I can tell you in one […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: How to Make Money on Twitter (no, really)
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri For many of us, Twitter is a good news/bad news social networking site. The good news is it’s super popular and it seems like everyone is using it. The bad news is that for the newbie Twitter person (and even if you’ve been on this site for a while) it […]