On 16th of Feb. we had an interesting and informative webinar about Using Twitter on Market Your Book. Our panel consisted of Carolyn-Howard Johnson (author of the HowToDoItFrugally series), Joel Friedlander (proprietor of Marin Bookworks), Laurel Marshfield (professional writer, ghostwriter and developmental editor), Phyllis Zimbler Miller (co-founder of Miller Mosaic Power Marketing) and Penny C. […]
50 Things to Tweet About
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri Twitter is a great way to meet people, develop relationships, and promote yourself and your book or business. But it’s important to avoid being seen as someone who just self promote. Most of your tweets should be about helping others, but you also need to inject some personality, to put […]
10 Tips For Getting Started On Twitter
Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander Social media keeps making news and attracting hundreds of millions of followers. It’s estimated that Twitter has 75 million members who sent 25 billion Tweets in 2010. In the last year it’s become common for Twitter to get mentioned on national news programs and celebrity shows, with Tweets being shown onscreen […]
Design Your Own Twitter Background
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva Book marketing at twitter involves many facets besides creating tweets that draw a crowd to your product. Many times we give no attention to our profile page and that is a mistake. That’s the first thing everyone sees. We must make sure our profile inspires confidence to purchase from us. A […]
Why Fun is Important for Book Marketing
In 2006, George Wright budgeted $50 to create and upload 5 online videos featuring his company’s founder Tom Dickson. The format was simple, goofy and offbeat. Tom put various household articles into a blender to test whether the articles would blend. And the online video went on air with the tagline “Will it blend?” The […]
Freado Hangman Games FAQ
What exactly is Freado Hangman? Freado Hangman from (BookBuzzr Book Marketing Technologies) is an innovative new way to help you market your book in a viral manner. The technology helps you create your own word games and post them on your blog or website. The word games can be related to your book. Here’s an […]
How to Market Your Book with Casual Word Games
A book is essentially “long form content”. This means that it takes anywhere from a few hours to a few days to consume (depending upon length and complexity of your book’s content.) Thus, even if you give away a free copy of your book, there is little chance that the recipient of your book will […]
How to Market your Book with Blurbs
(Note: This blog article is a request for feedback on an important new feature that we’re developing at BookBuzzr for our authors. We’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions that you provide on this feature. You can provide feedback in the form of comments at the bottom of the article.) Anatomy of a blurb: As you […]
Participate on Twitter to Connect with Potential Fans of Your Book
Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Twitter.com is an excellent free social media site on which to connect with potential fans of your book as well as learn from other book authors and publicity experts. But – and this is a very important but – to benefit from Twitter requires understanding that you do NOT spend every […]
Reviews from the Twitterverse
Expert: Claudia Jackson You’re probably following tweeple that interest you. They might be fellow authors. The topics can be about anything and everything concerning books and book publishing. But have you thought about following your readers? Are you truly “hanging out” with your genre? If you are writing vampire books, are you surfing the night […]
Will Tweetin’ & Postin’, Updatin’ & Discussin’ Get You into Your Readers’ Hearts?
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield “Wishin’ and Hopin’” — the hit pop tune that iconic blonde soul singer, Dusty Springfield, made famous in the sixties — offers a familiar resonance, these days, for authors hoping to attract readers. (Need a little memory boost? Here’s Springfield: http://bit.ly/gLyiq5) Hear it? The connection between authors and Dusty Springfield’s hit […]