Guest Expert: Susanna Carr Facebook dominates all social media and Twitter is growing exponentially. Authors are jumping over to these communities and ignoring their MySpace accounts. Website designers suggest a MySpace logo on your site looks antiquated. Should you delete your MySpace page? Not so fast! While activity levels are down at MySpace, your profile […]
Book Marketing Mondays: Cheap and Free Book Marketing Strategies
Guest Expert: Kelly Wilson The cheap and free book marketing strategies that I’ve accumulated over the last couple of years developed out of necessity. I had spent a year as a stay-at-home mom, figuring out how we could make ends meet on just my husband’s income. Soon I began consistently saving substantial amounts of money […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Four Stages of Effectively Using Social Media to Promote Your Book
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller It helps to have a roadmap to follow when promoting a book, whether it is your first book or your 15th. And if you want to use social media effectively to promote your book, you need to go through some foundation stages before you even get to using social media: […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: So You’ve Written a Book. Now What?
Guest Expert: Jim Magwood I believe most of us have stories to tell: from our own lives and experiences; from things we’ve seen and heard; from dreams and ideas that just pop in on dark nights and lazy afternoons. Writing takes the courage to put ourselves down on paper where others can criticize and poke […]
How to Set up BookBuzzr Amazon Alerts?
As we’ve discussed in an earlier post, checking Amazon Sales Rank can be a major time waster for most authors. So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book’s sales rank improves. We’ve been astounded by the number of authors who have adopted […]
Book Marketing Mondays: Your Book Marketing Plan – Who Should You Be Promoting Your Book To?
Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith As you write your book and develop your book marketing plan, one of the first priorities is to define your target audiences. The primary target audience for your book is the “ideal reader” that the book was written specifically for. In your book marketing plan, define the characteristics of your […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Book Proposals – Seven Top Rules for Your Book Proposal
Getting Past the Arguments and Past the Gatekeepers Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson An excerpt from the introduction of The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less with seven basics to get you started. Those who haven’t learned to write a book proposal are […]
How To Automate Marketing Your Book on Twitter With BookBuzzr (aka Book Tweeter)
Last Updated: 09th December 2013 We often hear queries from authors and publishers about how to use BookBuzzrs Book Tweeting technology to market books on Twitter. The idea is to help authors market their books on Twitter with a large degree of automation (and without annoying the followers of the authors) If you […]
BookBuzzr Interviews Stefhen Bryan– Author of ‘Black Passenger Yellow Cabs’
Stefhen, can you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself? I was born in Jamaica, immigrated to the states at 15, then to the UK at 20. After a year in the UK, I returned to the US and began attending community college and university, which took a total of 8 years. […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Write Posts That Soar Above Cemeteries of the “UnRead”
Guest Expert: Aggie Villanueva If your blog post doesn’t grab immediate attention it’s doomed to a plot in the cemetery of the dreaded unread. Here’s 5 tips that will keep your posts from being buried alive. It’s important to use at least one intriguing photo with each post, such as the one I used here. […]
An Example of a Good Book Trailer
Most book-trailers don’t receive any attention from readers. Problems with many book-trailers include the following: 1. The music does not match the mood of the books 2. They are too long 3. They are too wordy This particular book-trailer of a book by author – L. Anne Carrington does not have any of these problems. […]