Teamwork: You and Your Business Cards

Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson I devote much of my time giving people tips on how to do things frugally. Business cards are, indeed, frugal. Let me share a few of my own frugal ideas for using business cards directly from my book The Frugal Book Promoter. I love business cards. The plain old, business-size cards fit […]

Talk About Marketing Books!

Guest Author: P.I. Barrington There are lots of ways to market books. Getting reviews, doing blog tours, posting guest blogs, even radio interviews are priceless in marketing your book and I mean that as a double entendre’: they are usually free and you get sometimes huge audience exposure! But there is another mode of marketing […]

Interview with Joel Friedlander author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice For Authors Who Want To Publish

It is our great pleasure today to feature an interview with Joel Friedlander who has over 30 years of experience in the publishing business. Joel operates a popular blog that offers advice on navigating through the brave new world of ebooks, indie publishing, book marketing and book designing. Joel is the author of The Self-Publisher’s […]

The BookBuzzr Gold Rush Begins

Update: Congratulations to our BookBuzzr Grand Prize Winner – Amanda Taylor (@a_k_taylor) on winning a basket of book marketing goodies worth over $2000 from experts across the publishing industry. A special thank you to all who participated and made the contest such fun. We enjoyed running this contest for all you authors out there and […]

Promote Your Books with Video

Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Did you know that YouTube is the third most popular website in the U.S. (behind Google and Facebook) and the second most popular globally? Uploading a book promotion video to your website and to video sharing sites such as YouTube is a great way to capitalize on the huge popularity of […]

Homemade Book Videos and Tutorials

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 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 […]

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 […]

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