Guest Expert: C. Patrick Schulze Listen to a PODCAST of this article. In my last article for BOOKBUZZR, I brought two fundaments of book marketing to light. The first is, like any consumer product, marketing is the key to book or novel sales. The other? Lower quality writers will sell more if they have better […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Book Authors Need a Dedicated Website for Their Books
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller Thanks to the online marketing opportunities made available by the Internet, authors with little or no marketing budgets can level the playing field with authors who have huge marketing budgets. Yet before authors can truly take advantage of online marketing opportunities, these authors need a home base that they can […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Marketing Your Book is In Your Hands – 2
Marketing Your Book is In Your Hands (Part 2) Guest Expert: Flora Morris Brown Ph.D. Marketing your book is in your hands and begins as soon as you decide to write it. This feels awkward, even scary to most authors since you are not finished writing the book at this stage. But since marketing a […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Recommended Reading, Listening and Help for Writers – Part 2
From The Frugal Editor Guest Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Last month in Recommended Reading, Listening and Help for Writers – Part 1 we discussed some of the people and sources for Editing, Grammar and Style, Websites, Craft and Custom Dictionaries. This week Carolyn has some more sources and people to share with you. Promotion 1001 Ways to […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: Marketing Your Book is In Your Hands – 1
Marketing Your Book is In Your Hands (Part 1) Guest Expert: Flora Morris Brown Ph.D. New authors are usually surprised to learn that they must market their own books if they want to sell them, that is. For this reason, I ask my new clients if they want their story “told” or “sold.” An author […]
Announcing the Launch of the World’s Biggest Free Book-Winning Site
We’re super-excited to let you know that our vision of building the World’s Biggest Free Book-Winning Site targetted towards book-lovers has moved a giant step closer to becoming a reality. We now list over 300 books on the Freado.com site. No other book contest or book giveaway site comes close to this number! Genuine book […]
Book Marketing Mondays: Minimize Time Maximize Online Presence
Guest Expert: Jo-Anne Vandermeulen I have only so much time and want to connect with the most people possible. Now is not the time to stress; but to know, you can *conquer all obstacles* by following the Solution to Maintain Online Social Media Presence. *Build Relationships* – create maximum presence by focusing on the 3 […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: The Real Secret to Twitter
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri If you’ve ever been impressed by the number of followers someone has on Twitter, I have a newsflash for you: it doesn’t matter. The thing is, you can buy followers (no, I’m not kidding) sort of like buying mailing lists. How effective is buying followers? Well, let me ask you: […]
Mid-Week Book Marketing Tips: 10 Marketing Tips on Spending Less Money to Market Your Book
Guest Author: Iris Waichler All authors know that unless you have the right name (you know what they are) it is a challenge to spread the word and get the press you need to sell your book. Here are some helpful ideas I used to assist you in marketing your book and promoting your visibility. […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: How to communicate online to get better book sales
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow You have taking on the endeavor of writing a book. In order to sell your book, you will need to tell people about it. You will need to communicate the message about your book so those readers who resonate with your book will want to know more about you and the book. […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: Effectively Using Twitter to Promote Your Book
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller One of the extra perks of having your book featured on BookBuzzr is that BookBuzzr community manager Freya tweets achievements and news about you and your book to over 10,000 followers. But if you yourself are not on Twitter, you’re losing out on optimizing the tweets about your book. Here’s […]