Guest Author: Rebecca Hamilton A lot of articles focus on how to market your book once you’ve published. Admittedly, I haven’t gotten there yet. I have some interested publishers, but also an open to the new trend of self-publishing. I’ve started putting thought into marketing early on. In this day and age, whether you go […]
Networking for writers in the new world
Expert: Faraaz Kazi Earlier on we had writers wholly dependent on the publisher to print and market their book. The major drawback however, was that the book became just a face in the crowd and the marketing also was not quite upto the mark. Globalization has reached most countries and there is an information overload, […]
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: 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: The Power of Social Networking For Authors
By Yvonne Perry Recently, I was asked, “What is the best tool for helping authors promote their books online?” Had you asked me that one year ago, I would have said blogging, and while that is still somewhat true, I have to admit that social networking is the best tool for helping authors promote their books […]