Last updated: 21st Oct, 2014 The BookBuzzr team has released a new version of the popular BookBuzzr Facebook fan page widget (aka AuthorPage Widget). If you are a BookBuzzr Pro Subscriber and want to share your BookBuzzr AuthorPage Widget on Facebook Fan Page here’s how you do it. This new version of the technology is […]
Climbing the Amazon ladder . . .
Guest Expert: Scott Hunter Following the milestone of 27,000 Kindle copies sold of my archaeological thriller, The Trespass, Freya has invited me to share a few marketing tips . . . Here, in no particular order, are some of the actions I have taken over the past eight months which I believe have contributed (and […]
Expert Interview: Aggie Villanueva Author of ‘Amazon Categories Create Best Sellers’
Have you ever wished that your book broke into a best seller list on Amazon? Aggie Villanueva has written a book that gives you tips and ideas to use the categories feature on Amazon in order to break into a best seller list. We reached out to Aggie in order to get her to share […]
Hunger Games Fan Festival Twitter Contest Winner Announced
As you may know, the Hunger Games Fan Festival is happening on Freado until the 30th of April. Before the festival began, we conducted a Twitter contest in which a number of contestants participated. We completed the prize drawing yesterday and the winner (drum roll please!) is Stephanie Norris. Stephanie walks away with the following: […]
Experiences of a Publishing Virgin
Guest Expert: Karlene Blakemore-Mowle My dream was always to write a book and have it accepted by a publisher. After many years of rejections and the constant learning curve that just didn’t seem to end! my dream finally came true, eleven years after completing my first book. I’m not sure if I’m on my own […]
The Benefits of Community
Guest Expert: Sherrod Story I have to tell you – in all honesty – I have no frickin’ idea how to market a book. None! I have a Twitter account, a blog, a Facebook account for me, and one for my book LOL, and I’m on all of them every single day. That’s all I […]
‘Tweeting’ To Publicize Your Book
Guest Expert: Scott Lorenz Congratulations, you’ve written a book. Good for you! Now, do you think you can use 140 characters to successfully promote it? After all, what good is your book if no one (except your family) reads it? Twitter is a great tool to utilize while shamelessly promoting your book. As with most […]
Saying Yes to Learning as Much as Possible About Online Book Marketing
Guest Expert: Phyllis Zimbler Miller You’re written a book – or two or three – and you’ve probably put blood, sweat and tears into making this as good a book as you possibly can. Now you want people to read this book, don’t you? Then you must be willing to put blood, sweat and tears […]
How To Use Twitter To Sell More Books
Expert: Gary Smailes I am yet to meet a writer who has not been told that social media channels, such as Twitter and Facebook hold the magic key to publishing success. However, this bold statement is often followed by wishy washy feel good advice, the kind of advice Dan Zarrella would refer to as. ‘unicorns […]
Q & A: Marketing your Book on Twitter
On 23rd Feb. webinar on Marketing Your Book On Twitter was interesting and packed with great info. Our panel consisted of Joanna Penn(Author and creator of the Author 2.0 Blueprint) and Gary Smailes(with over 10 years experience of the publishing industry). We answered a lot of questions but still had a few unanswered. This post […]
Promote a Book with Twitter: Top Ten Strategies for Authors
Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Twitter is a great way to promote a book while you build your networks and expert reputation. Here are ten ways authors can harness the power of Twitter to promote a book: 1. Help others by sharing information, while you gain a reputation as an expert. You can post links to […]