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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Most Dangerous Way To Lose Time
I read an essay titled “How to Lose Time and Money” on Paul Graham’s website. The thesis of the essay? People lose money not by spending it on outrageous luxuries but by making bad investment decisions. And they lose time not by vegetating in front of the TV but by doing the wrong kind of […]
Book Marketing Mondays: The World Loves A Great Contest
Guest Expert: Tony Eldridge There’s something about a contest that gets us excited. When was the last time you entered one? The mystery behind them is that it is often hard to put your finger on what makes them so popular. It can’t be the money or everyone on the planet would enter the Publisher’s Clearinghouse […]
TGIF Book Marketing Tips: How to Make Money on Twitter (no, really)
Guest Expert: Penny C. Sansevieri For many of us, Twitter is a good news/bad news social networking site. The good news is it’s super popular and it seems like everyone is using it. The bad news is that for the newbie Twitter person (and even if you’ve been on this site for a while) it […]
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 […]
BookBuzzr Brand Definitions
For your quick reference, below are the short descriptions of various BookBuzzr brands that you keep seeing: BookBuzzr – The company that provides various book marketing technologies to authors. BookBuzzr Games – A technology from BookBuzzr that helps authors market their books to book lovers through online games (formerly referred to as CoverBuzzr). Freado – […]
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: […]
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 […]