{"id":11827,"date":"2013-12-18T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T12:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2014-12-24T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:23:14","slug":"bookbuzzr-interviews-book-blog-tour-expert-barb-drozdowich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/bookbuzzr-interviews-book-blog-tour-expert-barb-drozdowich\/","title":{"rendered":"BookBuzzr Interviews Book Blog Tour Expert Barb Drozdowich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/c6cf5da9b9a6fc6582b6993dcb94ff50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11837\" title=\"Barb Drozdowich\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/c6cf5da9b9a6fc6582b6993dcb94ff50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had an opportunity to do a Google Hangouts interview with Barb Drozdowich. Barb runs a book review website called <a href=\"http:\/\/sugarbeatsbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sugarbeatsbooks.com<\/a>. She is also the author of a new book titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Blog-Tours-Essential-Marketing-ebook\/dp\/B00GNGD1KQ\/&amp;tag=freado0c-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Blog Tours: An Essential Marketing Tool for Authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/player\/script.js.php?content_id=17261&amp;widgetwidth=320&amp;widgetheight=240&amp;widgetbgColor='7fc225'\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Issues Discussed on this Call:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a blog tour and why should an author consider them?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the reasons as to why bloggers talk about books on their sites?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of traffic do these bloggers normally get?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the people who normally visit these blogs?<\/li>\n<li>Do the bloggers get paid for featuring a book?<\/li>\n<li>What are some best practices for authors to use when they go on a blog tour?<\/li>\n<li>How much does it typically cost for an author to go on a blog tour?<\/li>\n<li>How much time does the author need to invest when they go on a tour?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of results can an author expect through a blog tour?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajALwXq0hPY?start=69\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Top Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A book blog tour helps you reach an audience that you can&#8217;t reach in person.<\/li>\n<li>Bloggers host books because they love books and care enough to share a book that they like with the world.<\/li>\n<li>Relevance of the blogger&#8217;s genre is more important than hard traffic numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Be clear about what you want to achieve with the blog tour. Most authors focus on sales. But that is the last piece of the puzzle.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of a book blog tour is to make friends, network with readers and build relationships for the long term. It&#8217;s a chance to get your name and book cover in front of a new audience some of whom may be living in other countries. The goal is not to sell books but to make people aware about you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an opportunity to do a Google Hangouts interview with Barb Drozdowich. Barb runs a book review website called Sugarbeatsbooks.com. She is also the author of a new book titled Book Blog Tours: An Essential Marketing Tool for Authors. &nbsp; &nbsp; Key Issues Discussed on this Call: What is a blog tour and why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-interviews","category-book-marketing","category-useful-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}