{"id":9788,"date":"2013-01-17T21:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2015-03-23T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T06:01:12","slug":"the-ten-commandments-of-book-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/the-ten-commandments-of-book-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments of Book Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, we wrote a blog series titled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/book-marketing\/the-seven-book-marketing-mistakes-that-authors-make\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Seven Book Marketing Mistakes that Authors Make<\/a>&#8216;. Since then, thousands of other authors have joined the BookBuzzr community and we&#8217;ve had a rich opportunity to learn from the experiences of these authors. Based on what we&#8217;ve learned we&#8217;ve decided to start a new series of blog posts titled &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Ten Commandments of Book Marketing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These commandments are:<a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/commandments1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9796\" title=\"commandments\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/commandments1-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/commandments1-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/commandments1.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-1-of-10-know-your-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Know your reader<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-2-of-10-know-your-positioning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Know your positioning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-3-of-10-have-a-book-worthy-of-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have a book worthy of marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-4-of-10-commit-sufficient-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commit sufficient resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-5-of-10-find-your-mavens-before-you-find-your-readers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find \u00a0mavens before readers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-6-of-10-get-sufficient-reader-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get sufficient reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-7-of-10-experiment-to-find-what-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">Experiment to find what works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-8-of-10-practice-generosity-in-a-creative-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Practice generosity\u00a0creatively<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-9-of-10-practice-the-pareto-principle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Practice the Pareto principle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10. <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/how-to-guides\/book-marketing-commandment-10-of-10-write-many-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Write Many Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks we will be covering each of these principles in greater detail. Applying them diligently will help you get results better than 99% of the other authors in your genre. Check back tomorrow to see the first of these rules explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, we wrote a blog series titled &#8216;The Seven Book Marketing Mistakes that Authors Make&#8216;. Since then, thousands of other authors have joined the BookBuzzr community and we&#8217;ve had a rich opportunity to learn from the experiences of these authors. Based on what we&#8217;ve learned we&#8217;ve decided to start a new series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788","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=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}