When you follow your favorite movie stars and rock stars on the social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, I bet you they have you believe it’s really them, don’t you? I mean, who’s to really know it’s not them? They’re right on topic and are saying things you’d expect from them, right?
I have Paula [...]
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A Ghost-Tweetering we will go…hi ho..hi ho
Posted by admin on August 18th, 2010
Posted in Articles 
Tags: facebook, ghost-tweeting, Paula Deen, social networks, twitter, virtual book tour 
4 Comments »Track Your Amazon Sales Rankings at NovelRank
Posted by admin on August 17th, 2010
NovelRank provides free Amazon Sales Rank tracking of book sales on Amazon, including Kindle Edition e-books and printed editions.
NovelRank is a completely free website for authors to track their Amazon Sales Rank on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom), Amazon.ca (Canada), Amazon.fr (France), Amazon.de (Germany), and Amazon.co.jp (Japan). NovelRank is an excellent free resource for self-promoting authors [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: Amazon sales rankings, book sales, Kindle sales, NovelRank, track rankings at Amazon 1 Comment »Amazon says ebook sales to overtake paperbacks by next year
Posted by admin on July 30th, 2010
Amazon has told Pocket-lint that it expects Kindle ebook sales to eclipse paperback sales by the end of 2011, and to eclipse combined hardback and paperback sales shortly after that in the US.
“I think we [Amazon] will sell more Kindle books than paperback books in the next year [2011]“, Steve Kessel, the man tasked with [...]
Put marketing your book at the top of your to do list
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2010
Problogger had an interesting blog post today. He had listened to a guy speaking about how he made lots of money online. He admits he got caught in the moment, but when things settled down, he realized the presenter was only telling one side of the story – that while he did have all those [...]
How to Promote Your Self-Published eBook (for free!)
Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2010
One of the most-asked questions I get from writers who have never written and published an eBook before is, “How would you promote a self-published eBook? Where would you go to even begin selling a product that hasn’t the backup from a traditional or otherwise publisher?”
Well, that’s two, but many writers balk at attempting [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book promotions, content ezines, ebooks, free articles banks, free press release sites, guerilla marketing plan, how to use key search words, online book promotion, online marketing, online storefronts, promote your book, promote your ebook, promoting ebooks, promoting self-published ebooks, Self Publishing, sell your book, sell your ebook, virtual book tours, writer forums 5 Comments »Going on a virtual book tour? Here are some things you should know.
Posted by admin on April 21st, 2010
Your book has just been published. Or maybe it’s going to be published in the next month or two. Regardless, authors are signing up for virtual book tours the moment they hear about the exciting ways they can promote their books with them. There is no better vehicle to sell your books online so I [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: blog tour, book marketing, book marketing buzz, book marketing column, book marketing companies, book marketing ideas, book marketing strategies, book promotion ideas, book promotion opportunities, book promotion sites, book promotion tips, book promotion websites, book promotions, book tour, book your tour, online book promotion, promote your book, promote your book online, sell books, sell your book, virtual author tour, virtual book tour 4 Comments »How to Use YouTube to Land a 7-Figure Publishing Deal
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010
Just read this in Publisher’s Weekly. It’s an older article but its point is timeless.
A man by the name of Rupert Isaacson got the interest of Curtis Brown agent Elizabeth Sheinkman in representing him for his book, The Horse Boy, about his forthcoming trip to Mongolia with his son on horseback to visit shamans, which [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: autism, book marketing, book trailers, Curtis Brown, Elizabeth Sheinkman, Mongolia, Rupert Isaacson, sell your book, shamans, The Horse Boy, YouTube 1 Comment »Effective book marketing using Facebook, news trends and Skype
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010
I found a really interesting article called “32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business” at WebWorker Daily. There were several reasons I liked it, but the main reason was how Facebook can be used as a highly effective business tool. Authors need to keep in mind that their books are their business [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book marketing buzz, book marketing plan, book marketing services, book promotion ideas, book promotion opportunities, book promotion tips, book promotions, news trends, online book promotion, online promotions, promote your book, promote your book online, sell your book, Skype 1 Comment »Help me to help you promote your blog
Posted by admin on March 17th, 2010
It happens all the time. I come upon a wonderful blog post and want to help the blogger out by spreading the link, only…the only way I can do that is to copy the link into Tiny Url, then head over to Twitter, Facebook, Bookblips, wherever. What some bloggers don’t realize is that there is [...]
Are You Oprah Material?
Posted by admin on March 13th, 2010
I truly believe that if someone took every author in the world and divided them into two groups, those groups would be–the dreamers and the realists, with no fine line in between.
Think of an author friend you know. You can pretty well figure out which category they would fall in. On the one side, you [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: book marketing, book marketing buzz, book promotions, oprah, promote your book, sell your book 1 Comment »
