Monthly Archives: October 2009

Sell Your Books to Organizations – Partner with Corporations

Part six of a six part series on selling your books to organizations. See the rest of this series and other articles by Shel Horowitz. This article concludes our series on partnering with nonprofits to sell more books. Take what you’ve learned in the previous five installments in this series and apply it to for-profit…

Article Marketers – Stop Insulting Your Targeted Audience When You Write and Submit Articles Online

If you write articles or website content that’s not geared for your targeted audience, people will leave… discover 3 Mistakes most Article Marketers make that insult their audience…

Book Marketing Blog Carnival – October 28, 2009

Welcome to the October 28, 2009 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. Marketing and Online Marketing Tiffany Colter presents Writing 101: Use public speaking to sell your books posted at The Writing Examiner, saying, “This article talks about how public speaking helps to sell your books.” John Eggie presents Christmas Gifts for Kids posted…

Sell Your Books to Organizations – How to Approach Organizations

Part five of a six part series on selling your books to organizations. See the rest of this series and other articles by Shel Horowitz. When you craft your pitch to the organization you want to partner with, keep these things in mind: Focus your inquiry/pitch not on why you want to do this for…

Investing in Books About Publishing

New small and self-publishers often ask how to learn more about publishing. When various books on self-publishing are recommended to them, the response is often something such as, “I will look for these books at my library.” Now, I am a big believer in using the library system. However, I also believe that when it…

Sell More Books with OOVOO

Do you want a neat way to keep in contact with your customers? Try Oovoo.com. Oovoo allows you to have video calls with up to 3 people (free version) and more people with a paid version. Best of all, you can easily install a widget on your website. When a customer comes to your website,…

Sell Your Books to Organizations – What Kinds of Books Do Organizations Want?

Part four of a six part series on selling your books to organizations. See the rest of this series and other articles by Shel Horowitz. The types of books needed by organizations are as varied as the organizations themselves. Just to peek at the tip of the iceberg; many others are possible: Local history (great…

Writing a Traditional Mystery

So – you want to write a mystery? You don’t know too much about police procedures or regulations for private detectives or the law, but you enjoy settling in with a good mystery in which the bad guys are caught, and the good guys (and gals) win out in the end. Writing a mystery might…

Book Marketing Blog Carnival – October 14, 2009

Welcome to the October 14, 2009 edition of the book marketing blog carnival. We have a wide variety of posts on many aspects of writing, publishing and marketing books. Be sure to check out the great information from this issue’s contributors, and submit your post for our next blog carnival. (See the links at the…

Blogging a Novel

Sometimes, you just give in to peer pressure. I have always had the writing bug. However, I never pursued this endeavor until many family and friends said it is time to write a book. But, never really explored this “art” until October of 2008. That is when I started writing my novel, “Diary: Alone on…