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 end of this post.)

Marketing and Online Marketing

Melanie presents 3 Quick Tips to Sell Your Self-Published Books posted at Welcome to the jexbo® blog – Tips for self-published authors and entrepreneurs!, saying, “Get free tips on how to sell self-published books at www.jexbo.com!”

Jason Jones presents Guaranteed Internet Business Tips For High Conversion posted at Internet Income Formula.

Kathleen Gaga presents Why some Internet Marketing experts will tell you no! posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “So the next time you begin an email that begins with, “Dear (expert), I have a request that will only take a few minutes of your time…….” Stop!

Put yourself on the other side of the request. How many of these types of inquiries do you think you could handle on any given day before you had to say no?”

Jonathan Martin presents Eight Steps to a Successful Negotiation | The Negotiation Board posted at The Negotiation Board, saying, “Ok so now you have a book, it is time to negotiate the printing the publishing and even some advertising. Follow these 8 steps to a better deal.”

albert f a matthews presents tracking-affiliate-referrals posted at Great Products – Info.

albert f a matthews presents top-10-ways-to-drive-traffic-to-your-affiliate-marketing-site posted at Great Products – Info.

Susan Tatum presents Getting Back on Track posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Kathleen Gaga presents Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions: Information Products; Step one for success posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “If you are thinking of developing information products for profit or as a giveaway a quick Google search is step one. You can quickly find out how prevalent something is this way.”

Robert R Aho presents Internet Marketing Article Writing: How to Write a Good Article posted at Robert’s Atomic Blog, saying, “People write articles to promote products. It is a very easy way to advertise on the internet. You usually submit your article with at least one link to your product or website and submit it to article directories and social bookmarking sites.”

C.F. Jackson presents How To Create An Internet Presence In 10 Minutes posted at Website Makeover Workshop, saying, “Today any and everyone can create a web presence online overnight. Yes! You can have a web presence overnight. However the key is this, doing it right.”

Sarah Bolme presents Is Your Website Lost? posted at Marketing Christian Books.

Reviews

jim presents Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel Review posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Writing and Publishing

James Weldy presents Blogging a Novel posted at Selling Books, saying, “This post tells what I learned when I decided to write my novel as a blog.”

Kate Hopkins presents 100 Free Tools to Write, Publish and Promote Your Own Book posted at Online Education.net.

Jon Bard presents How to Get Started Writing Picture Books posted at Children’s Writing Web Journal.

Shaun Duke presents Science Fiction, Writing, and the Race Gap | The World in the Satin Bag posted at The World in the Satin Bag.

Tim presents How To Write An Effective Blog and Overcome Writer’s Block posted at Search Engine Optimisation.

Joshua Seth presents How To Self Publish Your Own Book – Day 3 | Joshua Seth posted at Joshua Seth Blog, saying, “Self publishing your book is a lot easier than it used to be. You can use dictation software to eliminate much of the actual writing, outsource the layout and design work over the internet, and use Amazon for worldwide distribution.

As a result of helping my coaching clients to write and self publish their own books over at www.YourBookInAMonth.com I’ve actually gotten better at this process myself. They say the teacher learns the most and I’ve found this to be true.”

Thursday Bram presents thursdaybram.com » Blog Archive » Why Writers Need CRM — And Why I Use Gist posted at thursdaybram.com.

Joshua Seth presents How To Write A Book – Day 7 posted at Joshua Seth Blog, saying, “You must have your own book to be considered an expert in your field. The longer you wait to write it the greater the chances that someone else will. So don’t wait. Get mad, get inspired, get motivated, whatever it takes. Just get going.”

Other

Carol Brown presents 100 Awesome Bookhacks for Students & Bibilophiles posted at online classes.org.

Kathy Wilson presents 50 Social Sites for Science Students, Researchers and Professionals posted at Online Colleges.org.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of book marketing carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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