Sell More Books with Twitter Hashtags
So you understand the basic concept of Twitter and even send a tweet or two a week. Good for you! That certainly helps with your book marketing. Knowing how to write a book, is different than knowing how to sell it. Twitter is not only good for keeping in touch with customers, but you can [...]
Use FriendFeed to Find a Ton of Customers
FriendFeed.com is a website that in one place aggregates your friend’s (or potential customer’s) streams from across different social sites. In other words, from one user, you can view real-time updates from Twitter posts, Facebook updates and tons of other websites. FriendFeed can be an extremely useful website for finding your target audience and [...]
Use My 4/12/3 Technique for More Book Sales
A large part of social networking is the grouping of individuals into a particular group of interest. People join websites like Facebook and MySpace to find people of similar interests. All social networking websites allow users to connect to each other via buttons and groups. The more friends you have on these websites, the bigger [...]
How to Insert Meta Tags and Why
If your web page says Home, Default or the url of your website, THAT is what the search engines see and what YOUR prospective customers see when looking for your web page. Here’s how to fix it….
Selling Books Online from Your Own Website
I started selling my books online from my own website in 1998. For the first couple of years, more orders came in by phone than through the website. What often happened was that someone went to the website, decided to order the book, then called me on the telephone because they did not want to [...]
POD Publicity – Sell More of Your Print on Demand Book
Print on demand publishing is an easy, fast and inexpensive way to publish your own book. However, unless you promote it is unlikely that you will sell more than a few copies. Heather Wallace can help you to sell more books, with the helpful information in her book, POD Publicity – How to Take a Print [...]
Book Marketing on Twitter – Misconceptions and the Truth
Here’s an email I got from a book author:
I’m going to look into Twitter but I don’t have a Blackberry or anything mobile I can portably communicate with, other than my laptop — it seems like a good way to broadcast events, readings or online chats or something, but right now I have nothing like [...]
How to Sell Your Self-Published Book
Even before you publish your book, you need to think about how you will sell it. Here are a few of the best ways to promote and sell your self-published book.
Send books to thought leaders and influencers. Pre-publication copies (manuscripts or galleys) may be sent to famous or influential people, along with a request for [...]
Using Online Magazines to Promote Your Books or Writing for Free
Promotion is a must in any writer’s career and online venues are one of the fastest growing mediums. If you’re a recently published author – self or traditionally published – you have to promote yourself to get your name out into the public. If you’re a previously published author, you have to promote to keep [...]
Sell Your Books on Amazon
Would you like to make your books available to the millions of people who shop at Amazon.com? It is easier than you may think to list your book in the world’s largest book store and start selling more books.
Amazon.com levels the playing field for small presses and self-publishers by selling our books right next to [...]
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