Promote Your Book on Facebook With a Fan Page
On Facebook, “Profiles” are strictly for people. Facebook’s rules require that you register your Profile in your own name. If you use the name of your business or book, you risk having your account canceled.
A Facebook “Fan Page” or “Page” is designed for business use and it’s a great way to promote your book. You [...]
Promote Your Book on Twitter in 10 Minutes a Day
If you’re marketing your books online, then you’ve probably heard of Twitter. It was all the rage last year in social media, and millions of people have joined this micro-blogging community. Maybe you even started a profile page and sent out a tweet or two. If so, that’s great. And if you’ve been avoiding it [...]
Top 10 Book Promotion Strategies for 2010
A recent survey reveals that authors and publishers are anxious to leverage the benefits of social media marketing as they promote their books in the coming months.
According to Dana Lynn Smith of The Savvy Book Marketer, nearly all – 94 percent of the respondents – said they plan to promote their books with social networking [...]
The Coolest Twitter App Yet
If you’re familiar with Twitter, you are certainly familiar with all the third party apps that enhance certain features of twitter (i.e. Tweet Deck, Monitter, etc). When you post your messages to Twitter, no matter which of the popular applications you use, did you realize that you’re giving away valuable real estate and backlinks to [...]
Save Time on Social Media with OpenID
Authors, it is no doubt that you use multiple websites to market your book. Websites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Technorati and more all require registration.
It is important for you to have the same username for each social networking site. This not only reduces the stress of remembering 50+ usernames but prevents other people from [...]
Selling Books with Friendster
I recently stumbled across a great website for book marketing called Friendster. It’s very popular in Asia, but is quickly making a presence in the U.S. The great aspect of Friendster is you can easily search for highly targeted friends. When you do a friend search, you can even group people by age category. [...]
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 [...]
Promote Your Book in Virtual Reader Communities
Reader communities are a specialized type of social networking site where readers and authors network, and readers recommend books to others. For authors of fiction and children’s books, reader communities may be even more useful than the more general social networking sites like Facebook.
Many reader community sites allow authors to set up a profile page [...]
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 [...]
8 Ways to Use Blogging as an Interactive Marketing Tool
Here are some ideas for using blogging in social and interactive ways:
1. Encourage your readers to share your content with others.
Make it easy for readers to share your content by adding “share” buttons from http://sharethis.com or http://www.addthis.com. Then ask readers to share by including text at the end of your best posts such as: “Do [...]
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