From the monthly archives:

March 2008

How An Author Creates Releationships With Thousands of Readers

March 21, 2008

I admit I’m a twitter.com addict.
I post 20 tweets (twitter messages) for every blog post here. Most are very short, and twitter doesn’t allow any over 140 characters (not 140 words.. just 140 characters). I’m also using several other quick posting social media tools and explore new ones everyday.
But WHY is TWITTER so IMPORTANT?
First off, [...]

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Why Authors Should Use Online Video to Book Book Sales

March 21, 2008

New data out from ComScore shows that 75% of your readers are watching online video
But don’t just post on YouTube.. while the Google sites have 1/3 of the viewers, there are 2/3’s watching somewhere else.
I suggest using this easy posting tool
Sign up, use the AuthorsVideo site to create a slide-show video, or upload your own. [...]

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New Service For Authors From Amazon.com

March 20, 2008

Amazon continues to grow into it’s goal to take over the e-commerce world:
From ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon wants to do for physical product shipping what it’s done for web storage and computing power – leverage its surplus infrastructure built up by Amazon.com to offer cheap and easy infrastructure for all kinds of other activities.

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Our Author Was On CBS TV. A Good Book Makes The Difference

March 16, 2008

This will ease your pain
When I saw that 85% of our readers suffer from this, I just had to write and share this.
And offer you a gift.
Watch Todd Sinett, author of “The Truth About Back Pain” on CBS TV
http://BookBonuses.com
Many health professionals mis-diagnose back problems, because few understand that there not one but THREE ways people [...]

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No Pain Ways To Promote Your Book

March 9, 2008

On of our clients, Dr. Todd Sinett, was just on CBS The Early Show and his new book The Truth About Back Pain started selling better immediately, as would be expected.
That’s great news for Todd to be sure, and wonderful to hear that his message about the the mis-diagnosis of back pain will get out to [...]

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The Action is on Twitter

March 7, 2008

For some time now, the exciting place to be on the Internet has been Twitter.com
I haven’t been ready to say authors must be on twitter.. there is still more value in getting your own site, blog, and MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIN first.
Once you have all those, or if you just want to see what you [...]

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Are Your Still Thinking About Using Facebook?

March 3, 2008

I’ve been telling authors how important it is to get on Facebook for months, and seen books and authors make new connections and sell books and get website visitors.
I’ve had new clients for my high end services come directly from Facebook contacts too.
Here’s an article that talk about the Top 10 facts about marketing on [...]

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Are We Connected Online?

March 2, 2008

I was at a conference today. I met up with dozens of authors, some old friends and a some new.
I asked each one “Are We Connected Online?”
Even with thousands of direct connections, and a network of millions, I still find people I know that haven’t connected online… so I’m sharing this short introduction to social [...]

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