How Authors Can Reach the Majority of Readers FREE
Posted on August 17, 2008 - Filed Under blogging, book marketing, online promotion, sell books | Leave a Comment
If you are an author of a book, writing a book now, or hope to write a book someday, here are some important statistics for you from Mert Erkal and the Internet Business Blog Search for Blogging site
Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
Over 57 million [...]
Understanding YouTube and Participatory Media
Posted on August 9, 2008 - Filed Under blogging, book marketing, online promotion, social media | Leave a Comment
YouTube gets thousands of videos everyday and while many are awful.. we are drawn to watch them.
What draws people to the social media? What makes an average person become a producer?
And, how do you get over the odd feeling of talking to a camera alone to share your thoughts, promote your book and connect with [...]
What Was the Worst Book of All Time?
Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, online promotion, social media | 1 Comment
Authors and readers get together on GoodReads to discuss books.
While not a huge push for book marketing, I suggest it because you can join and list your book for free in just a few minutes.
Today, there’s a contest going for to vote for the worst books of all time
Stop by, join the readers, list your [...]
FREE Pass to Guerrilla Marketing Association Member Call Today
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, online promotion, sell books | 1 Comment
I’m a guest speaker for the insider membership call today at 4pm Pacific
To attend, call 404-920-6610 and enter PIN 192304#.
The Guerrilla Marketing Association is a membership site for the followers of Jay Conrad Levinson, the guy who has sold millions of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books
Normally, the call is closed to the [...]
Media Moves Faster to Promote Authors Who Know How To Connect Online
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under blogging, book marketing, media publicity, online promotion | 2 Comments
I just read Guy Kawasaki’s post:
How to Change the World: The Wall Street Journal Lesson
Great lesson for authors who want to get media coverage for their books.
You’ve probably taken a class, or listened to a teleseminar where you are told “how the media works”
Guy sets us straight, talks about how he learned something new.. and [...]
Do You Match Your Book Marketing To the Market? Try This
Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, online promotion, sell books | 7 Comments
No matter what subject you write about, or whatever market niche you serve, there are people on the Internet just waiting to hear from you
Let’s look at one niche book and how we use positioning to increase book sales
I think you’ll see some ideas that will work for your book
Take a look at [...]
NY Times Bestseller Owes It’s Success To Bloggers
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, media publicity, online promotion | Leave a Comment
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat reports on Vincent Bugloisi book that became a best seller with blogs and online marketing
“One of the major reasons The Prosecution of George W. Bush has made
it on to The New York Times Bestseller (and five others) without any
print ads or major media coverage is because of the passion, innovation
and creative energy of [...]
What Authors Can Learn From the “Shaken Barbie Syndrome”
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, make money online, online promotion, publishing | 1 Comment
Have you heard of Alan R. Bechtold? He’s this crazy guy who has been successfully marketing and publishing online more than 24 years … longer than anyone I’ve ever heard of. Since before there WAS a publicly-accessible World Wide Web.
I’ve never seen someone have more fun making money than Alan does. And now he’s released [...]
How We Shared a Book with 1000’s BEFORE It Was Written
Posted on June 13, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, internet marketing, online promotion, social media | 2 Comments
I want to show you a ZERO COST way to promote yourself and your book even before you write it.Just watch what we do tonight
We are writing a book about TWITTER.COM the social media phenomenon… using all the strategies you will want to use to make your book a best seller.
Best of all, you can [...]
What if Electricity Was Free?
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under book marketing, online promotion, publishing | 2 Comments
Free electricity.
When you think about it, you can imagine a much different world. Would we be fighting over oil? Could we invent a machine that pulls pollution out of the enviroment and changes the climate to wherever it should be?
Atomic energy proponents (before it was ‘nuclear’) assured us that energy would be much cheaper.. and [...]