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Will LinkedIn Help Authors Sell Books?

Guest Post from Judy Cullins Are your book sales slow? For social media marketing, you may have tried Twitter and Facebook.. Maybe, you’ve even put up a book blog to stimulate and engage your book’s audience.   I too used Twitter and Facebook and dropped my blog over 2 years ago thinking not enough results. That [...]

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How Authors Make Money

The other day, we had Peter Winick on the Profitable Social Media radio show. Peter is the brains behind so huge best selling books, and specializes in strategies to sell lots of book and turn your content into a substantial income. Here’s a clip from the show where I Peter talks about what he does. [...]

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Google Will Start Selling Books

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is entering the e-book retail business. The trend continues to more ways to read a book, and less dependence on traditional models. It will be more important that ever to consider this in your book marketing Is your book available to all readers who want it?

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Blog To Book Writing a Best Seller is an Idea From 1980’s

I read best selling author David Meerman Scott’s excellent blog because he not only agrees with what I teach authors about creating a best seller campaign.. but he does it better than just about any author. Today he posted and excellent post and inspired me to watch an hour long presentation video and read more [...]

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Authors. What is Your Story?

I was working with a marketer today who want help selling a book full of tips put together by another marketer hoping to tap into a rich market. I asked “What is the story?" We can market a book by and anonymous author.. we can sell a product that contains 102 great tips.. but everything [...]

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Microsoft Gives Us Another Step Toward Paperless Books

From EnGadget Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered, we just learned some very interesting information from an extremely trusted source. We’re [...]

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Get More Value From the Books On Your Shelf

I have a large library of book.. get more every day. Once in a while, I look over the collection and am convinced that the best use for most of the book would be to give them away. Not all of them.. but even some of the ones I love best would help the world [...]

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Manage Your EBooks To Reach More Readers

More than a decade ago, while working in the computer hardware industry, I saw some data on the trajectory of screen resolution and capacities for the future. Many pundits were saying that screens as good as paper were coming very soon, but one smart futurist showed us a graph of memory and processor capacities, the [...]

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The Draw of Books. Why Your Readers MUST BUY

When asked about the power of books, especially in this era of ebooks and supposedly less reading, I point the stats or 570,000 books published each year and the irresistable draw we have to book stores. Best seller books will be most of what catches a reader’s eye becuase they are in heavy distribution and [...]

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How Did You Get That Book Out So Fast?

My friend Gail Kingsbury called to tell me about her new book and the fabulous stories inside. I said “I didn’t even know you were working on a book.. How did you fit that in your schedule?” The answer.. a collaborative effort. Working together, the co-authors were able to high quality material together, join together [...]

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