Here on the Author Marketing Institute, we've discussed just how much podcasts are shaping the industry right now, but nothing lasts forever.
We share a lot of advanced steps
here on the Author Marketing Institute, but there are still plenty of people out there who are starting at the very beginning.
Not exact matches
Here we see a conflicted Gideon Osborne (played by Steve Shepherd) in conversation with the Russian pro-free everything
author, Ayn Rand, brilliantly portrayed by Ann Mitchell, who later tries to confront Theresa May
on immigration and her inherently contradictive conservatism («how can you have a free
market without free movement of labour?»).
Here, the
author expends more energy
on personal attacks than
on market analysis.
To help educate us, Jennifer Fusco,
author and
marketing expert, is
here today to give us a rundown
on the basic
marketing strategies and more importantly, fill us in
on why some
marketing strategies might work better for our books than others.
Everything an
author needs is
here — from the means to sell your books to access to some of the newest books
on the
market, to submitting your ebook to Kindle, to advertising the right way to get readers.
Here, they will find the help and advice they need to write, edit, publish and
market their books without being taken advantage of by the many
author scams that prey
on indies.»
Aside from executing your
marketing plan,
here are four critical steps every
author should take
on Amazon as soon as the book is released.
Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea
on its hands
here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to
authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term
on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid
on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com
marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»
Welcome Kayelle Allen — one of my favorite go - to people who always has brilliant
marketing advice for
authors — read all about it
here on RU!
Here's why... While there's no doubt the strength of the writing is very important, other factors contribute to an overall successful book — not the least of which is being a professional
author who has a «platform»
on which to jump - start
marketing efforts after publication.
Here are some questions you can answer from blog
marketing guru Kristi Hines when looking at a comment to help you determine whether or not you should approve it
on your
author website.
There may be other costs associated with
marketing, e.g. building an
author website (
here's my tutorial
on how you can do this quickly and cheaply), email list management, advertising and other activities you choose to do.
Here are the books in the
Authors» Book Marketing Series... I will be giving the first 50 authors and writers who sign up for free chapters a free copy in exchange for a review on
Authors» Book
Marketing Series... I will be giving the first 50
authors and writers who sign up for free chapters a free copy in exchange for a review on
authors and writers who sign up for free chapters a free copy in exchange for a review
on Amazon.
Q) Finally, from my time
here on The Book
Marketing Network, I have gathered that most of the members
on this site are indie
authors, such as yourself.
Here's a video of the speech I gave
on book cover design at
Author Marketing Live 2014; I'm not a very polished speaker, but you'll learn a lot about book cover design (and -LSB-...]
Here, providers can offer
authors valuable tips
on marketing, bookselling or legal issues.
won't get into dissecting Barber's article
here, because though she definitely made some valid points about the discrepancies in self - publishing
authors» quality, financial situations,
marketing versus writing time, etc., it was an opinion piece based
on her traditional publishing experiences (she's not a self - published
author currently).
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Author Reinvents eBook CreationVideo: John Kremer
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Kindle Unlimited has reduced earnings for Indie
authors and forced many to return to their day jobs, there are too many traditionally - published books
on the
market at lower prices, or insert any other complaint
here that shows Amazon slighting indie
authors.
Anything you use for
marketing should offer a call to action, from
author websites, to rack cards, to business cards (click
here to learn how to create a call to action
on your writer business card).
That said,
here's an interesting article, 5 Tips for
Marketing Your Book
on Twitter By Amy Harris Book
Marketing Strategies and Tips For
Authors:
I agree that the problem
here is not Amazon, it's that independent
authors including myself haven't figured out how to pick up the
marketing function that publishers perform for the lucky few writers they can take
on.
Click
here for Joanna's list of helpful resources, including the free
Author 2.0 Blueprint: 58 pages
on writing, publishing and book
marketing
Only
here you can find the best free book
marketing resources and the most impressive tools for
authors available
on the
market.
Here is her article
on YourWriterPlatform.com titled «34 Strategic Ways You Can Use Pinterest to
Market Your Book and Your
Author Brand.»
Here's Amanda Hocking
on this issue: «Or they (indie
authors)
market too hard.
I'm honored to be
here on Freado, one of the best
Author marketing sites and I'd be happy to try to help if anyone wants to ask a question.
She was
on the way to a point I also was making in Said the Online Retailer to the Entrepreneurial
Author at Writer Unboxed, in Strauss» words, the real point
here is «the degree to which the apparently free
market of self - publishing is vulnerable to Big Brother control.»
We cover the seven processes of publishing — editorial, design, production, distribution,
marketing, promotion and licensing publishing rights —
here week
on week, together with writing advice and how to run an indie
author business.
Essentially, Amazon is banking
on a lot of
authors being very bad at business and math
here, and having very little awareness of the overall
market.
So, I guess, for a while
here, the
market is going to be this confusing mash of quality, and everyone is going to scoop up
on the cheap stuff because there's really little idea about telling the differences between products, but things will eventually sift out, and
authors will probably be making money at either end.
Here's a tip: Subscribe to successful
authors,
marketing gurus, popular self - publishing blogs and so
on to get a free
marketing lesson in each email you receive.
Here, you'll find my curated collection of articles
on building your
author platform, surviving self - promotion, and
marketing your books to potential readers.
The end of 2016 was a time for introspection and family, and now that 2017 is
here, we are already hearing from indie
authors who are hitting the ground running
on their book
marketing!
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All of which means to me, that like almost anything we advise regarding book
marketing, there is no one size fits all
here either: not all books or all
authors will be happy and successful
on Wattpad.
If you want to automate your
author marketing and find your first 10,000 readers, Click
here or
on the image below to join this free webinar with me and Nick Stephenson.
The amazing team
here at Smashwords: Our development team spends every day dreaming up and developing new tools to give our
authors and publishers a competitive advantage; our service and vetting teams dedicate their days to supporting our
authors, publishers and sales channels; our merchandising team works to promote our
authors at major retailers and library platforms; our
marketing team focuses almost 100 % of its effort empowering indie
authors with best practices knowledge they can use anywhere, even if they don't publish with Smashwords; our finance team manages the inflow and outflow of money to ensure our
authors and publishers are paid
on time, every month; and my wife, advisor and confidant, Lesleyann, without whom I would have never co-written a novel about soap operas that started this grand adventure.
Here at Book
Marketing Tools, we work hard to bring you great guests who share tons of great information
on our weekly podcast, The
Author Hangout.
Obviously there is great potential
here for
authors to use a book cover or large media poster image, and link in tags with the book description, the book trailer video you have
on YouTube or Vimeo — which will run in a popup window onscreen, and other tags linking to book sales pages
on Amazon and iTunes, as a
marketing example.
There are lots of us indie
authors out
here not making Hocking / Konrath numbers but we still sell books
on Kindle / print
on demand and we are loving the freedom to write and publish direct to the
market.
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