Don't assume your developer will know what you need, or know
anything about book marketing in general, and books in particular.
Not exact matches
They will be able to check the news, see flights they have
booked, get information from financial
markets, and do just
about anything else on these devices.
And you know, look, I had read a ton of
books at that point but they were so... you read «
Market Wizards» by Schwager, and then you read Peter Lynch, and then you read Jack Bogle, you've got three completely different... So I read Nick Murray, was the
book that made... probably changed more
about my investment philosophy than
anything else.
If you've read
anything about publishing contracts, you'll understand that the majority of authors don't get a say in how the
book is edited, printed,
marketed, or distributed.
«My first novel, The Beloved Daughter, like I said, I didn't know
anything about marketing but I felt strongly that it was a
book that deserved an audience.
Here are a few of the
book marketing questions (with my answers) that I got today after posting the following on my personal Facebook timeline: If you had a chance to ask a 33 - year
book marketing veteran
anything about getting more... Continue reading →
A query letter hook can be
about anything: you, your
book, your target
market, or a relevant quote or statistic.
Be Creative in your
Marketing (Bonus Round)-- Like I said, book marketing is an art form which means you can create just about anything you
Marketing (Bonus Round)-- Like I said,
book marketing is an art form which means you can create just about anything you
marketing is an art form which means you can create just
about anything you think up.
You can ask Mark
anything about book development, publishing your
book, or
book marketing.
2) Add comments
about your
marketing plan for the
book and
anything specific you'll do to promote the audiobook edition.
This is NOT the appropriate category to submit
book reviews,
books about computers, online texts,
marketing sites, advertising, how to make money with e-
books, or
anything not related to the topic of e-
books.
I didn't know
anything about marketing either, so those
books didn't sell.
Unless you've been sleeping in a cave (not that there's
anything wrong with that), you're aware that much of
book marketing 2.0 involves spreading legitimate backlinks to your Web site to get the attention of Google, which has been the best way to reach the other 50 percent of your potential readers because that's the search engine to which they were all going to search for information
about your topic.
Anything that is porn doesn't count — we're talking
about writing, not jerking off on a page, which has always had different «
marketing» attached to it — and those real
books that have gained a mainstream audience have done so specifically because they were eventually traditionally published, i.e. pulled out of the self - publishing slush pile.
* Our Audio Training Library with insider advice, interviews, and Q&A sessions (text transcripts also available) * The Ask a Question area of our website where you can ask
anything about writing, publishing, or
marketing your
books * Live broadcasts (and audio replays) of our Radio Show with special guests publishing industry executives and bestselling authors such as Mary Higgins Clark, Nelson DeMille, and Diana Gabaldon.
Although most authors use this Q&A page to post questions
about how to get a literary agent... you can ask me
anything about writing, publishing, and / or
marketing your
book (s) below.
Instead, my
book was motivated by a distinct, albeit related, concern: that in the scholarly world, journal publishers had too much
market power and that academics, despite the best of their intentions, had been mostly unable to do
anything about it.
So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of times those publishing houses are buying the rights to
books cheaply, knowing they won't do
anything with the
book, just to avoid those
books being flooded into the
market and distracting people's attention away from the few
books that they truly do care
about?
While it's easy enough to set up a link to Amazon or other on - line
book retailers, they don't tell you
anything about who is buying your
book, and you have no opportunity to get in touch with future
marketing.
Before I begin work, I read as much as I can of and
about the
book and author — reviews,
marketing strategies, and similar titles, jotting down
anything I find metaphorically significant or visually interesting.
This always has mixed results, since people on Facebook don't know
anything about book cover design, they probably aren't your target
market, they probably aren't ideal readers of your genre, and they aren't designers.
People who take your money to organize blog tours probably don't know
anything about internet
marketing or what it really takes to sell
books.
Every time you post on Facebook or Twitter, every time someone visits your website, every time you send an e-mail message, every time you write an article
about anything related to publishing — every time any of those things happen, you're
marketing yourself and your
books.
Please leave a comment if you have experience with any other
book -
marketing sites or if you'd like to add
anything about the ones featured here.
I also discovered that once you had a
book, nobody actually cared and the only way to sell
anything was to learn
about marketing.
If you had a chance to ask John Kremer, a 34 - year
book marketing veteran,
anything about getting more traffic, getting more leads, making more
book sales, social media ins & outs, or other
book marketing questions, self - publishing questions, or
book publishing questions, what's the # 1 question you'd ask him?
Each
book you publish will probably do a little better, because you'll be learning and improving all the time, and growing your author platform (unless you're one of those writers who is completely ignoring your author platform, not learning
anything about marketing, and just hoping to get lucky).
«I think my
book is good, but I don't know
anything about that
marketing platform thing --»
It's taken me
about 30 - plus years to get where I am — a published author with an Indie publisher — 5
books on the Amazon
market place but no $ $ to speak of, of course - and just when I think I can't write
anything else, up pops another idea.
Anyway, I have never read
anything quite like your material in any other
book about the
market or trading.
I have never read
anything quite like your material in any other
book about the
market or trading.
What I am specifically NOT talking
about is most
anything that appears on a list of investing / stock
market books that are posted on forums, social media, etc. from time to time.
Before I get too serious
about thinking
about the advertising and
marketing of my upcoming value investing
book I wanted to ask you if there was
anything specifically you wanted to see talked
about in the
book?