It's that time of the year where we as indie authors need to reflect
back on our book marketing.
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No longer able to rely simply
on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival
Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting
back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and spending lavishly to
market directly to consumers.
Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your
book of business, craft a well - calculated
marketing plan, add more places of interest
on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads
back to your company.
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on the Seahawks +1 meaning that individual offshore
books are getting hit with Seattle money to move their line
back to a pick»em from +1.
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luckily i was able to put down their «
marketing» consaltant, she did try to press
on useless
marketing service at cost of 5thousands dollars, what a shameless b... ch, she had nothing to say
on question how can i be sure that i will have a return
on such «investment», can you guarantee me that i will actually sale a
book, and with author royalty like 40pence how many do i have to sell to get
back my money?
A longtime advocate of print
on - demand, e-
books, blogs, podcasting and social media, Danny established Unlimited Publishing, LLC in March 2000 to bring out - of - print
books back to
market and publish new
books by professional writers.
Then the rest of my time is spent either writing,
on book covers and editing (usually a
back and forth with third parties),
marketing, catching up
on emails and any webinars / courses / podcasts I have signed up for.
We're going to Canada for Christmas, then
back to Taiwan, where I'll work
on fiction first — I'll publish 5
books that are «part one» of independent series, do a massive launch, and experiment with all the
book marketing hacks I learned this year.
Come
back next week for some basic suggestions
on marketing your new
book.
In a story that carries just as many questions as answers,
book retail giant and worldwide phenomenon Amazon has agreed to
back off
on its iron - fisted terms of service, at least in European
markets, under threats from the EU of fines and backpayments.
Traditional press gives more of a name brand
backing to your novels, but often even the big five publishers depend
on the authors to
market their own
books.
Sometimes placed
on the front cover, certainly placed
on the
back cover, and often included in the front of the
book, they are like a
marketing brochure that travels around with your
book.
Barnes & Noble has stated they want to get
back to focusing
on books, but even that sector's figures showed it was «underperforming the overall
book market».
This is where I share training and strategies to help you grow your business or ministry through writing and publishing
books,
marketing online, and creating products and services to sell
on the
back - end.
So Hoover — «a fabulous self - promoter and a very talented author,» Rennert said — earns
back her debt to the agency, and the agency gets 15 percent to cover «the hours and months we devote to editorial; figuring out how to position and package the
book to reach the right
market; the time spent
on quality control; seeking out and dealing with high - caliber vendors providing the above services; and locating and vetting professional photographers and cover designers whose work is every bit as good as those used in traditionally published
books.»
Information
on how to self publish and how to
market an ebook is great, but sometimes you need to get
back to the basics of how to write a good
book.
So as always grab a drink — sit
back and enjoy the efforts of some 20 odd writers who've poured their hearts into creating some great advice
on writing, self - publishing and
marketing of
books.
The best way an author can exert creative control is by choosing a designer wisely and then offering as much supporting information as possible (for instance, similar
book covers they like in the genre, character descriptions and synopsis,
back cover copy, anticipated
market, etc.) Finally, if a cover designer is allowed to use their skill and imagination freely, and then the client gives clear direction
on revisions, the end result is almost always something both the designer and the author can be proud of.
We take a look
back at our 5th episode, because our guest,
book marketer Tim Grahl shares tons of great insights
on how much better emails lists are than social media, why systems are so important for all authors when it comes to
marketing, and more!
These
books would then rarely (if ever) see any
marketing and promotional investment, leaving the
book to reside
on the
back shelf.
The starting point for successful
book marketing involves choosing precisely the right text and graphics for the front and
back covers of a
book, along with the lettering
on the spine.
If the publisher is actually
marketing the
book and making it visible to the public, they're not going to see «Vantage Point»
on the side and put it
back down.
Back in 2014, I made the mistake of depending too much
on Amazon to
market my
books for me, and got seriously burned when KU launched and none of my
books were in it.
You don't want to publish and then discover copy - editing errors, realize you should have invested in a better cover design, or wish you'd spent more time
on marketing copy, metadata, and
back of
book information.
I read about your history in a
book, Exciting Tales of the Exotic East, that I found
on the pavement,
back in the days when I was trying to get some enlightenment by going through the Sunday secondhand
book market in Old Delhi.
German publishers, once known for the high numbers of new
books they put
on the
market each year, have finally stared to cut
back: the number of new
books released last year sank from 81,919 in 2013 to 73,863 titles in 2014.
Ten Dr. Seuss omBooks (Oceanhouse Media digital
books) have been reduced to $ 1.99 each
on the app
market, kicking off Oceanhouse Media, Inc.'s
Back to School Sale.
Apple Inc. is ready to take
on Amazon.com Inc. in the digital
book market again, years after regulators forced the iPhone maker to
back down from an earlier effort to challenge the e-commerce giant's lead.
Most personal finance
books on the
market nowadays spout get rich quick themes, and yours are more
back to the basics.
You should have learned how to
market books in the beginning, set up a platform that attracts readers
on autopilot, and then gone
back to writing.
Along with our all new - publishing packages comes all new inclusions, including Publishing Tips Sheets
on the front - end and the
Book Marketing RoadMap
on the
back - end.
As many self - published authors — and even traditionally published authors — are discovering, a lot of the work of
book promotion and
marketing falls
back on the writers.
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marketing strategies!
Blurbs are secured pre-publication so that they can be placed
on the
book's front or
back cover or inside the front pages,
on the
book's Amazon sales page in the «Editorial Reviews» section, in your
marketing materials, and
on your website.
Then upload a photograph, and if you're an author, I would recommend uploading the same professional image you use
on the
back of your
book and for all your
book marketing efforts.
If you can sell five thousand
books or more
on your own, you can prove there's a
market for your
book and you know how to reach it, whether it's through the media, social networking,
back - of - the - room sales, whatever.
While it is acceptable to include a third - person biography in your
marketing letter (like the one that will appear
on the
back of your
book), consider taking a more personal angle by writing your author bio in first person.
Back - cover copy — the blurb you'll put on the back cover of your book — is a key marketing t
Back - cover copy — the blurb you'll put
on the
back cover of your book — is a key marketing t
back cover of your
book — is a key
marketing tool.
Most authors concentrate
on writing their
book and then, when it's about to come
back from the printer, they start thinking about
marketing.
Attend a free Published & Profitable teleseminar
on Wednesday, July 15, at 2:00 PM EST and find out how you can write your
book faster, and get a head start
on your
book marketing, by starting to work
on your
book by writing the promotional copy for the
back cover.
During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought
back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our
on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into
marketing our
books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.
I love that I get real feed
back from my fans
on my
books instead of some guy behind a desk who studies
market trends.
(2) Regardless of format, a
book is nothing without
marketing... if you simply put a
book out (say...)
on Kindle Direct Publishing, and then do nothing, you won't make
back the price of the ISBN code in a year.
Because they work
on commission, reps have little desire to peddle a
book by an unheard - of indie author with no
marketing to
back up their sell - through plan.
The new model seems to be: try tradpub
on one or a few early novels, get reamed by tradpub, move to smallpub / indy for new works, wait a few years to get rights
back to that one or few first
books, re-issue in indy (subjects aren't usually so topical you can't do this), and then continue the series, if those early novels leant themselves to it, based
on real
market interest.
If you win an award, the publicity will boost your
book sales, and you can add the award decal to your cover and mention the achievement
on your
back cover, in the
book description, and in all your
marketing and promoting, for that extra edge.
If you win an award, the publicity will boost your
book sales, and you can add the award decal to your cover and mention the achievement
on your
back cover, in the
book description,
on your website or blog, and in all your
marketing and promoting, for that extra edge.