There are also lots of independent
blog tour companies out there.
Blog tours are typically set up either by the publicist of a book or by
blog tour companies / coordinators.
(I haven't worked with all of these people, so I can't vouch for their services, but all reputable
blog tour companies will provide details about their services and prices as well as references.)
The Author's Guide to Book Promotions combines clear, easy to follow information, listings of over 60 book
blog tour companies and 190 book promotion sites, a glossary, an extensive list of helpful videos — everything an author needs to conquer the world of promotions.
Now,
blog tour companies will arrange book tours and reach far more people than you can with direct queries, «street teams» are the new term for coordinating your social media reach, and buying an ad from Bookbub can do more to shoot your book up the charts than just about anything.
Here are
some blog tour companies: Goddish Fish Promotions http://www.goddessfish.com/tours.htm Great Escapes Book Tours (Free for Cozy Mysteries) http://www.escapewithdollycas.com/great-escapes-virtual-book-tours Bewitching Book Tours (Paranormal Romance) http://bewitchingbooktours.blogspot.com/ Buy the Book Tours http://www.buythebooktours.com/#axzz2OqJtoGjs Partners in Crime (Crime, Mystery & Thrillers) http://www.partnersincrimetours.net/
Blog tour companies will help you get reviews.
For authors looking for reviews, I suggest looking at
blog tour companies that offer review tours or queries, reaching out to your newsletter list, and looking at blog directories for bloggers with review policies that state they accept book requests that line up with your book.
-LSB-...] Here two articles I found online that go through some of
the blog tour companies and actually rate them!
(Note: I haven't personally used
blog tour companies for reviews as much as exposure — cover reveals, release announcements, that sort of thing).
Thanks for sharing your experiences with
these blog tour companies.
I am not an indie author, but a publicist, and I placed 5 books on 5 different book
blog tour companies.
I wouldn't personally thank every person who reviews your book, but bloggers, writing groups, and
blog tour companies should get shoutouts.
As a virtual assistant for a best - selling romantic suspense author, I was looking for a good
blog tour company that could deliver on a short deadline.
I'd agree that if I hire
a blog tour company, I do want to see decent coverage.
When an author or a publisher pays
a blog tour company, there is assumptive coverage.
If you're paying
a blog tour company anywhere from $ 600 to $ 1,000, you're going to want value for that money.
But here are some points to consider when working with
a blog tour company:
Social Media: Does
the blog tour company have a facebook and twitter account with substantial followers?
Which brings me to
blog tour company 3.
In fact, on at least 75 % of the blogs, the only comment was a thank you for hosting from
the blog tour company.
I would add: Make sure
the blog tour company (if you're hiring it out) knows what kind of book you've written.
Hire an established and reputable book
blog tour company (NOTE: There are unscrupulous companies that claim to get gigs for their clients on dozens of blogs, many of which lack a meaningful audience or are owned by the companies themselves).
Since it takes time (and expertise) to schedule blog tours, publishing companies sometimes feel it is worthwhile to pay a third party — an online marketing company, a freelance publicist,
a blog tour company, etc. — to set these up.
Not exact matches
What people are talking about today: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, waiting five days to address the scandal roiling his
company, embarked on a very belated damage - control
tour that included writing a
blog post and giving interviews to Recode, Wired, The New York Times and CNN.
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company offers cheap and best Italy
tours which covers
tours of Italy with full of enjoyment, fun as a complete package at less.
About
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tour operator and destination management
company (DMC) in Iceland.
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Blog North Sailing was one of the first
companies in Iceland to offer regular whale watching
tours.
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touring company with a focus on weird, genre - pushing, experimental and exciting music.
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tour company catering specifically to the historical fiction genre created by Amy Bruno.
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New Delhi About
Blog Welgrow Travels Private Limited is an established luxury travel destinations management
company, which has been providing luxury
tour and trip, since 1997.
New York About
Blog Artisans of Leisure is the leading luxury travel
company specializing in exclusive, customized private luxury
tours around the world.
With a virtual book
tour, all an author has to do is find and work with a
blog tour host or
company.
I don't think it needs to be pointed out that book
blogs with nothing but content from a single
tour company (or only content from
tour companies in general) are suspect.
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tour companies
Doing expensive
blog tours hoping to finally get those reviews only to discover that the
company did not deliver.
The other 4
companies I worked with all commented on stops along the way (which showed they were clearly checking for posts themselves), all had a variety of quality book
blogs with both organic and
tour content, and all maintained the advertised number of reviews with excellent cross-posting on both Amazon and Goodreads.
While some book
tour companies can guarantee you top posts, these
blogs may not be high traffic
blogs.
I don't take on
blog tours that come through
companies.
(Note: If you choose to skip paying the
blog tour host or
company, you can go the DIY «create my own virtual book
tour» route.
The
blog tour host or
company handles the rest: placing the call for book readers, matching interested readers, scheduling dates, setting up advertisements (optional), and following up with readers.
I participated in a month - long
blog tour earlier this year to promote my book, «The Break - Up Diet: A Memoir» and wrote about how to DIY without a
tour company in a post titled Take Your Book on the Cyber Road.
Even if that means getting your book featured on 10
blogs, instead of 100 (which some
tour companies offer) you're reaching readers that you know are interested in books like yours.
Many promotional
companies are paid to give authors a promo
blog tour.
The Author's Guide to Book Promotions will teach: - Why networking is so important to author success - How to evaluate a
blog's reach - What is the goal of a book
blog tour - What to expect of a book
blog tour - How do book promotion
companies spread the word about a book - How do people consume social media content - How to evaluate a promotion
company
Not the kind I set up for myself, on
blogs I'd visited seven times already, with people already sick to death of me (again, you know who you are), but
blog tours arranged by PR
companies who specialize in this sort of thing.
I quickly moved on to
blog book
tour company 2.
Now you may think that the biggest issue here is that you're paying for reviews and yes, I get that that's a «thing» now with Amazon — but you may hire
blog companies to do a
blog tour with a guaranteed number of reviews.
When we hire
companies to go on
blog tours, and reviews are part of that this is in a way is part of paying for the review so that your or my book will be noticed for a nanosecond so that a potential reader will experience it.