Sentences with phrase «blog tours»

Book blog tours, Facebook ads, reviews — I think these things still help with book sales.

Some blog tours will accept any genre of book while others are specific for a certain niche.

There are other blog tours out there, as I noticed when doing some research, started by a person in particular that is mentioned in each version of the blog post.

Blog tours are useful in selling books, but the main purpose is to actively get your name out to your potential readers, who then continue to spread the word to their friends.

Giveaways include advertising packages, blog tours, and more.

I'd already completed two successful blog tours by myself for my two novels, so I knew the amount of work it took.

I also sign up for blog tours for books, and have received ARC's in exchange for posting an honest review of that book.

• Blog tours (posting articles about your book on as many blogs as possible).

«We had themed blog tours before, such as the Bestseller for a Day, the Menage a Blog coming up in July, but when one of our volunteer staffers mentioned that her husband was stationed in the Middle East and that he had begged for books, we knew we could do something really big while helping indie authors widen their reader base,» adds Thompson.

But I am happy to occasionally participate in blog tours with interviews, promos, etc..

First, let me say that authors should take the time to support other authors at book signings, buy purchasing their books and leaving an Amazon review, by following their blog tours, by reading their blogs and commenting.

The main difference between blog tours and this site is that you'll have to pay for blog tours, but you'll usually get your book in front of targeted readers for your genre.

I've used blog tours for all of my books.

The frenzy for blog tours seems to have quieted down a bit recently, but whether you're launching a new title, promoting an editorial service, or simply building platform, providing content for other people's blogs is still an effective way to reach potential new readers or customers in a personal, interactive way — and hey, it's free!

I'd never even heard of guest blogs or blog tours until about a week ago.

I'll be announcing the plot synopsis for The Holy Dark soon, and then it's on to a cover reveal, excerpts, blog tours, and all the other fun stuff as we approach spring 2015.

You'd choose guest blog tours so that you have a better chance at ranking at the search engines for the article or blog post you write.

For example, the key words for this post will include, blogging, blog tours, book promotion, promoting your book, Christine Mazurk and Alison E. Bruce.

, and know that book blog tours are not the only way to get reviews (or exposure); they're just one way.

So, if a lot of people are blogging and writing about \ virtual book tours \, but not many are writing about \ guest blog tours \ and yet people are searching for both — which would you choose?

You can put together your own blog tours.

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I also take part in blog tours, guest blog posts (such as this one), and giveaways.

Would you be willing to share a memorable moment from one of your blog tours?

More than half of the blog sites hosting stops were either very obviously run by Reading Addiction or were sites that ONLY hosted Reading Addiction blog tours.

This page explains some basic information about our blog tours, how they work, what happens after you contact us, and how we select bloggers.

Doing expensive blog tours hoping to finally get those reviews only to discover that the company did not deliver.

I've been dubious about the power of curated blog tours for a while, and this particular tour did nothing to dissuade me from that opinion.

Several of my author friends asked me how I went about setting up blog tours.

As a novelist, I found blog tours exceptionally helpful in promoting my books.

Chris — Blog tours are the new book tours, and they're a great marketing tool.

I've been a host for blog tours, and I'm already planning my own for when my book is released.

So what are blog tours?

There don't seem to be an prefabricated list of bloggers who might participate in blog tours.

«I didn't have any sort of following or even a Facebook page or anything when I first published, so I just typed in something like «book publicity», found some things about blog tours.

The best thing about recent blog tours I've participated in has been the habit of blogging I've developed.

Joint product creation (including courses, offline training and guides), co-writing projects, webinars or teleseminars, interviews, co-hosting podcasts, virtual book or blog tours, affiliate promotions and sales, working with charities or other organizations — all can have a significant impact on the growth of your traffic and writing business.

Probably ended up paying way too much, but learned a lot about how blog tours work, and since then have run my own blog tours and have had a lot of success with that.»

Blog tours have rarely resulted in book sales for me, not that I could ever really measure.

This is key... blog tours offer a way for two - way communication, and interaction with readers.

Three months out from publication date and I was starting to sweat blurbs and reviews and set up blog tours and take care of promotional ideas and... well, focus got to be a challenge.

Again, I've heard other authors say similar things about blog tours: they might be effective for selling non-fiction, but they're not necessarily a great way to promote a novel.

This was a great interview and if you've never heard of blog tours, if you have but you weren't sure what they were all about, or even if you have done a blog tour before, Alana has tons of great information.

We can go out there and do book promotions, blog tours, book signings, and event tie - ins.

But for some reason the availability of social media and myths that you MUST promote force otherwise perfectly sane humans into spending all their time annoying a few hundred followers on Twitter and Facebook and doing blog tours and other silly things like that.

If you are interested in blog tours and want some more information on it, you can get Alana's book here:

This post explains briefly what blog tours are, and gives a list of tour sites — with prices and genres.

Alana talks a little about how she found out about blog tours and how she got started with doing blog tours.

Agree about blog tours..

My question is this: I'm looking for the next way to expand, and am curious about author blog tours.