Writers are often uncomfortable with the sales
end of book promotion.
But limiting the media outlets that might help you promote your book can very well be
the end of your book promotion campaign.
Not exact matches
Oh, and I'm hoping to swing by New York City at the
end of October / beginning
of Novemeber for some
book promotion stuff, so maybe we can catch up there.
Nevertheless, his telling
of this story brilliantly reinforces his larger point about the way that the
promotion of the Bible
ended up undermining the
book's pious advocates.
As long as Cardiff just keep winning they will
book themselves automatic
promotion at the
end of the season.
One on Vickie Howell's blog in
promotion of her forthcoming
book Craft Corps (giveaway
ends today!).
This is both a pro and a con, as a free
book will get some epople downloading it, but this does not mean a large push in sales after the
end of the
promotion.
Just enter the
promotion code COVEROCT14 with your Diamond
book package before the
end of October, and we'll hold that
promotion for you until your
book is finished at the
end of November and ready to publish in December.
I
booked that for January 15th, right toward the
end of my
promotion.
Please stay with me until the
end of the post where I'll divulge a super million dollar secret for
book promotions (I'm not selling anything, just in case this sounded like an infomercial.)
I
ended up learning so much about the process
of keywords,
book categories, author mailing lists, and other aspects
of book promotion, that I decided to start my own authority website to freely share my knowledge with other authors.
This
of course assumes the
book is free for more than a couple days on
end; special
promotions are different in my mind.
We started doing paid
book promotion towards the
end of 2014.
After some deliberation, I've decided to write another «Zen»
book, this time taking a look at the marketing and
promotion end of book publishing in the digital age.
At the
end of the month I'll pick the most active contenders and give them a prize (possibly a
book cover redesign, a free course on
book marketing, some free
promotion, etc).
So now not only will people check out your
book, but Amazon's algorithms will know more about your
book as well because
of it — and your free
promotion period
ends up transforming into great sales down the road.
Still... there are all sorts
of book promotion activities that you can engage in that do not depend on real humans being at the other
end of their email accounts or telephones.
Oprah has been an integral part
of book promotion since, well, since Jacquelyn Mitchard's novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was selected to be Oprah's first Book Club pick — and, undoubtedly, since her show began featuring authors as expe
book promotion since, well, since Jacquelyn Mitchard's novel, The Deep
End of the Ocean, was selected to be Oprah's first
Book Club pick — and, undoubtedly, since her show began featuring authors as expe
Book Club pick — and, undoubtedly, since her show began featuring authors as experts.
-- It took me thirty minutes to do the front matter, set up a table
of contents, title pages, and about the author page at the
end of the
book with
promotion for other collections.
So are blog tours the
end - all and be-all
of book promotion for self - published authors?
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book promotion goals during Published & Profitable's free November
End -
of - month coaching call.
The
book promotion campaign was at an
end once you'd contacted a given number
of media outlets, once, and the media decision makers either did, or didn't, express interest in the
book.
Title: At The Sharp
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Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
I have a huge fear that whichever digital provider
ends up on top (the itunes
of comics, if you will) will
end up taking payouts from the big two and giving them the lion's share
of it's on - site visibility and
promotion and therefore leaving the lesser known
books on the outskirts.
As someone who hopes to buy an ebook reader as soon as the format wars
end (or, at least, come to a natural pause), I was hoping to see a different Kindle
promotion — say, agree to buy X number
of books through Amazon and receive a free (or vastly discounted) Kindle.
If you're struggling with
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book publicity and
promotion, don't even know where to begin, or have a sense
of what you need to do but need personal guidance and feedback, consider registering for the «
Book Publicity 101: How to Build Book Buzz» session that starts Monday, February 4 and ends Friday, March 1, 2
Book Publicity 101: How to Build
Book Buzz» session that starts Monday, February 4 and ends Friday, March 1, 2
Book Buzz» session that starts Monday, February 4 and
ends Friday, March 1, 2013.
Even worse, there was no discernible increase in sales or borrows
of this
book or my other
books after the
promotion ended, so my overall income dropped drastically.
Covers, editing,
promotion, you can do them on the cheap but the most likely outcome is not going to be great (and the sad thing is that it's not even a case
of «you get what you pay for» because sometimes you don't even get that; I spent a lot
of money on editors and
ended up with error - ridden
books nonetheless).
Is that the
end of Ted Kennedy's
book promotion campaign?
Additionally, I recently found out that my
book An Invitation to the Table: Embracing the Gift
of Hospitality was chosen by Lifeway
Books as an
end cap
promotion in October for their fall premiere promotional event highlighting new releases for the fall.
So my
book got a lot
of «free downloads» after my
promotion had
ended.
At the low
end, a free
book in the small Humor category will cost only $ 50, whereas a
promotion for a $ 2.99
book in the Crime Fiction category will set you back a hefty $ 2,350 (which is a fair chunk
of change even for arguably the best e-
book service available at the moment).
Many bargain
book readers
end up becoming loyal fans: 63 %
of readers reported they discovered an author through a price
promotion and as a result
of that initial purchase continued to read the author's future works.
My goal at the
end of this process
of experimentation will be to suggest an actual launch campaign that an author could try for her new
book — names
of services, frequency
of promotions, and so on.
Strong
book sales and back -
end profits are the result
of a coherent marketing strategy that leverages
book content with high visibility created by consistent marketing and
promotion.
So, for most authors and publishers, the rate increases will probably not
end up increasing the costs
of a
book promotion campaign — for the time being.
I launched a brand new
book and at the
end of 3 days (with no
promotion at all), it settled at about 20,000 Best Sellers Rank.
We'll take your
book's cover image and description and create a banner ad that will display on our home page and Free & Discount Kindle ebooks page for up to 30 days,
ending on the last day
of your
promotion.
To this
end, Oaks Hotels & Resorts has gone live with its new Chinese website, providing Chinese travellers with an easy - to - use
booking engine, exclusive
promotions and source
of travel inspiration to assist with holiday and business travel planning.
With over 20 nights to go, and a
promotion that reaches almost to the
end of the year, guess where most
of my hotel
bookings will be going?
Seems I am a little late to the party with this one, however, SPG has a
promotion through to the
end of the year, offering 500 SPG points for making a
booking using their mobile -LSB-...]
An offer available to all Aquire members is a
promotion to earn double Aquire points on eligible Qantas flights for
bookings made between 9 October and 16 November 2014, for travel by the
end of the year.
The «Suite Temptations»
promotion offers discounted rates for anyone looking to
book a suite at one
of Starwood's worldwide properties as well as bonus Starpoints per stay and the «5,000 More Reasons to Stay» could be a nice
promotion for those with a lot
of hotel nights to
book between now and the
end of the year.
This includes news that Hyatt has finally woken up and offered a year -
end promotion, details
of a new American Airlines route that I have yet to understand, news that we can now earn IHG rewards through OpenTable (and other food related
bookings) and details
of two new transfer partners for Chase Ultimate Rewards.
This is especially true in big cities and at high -
end properties, be sure to check the list
of hotels who have decided not to participate in the summer
promotion before
booking!
Or if you're already a TrueBlue member, you could register for the current JetBlue double points
promotion (again, make sure to sign up before
booking), which means through the
end of February you'd actually accumulate 9 points per dollar for a total haul
of 5,391 TrueBlue points earned on that $ 599 flight.
Hilton HHonors is extending its rich
promotion offering double points for
booking a hotel between now and the
end of January; better yet, you can earn triple points if reserving via the Hilton HHonors app.