«So basically
the idea of a blog tour is you find a certain number of review blogs or blogs in your niche market who will do interviews or a review or things like that about your book so that their readers can be exposed to what you're doing.»
The idea of a blog tour can be immediately exciting to many authors and publicists who run into logistical hurtles when planning a traditional book tour (e.g. high costs for travel, coordinating special shipments of books to arrive in time, scheduling events with various stores all with their own full calendars, and bringing in a big enough audience at each venue to make it all worthwhile).
Not exact matches
This week I'm delighted to participate in Home for the Holidays, a
blog tour full
of Christmas
ideas.
She's this weeks home
tour — a busy mom
of five who
blogs about simple design
ideas and affordable projects.
Please stop on by City Farmhouse's
blog tomorrow and continue to follow the
tour for much more inspiration this Christmas season and don't forget to check out all
of these wonderful Christmas
ideas over at Good Housekeeping!
I absolutely love participating in these incredible
blog tours, I love opening up our home and sharing our thoughts and
ideas for creating a cozy and welcoming home for each season
of the year.
I also love any excuse to party and celebrate with my girlfriends... so, when Kelly from A Green Spring Home asked if I'd like to be a part
of the Valentine's Day at Home
blog tour, I jumped at the chance to celebrate this fun holiday with some
of my other favorite blogging girlfriends by sharing fun
ideas for a Valentine's Day Brunch party.
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.
It definitely seemed like he didn't have a good
idea of what
blog tours are supposed to do, but he also seems to need the increase in reviews....
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Blog Tours: Instead of submitting just text for your blog tours, create specific videos or audios for the blogs you are visiting as per the above id
Blog Tours: Instead
of submitting just text for your
blog tours, create specific videos or audios for the blogs you are visiting as per the above id
blog tours, create specific videos or audios for the
blogs you are visiting as per the above
ideas.
Are book
blog tours a great
idea... or a waste
of time and money?
The whole
idea of the book
blog tour is for you to become more than a name; it is a way for readers to get to know the name behind the book and to find out more about the author as an individual.
I'm Dan and my travel
blog is called loneXplorer (http://lonexplorer.com.au) and I have focussed a lot on
tours of Europe from the well known
tour companies like Topdeck and Busabout as well as hotel reviews and general travel
ideas.
Travel Bare Feet (Mar 18, 2013)[Feature] The Calgary Herald — Exploring The World One Dance at a Time (Mar 14, 2013)[Radio Interview] The Mary Anne Show WGCH — Mickela Mallozzi as special guest on The Mary Anne Show with Mary Anne Melillo DeFelice (Mar 8, 2013)[Feature] The Italian Tribune — Metro Section — Mickela Mallozzi: Exploring Italian Heritage Through Traditions and Dance (Mar 7, 2013)[Feature] The Association
of Italian American Educators (AIAE)
Blog — Programma Ponte Alumni 2003 Success (Mar 6, 2013)[Feature] Home Reporter — Savvy Traveler: Bare Feet to feature Italy
tours (Mar 6, 2013)[Feature] TheExpeditioner.com — An Insight Into The World Through Dance (Mar 5, 2013)[Main Feature] The HoliDaze's Travel Inspiration &
Ideas — Top Story (Feb 27, 2013)[Interview] GoGirlfriend.com — Traveling Bare Foot with Mickela Mallozzi (Feb 27, 2013)[Feature] The Queens Courier — Bare Feet ™ to feature Italy
Tours (Feb 25, 2013)(this story ran in print for The Courier Group papers in Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island; also ran in print in The Italian Voice in New Jersey)[Main Page Feature] Travel + Escape — The Other City
of Love: Buenos Aires (Feb 14, 2013)[Listing] NIAF Ambassador Newsletter — Bare Feet ™ in Italy (Feb 2013)[Video Feature] Nomading.com — The Bare Feet
of Travel (Feb 7, 2013)[Feature] Happy Little Bird
Blog — The Journey — Lesson # 13 (Feb 6, 2013)[Feature] Stamford Daily Voice — Stamford Woman's Dance - Travel Show Takes on Italy (Jan 30, 2013)[Feature] Examiner.com — Dancer / traveler Mickela Mallozzi dances her way around the world (Jan 30, 2013)[Mention] Your Land, My Land — Sweetest Goodbye (Jan 29, 2013)[Listing] Wine Travel — Travel Feature (Jan 11, 2013)
This
blog tour is so much fun for me and I'm getting so many
ideas... you see, Easter is one
of the only holidays -LSB-...]
The first gorgeous
tour is my friend Lindsay who asked me to be part
of this fun
blog hop where we pop from home to home (virtually anyway — no need to dress up or bring a hostess gift) getting candy - corn - coated - eye - candy fall decorating
ideas.