Publishers want full control because they usually have their own
ideas about marketing your book and don't want you to influence their decisions.
Not exact matches
«Some of the most significant
ideas come
about when someone sees a problem in a new way — often by combining disparate elements that initially seemed unrelated,» writes
marketing and strategy consultant Dorie Clark in her 2015
book, «Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough
Idea and Build a Following Around It.»
When I came up with the
idea for my first
book, 101 Ways to
Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in
marketing about it.
This
book will give you dozens of new and fresh green
ideas about how to not only
market your business responsibility, but beat the pants off your competitors.»
Guerrilla
Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet is a
book that may redefine a lot of peoples
ideas about how business works.
This
book will give you dozens of new and fresh green
ideas about how to not only
market your business responsibility, but break new ground in solving the world's most pressing problems — AND beat the pants off your competitors.
The
book is
about what I believe is the only way to get rich in the stock
market through three core
ideas and some of the same stock
market basics we talk
about on the blog.
Look, there are GREAT
ideas in here
about how
marketing really can and should work so that it benefits and helps people rather than annoys and angers them, but so many of the examples and applications are obsolete, it almost makes the
book obsolete....
We have so many
ideas left over that we made a bonus collection of them if you sign up on our Author
Marketing email list (about once a month we send you a roundup of tips and suggestions for marketing yourself and your book) and we'll probably make a part two of this post somet
Marketing email list (
about once a month we send you a roundup of tips and suggestions for
marketing yourself and your book) and we'll probably make a part two of this post somet
marketing yourself and your
book) and we'll probably make a part two of this post sometime soon.
You can still submit your
book, and if an agent cares enough
about the
idea or story, they may edit it for free, and sell it to a publisher, and the publisher may support it and
market it.
We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can
market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your
book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your
book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and
ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide
about the merits of your independent offering.
«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 good news — especially if the very
idea of
marketing makes you shudder — is that there's no single «right» way to let the world know
about your
book.
However, as self - publishing is by definition simply a new way of trying to sell a digital Internet product, perhaps it is time to go back to the basic
idea of Internet
marketing and forget
about actually selling
books.
I'm looking forward to learning more
about you and your
book, and providing you with
book marketing ideas to help you reach your publishing goals.
If you don't want to fool around, and you already know that you want to work with me on a deeper level, click here now to find out
about my other
book marketing services and longer - term coaching programs where I'll give you more attention and
book marketing ideas for anywhere from one month to a year.
Today we'd like to talk
about marketing your self - published
book; in particular, we'd like to share some
ideas about locations to hold your next
book signing.
We talked
about how we want to share the newest ways to
market your
books as soon as they're invented.Bryan talked
about his start on his website, Build Creative Writing
Ideas, and Jim discussed the creation of Author
Marketing Club.
When we went into our meeting with our publicity team, we were full of grand and fantastic
ideas about how to promote and
market our
book, and were wildly enthusiastic
about having a giant corporation that specializes in successfully publishing
books behind us.
I had no
idea what they were talking
about... thank goodness for your workshop, Sandy, where I learned that valuable piece of information, along with many others that have helped me in promoting and
marketing my
book.
Early attempts at social reading focused on the sharing of insight and
ideas about the text, something that was perfect for the academic
market since it allowed students and professors to make comments within a user's
book, much like margin notes.
Coming from an Offline World, I've gone ahead and provided a few
ideas for you to use to help kick - start
marketing your Kindle
book offline and ensure people know more
about what you are offering to them simply and easily.
Keep in mind the publisher's publicity team is working for the publisher, not you, and while you may have all kinds of great
ideas about your
marketing and publicity campaign, they'll first focus on their goals for the
book rather than your own.
I even saw one
book of this ilk on the
market where I guesstimated that only
about 10 percent of the content was the author's original
ideas and stories.
When using social media platforms to
market your
book, the
idea is to build the kind of lasting connection with your fans and readers that will naturally lead to them telling others
about you and your
book.
If you have the financial resources, it can be a great
idea to hire a
book publicity or
marketing firm to help spread the word
about your novel, memoir, or collection.
Authors have all sorts of
ideas about the things that they should do to successfully
market their
books.
Because the purpose of Spirit Authors is to offer self - publishing and
marketing advice to authors, Shelagh came up with a brilliant
idea that, instead of me interviewing Pat
about her
book, Shelagh would do an audio interview with me
about the process of creating the
book blurb and back cover copy.
You need to know more
about book marketing in order for you to be able to learn how to spend your time in
marketing your
book and avoid the frustrations you might eventually feel when you have no
idea what you're doing.
The purpose of PUBLISH - L is to provide a forum for the exchange of
ideas and information
about publishing and
marketing books and related materials.
I thought
about approaching different indie publishing firms in New York, but honestly I was kind of afraid to send it out to people because I knew it was a really good
idea and I'd never seen another
book on the
market like it.»
You complain
about indie authors with no
idea of how to
market their
books, that's fair, but at the same time I talk to more and more aspiring and even newly published authors whose publishers and prospective publishers all want THEM to do the
marketing campaign.
Instead of just hearing or thinking
about new great
book marketing ideas, try some out.
Thinking
about the following questions before you submit your manuscript is a good
idea, and you can always revise your answers as you go
about the
book marketing process and learn more
about your audience.
Once you've pinpointed your potential
book marketing venue, it's time to reach out to event coordinators and organizers to tell them
about your great
idea.
If you'd like get some
ideas about virtual
book tours or find out
about the 20 +
book marketing blogs that hosted me on my tour, visit: http://BookMarketingMadeEasy.com and click on the «virtual
book tour» tab.
John thought it was a great
idea because he is all
about book marketing.
Re-purpose an old blog post, post reviews of your favorite or recently read
books, invite people in the publishing world other authors, illustrators, artists,
book marketing gurus to guest blog for you, post excerpts from your
book and write something around the theme, post tips and
ideas for writing inspiration, news
about you, a video or audio clip of you talking
about your present or upcoming projects, the possibilities are endless.
he came to me
about 2 yrs ago and had this great
idea — the three of us do a
book — a literary agent, the
marketing guru and a PR man.
Book idea validation, a / k / a book market research, doesn't guarantee sales and success — I'm not talking about a silver bul
Book idea validation, a / k / a
book market research, doesn't guarantee sales and success — I'm not talking about a silver bul
book market research, doesn't guarantee sales and success — I'm not talking
about a silver bullet.
Published Authors A place for budding and experienced authors to share
ideas about publishing and
marketing books.
You're going to hear
about so many great
ideas and ways that you can implement Pinterest in
marketing your
books.
Our thanks to author Lee Adams for this blog post
about her creative
idea to
market books by participating in a
book party!
My recent interview with Amy Morin is not an «interview
about her
book» as much as it's
about how she planned, wrote, and
marketed her
book — and the opportunities her bestselling
book opened up for her and other nonfiction authors who are willing to commit to their
ideas.
I filmed a video explaining a bit more
about the
book idea, worked with a designer to create a
book cover, and conducted research on the potential
market.
This could be following up on pitches (I pitch
books mid-week, never Monday or Friday), chasing contracts and money, organizing promotional plans for a client's
book with
marketing and publicity, chatting with my colleagues
about their work, forwarding reviews of client
books to our foreign rights manager for her
book fair catalogues, consulting with clients
about cover design, talking to clients
about new
book ideas and many more things!
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Market your
book into new areas... DISCOVER new possibilities for your
book that you previously had no
idea about!
From the time I got an
idea about writing a
book to the final step of publishing it in the
market, Prowess Publishing helped me every step of the way.
Recent controversies over reviews for
books bandy
about the
idea that reviews are now only gimmicks for
marketing purposes, due to their lack of quality and the ease with which anyone can rate a
book.
It's taken me
about 30 - plus years to get where I am — a published author with an Indie publisher — 5
books on the Amazon
market place but no $ $ to speak of, of course - and just when I think I can't write anything else, up pops another
idea.