Sentences with phrase «in author promotion»

Given the sheer amount of video content that younger readers consume, video is bound to be the next big step in author promotion.

You'll also get access to helpful resources; discounts on ISBNs, conferences and more — plus the ability to participate in author promotions.

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Jackson is the lead author of a new study to be published in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job satisfaction.

BookFunnel was started in 2015 by fantasy novelist Damon Courtney, who became frustrated when he couldn't create links for free book promotions; it helps authors do giveaways and build readership.

Underhill, author of «Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping,» notes that a retailer's online presence allows consumers to gather information about promotions, go into a brick - and - mortar store to examine and handle the product, and then either buy it in store or online at a later date.

In a section addressing promotion of New York Times content — essentially, social media distribution — the report's authors survey the techniques of «competitors» and compare them to the Times» strategy.

«Taken together,» the authors conclude, «our results find little or no evidence of deterioration in the performance of daily deal promotions over the past year (April - May 2011 to May 2012) for small - and medium - sized businesses or with experience as the business operator runs multiple daily deals.

In this month's Target Marketing Magazine, a TopRank authored article on how small businesses can gain a competitive marketing advantage by leveraging content promotion, blogs, social media and universal search was featured.

The actions and events in this story should not be construed to mean promotion or approval of those actions in real - life situations by the author.»

The authors found that breastfeeding promotion interventions were not associated with significant changes in weight or length, but led to a modest, albeit significant, reduction in body mass index / weight - for - height z scores.

Learning from Large - Scale Community - Based Programmes to Improve Breastfeeding Practices (2008) Authoring organization (s): World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Academy for Educational Development, Africa's Health in 2010 Published: 2008 Summary: Community - based breastfeeding promotion and support is one of the key components of a comprehensive program to improve breastfeeding practices, as outlined in the WHO / UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

The authors also point out that women face unnecessary barriers to hiring and promotion in research universities and that this, consequently, deprives the United States of an essential source of talent.

«The ratings that students give instructors are really important, because they're used to guide higher education decisions related to hiring, promotions and tenure,» says Lillian MacNell, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student in sociology at NC State.

The authors explain in the article that NSD1 mutation has recently been linked in the scientific literature to the blocking of cellular differentiation and the promotion of oncogenesis in this type of tumor.

The authors write that institutions should «increase bridge funding for promising faculty who are struggling to fund their research»; «lower the percentage of salary that faculty must cover through grants»; «improve administrative support for the grant submission process»; and «increase the level of formal acknowledgement of research collaboration expressed in the coauthor and coinvestigator status, both in the annual faculty appraisals and in the criteria for promotion and tenure.»

«For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing,» said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

«These findings highlight that, in addition to promoting moderate - intensity physical activity to older adults, we should not neglect the importance of engaging in lower - intensity, movement - based behaviors when the opportunity arises,» said lead author Paul Loprinzi, who earned his Ph.D. at Oregon State and now is an assistant professor of exercise science and health promotion at the University of Mississippi.

Specifically, the authors report that women who compete for assistant professor positions in math - intensive science fields are just as likely to be hired as men are, if not more so, and that women are not discriminated against in tenure and promotion decisions.

Besides increasing the proportion of people in the USA covered by medical insurance once the ACA is fully implemented, the authors show that structural and financing reforms introduced by the Act will help healthcare in the USA to transition from a «sick care system,» largely focused on treatment of illness, to a system that includes disease prevention, health promotion, early detection, and public health as integral components.

They indicate that web - based alcohol screening and brief intervention should not be relied upon alone to address unhealthy alcohol use in this population,» the authors state, while noting other potential interventions such as restriction in the physical availability and promotion of alcohol.

In true Sandler - style, Skeeter, though still hoping for a cherry red Ferrari and a big promotion, discovers the role he has in authoring the outcome of his own lifIn true Sandler - style, Skeeter, though still hoping for a cherry red Ferrari and a big promotion, discovers the role he has in authoring the outcome of his own lifin authoring the outcome of his own life.

Irving's partner in this bold charade of journalism is his friend, children's author Dick Suskind (Alfred Molina), who earns himself a promotion to co-author while jeopardizing his weak heart with every daring deception.

In this case, while Inkitt promises authors in its terms of service that «Unless otherwise provided in the terms and conditions of a Special Promotion, you will retain all of your ownership rights in your Content,» that «special promotion» clause does lead to questionIn this case, while Inkitt promises authors in its terms of service that «Unless otherwise provided in the terms and conditions of a Special Promotion, you will retain all of your ownership rights in your Content,» that «special promotion» clause does lead to questionin its terms of service that «Unless otherwise provided in the terms and conditions of a Special Promotion, you will retain all of your ownership rights in your Content,» that «special promotion» clause does lead to questionin the terms and conditions of a Special Promotion, you will retain all of your ownership rights in your Content,» that «special promotion» clause does lead to questionin your Content,» that «special promotion» clause does lead to questions.

Stiff competition from Pirates and Hangover; the scaled back promotion from the studio; or this author's hypothesis: Parents are putting their needs in front of their kids.

I don't check the statistics often (and especially not early in a calendar year when manuscripts from the prior year may well be still pending), but authors occasionally need the information for tenure and promotion purposes.

KSB Promotions has worked with hundreds of publishers and authors, and dealt with a wide array of media people since forming the company in August of 1988.

Although the book just gave hints of things in the beginning, the author slowly built her case and method for book creation, crafting, promotion, reviews and more.

«Using my promotion strategy, one author cut his publicity budget by 65 % while landing on a national best seller list and getting three times as many leads in a month»

If you're a writer, you might also be interested in my website that offers free promotional advice to authors: Off The Shelf Book Promotions and my new book Sell Your Books!

In the case of the video shown here, author Bruce T. Jones has debuted the video along with a promotion of his second book in a trilogy: «I'm stoked to share Evan Staley's video production of the Învierea traileIn the case of the video shown here, author Bruce T. Jones has debuted the video along with a promotion of his second book in a trilogy: «I'm stoked to share Evan Staley's video production of the Învierea trailein a trilogy: «I'm stoked to share Evan Staley's video production of the Învierea trailer.

Big ticket prizes are great for promotion, but to help offset the cost you might want to work with other authors in your genre to create a «team» giveaway.

Her expertise in cover design, formatting both paperback and e-book, as well as the first phase of promotion, including website, press release and photography, allowed me to become an author and tell my story.

There's an active debate in author circles about the effectiveness of guest posts as a book promotion tool.

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Book promotion means being in the right place at the right time so that people — by which I mean the media and your potential readers — can find you, the author, and your book.

But in today's in - one - ear, out - the - other world, all authors have to be willing to take on book promotion.

In light of the correlation between book promotion and and awareness of your book, every author and publisher (and book publicist) should focus on expanding the book's footprint.

Each element carries the same design style & brand in a multi-layered marketing promotion, ensuring author success.

That said, I can see her method would be helpful in two specific ways: a) potentially more buzz and / or Amazon algorithm friendliness, and b) forcing authors to focus on production first and not worrying about promotion until later in the series (as there would be nothing released to promote until 5 books in).

Our robust promotions will help your book reach the # 1 position inside at least a couple of relevant categories in Amazon, making you an international bestselling author!

In my last article, I discussed an overview of the four Ps of marketing and how this applies to authors: product, place, promotion, and pricing.

If you have a promotion or special offer for independent (self - published) authors, and would like this included in our «Special Offers» category, please contact us for our one - off entry rates.

There are cheaper and more effective ways of building a readership, and ultimately, unless you, the author, is producing a well - written, well - edited product, all the promotion in the world won't make it sell well.

Although Kindle Countdown promotions were set up as a means of discounting your pricing in increments and gradually returning to the retail price, the preferred method with most authors has been to discount to 99 cents for one to five days (typically three days) and then return to retail.

This fallacy overlooks the fact that authors are reaching readers who would not have otherwise made a connection to an unknown author's works, which may prompt some authors to only list some of their backlist in a promotion such as this.

In this story — about a Pulitzer - nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance — Medeiros «demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.&raquIn this story — about a Pulitzer - nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance — Medeiros «demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.&raquin which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.»

By enrolling on the link on Smashwords» homepage, authors can choose to enter any or all of their titles in the promotion by listing them at a discount of 25 %, 50 %, 75 %, or 100 %.

In other cases, the author might have a day job and might not be able to devote hundreds of extra hours for promotion.

One of the findings associated with the report is that self - published books, which still only accounted for 5 % of all book sales in the UK last year, are bought for one of two reasons: either the author has established a dedicated following and a fan base, or they were bought on a whim due to book discovery or promotion.