In book marketing circles, CreateSpace has announced that the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest (ABNA) entry period has opened.
Platform is a word you often see tossed around
in book marketing circles.
Platform is a word you often see tossed around
in book marketing circles, but you almost never see an explanation of what it is
Not exact matches
Savvy
Book Marketing Secrets includes articles, many already published elsewhere, by pros
in Dana's wide
circle of publishing contacts.
Authors who travel
in wide
circles and enjoy a large following will be able to
market their
books exclusively to their already established audience.
As a self - published author, if you want your
book to get noticed by anyone outside of your immediate family and
circle of friends you'll have to approach
marketing in an effective way.
And because the publishers traditionally didn't offer much
in the way of
book distribution or
book marketing or publicity support, naive or uninformed authors who had expectations of sales beyond a small
circle of friends and family were sometimes faced with a basement or garage full of leftover vanity press
books.
Creating mass social media contacts; figuring out what technology you would be using; who would be part of your
marketing / shout out team; who
in your
circle of friends and colleagues would be
in your camp to eblast their worlds that your
book was HOT and that they should get a copy on your big day / week; contacts for guest blog posts; even pitching media and journalists.
Those of us
in the business understand that sales of both blockbusters were driven by techniques outlined
in a
book called PyroMarketing by Greg Stielstra who gained fame
in book publishing
circles when he served as the
marketing director for The Purpose Driven Life, the best - selling hardcover
book in history.
Recognizing that many authors don't understand the critical connection between savvy
marketing and their
books» success, I began speaking
in publishing
circles in 2006.