Not exact matches
«I got wiped out personally in 1968, which was the last
really crazy, silly stock
market before the Internet era... I became a
great reader of history
books.
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....
In this guest post, author and
book marketer Sarah Bolme shares a
great tip on a passive
marketing step you can take to
really boost your
book's image.
Pro: this is a
great way to go if you have a small
market you are focusing on or if you understand that
really, your
book needs to be out at a critical time.
«We felt that there are a lot of authors with
really great book ideas that deserve a
market that just are not getting picked up by traditional publishers.»
The key to this self - publishing adventure is that I know what works in terms of
marketing and that
really means having a
great book with a decant cover.
Even then, money, fame and fortune were not guaranteed because even though you had many authors and hundreds of thousands of
books available, the reader
market was not that
great and publishers were
really not focusing on new authors, but instead continued to support established and well
marketed books.With the introduction of new technology and the drive to store lot of
books electronically in case of certain disaster lead to the eBook phenomena.
But guest posting is a
really great way to do
book marketing.
So the classic needs of
book marketing —
great content, solid production, smart targeting — haven't
really changed at all.
A
great article which gives some
really useful insight into the
book cover design, I would also recommend the use of a professional, the idea of making one yourself is tempting but should be left to a professional who'll be able to match your design to not only the genre but the
market too.
There's something
really reassuring to know the best thing I can do to
market — the thought of which usually makes me want to crawl into a hole — is write a
great book.
That time was a
great learning experience as I was exposed to many parts of the
book industry (distribution, sales,
marketing, selling, the
book sales cycle, local authors [indie authors]-RRB-, and the yearly trends of the
book industry which are not
really any different now then they were 40 years ago.