Best $ 105 we've
spent marketing our books.
Since you don't have a lot of money to
spend marketing your book in traditional media, you should make every marketing effort count.
Now, how long have
you spent marketing your book?
No matter how much money, time, and effort
you spend marketing the book, if no one wants to read it then it's not going to sell.
To help you focus your efforts, we asked 4000 of our bestselling authors how many hours a week
they spend marketing their books.
Wouldn't it be great to know that your time
spent marketing your book would actually be time well - spent instead of time wasted?
Not exact matches
Why I Like It: This
book points out that many of the mega-brands of today haven't
spent much of anything on traditional
marketing.
The Great
Marketing Turnaround, by Stan Rapp and Tom Collins (Plume, 1990, $ 12), is the
book for entrepreneurs who dream of launching or growing a national brand but don't have millions to
spend.
Over the weekend I listened to Russ Roberts» interview with Jason Zweig, who made an excellent observation of how vast the financial
markets are and how little time investors
spend thinking about this: I think if there's one overriding theme to the
book, one of the things I've tried to get across in The Devil's...
No longer able to rely simply on price as a point of difference, Expedia and rival
Booking Holdings, which owns Priceline, are fighting back by offering events and activities beyond hotel and airline reservations and
spending lavishly to
market directly to consumers.
After
spending at least 34 months on one or more Amazon.com bestseller lists (Environment, Green Business, Business), the award - winning
book Guerrilla
Marketing Goes Green was taken out of print by the publisher.
If you've read my
book The New Rules of
Marketing & PR or
spent time on my blog, you may recall that I stress the importance of «buyer personas.»
appropriately balance our level of
marketing spending with the benefits realized through new customer acquisitions and increased total
bookings.
In addition to the seven items on the Haft - Seen, we left a
book of poetry, goldfish (that we got from an Iranian
market), painted eggs (the closeted homo in me
spent a lot of time on those), candles, and a mirror (a reflection of the past).
What is being called «tanking» in MLB is really just teams looking at the reality of their situation, both on the field and on their
books, and realizing that dropping an extra $ 30MM on payroll for a FA or two will probably only add a couple of wins and it won't be enough to compete with the big
market, big
spending clubs.
The
book chronicles the insane amounts of money families are either required to pay or, many times, feel compelled to budget for extra lessons, clinics and products for their children in today's hypercompetitive world of youth sports, including a chapter on the burgeoning business of youth sports tourism, which has become part of the $ 7 billion youth sports industry, in which hundreds of summer tournament organizers together
spend more on
marketing and advertising than Proctor & Gamble and Gatorade combined.
Look: If you like to get hold of hundreds of
books and scientific reports and are willing to study them, buying every conceivable Supplement at the
market, to obtain minimal increases,
spend a couple of frustrating years (more), these information's are not very helpful for you.
The
book chronicled his return to the dating scene as a single, 50 - year - old man, which he came to understand as being much like the
markets he'd
spent a career studying.
Thelma's
spent the past few years getting involved in her community — joining a
book club, selling knit goods at the local farmers
market and planting an extensive edibles garden.
Authors eager to boost
book sales can learn a lot by following the successful launch of the Apple iPad because Apple enjoyed impressive first - day sales without
spending a fortune on a pre-launch
marketing and advertising blitz.
The point is that there is a certain segment of the reading
market that will troll either ONLY the free stuff, or
spends a lot of time looking at the free stuff who would never actually stumble across your
book that actually costs money.
And, although there are many low - cost and no - cost ways to get publicity and to
market your work, unless you are able to pay someone to find these ways for you, you will need to
spend time doing the research, trial - and - error, and trying again that it will take to discover ways that might work best for you in
marketing and promoting your
book.
Up to that point, only the editor, designer, printer and whoever the publisher
spent money with on
book marketing and promotion are happy.
Please know that I still recommend
spending the bulk of your
book marketing budget and time after the
book is released, but there's no reason to miss out on pre-order buzz.
You don't want to
spend any money, and you don't want to
spend any time learning new skills, so you just go into your writer cave and keep writing
books and hoping someone else will discover you and
market for you.
Most have
spent the past several years not only writing
books worth reading; they've also put a lot of time into social media,
marketing, and promotions.
Here at The Cadence Group we
spend a lot of time working with our clients on developing strategic online
book marketing plans.
Heck, I wrote the Ashes script in just such a way and theoretically I am writing the Margaret the Damned (my next
book) script that way too (but in reality I am
spending 4 - 6 hours a day
marketing the Kickstarter campaign).
Spending this much time and energy on giving
books away is just plain silly, when my focus should surely be on
marketing and promoting my
books for sale.
You also grab my free
book, «How to Write, Format, Publish and Market your Book Without Spending any Money» when you sign up for our free train
book, «How to Write, Format, Publish and
Market your
Book Without Spending any Money» when you sign up for our free train
Book Without
Spending any Money» when you sign up for our free training.
Redesign your covers, obtain new praise blurbs or write new
book jacket copy, get new reviews, and
spend marketing dollars toward generating new interest in your tried - and - true back list.
Spend as much time in bookstores and online learning everything you can about your
market and your
book category.
It's a challenge, and it puts to bulk of the
marketing weight on the
book cover design — which means the bulk of your
marketing budget needs to be
spent on
book cover design.
Then the rest of my time is
spent either writing, on
book covers and editing (usually a back and forth with third parties),
marketing, catching up on emails and any webinars / courses / podcasts I have signed up for.
You will
spend a lot of time dealing with covers, with promotion, with metadata and understanding
book marketing.
Most independent authors are hesitant — or unable — to
spend big money on
book marketing and publicity.
«We're excited to invite families to
spend time together and celebrate the joy of reading through these fun and original Happy Meal
Books,» said Ubong Ituen, the
Marketing Vice President for McDonald's USA.
As expected, this protagonist, who's ostensibly a
marketing consultant,
spends most of the
book earnestly wishing he didn't have to kill as many people as he ends up killing (with great creativity).
However, before you
spend a lot of time and money downloading software, open up your trusty word processor and follow me... I'll show you how to
market a
book and how to promote a
book right here.
Sarah Bolme presents An Important Element in Publishing Nonfiction posted at
Marketing Christian
Books, saying, «With decreased time spent reading, decreased attention span, and knowing that the majority of readers don't read a Christian nonfiction book in its entirety, every author should pay attention to this important element for nonfiction books.&r
Books, saying, «With decreased time
spent reading, decreased attention span, and knowing that the majority of readers don't read a Christian nonfiction
book in its entirety, every author should pay attention to this important element for nonfiction
books.&r
books.»
Excellent quick concise tips and links for relevant tools for indie author
book marketing, very useful and money well
spent.
During his short but successful publishing career, Mark Malatesta also
spent several years as
Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the
book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).
Facebook and Twitter have strong
book communities, especially with women, so your time might be better
spent there if you're a fiction author or a nonfiction author
marketing to women
book lovers.
And, that's time that'd be better
spent on producing more high - quality work or
marketing your latest
book.
Who nowadays has the time to
spend hours and hours
marketing their
books all alone sitting in front of the computer.
I can't speak for others, but because I am able to
spend several months of my time working for far less than minimum wage, considering I usually work 10 - 12 hours, six days / week, to edit and publish a
book, my clients (writers) prefer to enter into a business arrangement with me rather than become a contractor for the production of their work and deal with the «very real» business of distributing and
marketing their title afterwards.
This is a new world and AMC opens it up for you, saving you time that can be
spent on writing rather than researching how to
market your
books online.
I truly believe, overall, this is the best money I've
spent in the past two years to
market my
books.
From where I sit, if you have two
books ready to
market, it was time well
spent!
You have to
spend a lot of time writing and
marketing those first few
books.