Sentences with phrase «times on the author marketing»

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«Twitter's search only goes back for a few weeks, so if you want to search further back in time, consider using FriendFeed, advises Tim Frick, author of Return on Engagement: Content Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing.

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

The authors focus primarily on value investing concepts, but they also cover a wide variety of other topics including high probability strategies, market timing, stop loss order dynamics, and other topics that may interest a wider audience.

The rush to market was badly timed and a number of crypto asset hedge funds, exchanges, and ICOs have shut down already,» according to Jacob Pouncey, who authored a section on cryptocurrency that appeared in Saxo's quarterly report.

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Dan and I first met a few years back after I interviewed him for a company I was working with, and over time it has become abundantly clear we share common ideas on how authors can market their work without being that sleazy salesman.

However, in an e-mail exchange with Publishing Perspectives, author and former New York Times reporter Lee — who serves as Plympton's president and works on the marketing and business sides of the company — notes Love Is Strong as Death hit # 1 in Kindle Serials and # 103 in Kindle paid overall.

Even so, there are catches to these «just follow the yellow brick road» step by step sites, like the site owning the rights to the author's book for a certain time period or restricting the author to only marketing the novel on their site.

Based on his experiences as an author and book coach, the series helps authors save time, consider more options, and make better writing and book marketing decisions.

New free eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usageRaleigh, NC, September 13, 2011 — Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the launch of the free Lulu EPUB Converter, a tool allowing content creators to convert popular word processing formats, such as a Word document, into sellable EPUBs, the most widely adopted format used by eReaders.

Most of my time is spent reading work from my authors, but I do think it is also important to stay on top of the market and know what is selling and being published.

They spend a lot of time marketing to new authors, using tactics designed to encourage people to «buy now» on their services.

The challenges are especially pressing for authors who aren't pastors of mega-churches or who can't afford a $ 250,000 marketing campaign to make a series of purchases that land their books on the New York Times bestseller list.

New free eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usage

Once you take the time to establish an Author Central page, you have a valuable marketing asset located directly on the world's busiest book retailing platform.

Knowing or suspecting your trade publisher is cheating u, with holding rights the author could use, being useless at marketing and authors can now hire book packagers to do the slick things on the page & cover are all reasons NOT to waste time seeking a publisher.

Virtual Assistant — Very few authors have a lot of spare time to focus on marketing their books, because most of us also have jobs!

Usually, authors need to flounder and struggle for several years, publish a few failed books, go on Facebook and write posts about how they're «giving up» because they can't get any traction, and marketing is too hard and overwhelming, and they don't think they have what it takes to be a full - time writer.

Writers and Authors readers are interested in articles about / related to writing, the writing industry, events for writers, how to, marketing both on and offline, time management, etc...

We will have classes on writing craft, publishing and book marketing, and I can personally help you with your book idea, plotting or outlining, or fixing up your author website or funnel, as needed: I'll also be working on my own books, but we'll have «quiet time» hours for work and optional «social time» where we can chit chat and I can help you with whatever you need.

So Hoover — «a fabulous self - promoter and a very talented author,» Rennert said — earns back her debt to the agency, and the agency gets 15 percent to cover «the hours and months we devote to editorial; figuring out how to position and package the book to reach the right market; the time spent on quality control; seeking out and dealing with high - caliber vendors providing the above services; and locating and vetting professional photographers and cover designers whose work is every bit as good as those used in traditionally published books.»

I think maybe the fact that self - published authors need to spend more time on the stories rather than market is perhaps to balance out the fact that under traditional publishing, there'd be a team of editor / copyeditor / agent / etc helping with the writing bit, but self - published authors, unless they outsource, are on their own for all of that.

Still, the book has value in that it acknowledges that authors don't always have a lot of time for book marketing and helps them zero in on specific things they can do in just a few minutes a day.

For the past 10 years, I've worked as a marketing consultant who has helped authors get books on the New York Times bestseller list 3 different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and even a 20 - year - old backlist book.

Earlier today I had the pleasure of presenting a session at the 2011 Writer's Digest Conference on «Marketing Yourself in the Digital Age» to an enthusiastic room of about 75 or so authors — I was on at the same time as the super-smart Jane Friedman; so unfair!

Yet, I see so many authors waste inordinate amounts of time on fruitless book marketing activities.

We know engaging thousands of people on social media can feel like working in a black hole, but we've curated a list of actionable social media tips authors can utilize to market their books and themselves on social media without wasting time, breaking the bank, or turning into an angry - aggressive marketer who's forgotten what their real job and passion is: writing.

Since authors can spend less time on social media, this gives them more time to write and take care of things like editing, and book marketing.

In addition, I recommend advertising on the free sites using Author Marketing Club or Book Marketing Tools — free to hit them all up but time - consuming OR it's 14.99 to send out an announcement to about 35 - 40 free sites — if you want to be on the «biggies» i.e., Freebooksy or Kindle Nation Daily and others, you have to contact and pay them directly — but that can also help.

50 % of an author's time spent on marketing feels conservative to me.

Q) Finally, from my time here on The Book Marketing Network, I have gathered that most of the members on this site are indie authors, such as yourself.

At a time when traditional publishing continues to try to discount the impact indie authors and e-books have on the market, to see Amazon celebrating our work gives me the warm fuzzies.

It's that time of the year where we as indie authors need to reflect back on our book marketing.

Recent conversations with author friends have reminded me of why it's so important for us to take time away from our own book writing and marketing to cheer on other authors we know or like.

2... To make it work at any large numbers level, it depends on luck and market timing, meaning that you have the right book, right topic, right time, or right author name.

However, it is not uncommon for authors to spend this amount on marketing with no clearly defined results over a much longer time period.

Author Lynn Viehl had total sales of 61,663 on her 2009 paranormal romance, Twilight Fall, earning her a spot on The New York Times mass market paperback bestseller list but it wasn't enough to earn her any royalties over the $ 50,000 advance she received from her publisher.

Being a self - published writer, she also spends time on marketing activities (such as social media networking, going to author events and building her email list) which are crucial if you are self - publishing.

For those authors out there who really want to set themselves on a trajectory to write full time and earn a living from their creations, tracking trends and understanding the market will be critical.

2) BARNES & NOBLE (claims to have 27 % of the ebook market, must create account on «Pubit», only U.S. authors for now, market very limited, free to publish, royalties 65/30, can change price at any time, can publish to other platforms)

We spend so much time as authors being concerned with marketing or discoverability, but we also need to keep an eye on how that actually relates to sales.

I've put together tons of resources to help authors publish on the cheap, but it's worth pointing out that book marketing is rarely free: it takes either time or money, and you should spend whichever currency you have the most of.

won't get into dissecting Barber's article here, because though she definitely made some valid points about the discrepancies in self - publishing authors» quality, financial situations, marketing versus writing time, etc., it was an opinion piece based on her traditional publishing experiences (she's not a self - published author currently).

But this is not as easy as it sounds, it takes a lot of time to market on the Internet and authors merely reach about 5 % of the audience available.

Unless you have your own publicist or are a bestselling author on the New York Times list, chances are that you won't have an easy time marketing your books.

Lynn: In my experience, marketing is not just a monetary issue for authors; the truth is, they don't really want to spend time on marketing.

On that note, I will say that any self respecting indie author should be using professional editing services and spend some time learning how to market online if they're serious about making money.

«Critics forget that not all authors have the capability, inclination or time to take on the responsibility to vet and hire editors and cover designers, or to take the time to format, produce, distribute and manage their ebook, or to engage with marketing professionals, or manage the back office duties of accounts receivables.

In this market, when it seems that even finding an agent willing to take on an author's project can mean years of querying and futile efforts of trying to make connections, many authors are shifting their focus away from the business end of publishing in favor of a lower key approach that allows them to retain control over their work and spend more time writing with less time trying to become published.

On the indie side of things, October's Author Earnings report had some startling news, news that even seemed to blindside the gatherers of the data: for the first time since AE started tracking indie book sales more than two years ago, the indie author market share had decAuthor Earnings report had some startling news, news that even seemed to blindside the gatherers of the data: for the first time since AE started tracking indie book sales more than two years ago, the indie author market share had decauthor market share had declined.