Laura Pepper's Blog, page 23

How to successfully pitch a blog owner with a guest post, with author Jenny Ladner Brenner

Indie author Jenny Ladner Brenner emailed me a few weeks back, saying she had sold a couple of thousand copies of her book,The Dinner Party, since June “with limited marketing and networking”. She also asked if she could guest post or be interviewed on the site. I don’t typically accept unsolicited guestposts on here or do reviews, but I was interested in how she
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How to transfer your Blogger site to WordPress (without having a nervous breakdown)

Way back when, I used to have a Blogger site called Peps Around the World. The site chronicled my crazy adventures living in Japan, and then my move to California and my first experiences in the US of A. Thankfully I killed that beast a long time ago when I started 30 Day Books, and the evidence has been destroyed! I have since discovered
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What is the ONE thing that has brought you more readers? Part 4, with Ingrid Ricks & Wendy Tokunaga.

Today’s interviewees have been online friends of mine for a while, and I respect both of them so much for their writing, marketing, but most of all for not taking themselves too seriously! Their personalities shine in their online presence and that fact alone no doubts draws readers to them. I’ve had the pleasure of grabbing coffee with Ingrid a couple of times (fellow
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Reach new readers by asking this one simple question.

Knowing your reader demographic is of course important. But not the demographic factors you might have thought! When figuring out our book marketing plan of attack, we usually look at what demographics our “ideal readers” have in common. This is a helpful exercise; creating a visual of who your reader is and where he/she spends their time in order to market to them. We
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To reach new readers, ask this one simple question

Knowing your reader demographic is of course important. But not the demographic factors you might have thought! When figuring out our book marketing plan of attack, we usually look at what demographics our “ideal readers” have in common. This is a helpful exercise; creating a visual of who your reader is and where he/she spends their time in order to market to them. We
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Looking for Critique Partner Listings, September 21st 2012

Good morning! I’ve had a killer cold this week and Sunny dog has kept me company the whole time, sleeping with me on the sofa and not requesting walks every half hour like usual. I’d like to dedicate this week’s listings to the smartest – and cutest – dog I know. Hope you’re happy and... Read More

What is ONE thing that has brought you more readers? Part 3 with Erik Atwell & Terri Giuliano Long

This is part 3 in the series where I ask indie authors two simple questions: 1.What do you wish you had known when you first started self-publishing? 2.What is ONE thing that you have done that brought you more readers? I truly think that we can all learn a lot from each other’s mistakes and successes. Sharing this kind of knowledge, particularly in such
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What is ONE thing that has brought you more readers? Part 3.

This is part 3 in the series where I ask indie authors two simple questions: 1.What do you wish you had known when you first started self-publishing? 2.What is ONE thing that you have done that brought you more readers? I truly think that we can all learn a lot from each other’s mistakes and successes. Sharing this kind of knowledge, particularly in such
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“Sell the sizzle, not the steak”. How to write a brilliant book description for fiction & non-fiction titles.

I spoke to Mark Edwards over Skype a few weeks (months?!) back and I will be posting that interview very soon. It’s a great chat about how Mark used his background in copywriting to study the book descriptions of best-sellers on Amazon.co.uk. When he used what he learned from his research for his own book description, “book sales literally doubled in an hour!”. What
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How to make the most of your eBook’s free days/ KDP Select days

The success of KDP Select’s free days (or other ways of giving your book away for free since this can be done strategically via Smashwords or iBooks) has been widely debated. I’m not going to touch upon the issue of whether you should go free or not – that’s a personal choice and there is much literature out there to enable you to decide.
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