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October 22, 2015
Gary Taaffe Biography
Gary Taaffe is the No. 1 Amazon Bestselling Author of 9 fiction and 2 non-fiction books, including the Urban Hunters series for Young Adults and his Stampede series, a no-nonsense guide to book marketing for authors. New York Book Review, W.D La Rue said, “I would read ANYTHING this man wrote.” Gary lives in Forster-Tuncurry, Australia, where he’s surrounded by waterways for fishing and bushland for hunting. He writes fulltime with new books coming out in quick succession.
If you want to be the first to hear of his latest release, sign up to his newsletter, and if you want to find Gary socially, head on over to his website at BunyaPublishing.com.
Connect with Gary here:
BunyaPublishing.com
Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram - Gary Taaffe
Twitter - @Urban_Hunters
If you want to be the first to hear of his latest release, sign up to his newsletter, and if you want to find Gary socially, head on over to his website at BunyaPublishing.com.
Connect with Gary here:
BunyaPublishing.com
Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram - Gary Taaffe
Twitter - @Urban_Hunters
April 29, 2015
Free 4 Book Starter Library
I'm giving away the first 4 books in my Urban Hunters series so if you'd like in on that deal, follow this link: http://BunyaPublishing.com
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January 20, 2015
Big Changes
Big changes have been underway in the background lately:
- I completely revamped my website to focus on capturing email addresses for my new newsletters by way of offering something for free: http://bunyapublishing.com/
- I started two new newsletters, and scrapped the old one which couldn't cater to fiction and non fiction in the same newsletter:
- Readers Group- for all things Urban Hunters(you get Four Small Stones and Tribal Scarring free, plus more freebies coming later: http://eepurl.com/_E311
- Marketing Strategies that Work!- for all things relating to marketing and my Tweet Generators(you get Stampede totally free): http://eepurl.com/baqxn5
- Four Small Stones, book 1 in my Urban Hunters series is now permanently free on Amazon: http://geni.us/1N7u
- I revamped my Amazon categories, keywords and book blurbs to ensure I show up on the front page lists when someone searches for books like mine. The difference this has made is nothing short of amazing!
- And I'm now directing all my Twitter advertising links generated by my Tweet Generators, to my website instead of Amazon. Doing it this way allows me to capture my customers email addresses, rather than giving that asset to Amazon. This puts me in direct contact with my customers, helps guarantee my future and removes my vulnerability to Amazon making changes that would have an adverse effect on me. Similar to what Facebook has done. If you're getting this message, you're one of the very few of my followers that Facebook will send this message to.
These changes have had an immediate and very positive effect on my book sales and subscriptions to my Tweet Generators. It's been an incredible amount of work but well worth the effort. Subscribe to my marketing newsletter for more information on how I've done it all, and how you can do the same.
I don't use this blog very often anymore so if you want to keep up to date, my newsletters or Facebook is the way to go.
Until next time, Gary
P.S. I won't be adding links to my newsletters here anymore, so if you're interested, follow the links to subscribe now :)
- I completely revamped my website to focus on capturing email addresses for my new newsletters by way of offering something for free: http://bunyapublishing.com/
- I started two new newsletters, and scrapped the old one which couldn't cater to fiction and non fiction in the same newsletter:
- Readers Group- for all things Urban Hunters(you get Four Small Stones and Tribal Scarring free, plus more freebies coming later: http://eepurl.com/_E311
- Marketing Strategies that Work!- for all things relating to marketing and my Tweet Generators(you get Stampede totally free): http://eepurl.com/baqxn5
- Four Small Stones, book 1 in my Urban Hunters series is now permanently free on Amazon: http://geni.us/1N7u
- I revamped my Amazon categories, keywords and book blurbs to ensure I show up on the front page lists when someone searches for books like mine. The difference this has made is nothing short of amazing!
- And I'm now directing all my Twitter advertising links generated by my Tweet Generators, to my website instead of Amazon. Doing it this way allows me to capture my customers email addresses, rather than giving that asset to Amazon. This puts me in direct contact with my customers, helps guarantee my future and removes my vulnerability to Amazon making changes that would have an adverse effect on me. Similar to what Facebook has done. If you're getting this message, you're one of the very few of my followers that Facebook will send this message to.
These changes have had an immediate and very positive effect on my book sales and subscriptions to my Tweet Generators. It's been an incredible amount of work but well worth the effort. Subscribe to my marketing newsletter for more information on how I've done it all, and how you can do the same.
I don't use this blog very often anymore so if you want to keep up to date, my newsletters or Facebook is the way to go.
Until next time, Gary
P.S. I won't be adding links to my newsletters here anymore, so if you're interested, follow the links to subscribe now :)
November 28, 2014
BLACK FRIDAY SPECIALS ABOUT TO END
If you were hoping to grab any of these specials then now is the time because they're all about to end:Urban Hunters: http://geni.us/aN3
Stampede: http://geni.us/PA7
Unlimited Tweet Generator: http://bit.ly/tweegen
November 27, 2014
November Newsletter
Here's the link to my November Newsletter along with a ton of great Black Friday specials- be quick!
November 2, 2014
October Newsletter
Here's the link to my October Newsletter
October 15, 2014
SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER
Here's a link to my September newsletter if you'd like to have a read.
August 26, 2014
AUGUST NEWSLETTER
Here's the link to my August Newsletter if you'd like to have a read.
July 29, 2014
July Newsletter
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NEWSLETTER
July 2014
Series details at
Bunya Publishing
In This Edition
- NEW RELEASE
- TWEET GENERATOR
- Hunting & Fishing Trip
- Welcome
Amazon eBooks
URBAN HUNTERS series:
#1 Four Small Stones
#2 Tribal Scarring
#3 Walkabout
#4 Budgie Smugglers
#5 Bullies
#6 The Orphanage
#7 Bowels of Hell
#8 Final Straw
NON-FICTION:
STAMPEDE: How I get 300 to 500 hits on my Amazon book page EVERYDAY!
Our print books are also available from Amazon but they may not be available in your country. They're always available from:
Amazon.com
Bunya Publishing.
Services
- Consulting
- eBook Formatting
- Print Book Formatting
- eBook & Print Book Cover Design
- One-on-One eBook Formatting Training
Buzz
Have you enjoyed my books and would like to help spread the word? For a guide on how you can help, please visit my Buzz page. Thanks :)
Previous Newsletters
2014
April
May
June
NEW RELEASE
STAMPEDE is finally finished! Woo hoo. What a busy three months this has been. I'm really proud of this book. It's so empowering to all those struggling authors out there trying to be seen above all those bestsellers. Social media gives us the opportunity to market our books for free but it's not much use if it's taking all our time and it's not working. Stampede works. I talk about my Amazon book page getting 300 to 500 hits everyday with the system I developed, well that's nothing, I got over 800 hits yesterday. It'll do the same again tomorrow and again everyday until I turn my AutoPilot program off, which I don't think I'll be doing anytime soon.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
This won't make much sense to you unless you're into Twitter but an essential part of STAMPEDE is being able to send out tweets heavily loaded with hashtags. Actually, not just any old hashtags, hashtags structured into HASHTAG SENTENCES.
Every guru on the planet has been advising people to never put more than three hashtags into your tweets, if you have to use them at all, so you don't look too commercial. What a load of rubbish. First of all, no one is fooled, everyone knows the tweet about your book is commercial and secondly, no one seems to have figured out how to use hashtags effectively, and in an entertaining way. Well I have and that's part of what I'm teaching people how to do in STAMPEDE.
Hashtags are far more powerful than people realise. They allow your tweets to reach audiences that would never normally hear about you. Simply adding #YA to the end of your tweet will get your tweet seen by the many thousands and thousands of young adult readers who follow the #YA hashtag, or #NewAdult, #YALit, #YoungAdult, #ComingOfAge, #COA, #MG, #KidLit, #MGLit. So by using hashtags, you don't need to build a social following of your own, you simply piggy back upon hashtags that already have followers.
For example, as many of you know, most of my books are filled with laugh–out–loud humour, they’re for Young Adults and there’s hunting and cooking of game meat in them. Here’s a great quote, link and hashtag sentence for my market.
His tummy told him that ONE RAT JUST WASN’T GOING TO BE ENOUGH http://getbook.at/We #YA #lol #Hunting #BBQ #Gamemeat
Not only is there an intriguing story in that quote, but there’s an intriguing story in the hashtag group as well. That makes the tweet entertaining and hopefully, intriguing enough to get people to click the link that takes them to my Amazon book page.
It will reach young adult readers who are looking for a laugh, who are into hunting, and who like barbecuing game meat. It’s very focused on my audience and is much more likely to get the sale.
Plus, that one tweet will be replicated 5 times, one for each hashtag. That's what I call EXPONENTIAL MARKETING and is just one small part of my amazingly successful STAMPEDE marketing system.
But it all falls flat without the ability to mix hashtag groups to easily generate thousands of advertising tweets that your AutoPilot program can send out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So I developed a computer program to generate the tweets. A free version is available to everyone with a beefed up version available to subscribers.
TWEET GENERATOR
[message] [#1|#2] [#3|#4] [#5|#6]
You add your own message, link and groups of hashtags. This was generated by the example above:
message #1 #3 #5
message #1 #3 #6
message #1 #4 #5
message #1 #4 #6
message #2 #3 #5
message #2 #3 #6
message #2 #4 #5
message #2 #4 #6
UNLIMITED TWEET GENERATOR
[message] [#1|#2] [#3|#4] [#5|#6] [#7|#8] [#9|#10] [#11|#12] ...
There's not enough room here to fully explain the magnitude of this system which is why I brought out my step-by-step guide. Stampede works.
Have a play with the TWEET GENERATOR yourself.
Hunting and Fishing Trip
This is what we're after. Water buffalo. They're an introduced species that do a lot of damage and need to be culled out. We're happy to help ;) If I get one with horns half this size I'll be happy. Either way, the local Aborginal community will appreciate the meat. We'll probably cook it in a ground oven. Can't wait. Might be able to catch a pic of some tendrils of steam escaping the ground to get you salivating ...
Countdown clock: 31 days
Welcome
Once again welcome to all my new subscribers. It's very nice to have your company.
As always, don't forget to head on over to my Bunya Publishing site to grab a free eBook. An order button for STAMPEDE will be up and running shortly if you want to order a print book direct for yourself or a friend, otherwise I'd suggest you head on over to Amazon.
Catcha next time and please forward this newsletter to a friend.
Gary
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NEWSLETTER
July 2014
Series details at
Bunya Publishing
In This Edition
- NEW RELEASE
- TWEET GENERATOR
- Hunting & Fishing Trip
- Welcome
Amazon eBooks
URBAN HUNTERS series:
#1 Four Small Stones
#2 Tribal Scarring
#3 Walkabout
#4 Budgie Smugglers
#5 Bullies
#6 The Orphanage
#7 Bowels of Hell
#8 Final Straw
NON-FICTION:
STAMPEDE: How I get 300 to 500 hits on my Amazon book page EVERYDAY!
Our print books are also available from Amazon but they may not be available in your country. They're always available from:
Amazon.com
Bunya Publishing.
Services
- Consulting
- eBook Formatting
- Print Book Formatting
- eBook & Print Book Cover Design
- One-on-One eBook Formatting Training
Buzz
Have you enjoyed my books and would like to help spread the word? For a guide on how you can help, please visit my Buzz page. Thanks :)
Previous Newsletters
2014
April
May
June
NEW RELEASE
STAMPEDE is finally finished! Woo hoo. What a busy three months this has been. I'm really proud of this book. It's so empowering to all those struggling authors out there trying to be seen above all those bestsellers. Social media gives us the opportunity to market our books for free but it's not much use if it's taking all our time and it's not working. Stampede works. I talk about my Amazon book page getting 300 to 500 hits everyday with the system I developed, well that's nothing, I got over 800 hits yesterday. It'll do the same again tomorrow and again everyday until I turn my AutoPilot program off, which I don't think I'll be doing anytime soon.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
This won't make much sense to you unless you're into Twitter but an essential part of STAMPEDE is being able to send out tweets heavily loaded with hashtags. Actually, not just any old hashtags, hashtags structured into HASHTAG SENTENCES.
Every guru on the planet has been advising people to never put more than three hashtags into your tweets, if you have to use them at all, so you don't look too commercial. What a load of rubbish. First of all, no one is fooled, everyone knows the tweet about your book is commercial and secondly, no one seems to have figured out how to use hashtags effectively, and in an entertaining way. Well I have and that's part of what I'm teaching people how to do in STAMPEDE.
Hashtags are far more powerful than people realise. They allow your tweets to reach audiences that would never normally hear about you. Simply adding #YA to the end of your tweet will get your tweet seen by the many thousands and thousands of young adult readers who follow the #YA hashtag, or #NewAdult, #YALit, #YoungAdult, #ComingOfAge, #COA, #MG, #KidLit, #MGLit. So by using hashtags, you don't need to build a social following of your own, you simply piggy back upon hashtags that already have followers.
For example, as many of you know, most of my books are filled with laugh–out–loud humour, they’re for Young Adults and there’s hunting and cooking of game meat in them. Here’s a great quote, link and hashtag sentence for my market.
His tummy told him that ONE RAT JUST WASN’T GOING TO BE ENOUGH http://getbook.at/We #YA #lol #Hunting #BBQ #Gamemeat
Not only is there an intriguing story in that quote, but there’s an intriguing story in the hashtag group as well. That makes the tweet entertaining and hopefully, intriguing enough to get people to click the link that takes them to my Amazon book page.
It will reach young adult readers who are looking for a laugh, who are into hunting, and who like barbecuing game meat. It’s very focused on my audience and is much more likely to get the sale.
Plus, that one tweet will be replicated 5 times, one for each hashtag. That's what I call EXPONENTIAL MARKETING and is just one small part of my amazingly successful STAMPEDE marketing system.
But it all falls flat without the ability to mix hashtag groups to easily generate thousands of advertising tweets that your AutoPilot program can send out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So I developed a computer program to generate the tweets. A free version is available to everyone with a beefed up version available to subscribers.
TWEET GENERATOR
[message] [#1|#2] [#3|#4] [#5|#6]
You add your own message, link and groups of hashtags. This was generated by the example above:
message #1 #3 #5
message #1 #3 #6
message #1 #4 #5
message #1 #4 #6
message #2 #3 #5
message #2 #3 #6
message #2 #4 #5
message #2 #4 #6
UNLIMITED TWEET GENERATOR
[message] [#1|#2] [#3|#4] [#5|#6] [#7|#8] [#9|#10] [#11|#12] ...
There's not enough room here to fully explain the magnitude of this system which is why I brought out my step-by-step guide. Stampede works.
Have a play with the TWEET GENERATOR yourself.
Hunting and Fishing Trip
This is what we're after. Water buffalo. They're an introduced species that do a lot of damage and need to be culled out. We're happy to help ;) If I get one with horns half this size I'll be happy. Either way, the local Aborginal community will appreciate the meat. We'll probably cook it in a ground oven. Can't wait. Might be able to catch a pic of some tendrils of steam escaping the ground to get you salivating ...
Countdown clock: 31 days
Welcome
Once again welcome to all my new subscribers. It's very nice to have your company.
As always, don't forget to head on over to my Bunya Publishing site to grab a free eBook. An order button for STAMPEDE will be up and running shortly if you want to order a print book direct for yourself or a friend, otherwise I'd suggest you head on over to Amazon.
Catcha next time and please forward this newsletter to a friend.
Gary
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NEWSLETTER
June 2014
Series details at
Bunya Publishing
In This Edition
- Crikey
- Hunting and Fishing Trip
- Feedback
- News
- Book Reviewers
- Editors
- Welcome
Amazon eBooks
#1 Four Small Stones
#2 Tribal Scarring
#3 Walkabout
#4 Budgie Smugglers
#5 Bullies
#6 The Orphanage
#7 Bowels of Hell
#8 Final Straw
Our print books are also available from Amazon but they may not be available in your country. They're always available from:
Amazon.com
Bunya Publishing.
Services
- Consulting
- eBook Formatting
- Print Book Formatting
- eBook & Print Book Cover Design
- One-on-One eBook Formatting Training
Buzz
Have you enjoyed my books and would like to help spread the word? For a guide on how you can help, please visit my Buzz page. Thanks :)
Previous Newsletters
2014
April
May Crikey!
Is it a month already? I've been so busy putting my new How To book together that time has flown by. No it's not ready yet but it's really close. It's grown out of all proportions. So much so that I had to develop a special WordPress Plugin to use with the book. Can't tell you how excited I am with it all. I did a test presentation of the concept and the interest was way beyond anything I expected so I've been working day and night trying to finish it all off. Two more weeks at the most I reckon.
For anyone who missed last month's newsletter, here's a quick rehash of what this new How To book is all about.
Through trial and error, I developed a new marketing method that has been sending a staggering amount of customers to my Amazon book page. 300 to 500 every single day. The system runs on autopilot 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Since setting it up, I’ve done absolutely nothing, and yet my system keeps sending all those customers to my door every single day. It turns out that the system doesn’t just work for authors or Amazon, it will work for any business anywhere in the world. It uses the social networks but what’s best about it is you don’t need a social following at all, and the system runs completely and utterly free of charge. So that’s it in a nutshell. As I was hoping last month, hopefully you’ll be receiving the next newsletter early with news of its release.
Hunting and Fishing Trip
Full steam ahead with preparations for my month long hunting and fishing trip to the Northern Territory with my good mate Jeff. Our hunting rig scored some brand new tyres yesterday and we had to calculate if our petrol tank was big enough to get us from one petrol station to another. They're 1,000 kilometres apart on one section of our trip! And 800 kilometres of it is all dirt roads.
The rains have finally stopped up there which is a big relief because they've hung around longer than expected. We need time for the roads to dry out otherwise we won't be going anywhere. The Northern Territory is not the place to be in the wet.
Countdown clock: 63 days
I've been practicing. Got this rippa Flathead for tucker. But that's nothing, check out this monster Barramundi. That's what I'm going all the way to the Northern Territory for.
Feedback
My busy mate JB from Singapore finally got back to me with a short and sweet message about Final Straw. "Gary, I just read the latest book. It's extremely awesome! Will leave a review on Goodreads later. :)".
I'm always busting to know what JB thinks of my books but his life is leaving him with less and less time as he gets older. He's at Uni now and homework and exams are always on top of him. Thanks JB.
News
No news is good news ;)
Book Reviewers
Would you like to review any of my eBooks? Hit the email link below if you would and I'll shoot you a copy today.
Really well written review here by Stacie from BeachBoundBooks that I thought you might like to see. She's running a competition for one of my books too so drop on in and enter to win.
Editors
Would you like to join my crew of editors? I'm always looking for fresh perspectives on my stories so if you'd like to volunteer, shoot me an email.
Welcome
Welcome again to all my new subscribers. It's very nice to have your company.
As always, don't forget to head on over to my Bunya Publishing site to grab a book for yourself or a friend. I'll be putting up a pre-order button for the new How To book at some stage so get ready for it if you want one.
Catcha next time.
Gary
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NEWSLETTER
June 2014
Series details at
Bunya Publishing
In This Edition
- Crikey
- Hunting and Fishing Trip
- Feedback
- News
- Book Reviewers
- Editors
- Welcome
Amazon eBooks
#1 Four Small Stones
#2 Tribal Scarring
#3 Walkabout
#4 Budgie Smugglers
#5 Bullies
#6 The Orphanage
#7 Bowels of Hell
#8 Final Straw
Our print books are also available from Amazon but they may not be available in your country. They're always available from:
Amazon.com
Bunya Publishing.
Services
- Consulting
- eBook Formatting
- Print Book Formatting
- eBook & Print Book Cover Design
- One-on-One eBook Formatting Training
Buzz
Have you enjoyed my books and would like to help spread the word? For a guide on how you can help, please visit my Buzz page. Thanks :)
Previous Newsletters
2014
April
May Crikey!
Is it a month already? I've been so busy putting my new How To book together that time has flown by. No it's not ready yet but it's really close. It's grown out of all proportions. So much so that I had to develop a special WordPress Plugin to use with the book. Can't tell you how excited I am with it all. I did a test presentation of the concept and the interest was way beyond anything I expected so I've been working day and night trying to finish it all off. Two more weeks at the most I reckon.
For anyone who missed last month's newsletter, here's a quick rehash of what this new How To book is all about.
Through trial and error, I developed a new marketing method that has been sending a staggering amount of customers to my Amazon book page. 300 to 500 every single day. The system runs on autopilot 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Since setting it up, I’ve done absolutely nothing, and yet my system keeps sending all those customers to my door every single day. It turns out that the system doesn’t just work for authors or Amazon, it will work for any business anywhere in the world. It uses the social networks but what’s best about it is you don’t need a social following at all, and the system runs completely and utterly free of charge. So that’s it in a nutshell. As I was hoping last month, hopefully you’ll be receiving the next newsletter early with news of its release.
Hunting and Fishing Trip
Full steam ahead with preparations for my month long hunting and fishing trip to the Northern Territory with my good mate Jeff. Our hunting rig scored some brand new tyres yesterday and we had to calculate if our petrol tank was big enough to get us from one petrol station to another. They're 1,000 kilometres apart on one section of our trip! And 800 kilometres of it is all dirt roads.
The rains have finally stopped up there which is a big relief because they've hung around longer than expected. We need time for the roads to dry out otherwise we won't be going anywhere. The Northern Territory is not the place to be in the wet.
Countdown clock: 63 days
I've been practicing. Got this rippa Flathead for tucker. But that's nothing, check out this monster Barramundi. That's what I'm going all the way to the Northern Territory for.
Feedback
My busy mate JB from Singapore finally got back to me with a short and sweet message about Final Straw. "Gary, I just read the latest book. It's extremely awesome! Will leave a review on Goodreads later. :)".
I'm always busting to know what JB thinks of my books but his life is leaving him with less and less time as he gets older. He's at Uni now and homework and exams are always on top of him. Thanks JB.
News
No news is good news ;)
Book Reviewers
Would you like to review any of my eBooks? Hit the email link below if you would and I'll shoot you a copy today.
Really well written review here by Stacie from BeachBoundBooks that I thought you might like to see. She's running a competition for one of my books too so drop on in and enter to win.
Editors
Would you like to join my crew of editors? I'm always looking for fresh perspectives on my stories so if you'd like to volunteer, shoot me an email.
Welcome
Welcome again to all my new subscribers. It's very nice to have your company.
As always, don't forget to head on over to my Bunya Publishing site to grab a book for yourself or a friend. I'll be putting up a pre-order button for the new How To book at some stage so get ready for it if you want one.
Catcha next time.
Gary
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