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March 24, 2015
How Much to Charge for Your Book?
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How to price your book?
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Once your book is created and ready to upload onto Amazon, pricing will quickly became an issue. You don’t want the price be too high and loose sales, but you also don’t want to go too low and wait forever until your editing, formatting, and book cover design cost are covered – not even to speak of your writing time, possible copyright and lSBN fees, and certainly the online retailers cut.
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Lots of Considerations…
There are so many facts that can influence how to...
March 22, 2015
Part 2 of “How to Get More Visitors to Your Website or Blog”
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You don’t need to be a web designer or Search Engine Optimization(SEO) specialist in order to implement these steps without any problem. There is no magic way to rank your website in the first page of Google, Bing or Yahoo. Search engines have complex algorithms and it takes some effort to show them that your web site or page deserves one of the top spots.
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Add a Privacy Policy Page.
A website’s privacy policy page is a must! Adding privacy policy, terms of use, and disclaimer pages to...
March 19, 2015
How to Get More Visitors to Your Website / Blog
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On Google alone over 110 billion average searchesare conducted per month. How will potential readers find your blog article, your website or even your books? To increase traffic to your website, reader loyalty and publishing revenues, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is very important.
I ask clients always how they found us, and from their answers I can determine that the majority found us through “googling”. With just a couple of small steps, blog and website owners can already do a lot...
March 17, 2015
Fantasy Lovers: The Ghostcrow
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Today’s interview guest is Kay Theodoratus, a prolificFantasy writerwho published almost a dozen short stories. She welcomes readersto her magical, paranormal world and describes it:“Fantasy, a wonderful way to run away from mundane annoyances.”
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Kay, thanks a lot for taking the time for your readers, Fantasy lovers and fans.
How would you describe your book to someone who has not yet read it?
The Ghostcrow is a supernatural fantasy where Dumdie Swartz learns there are worse things in...
March 15, 2015
4 Ways to Set up Your Online Bookstore
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Most authors are pointing from their website or blog to their book’s sales pages at different retailers. And hopefully they are in an affiliate program with these large retailers, in order to receive four percent revenue additionally for their titles. But why not sell directly from the website?These days authors can choose from several well established and easy to integrate shopping systems for websites.
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What are the Benefits for Authors?
Take advantage of these fantastic benefits of s...
March 13, 2015
Book Marketing on a Shoestring
. Book Marketing on a Shoestring is available: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UAVL3LE atAmazon for only $3.99 . OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS: . PART ONE Why Book Marketing is Important–and Rewarding. How Readers Will Find Your Book. Author/Entrepreneur– Do You Have What it Takes? Marketing Possibilities Seem to Be Overwhelming! The Internet is Full...
Launch March 16: Book Marketing on a Shoestring
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Don’t miss this offer:
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How Authors Can Promote their Books Without Spending a Lot of Money Book Marketing on a Shoestring is available:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UAVL3LE
on Amazon for Pre-Salefor only $2.99, until launch day March 16.
. OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS:
. PART ONE Why Book Marketing is Important–and Rewarding. How Readers Will Find Your Book. Author/Entrepreneur– Do You Have What it Takes? Marketing Possibilities Seem to Be Overwhelming...
March 12, 2015
Comparison Book Promotion Google+ vs Facebook
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Last summer we switched our computer systems from Microsoft to Apple.After the data transfer I wanted to log into the Facebook accounts – and was denied. The tech gorilla forced us to identify images of our “friends” at Facebook including their party images, baby images, random objects and drunken folks… I was furious and tried to get hold of the guy from Pakistan who had helped us in a similar case two years ago – but to no avail. I could not get hold of him anymore. I had enough and dec...
March 10, 2015
7 Grants / Residencies for Writers
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It’s this time of the year… No, and I don’t mean tax time, I am talking about applying for writers residencies and grants! Are you living in the United Kingdom, USA or Canada? The following grants, fellowships or writers residencies are mostly offered on a yearly basis, sometimes even twice a year. Besides free accommodation, writers often receive a stipend and travel expenses paid. A great way for writers to get out of their routine, find solitude and time to write in order to advance thei...
March 8, 2015
Difference Between Copyright and Trademark?
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Copyright law protects the contents of your book, while trademark law protects the brand you create by marketing yourself and your work. For example:J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter are trademarks – not only the books but also the films. Warner Bros, the studio behind the Harry Potter films, has trademarked the titles of JK Rowling’s fictional Quidditch teams, experts and books. Visiting J.K. Rowling’s website you can also read: “Website and pulsing right TM and J.K. Rowling 2012.” J.K. Rowling’...
