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January 2, 2014

A “NEW” Way of Book Marketing

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Even Ernest Hemingway,  Margaret Atwood, Tom ChiarellaGloria SteinemBrian Mockenhaupt and Stephen King did it:  Writing occasionally short stories and magazine articles – before blogs became fashionable. In several former posts we explained in detail how easy it is for writers to create content, such as blog articles and sell them to magazines and newspapers or write guest blogs read more here and here about brilliant book marketing and content writing.

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Don't-Limit-Yourself

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Literary Magazines

Writers don’t have literary magazines on their radar. But what many miss, is the fact that they offer the perfect opportunity for you to get your name and work available to the public.  However, before you offer articles to Literary Magazines: submit short pieces of work to build a portfolio of writing credits and therefore excellent connections.

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Use Your Writing Skills to Earn Money

Writing for magazines, newspapers or online articles will get you paid much faster than you ever will be for your book – and they will pay you more!

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Get your Name Out There

Establish your brand as a writer, get links back to your website or book sales page (there are often two links allowed in guest blogs).  As more articles or blogs you publish, as more visibility on the Internet is guaranteed – and as more readers learn about your books.

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Use Content Marketing to Promote Your Books

It’s about attracting the customer to you, the author, rather than paying for expensive advertisements. Entertain and educate first and sell second. Barely talk about your book. The old school thinking struggles with these new concepts.

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Where is Your Audience?

It is common knowledge for marketing professionals:  1% of any audience creates new ideas, 9% talk about the ideas, and the remaining 90% follows the conversation. By reaching the 1%, you can reach the 99%. It’s called “influencer” marketing.

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SEO and Content Marketing:

The rise of Web 2.0 and Social Media gave people the ability to find and share information with their friends. If you create convincing article / blog content, it will be distributed on its own, and when adding to your Google+ timeline, it will be ranked high by Google’s Search Engines.

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Stop acting like an Advertiser:



Content Marketing guaranties you more readers’ trust
Become a part of your readers lives without selling
At least half of your marketing effort should be Content Marketing
Content marketing creates a following “around” your (author) brand.
You can even make money with your content:
You can sell some of your images and your video
You can charge to read your blog or online magazine
Publishing content can be in a variety of media or formats, such as apps, print, web radio, social networks, video and even web TV

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Become a publisher and not just an advertiser! 

Jeff Bullas wrote in his valuable marketing blogs: “Thanks to Google, the role of content becomes more and more important. The reward is higher rankings and more visibility on the Internet for sites that offer unique content and a quality user experience. Use content marketing, writing articles that you might be able to sell and customers will come to you!”

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Writing content will not transform your book into an overnight success, but it is a wonderful option for a long-term strategy, to build an authors platform and it gives your readers a valuable sample of your writing.


In our online seminars – and also in weekend seminars (this spring in Eastern Canada and in the New England States) we help you to get ideas how to use your books’ content to write, promote and even how you can make more money with your art.


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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/ to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.


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Published on January 02, 2014 21:08

January 1, 2014

Wo bleibt denn der Pilot?

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Wo bleibt denn der Pilot?



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Published on January 01, 2014 21:49

December 31, 2013

Best Wishes for 2014

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Happy-New-Year.


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It’s this time of the year … where most of us think about improvements in our daily lives, including professional ambitions.  Whatever resolutions might be for the new year: If you are an author, and want to publish professionally and to have eventually bestselling books, it would be smart to learn everything you can about publishing possibilities and professional book marketing.


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How Can You Learn All About Publishing?  

Most of it online. There are so many helpful blogs and articles for writers out there, where you can learn everything about writing and publishing, for example from:


John Kremer

Jonathan Gunson

David Gaughran

Dean Wesley Smith

Rachel Gardener


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Learn-about-publishing


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More Writing & Publishing Resources

They are right in front of you! http://SavvyBookWriters.wordpress.com, where we give tons of advice from our 30+ years of publishing and book marketing experience – for FREE in almost one thousand! articles, including several thousand links to detailed information. Just sign up and you will get them regularly to your mailbox.


With many years of coaching and consulting authors in seminars and over the internet / phone about e-publishing and book marketing we can help you to build your author brand and platform and advice you about any question you might have as writer and self-publisher.


Another option is to sign up for free to our valuable – monthly – newsletter. In the first week of every month you will get lots of book marketing and publishing tips. Just go to any of our websites where you find the opt-in form:

http://www.111Publishing.com

http://www.international-ebooks.com/

http://www.e-book-PR.com/


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Our Online Seminars

Learn more about the changing world of publishing and the promotional part for your books – as nowadays literary agents and publishers first question to a potential author is: “what is your platform” or “what are your plans to market your book?” Traditional publishers no longer provide the marketing for authors, who must promote themselves and market their books.


Learn how to take advantage of all the available opportunities and resources to promote your work and yourself as an author to publishers and to your readers.

Ask yourself

Are you as well known as you could be?

Are your books selling as well as they should do?

Do you know the difference between the top 3% of authors and everyone else?

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Find out how to navigate the modern publishing world, get hundreds of valuable marketing tips during our Weekend Seminars or the one-on-one Online Seminars – and learn how to promote your book without even spending money for it.

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Get practical hands-on tips to market your book:



Identify your target readers and their demographic
Find out how to reach these readers online and off-line
Create your own brand and your author platform
Choose the type of publishing that is right for you
Navigate the pre-publishing process
Market and publicize your book successfully on a budget
Leverage your books’ content into other markets
Prepare your next bestseller
find free book publishing funding sources,
Government grants and tax deductions

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Helpful Publishing Guide Books

The grand-daddy of independent publishing, Dan Poynter started decades ago to write about self-publishing print books and wrote in detail about the process, including distribution. His many books on this topic include e-publishing as well.

Aaron Shepard is an authority in “Aiming at Amazon” and “POD for Profit” and how to prepare your books for e-book formatting and print.

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Writing Contests

Being short-listed or winning a writing contest is a fantastic promotional tool for your book.  Find the latest writing contests for all genres. This invaluable free blog provides news & guides to literary magazines and other resources for authors.

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/how-to-use-these-7-writingpublishing-resources/

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And now:  Don’t forget to look in the rear mirror and pad yourself on the shoulder! Recognize where you have been successful and what you already achieved during the last twelve months!


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Published on December 31, 2013 21:02

THANKS on December 31, 2013

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A big THANK YOU to all our readers for following us in 2013

All the very best for you for the next 365 days!

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If you would like to get more support in all things publishing, have your book intensively promoted and learn how to navigate social media sites – or to learn how you can make yourself a name as an author through content writing: We offer all this and more for only $159 for three months! Learn more about this individual book marketing help: http://www.111Publishing.com/Seminars

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Published on December 31, 2013 01:44

December 30, 2013

Your Big Vision for 2014

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Your-Vision


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Questions You Might Think About at the End of the Year:


What is your vision for you and your books?

What will be your next activity, how will you publish and promote it?

What steps are you taking immediately to implement it?

What is, or could be, holding you back from going that next step?

What could happen if you would start today – bringing your vision to life?

Does procrastination make people happy?


I stopped ten years ago to watch TV – and it saves me at least 10-15 hours every week.

Would it be a big loss for you to miss those dump sit-coms on TV (which consist to 50% of advertising) and instead write blogs and articles in order to improve your career as an author?


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Success


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Jonathan Gunson wrote: “Success is based on patience and the willingness to devote decades of your life to building an audience as a writer. Something a lot of new self-publishers don’t (want to) seem to understand. One of the most common questions I get is: “I published a book, but can’t figure out how to get it in front of people.” That’s because it takes time. Time that includes daily attention to promotion  … for years.”

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“But if you are wanting an income from books, then give it the time it deserves. Every other profession requires an internship, a journeyman level, then eventually a master of expertise. Same with writing/publishing!”

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Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, a worldwide brand, …. said in an interview:

“Most of us have barriers that can pull us off track – and in some cases, stop us flat. When your vision is in play, they become mere detours – something that you will figure out, how to quickly redirect and keep on going.”


The mega success that Richard Branson has enjoyed had plenty of hiccups, you can count on it! But Branson had this big picture – what is YOUR big picture?


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If you would like to get more support in all things publishing, have your book intensively promoted and learn how to navigate social media sites – or to learn how you can make yourself a name as an author through content writing: We offer all this and more for only $159 for three months! Learn more about this individual book marketing help: http://www.111Publishing.com/Seminars

Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/  to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.


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Published on December 30, 2013 21:43

December 29, 2013

Book Fairs: The Do’s and Don’ts

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During these last days of the old year, equipped with brand new calendars, you might be sitting down to plan the marketing for your book(s) in 2014. Which Book Fairs or other Literary Events will you attend in the coming months to present your work?

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Carefully Check Out the Fair Organizer

Before you sign up and spend any money, let the organizers show you how they promote this book fair in detail. Don’t settle for general statements, such as: “We advertise everywhere in the area” or “Our clients post it all over the Internet and on Social Media”. Rather inquire and ask detailed questions:



How many shows did they previously organize and how was the outcome?
Which advertisements did they purchase for this upcoming book fair?
To which audience (in follower numbers) and how often do they announce it on Social Media?
Which articles did they prepare and where will it be published, and to how many readers?
What is the percentage of recurring exhibitors?
Can they give you names of exhibitors / authors you might contact about their experience?

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Make sure that organizing a book fair is not an attempt for this company to make a fast buck, but rather to promote authors and their books, considering that you have the cost of buying a table, transportation / parking costs, promoting, maybe accommodation and restaurant bills or even expenses to have a helper at your booth.

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These tips might help you to evaluate if it is worth to attend the book fair.  I visited lots of great organized and promoted exhibitions – but here is an example how the event organizers and even authors can spoil the experience for visitors:

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Can it Get Any Worse?

Last Fall I attended a Book Fair, organized by a large group of author-publishers. My expectations were pretty low, as I feared, it was not sufficiently advertised, such as in their earlier book events.  And it was in fact even worse…

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Barely Advertised:

Instead of writing articles about the show, listing the authors that were present and rave about their books – and distribute these articles at least through all the local papers for free – there was nothing publicized…. Not even on Google+ nor on Goodreads’ free event sites was this book fair advertised, which would have cost them not a dime.

Only one promotional article about one of the organizers was published, also not directly about the show, but rather about his achievements in writing a huge number of books (which averaged exactly 72 copies sold per title…).

The book fair was neither advertised at local online magazines nor in print (for a very low fee) in newspaper event pages. Even their own website did not show a proper invitation for the public – instead an announcement for members to purchase a table at the show.  Members were encouraged to send out tweets to the public to purchase a table!  Did they mean instead of visiting a book fair to rent their tables? A promotional disaster!

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Inconvenient Layout:

The book fair was set up on the second floor of a recreational facility. The room itself was very long and narrow, a wheel chair could barely roll through between the tables, without touching books and throwing them to the floor. I watched as visitors were polite and stepped back or sidewards to let wheel chairs pass. When looking at the books or purchase something, the people in wheelchairs felt embarrassed as they blocked inadvertenly the whole aisle.


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Self-Published-Looking Book Covers

Only two of about 150 books showed a professional cover – all others screamed: “self-published”. OK, some of the covers could work for a print book, potential customers in bookstores could read all the details on the front and back cover, but they were mostly available as e-books too, and I imagined them on Internet retailer sites, among many other books with professional covers displayed … where they would be difficult to read due to the small print.


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Lack of Displays

Most of the books were laid out flat on the tables and visitors had to lean over in order to read the title. There are so many inexpensive Acryl presentations available to show books upright!  Just visit a trade book fair, such as Book Expo NY, Frankfurt Book Fair and see how professional publishing houses present their books. Or get a video from these fairs on YouTube to see how a book presentation should look like.


Only one of the authors at the show had a background display – a real attention-grabber – showcasing the cover of one of his titles. It was one of these roll-out display posters that one can carry very easily, being not much bigger than a golf umbrella when dissembled ……. URL

Other book exhibitors did not invest a single dollar in display and had in the best case a copy of their book cover or a 8×11′ black & white computer print-out “poster” with the book title on it, pinned to the wall behind them.


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No Credit Cards

Everybody knows how easy it is to spend money when you don’t have to pay with cash. I overheard several times that patrons said: “I have to leave it with this one book, as I don’t have enough cash with me”. Another said: “I just found out by chance about this book exhibition, but I don’t have any money with me”.

So, why not making it easy for customers and accept credit cards or any of the new ways of paying digitally? Nothing easier than this: use one of these “Square Cards” or bring your smart phone of iPad with you and let people pay, using their PayPal account – or even better, sending you the money by email / online banking (available at Canadian bank accounts, not sure if available in other countries) – right at your exhibition booth! Make it as easy as possible for people to buy your books!


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Approachable or Unfriendly?

For a couple of hours I watched authors how they approached potential patrons, at their book tables. I asked everyone of the authors, why they wrote this book (lots of memoirs there!), what’s the background of their novel, or how long it took them to write it, how they were promoted it. It was a mixed bag: Some where cheerful talking about their writing process, the background story etc., while others only asked which one of their books I wanted to buy, and when I was not taking out my purse right away, they turned around and talked with their neighbors. Wow, I was pretty astonished – and guess who’s books I bought?


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One Book Seller Stood Out

Her book, Kathleen’s Cariole Ride was available in print and digital form. She bundled both, similar to the book bundles that Amazon offers now. And almost everyone of her print book customers bought a digital version too, which she offered for only $1 at a promotional price, either for themselves or as a gift. How she did it? She brought two tools her: an iPad and a small poster. As soon as someone declared to buy the paperback, she pointed out to her poster and showed them her Amazon page on her iPad. When readers saw the official book price on Amazon and compared it to her offer at the book show, they could not resist to get the e-book too.

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Conclusion:

Why make all the effort to write and spend the money to publish a book?  I know that some of these authors at the book show had paid thousands of dollars to a Vanity book company to get their book(s) “published”. Why then not invest a couple of dollars in presenting their work properly?

Again: Writing is an art – Publishing is a business! I hope these examples give you food for thought and encourage you to present your books professional at this year’s book shows. And a word to book show organizers: Don’t just fleece authors and sell tables, but offer them value in promoting the book event professionally. You can do it even for free, using all these new media possibilities out there!


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If you would like to get more support in all things publishing, have your book intensively promoted and learn how to navigate social media sites – or to learn how you can make yourself a name as an author through content writing: We offer all this and more for only $159 for three months! Learn more about this individual book marketing help: http://www.111Publishing.com/Seminars

Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/

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Please check out all previous posts of this blog (there are more than 970 of them : ) if you haven’t already. Why not sign up to receive them regularly by email? Just click on “Follow” in the upper line on each page – and then on “LIKE” next to it. There is also the “SHARE” button underneath each article where you can submit the article to Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and StumpleUpon.

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Published on December 29, 2013 21:07

December 28, 2013

How to Cultivate Professional Publishing ?

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Authors are now often forced to hire their own editors – before even submitting their manuscripts for publication. Toronto literary agent Anne McDermid saw the landscape changing two years ago, when a publisher told her: “I cannot purchase a book (manuscript) for which I need to spend 40 hours editing. We are now advising our authors that the material they present has got to be closer to the final draft than it ever used to be.”

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Sometimes the agents themselves act as pre-editors. The biggest-growing sector in Canadian publishing (and in other countries as well) is the freelance editor. With more than 1,600 members, the freelance-dominated Editors Association of Canada is “the largest membership organization in the Canadian arts community.

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Along with booming self-publishing services that offer various levels of editing as value-added options, a cottage industry of independent contractors is quickly replacing the fabled tastemakers who once shaped literary destiny …

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Read the whole article from Globe&Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/where-have-all-the-book-editors-gone/article565446/


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Or visit http://www.e-book-pr.com/book-promo/ to advertise your new book, specials, your KDP Select Free Days or the new Kindle Countdown Deals.


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Published on December 28, 2013 21:08

December 27, 2013

Goodreads Giveaway: Thriller by Peter Standish Evans

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OMINOUS: BORDERS: COFFEE:   

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Set in PARIS, this thriller surges ominously through the psyche of modern Europe. …transport yourself to the mean streets… set in the vibrant suburbs of PARIS, this thriller surges ominously through the psyche of modern Europe… conflict is rife; danger is everywhere. Be warned, watch your back …


Tension ramps as borders, emotional, sexual & psychotic are stormed, and these threats weave danger for the fanatic lovers of coffee and the creative arts.


An obsessive and beautiful classical violinist is pitted against a malevolent killer; it’s summer in modern Europe & the cafés and bistros hum with robust and colorful activity.  Inspector Vasseur sits at his favorite table on a battered sidewalk. Alone he drinks on hot summer nights, his instincts grappling with the mysterious case of innocent deaths along the River Seine.

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OMINOUS: BORDERS: COFFEE:   (The Paris Thriller) will be a dog-eared and red wine stained addition to your book collection.


Paperback, 280 pages, $8.99

e-book $4.99

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About the Author:

Peter Standish Evans lives with a deep love of both creative writing and vibrant reading. He spends significant time exploring the works of new writers, buying first editions where able.


Writing his novel ‘Ominous: Borders: Coffee’ (The Paris Thriller) was an exploration into the borders of ‘characterisation’, and an occasion to fuse ominous fiction with a touch of dangerous poetry, so lending depth to a troubled character. In this novel, the author explores the emotional, sexual and psychotic traits of those pitted for and against evil.


He is currently writing the second novel in the series, with the working title ‘the circle of dark squares’… once again featuring the Parisian Inspector, Jean-Luc Vasseur.


He has a published poetry collection ‘Red Winds Howl’, which has been described as “a blend of 303 bullets and tequila”. A second poetry compilation is being readied for release, featuring his poems from the 21st century. This collection titled ‘Deep Red Lands’ will be published in 2014.

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ENTER to WIN the GOODREADS GIVEAWAY:

Peter Standish Evans’ Thriller “Ominous: Borders: Coffee”

Giveaway dates: December 20 – January 05, 2014

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18158959-ominous?ac=1


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Published on December 27, 2013 21:00

December 26, 2013

Did You Know? e-Book Giveaways

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e-Book Givaways !!!

If you’re an independently published author, then book giveaways are a powerful way to get a lot of exposure – and your book in the hands of new readers, who might even write reviews. We wrote several times about Goodreads Giveaways, here is one example of a Giveaway … Peter Evans ?

On the other hand: Goodreads only allows print books as Giveaways. If you have only e-books: there are ways to print a handful of books, once you have an ISBN. However, there are competitors to Goodreads, who offer e-Book Giveaways for members:


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BookLikes

In terms of features and functionality, BookLikes is similar to GoodReads. Of course, they don’t have nearly the traffic that Goodreads does, so you should not expect similar results if you have done a book giveaway there in the past. If GoodReads allowed e-Book giveaways, they would be almost perfect in my mind. But since they don’t, sites like BookLikes are another alternative for authors who don’t publish print books.


 


To list your book giveaway on BookLikes, sign up for a free account and click on the giveaways link when you are logged in. On the next page, there should be a tab at the top of the page in the main navigation that says “Create Your Giveaway.”


 


You will be asked for the same info as the other sites in the form on the following page.  Their rules seem to have been almost copied directly from Goodreads, as they appear to be identical.


The only real (and great!) difference is, that you can choose to pick the winners of the giveaway yourself and they allow eBooks!


 


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December 25, 2013

How to Let Publicity Work For You

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News-Media

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Have you (and your book) been mentioned in a national newspaper, such as USA Today, Chicago Tribune or the NY Times? Or your hometown newspaper? Have you been interviewed by a local radio station? Endorsements of traditional media, even if it’s simply mentioning your name, is marketing gold if you are trying to get a book into more readers hands. Don’t miss to let everyone know about it:


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Post it on Your Author Pages

Authors barely ever use all the space they get on their Amazon or Goodreads author pages. Scan the article or parts of it and add it as a photo to your page. If it was a video interview, get a copy to place it on YouTube and all free video sharing sites and certainly on all your author pages at online retailers.

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Let People on Social Media Know

No matter if it was an article or a taped interview, post it on all the forums you are a member with, including a link, an image or a quote.

This can be done more frequently on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – and with images on Pinterest. You can even mention and promote upcoming shows on your site – and on theirs. And certainly post after the show how awesome it was.

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Add it to Your e-Book

Why not adding snippets of the article (quote or image of the article, or a link to the video) as endorsement into your e-book, either in the first introduction pages or at the end of the book?

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Post it on Your Website and Blog

The endorsements implied by recognition from the media make you appear more trustworthy and credible – and thus more appealing – than your competition.

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Use it as Reference for Speaking Engagements

When applying you will greatly boost your chances of getting the gig if the people, hiring speakers know that you have received media attention. Make sure it’s on your speaker profile and in your marketing material.


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Whether you have paid someone to help you get media exposure or you have done the work yourself, you have made an investment in Public Relation. Get a great return on that investment and leverage the rewards for a long time, provided, you put it to work for you!


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