Marketing Tips Around The Net: April 1st

It's Friday, and that means it's time for us to go around the net to find book marketing posts that have caught my eye this week. You know the routine... grab a cup of your favorite beverage and settle into some great reading.



1. Authors should model ebooks & one sheets that sell at a glance- Roger C. Parker discusses modeling a strategy to attract large followings and lucrative speaking invitations.



2. Your Book Launch: Soft or Hard?- Joel Friedlander discusses two types of launches you can use when you're ready to release your book to the public.



3. Author Blogs – Use Categories to Organize Your Posts- Dana Lynn Smith teaches you how to organize the material on your blog to make it easy for people to find. She follows up with a post titled, Author Blogs – Avoid Common Mistakes when Using Categories, where she continues the discussion.



4. How to Choose the Perfect Website Type for You- MaAnna Stephenson takes a step back with the author who needs to decide just how to use a website for their online presence.



5. Be Social Media Savvy If Launching a Website for a New Business- How social media savvy is your website? Phyllis Zimbler Miller shares her advice with you.



6. How [not] to deal with negative reviews of your ebook- Steven Lewis chimes in on the book review train wreck this week and follows up with his observations in a post titled, I can't look.



7. Ten Reasons Why You Should be Blogging- Penny Sansevieri gives you rock-solid reasons why you should be blogging.



8. Writer's Block. Take Note- Joanna Penn invites Leanne Dyck to share some strategies for breaking through writer's block.



9. What to do about a Negative Review?- Walt Shiel gives his advice on how to handle a negative book review.



10. Q&A a la Ann Landers: That "Selling Books" Thing Again- Carolyn Howard-Johnson has a Q&A with a reader who asks her if she sells many books on Author's Den.



11. How to Get Reviews for Self-Published Books- Jane Friedman invites guest Joel Friedlander to talk about getting reviews for your self-published books.



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13. Free Video Editing Software and Other Cool Video Tools- Shelley Hitz shares another amazing list, this time of free video editing software.



14. Podcasts Are Coming Of Age- Alan Baxter talks about how podcasts have matured as a communication medium.



15. Q & A: Publishing Your Book Digitally- BookBuzzr sits down with Joanna Penn and Gary Smailes for a discussion on publishing books digitally.



16. Traditional publishing is not evil—or why Amanda Hocking made a good decision by signing with St. Martin's- Sue Collier gives her take on the decision that Amanda Hocking made to sign with a traditional publisher.



17. Improve Domain Authority for a Better Blog Ranking- Darren Rowse invites R Dilip Kumar to discuss how you can improve your blog ranking.



18. 5 New Dynamic View Templates for Blogger Blogs [Video]- Quick Online Tips has created a video to explain Blogger's new dynamic view templates they just rolled out.



19. The Anatomy of a Free (Read that Promotional!) E-Book- BookBuzzr invites Carolyn Howard-Johnson to share how free e-books can make great promotional tools.



20. The Author Uprising Against Big Publishing- Mark Coker talks about a revolution going on in the publishing industry.



That's it for this week's trip around the net. I'll see you tomorrow with another cool Resource Of The Week.



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Tony Eldridge is the author of The Samson Effect , an action/adventure novel that Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure." He is also the author of the Twitter marketing book, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests .












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