Take Stock of your Web Presence

by Alice Anderson
Learn how to build your brand by organizing your online profiles and keeping them updated.
Some would say it’s no longer enough to write a good book. Now an author must promote, not only her book, but herself. The latest buzzword is “author platform.” Evidently, “author platform” is what editors and agents are looking [...]

Get More Mileage From Your Postcard Marketing – 10 Easy Tips

by David Handmaker
Each day people are surrounded by advertising everywhere they
go. How do you get your message to stand out from the rest and
be noticed by your future customer? An eye-catching postcard is
the quickest and most cost-effective way to get big results for
your business. Follow these ten tips for postcard marketing and
your direct mail response [...]

Create A News-List Instead of a Newsletter

“You Need To Publish A Newsletter if You’re Going To Be Successful!”
Gee..where have I heard that before?
So, what’s the purpose of editing and publishing a newsletter? Well, we
all know the answer to that by now also.
You need to have a mailing list of opt-in
subscribers in order to promote and sell your product or service.
Let’s look [...]

Marketing an Ebook By Darrel Hill

Marketing an ebook can be a challenge without the right information and tools. Ebooks are attractive to marketers because they offer the highest sales commission of any other affiliate product. When marketing a physical affiliate product, you can expect to earn between 4 and 6 % commission. But marketing an ebook can bring in as [...]

Writing for Publicity

By David Callan – www.akamarketing.com
Building your reputation online is one of the most important
thing you can do to aid the success of your Internet business.
One of the most popular ways among the “Internet gurus” to do
this is to provide highly useful, interesting and profitable
information to people interested in your industry.
When people see you as a [...]

Increase Website Traffic With Links To Your Website

by Anton Cheranev
The sole purpose for having your own website is for having
people visit it. In order for people to know that your website
exists, you must advertise to show the online community who you
are, what you do and what you can do for them. Advertising your
website to create more website traffic is possible by having [...]

Book Marketing – Creating Sales!

by Lee Masterson
Many authors begin their publishing journey with the belief that every book
must be distributed through traditional channels in order to be noticed, and
therefore successful. Following this path, however, may lead you to the
unhappy discovery that your books are not selling as well as you may have
hoped.
The good news here is that many indirect [...]

Ten Top Reasons Authors Need a Web Site

Judy Cullins c. 2003 All Rights Reserved.
You may think, “Why not let other Web sites sell my book?”
That’s a good plan to get started, but one of the dangers is that
book-selling sites may not pay you on time, pay you enough,
or just go by the wayside because of low profits. They pay
around 30% royalties for [...]

Promo Tips for your blog

1. Join in on Memes. Things like Wordless Wed. and Thursday Thirteen. People do click the links. This is a great way to have ready content for your blog and get links back to your blog.
2. Try Top 5 or Top 10 lists…. these are pretty easy to come up with and you could do [...]

So You Want To Be In Pictures

by Mary Eason

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps hiding out in the same cave as Osma, the chances are you’ve seen one book trailer at the very least. If you are an author, you may have tried your hand at creating one, or if your talents don’t tend to gravitate in that [...]