Book reviews help sell books. But how to you make your review into work horses? Pro marketer Carolyn Howard-Johnson tells you how.
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10 Top Book Marketing Strategies
Here are 10 of the most important tips to bring you and your books visibility and credibility, boost your mailing list, and boost sales.
Author Website Must-Have Elements
Most of my clients self-publish and I know they don’t realize they should have an author website. Even if it’s simply a landing page, about page and book page, authors need a website. And your landing page, as well as your entire site, should be focused on a specific keyword or couple of related keywords….
6 Must-Know Book Marketing Basics
As a children’s ghostwriter, I’ve written well over 300 stories for clients. The thing I notice is that most of my clients don’t realize that simply writing a book doesn’t guarantee any sales. It can be an excellent, high-quality book, but there are just too many books in cyber-space to be noticed. You’re just a…
Book Marketing On a Budget for Your Newly Published Book
The purpose of this article is to emphasis how important it is to market your book. If you don’t, you won’t get any sales and just as bad, no one will read a story you’ve slaved over. The other purpose is to explain the strategies I used, am using, and will use to promote my book.
5 Tips to Determine Your Audience and Target Market
I recently had a query from a potential client about a picture book series. As we spoke on the phone, he said he already created the first book with the help of a graphic designer. He said the book is kind of a coffee table book. People would buy it because it looks good and…
Self-Publishing a Book – Steps to Upload Your Book for Publishing
You have your book’s print-ready file in hand. Now it’s time to upload it to a retailer or aggregator for distribution and sales. But, how do you go about doing this?
2 Book Marketing Must Do Elements
I’ve been reading a lot of articles on book marketing and this led me to think more and more about what happens to my clients when I’m done with the manuscript. While doing-it-yourself on Amazon is an option to create an ebook, the majority of my clients prefer to have it done for them. This…
Every Author Needs to Know About Book Marketing
Years ago, my focus was book marketing and content marketing, but I ended up gravitating more and more toward writing, specifically children’s writing. Why the change? The thing is, writing has a beginning, middle, and end; marketing and selling your book is never-ending. And, the information you need to write about changes a lot. I…
Visuals in Your Book Marketing
If you’re an author, you’ll need to market you and your books. The first thing is you’ll need an author website and visuals should be a part of it. You’ll need visuals for your header, your pages, and each of your blog posts. You’ll also need headers / banners for your social media networks, like…