You can have the best book in the world, but if no one knows about it, no one will buy it; publicity, promotion, marketing and a focus on selling more books should now be a big part of your daily life. Authors, self publishers and book publishers can be very unhappy when they see boxes [...]
How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
It’s one thing to write a book, but an entirely different thing to write one that’s saleable, viable, and marketable. Whether you’ve just published a book or have a book that isn’t selling, now is the time to get to it; start marketing today! Your book selling, book marketing, and book promotion planning should begin [...]
I’ve just published a collection of poetry that I wrote as a teenager. Now that it’s published, I would like to proceed with marketing but have exhausted the few resources I have. Can anyone recommend any web resources?
Luckily in this day in age, the internet makes it easy for people to get word [...]
Just too good an idea to pass up.
Health keeps coming up as some outrageously searched-for keyword. Helps that ‘Boomers are getting older (and Europe/Japan have worse problems than ours) and so they are all interested in extending their health and lives.
Search Google Trends for “health, life, nutrition, diet, fitness”. See what I mean? The things [...]
Just too good an idea to pass up.
Health keeps coming up as some outrageously searched-for keyword. Helps that ‘Boomers are getting older (and Europe/Japan have worse problems than ours) and so they are all interested in extending their health and lives.
Search Google Trends for “health, life, nutrition, diet, fitness”. See what I mean? The things [...]
I'm writing a marketing plan on a new success book to be sold in many nations
The first question is how is it published? self published or by a publisher? If you have a publisher, they will help you with selling the book and you can arrange for book signings at book stores.
If you are [...]
Have you developed your book’s marketing plan yet? You know now really is better than later. There are 2 facts to realize in developing your promotion plan. Realize it begins the day you conceive your book idea and never ends.
The other is the more you write the better you become at it. You need [...]
If you’ve written a ‘how to’ book you’ll find people are always seeking ‘how to’ information making your book easy to sell; in fact the most sought after items on the Internet are information products. Authors, self publishers and book publishers can be very unhappy when they see boxes of books delivered from the printer, [...]
For online marketing you just can beat "Call to action" by Bryan Eisenberg and Jeffery Eisenberg
Its a big thick hardbound book, although I think they have a softcover. I have read hundreds of books on marketing and this is by far the most comprehensive. It's all about conversion and this book makes that very clear.