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Top 5 Book Selling Tips


TIP # 1Online reviews are paramount in importance when it comes to drawing attention to your book. And the best part is, you're in control of your own destiny!If you haven't yet submitted your own review on sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, what are you waiting for? This should be one of the first steps for every published author.

Navigating the Amazon Sales Ranking


First, the disclaimers: Since the algorithm Amazon uses to generate its sales ranking is proprietary, the details contained herein are extrapolated from research and field tests. The resulting consensus finds Amazon's system to provide marginal sales data at best.

How to Schedule a Book Signing


How would you like to sell more copies of your book? Would you like to read excerpts from your book to a captivated audience?Book signings are the cornerstone of an author's post-publication foundation. But how do you set them up?Organizing book signings, readings, and public appearances is one of the most important parts of a successful marketing campaign.

Best Selling Book Cover Design


To get a book cover design may be expensive and painstaking one. Book cover and the layout of the inside pages should catch the eye of the readers in today's market.

Best Sellers Aren't Written - They're Made - It's All About Promotion


Writing a book is becoming more and more of a trend these days. In fact, an estimated 5,000 mystery books were published last year in the United States alone, and that number is expected to grow.

How To Market A Suspense Novel In An Online Multimedia Format


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How to Get More Readers For Your Book


Marketing your own book can seem like a scary task. You poured your heart and soul into the writing of it, and now when you think about marketing your masterpiece, you think, "I'm a writer, not a salesperson!"But there is a simple way you can get the word out about your book.

Publicity for Buzz Marketing for Authors


Congratulations, you've written a book and even gotten it published! Now, all you have to do is get people to buy it.Getting people to actually enter a bookstore with the purposeof buying your book is not easy because you're not a "brandname" yet.

Why Would I Buy Your Book? Six Steps to Your Tell and Sell - Part 1


How would you like to have countless people clamoring for your book and willing to visit your Web site to buy them? How would you even like to presell your self-published book before they are finished?Most authors and entrepreneurs wait until their Web site is designed before they think about marketing their products on it. What a shame!Let's say someone expresses an interest in your book.

Why Would I Buy Your Book? Six Steps to Your Tell and Sell - Part 2


How would you like to have countless people clamoring for your book and willing to visit your Web site to buy them? How would you even like to presell your self-published book before they are finished?Most authors and entrepreneurs wait until their Web site is designed before they think about marketing their products on it. What a shame!Six Steps to Build your Book's Bullet Proof "Tell and Sell"Part one of this article is available at www.

Successful Book Marketing The Natural Way - Part 1


Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, "I'm not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book" or "I just wish someone else could market my book for me"?If you could market your book a pleasurable way, you may not think it a chore. Natural marketing refers to the action you take to get the word out about your service and product that rings true to your heart.

Successful Book Marketing The Natural Way - Part 2


Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, "I'm not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book" or "I just wish someone else could market my book for me"?If you could market your book a pleasurable way, you may not think it a chore. Natural marketing refers to the action you take to get the word out about your service and product that rings true to your heart.

How to Make Money With Your Short Stories, Poems, Essays, and Novels


Recently, someone rated my "Online Book Marketing" article a 2 out of 5. That person apparently didn't like the article.

Get Rich Writing Fiction


Some of us write simply because we can't not write. Ideas grabus, move us, and demand to be written.

How to Send Press Releases to Newspapers About Your New Book


There are over ten thousand daily, weekly and monthly newspapers in the United States and Canada. For the first time author they are a valuable source of free publicity.

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