With many authors at home these days, we’ve suddenly got more time for the things we “should” do—including book marketing. In a recent online meeting of our writer’s group, our theme was marketing in general, and book marketing for those of us who have books we need to promote. But how ...
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Affiliate Marketing In 60 Minutes With Easy, Fast Websites
Looking for a side hustle? As you may know, my day job is in marketing. At a recent writers’ group meeting, I got into a discussion about affiliate marketing. Several members are veteran affiliate marketers of various products and online stores. They shared some good advice for ...
Social Media: 3 Ideas For Your 2020 Content Calendar
Love it or hate it, social media promotion is essential for authors. A friend and I were commiserating that social media is so challenging. It’s easy to spend half an hour on Facebook without achieving anything. Neither of us could work out whether social media was worth ...
Blogging For Book Marketing: 5 Quick Tips For Authors
A reader asks: “I’ve heard about blogs for book marketing, but what should I blog about? I write cozy mysteries, and work full-time.” That’s a great question. The short answer is of course, that you can blog about anything you like — it’s your blog, so you decide. The major longterm benefit of ...
2 Vital (And Easy) Book Marketing Secrets You Can Use Today
In our writer’s group meeting last month we chatted about book marketing. Here’s what surprised me. Each and every one of us was convinced that no matter what kind of marketing we were doing, we were doing it “wrong.” That is, we were convinced that: We’d chosen a marketing method that was ...
Book Marketing: 4 Easy Tips To Sell More Books Using Images
The biggest challenge in book marketing is a simple one. How do you find the TIME to market your books (and ebooks too of course)? One of the authors in our writing group ordered glitzy bookmarks and postcards to market her latest release. It was a great idea. However she’s found that marketing ...
