Posts Tagged ‘book marketing’
How to use your book to build your business
In the third section of Book Marketing Made Simple, I mention dozens of ways you can use your book to build your business. And actually you don’t need to wait for your book to be finished, published and launched to do some of these. Your book is the vehicle that enables you to educate and widen…
Read More10 ways to make money from writing a book
Writing a book takes a lot of time, right? And what happens? You start with good intentions to write your book then life gets in the way. Attracting client work takes priority as you can see how that can bring in an income to your business, and the book keeps on going on the back-burner. Sound…
Read MoreThunderclap – a book launch promotion tool
Do you want to get your message out to thousands of people and tell them about your book? One of the ways I’m promoting my upcoming book launch is by using a tool called Thunderclap. Described as an online flash mob, it’s a great way to get a message out to many social media followers…
Read MoreShould you give away a free book?
Why would you give away a free book? My top tip for day 26 in the Book Marketing Challenge is to give away free copies of your book. What do you think about this strategy? Are you horrified or does it make some sense? Writing a book to build your business isn’t just about making money from…
Read MoreWhy your book needs Amazon reviews
I was recently recommended a book by a member of my community, and automatically went onto Amazon to find it. Although it was only recently released, it had no Amazon reviews. Putting your book on Amazon and hoping isn’t enough if you want it to build your business. And I’m sure that you want to sell…
Read MoreBook PR – How to get more publicity for your book
On Monday I interviewed my good friend Esther Harris from Bookollective, and she shared her top tips to get book PR. You can listen to the interview here. As a new author, there are many things you can do to get more publicity. Things like talking about your book to anyone who will listen (especially…
Read MoreBook offer – want a free copy of my new book?
If you missed my webinar earlier this week, you’ll have missed the big reveal of the cover of my new book, Book Marketing Made Simple, which will be out in May. Book offer – read on to find out how you can get a free copy 🙂 This book came about because I found that…
Read MoreThe 3 stages of book marketing
Many people leave their book marketing until it’s too late, as mentioned in a recent blog post. They fail to build their community whilst they’re writing their book or put the systems into place to make marketing easy. And others run out of steam during or after they publish. Then they wonder why they ever started writing…
Read MoreWhat is a business building book?
I talk a lot about writing a business building book, so I thought it might be useful to define what I mean. A business building book is one that is aligned to a business that you run already or may be focusing on a niche area where you want to get known. It’s about bring…
Read MoreWhen do you need to start marketing your book?
One of the things that many people don’t think about when they start to write their book is marketing it. They start with an idea, they may well plan it out, develop their structure and then they begin writing their book. Many brilliant authors fail to market their book until the writing is well underway.…
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