Have you ever sent cold emails to bloggers requesting their help in promoting your content or book? Experienced any success with such cold emails? This article will be about some simple ways to form relationships with bloggers in your niche to increase your web presence and brand. Also, within the process, you will gain valuable [...]
Hootsuite – Using Basic Analytics For Effective Twitter Engagement
Are you sure your tweets are effectively reaching people? Do you know how many times a link in your tweet is clicked? You don’t need an expensive program to help improve your twitter engagement. You don’t even need to spend $1. The free version of Hootsuite provides some pretty useful, basic analytics so that your [...]
Vocus PR – 3 Great Attributes and 2 Things to be Careful of
How do you tell people about recent news and new products for your business? Don’t miss out on the effective opportunity to tell people about your business through press releases. Vocus PR is a popular online press release service. It is currently the most highly trafficked news release site on the Web. A partner with [...]
3 Great Features of Aweber & 1 Helpful Hint
This is a follow-up to our previous article on how to build and maintain a successful mailing list. How you do reach out to each subscriber on your list effectively, efficiently, and flawlessly? Using a reliable email autoresponder is critical in reaching out to your subscribers, as it impacts customer satisfaction and subscriber loyalty. Aweber [...]
4 Ways to Grow and Sustain a Successful Mailing List
Social media is the only way to connect with your audience. False. Email marketing is a super powerful yet personal way to form special relationships with your customers. Combine that with social media…then your marketing efforts are pretty solid. Growing a successful mailing list 1. Be creative with your call to action Don’t be generic [...]
Goodreads – A social media platform for book lovers
Do you use social media to market and help sell your book(s)? Goodreads is an online community of readers, book lovers, authors, and publishers that share their virtual bookshelves with each other. It provides a great open network for not only promoting books, but also to engage with other readers, authors, and book lovers who [...]
Amazon Author Central – An easy way to improve book sales
Are you an author trying to sell a book on Amazon? Are you trying to find ways to increase the sales of your book(s)? What marketing strategies are you doing to increase those sales? One very important piece of the puzzle is setting up an Amazon Author Central account. As an author, you should take [...]
Will you sign my kindle? Electronic autographing
As an author, have you ever autographed a book for a fan? As a book lover yourself, did you ever get a book signed from the author of one of your favorite books? Have you ever looked at someone like they had a 2nd head when they asked you to sign one your ebooks they had [...]
World Literary Cafe Tweet Teams – Use at your discretion
What’s a Tweet Team? We recently tried an interesting tactic called a Tweet Team to help promote one of our books. This promotional idea comes from the World Literary Cafe, a well-known site helping authors and readers to unite. Simplistically, a tweet team is a group of 10 authors/publishers/marketers that want help in getting word [...]
Shelfari – Another way to promote your ebook
Enhance Your Book to Make it More Marketable In this day and age, you need to a lot of different things to make your ebook more marketable and discoverable. One neat option is Shelfari.com. Shelfari.com is run by Amazon and was created to connect all different book-loving people – authors, readers, publishers, and aspiring authors. [...]
