Book Marketing on a Shoestring

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How Authors Can Promote their Books Without Spending a Lot of Money

Book Marketing on a Shoestring is available:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UAVL3LE
on Amazon Kindle for only $3.99.
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OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS:
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PART ONE

Why Book Marketing is Important – and Rewarding.

How Readers Will Find Your Book.

Author/Entrepreneur – Do You Have What it Takes?

Marketing Possibilities Seem to Be Overwhelming!

The Internet is Full of Bogus Stories.

What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Selling?

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PART TWO

Evaluate Your Current Publishing Situation.

Let’s Start With the Basic Tasks.

Get a Professional Author Portrait.

Create Your Avatar.

Use Your E-mail Signature.

Join the Most Effective Social Media Sites.

Join Reader/Writer Communities — Online and in Person.

Start a Website and/or Blog.

Sell Your Books from Your Website/Blog.

Create a Business Card, or Bookmarks.

Outline an “Elevator” Pitch.

Start a Newsletter E-mail List.

Write Blog Articles as a “Guest Blogger”.

Write Prequels for Your Future Novel.

Contribute Content to Article Directories.

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PART THREE

You Never Get a Second Chance …

Write a Compelling Blurb.

Edit, Edit, and Edit Even More!

Increase Readership: Create an Audio Book.

Will Print Copies Sell More Books?

Get an ISBN Number.

Why do you Need a Copyright Registration?

List Your Book Worldwide.

Create Excitement with a Book Cover Poll.

Gather as Many Early Reviews as Possible.

Get Advance Book Reviews from Magazines and Newspapers.

Get Pre-Orders for Your New Book.

How to Deal With the Media and Book Bloggers.

Submit Photos of Your Book Cover.

Sign up on HelpaReporter.com.

Create a Media Kit.

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PART FOUR

Marketing Steps Within Your Book’s Content.

Choose the Correct Category/Genre.

Let Your Readers Pay With a Tweet.

Press Releases for a Review—are They Worth the Effort?

Create a Separate BOOK PAGE or AUTHOR PAGE.

Organize Your Book Launch Party.

There are at least 17 Online Book Retailers.

With a Little Help from Your Friends…

Get More Book Reviews.

Cross Promotions and Blog Tours.

Create a Slideshow for Your Book.

The Power of Book Trailers.

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PART FIVE

Book Marketing Strategies

Selling Books and e-Books to Libraries

Offer Your Book to Book Discussion Clubs.

How to Profit from an Award

Get Interviews on Radio and TV Shows.

Improve Visibility for Your Books.

Connect All Your Social Networking Sites.

Read from Your Books at Libraries.

Book Signings at Local Bookstores

Get Your Book Translated Into World Languages.

Sell Your Foreign Rights.

How About a Movie Deal for Your Book?

How Else Can You Leverage Your Manuscript?

Bestseller Tips from Trade Publishers.

Checklist for Your Book Marketing (Timeline)

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Book Marketing on a Shoestring contains 103 pages, chock full of valuable tips for authors, and will be very affordable priced at US$3.99. If you are a frequent reader of our blogs, you can already imagine how useful this new ebook will be for your own book marketing!

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12 Reasons to Get the Help of a Mentor

27 May

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12 Reasons

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Writing a book and then promoting it, are two different things… Don’t forget: Writing is an art – publishing a business! You are a very talented author who has written a fantastic book, or even several – but the publishing / promoting process is an adventure and it can take up quite some of your valuable writing time. So it is smart to get professional help, especially when it is so easy and inexpensive, and when you can learn a lot about publishing and publicizing your future books.

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12 Main Reasons to Choose our Valuable Book Marketing Help:

Introduction of your book on dozens of Google+ reader communities with a 60,000+ audience
Unlimited book marketing consultations by email for up to three months
Unlimited social media help for up to three months
Three hours of one-on-one Book Marketing Online Seminar phone-consultations
Instructions / checklist / links for you to use for your book promotions
Advertising of your book on free days /promotions with Amazon KDP to 315.000+ readers
Blog posts including cover image/author bio/book description on both, blog & our websites
Author interview on our blog website – this article stays there forever!
“Book of the Month” recommendation to more than 3,200 readers on Goodreads etc.
Book ads several times/week for 3 months on all sites to more than 600.000+ readers
Free e-book for you: “Book Marketing on a Shoestring” launch Summer 2013
Plus one surprise gift we will reveal once you signed up!
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We certainly customize our Book Publishing and Marketing Support
directly to your book and your needs!
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What former clients say:

“Thank you so much. You are amazing, so helpful to all of us who are starting down the road of self publishing. I just printed that blog post off this morning and will start to act on it today. You are an inspiration. Thanks again for everything.”
“Your advice all along the way has been so very valuable to help me make those important decisions, thank you so much for that”
“Boy, you really provide a service. If you ever need a reference, count me in. Anything I can do to promote you back. You rock.”
“I am so happy with 111Publishing for helping me out. If ANYONE is self-publishing a book I highly recommend using her for consulting. Thank you Doris for saving me $3700

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And this is how it works:
It all starts with our purchase of your book and then an evaluation of your book’s sales page, your social media presence and your marketing activities so far. We will explain you the benefits of various steps in building the platform for you as an author and how you can establish a brand without incurring extra cost, such as expensive ads or how to avoid costly POD’s.
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Take advantage of our professional help, we have studied business, marketing and e-publishing and have 30 years publishing experience. We customize coaching to your needs and explain you:

researching your possible competition & popularity of genres/positioning
how to identify your target readers & plan your blog content & marketing strategies
how to find lots of readers, book bloggers & reviewers
the publishing and retail possibilities
all the pre-publishing book marketing steps
how you can establish a brand as a writer
blogging & posting of your articles to Twitter, Google+, Goodreads, Tumblr, Chime.in…
how to save a lot of time using social media sites for reader contacts
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You just wanted to write – and upload your book to Amazon, Kobo or Barnes&Noble, expecting that it becomes an instant hit. And now a new challenge comes up: book promotion.

Sign up today to take advantage of this limited offer for only a bit more than a dollar / per day (= $179 for 3 months): http://www.111Publishing.com/seminars

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Our blog has had now 615,000 readers/visitors and 1,200 subscribers. On Twitter we have more than 40.000 followers on two accounts, in our Google+ circles & communities are 60,000+ people. On Goodreads we have 3.200 friends, not to mention Pinterest, Tumblr, StumpleUpon, Facebook with two accounts, 111Publishing.com website… and some more … Why do we list all this? To show you how much visibility your book(s) can get when we help you to built a community/network platform and a brand for you as an author. We show your book constantly on all these sites!
Articles about your book, your author interview etc. will appear on two websites, one of them belongs to the 9% most visited sites in the USA, according to Alexa.com web ranking!

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Two Great New Features in the Marketing Mix

12 Jan

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Those who have already signed up for our individual, customized Book Marketing Online Seminar and Publishing Consulting will get a nice (and free) extra surprise soon. Two great new features have been added to the marketing mix, which will improve their and (maybe soon your?) author platform. Everyone who joins our very affordable – three-months coaching and marketing support for $179 = less than $2/day will now get:

Three hours of one-on-one Book Marketing Online Seminar phone-consultations
Unlimited book marketing consultations by email for up to three months
Unlimited social media help by email for up to three months
Instructions / Checklist / Hundreds of links for you to use for your free book promotions
Free e-book: “Book Marketing on a Shoestring” launch in January 2013
Blog post including cover image/author bio/book description on both, blog and our websites
NEW: Author interview on our blog website (680,000+ visitors so far, 1.900+ subscribers)
NEW: “Book of the Month” recommendation on major book lover sites
Plus one surprise gift we will reveal once you sign up!
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.As you can see our Book Marketing Help is customized for you, the author and we will individually work with you. It all starts with a purchase of your book and then an evaluation of your book’s sales page and your marketing activities so far. We will explain you the benefits of various steps in building the platform for you as an author and how you can establish a brand without incurring extra cost, such as expensive ads or how to avoid costly POD’s.
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Our Book Marketing is personalized to your needs and we do NOT sell any videos, pre-recorded Webinars or DVD’s! We really work one-on-one with you!!! In some cases we worked up to 20 hours at this customized marketing help per client – it is not only the time we talk with everyone, it is the research in each case and the amount of time we invest in individual programs we create for each of our clients.
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The blog article about your book will be posted, often several times / week for 3 months to all these
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http:www.twitter.com/111publishing (more than 50,000 followers)
http://pinterest.com/111publishing
http://on.fb.me/TvqDaK (111Publishing on Facebook)
http://bit.ly/VmtVAS (111Publishing on Google+) *
https://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com (so far 117,000! visitors, ca. 500 subscribers)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/111publishing
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13413016-111publishing *

* These are only our official business accounts, our private time-line on these Social Media
has 50,000 followers on Google+ and almost 4,100 in Goodreads pages and counting…

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We thrive to support you and your book. If you are not yet finished with your manuscript, join now to have a great start. As earlier you begin with marketing activities for your work, as better!
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Authors can even combine a leisurely Caribbean Cruise at the Carnival Breeze and have their Book Marketing Seminar not online, but “on sea”. Get details about this exciting Cruise Event.

The Foundation for Your Publishing Success (savvybookwriters.wordpress.com)
9 Reasons to Get Help Boosting Your Books Succes (savvybookwriters.wordpress.com)
Have You Got a Marketing Plan for Your Book? (savvybookwriters.wordpress.com)
6 Social Media Sites, Essential for Writers (savvybookwriters.wordpress.com)

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Even if You Landed a Publishing Deal…

23 Nov

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In my last post I explained the reasons why I created an individual online Book Marketing seminar for authors, using one-on-one instruction. To get help in promoting a book is not only important for self-publishers, but also in case you landed a publishing deal. Your publisher will NOT place ads in the NY Times, book promotion is up to YOU! The first questions a literary agent or a publisher will ask you: What is your platform? Who are your target readers? How will you promote your book?
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Are you one of those writers, hiding behind your laptop, terrified at the thought of “marketing”, because your skill is writing – not marketing? Authors need BOOK PROMOTION, but don’t want to appear like a “used car salesman”. However remember: “Nobody ever made money writing a book – only by selling it”.
The Most Valuable Book Marketing Help You Can Get !

Individual training and customized marketing consultations for your book at an amazing offer!!! Register now to get started on your road to success: Book now, in November or December, and get 3 months of individual marketing training & promotion for your book – for only $59.00. Regular price after December 31, 2012 will be $98.00.
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This extensive training / consulting package which gives you:

Three hours of one-on-one “Book Marketing Training” phone-consultations (all topics regarding publishing, promotion, platform & branding, social media, learn about free book marketing possibilities etc.)
Unlimited book marketing consultations by email for three months
Unlimited social media help by email for three months
Instructions / Checklist / Hundreds of links for you to use for your free book promotions
Free e-book: “Book Marketing on a Shoestring” (launch late November)
Blog post including cover image/bio/book description on both, blog and our websites
Plus one surprise gift we will reveal once you sign up!

During the last 18 months more than 90,000 readers appreciated useful, free tips for authors here on this blog. Get more in-dept help while taking this online book marketing training. I will take you under “my wings” and help you promote your book for a very affordable price.

Get more info about the steps we take together on my website, where you can book your individual book marketing training..
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PART 2 – 45 More Websites to Promote Your Book

04 Nov

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PART TWO “Advertise” your Book for FREE
See the first 50 websites here

Forums / Networks / Book Communities / Book Bloggers – all this means free Promotion for your book!

For your book to sell, you need to create the demand. You need an audience, a platform – which you will get when your book is showing up on many websites and forums, visible to readers.

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More Websites and hundreds of tips how to promote your book in the upcoming book “Book Marketing on a Shoestring”. It will be launched at the end of November.

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Do Book Distributors Market and Sell Your Work?

07 Oct

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Sue Collier: The short answer is NO… They are delivering your book from where it is ordered. Actively promoting is the job of the author – even at most publishing houses, where your book is one of thousand others among many, often famous and established authors. And if you have written only one book, marketing is so much harder. Even if someone buys the book and likes it, they are expecting the next one soon from you – or they turn to other authors.

Book Marketing must not be costly, we gave you lots of tips in this blog already. Type “Book Marketing” into the search function (upper right hand side, next to the headline, with the magnifier glass symbol) and you will find dozens, if not hundreds of valuable tips on book marketing “on a shoestring”.

Read this eye-opening blog by Sue Collier from Self-Publishing-Resources.

She tells you the hard truth about first-time, one-book-authors and book promotion. However, she also tells you
how distribution works and how you, as an author can boost book sales by converting it in an e-book and
using all these free promotion tools including social media, the Internet offers now.

And if you have any tips and success stories how promotion for your book worked, let us know here.

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If you enjoyed this blog post, please feel free to check out all previous posts – if you haven’t already. Why not sign up to receive them regularly by email? Just click on “Follow” in the upper line on each page – and then on “LIKE” next to it. There is also the “SHARE” button underneath each article where you can submit the article to Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr and StumpleUpon.

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