
The Best Marketing Plans Don’t Waste Any Money
Without question, the best marketing plans for authors focus on the right things at the right time. Maybe that sounds obvious? But we talk to a lot of authors that find themselves in a tailspin of not know what to do, so they buy everything they can afford. Or they...

Author Websites: 8 Mistakes That Are Costing You Book Sales
I often talk about author websites being a must, anyone who is serious about succeeding and building a solid fan base needs one. But what gets overdramatized is that author websites must be flashy or expensive. They don’t. We tend to overcomplicate things when the...

Get More From Your Book Promotions and Marketing Efforts
Coming up with clever book promotions and marketing ideas feels like a full time job on most days. And I appreciate that so many authors are getting savvy to the fact that that's the reality, and I've been consulting with a lot of you this year already on how to make...

The Ultimate Guide to Selling Books on your Author Website
Are you ready to learn how to sell more books from your author website? Maybe Amazon is proving to be too competitive, or perhaps you just want more freedom to do discounts and promotions, either way, there's definitely a right way, and wrong way, to go about it....

Quiz: Is Your Amazon Book Page Selling Your Book?
We talk a lot about the Amazon book page, when I teach at events, in this blog, on our podcast, and it's not because we run out of things to say - anyone who follows the podcast knows that's not an affliction we suffer from - but we do it because we still see so many...

Latest Updates to Amazon Author Central in 2023
In case you haven’t noticed, Amazon Author Central went through a huge overhaul in late December of 2022. Gone are the blog updates (which I really loved), gone are the images you could add, or video. Though I believe these still show up on your international pages....

National Library Lover’s Month (and More) is Coming Up in February
National Library Lover's Month is a favorite of ours at AME, we've done a number of blog posts and podcast episodes dedicated to helping authors find creative ways to work with their local libraries, and enhance their local promotions and sales. According to the...

23 Successful Marketing Strategies for Authors to Start Using in 2023
When it comes to successful marketing strategies for books and authors – not everything has to cost a lot of time or money – in fact, some of the best things you can do for your book are quick and nearly free with the proper planning. So the goal with this list is to...

Become an Amazon Marketing Ninja from the Book Marketing Tips & Author Success Podcast
Amazon marketing is critical in publishing, whether you love or hate Amazon, or land somewhere in between, it's still the number one bookseller in the world - so unless you'd rather remain obscure instead of playing nice, get ready to take notes. One key element that...

Make the Most of a Discounted Kindle Book from the Book Marketing Tips & Author Success Podcast
We've always been fans of using discounted Kindle books to help our clients find more readers. Sometimes authors give us a little push back, mostly because they're too focused on short term ROI and not focused enough on long-term success. Let me be clear, what we mean...