Reading Time: 3 minutes Categories are key for Amazon book promotion! Today’s post is a recap of “Amazon Insider: Why Picking the Right Amazon Categories Can Help You Sell More Books (and how to do it!),” an episode on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast. We go deep in our discussion about this timely topic for authors…
Marketing Self-Published Books on Amazon with Amazon Ads (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marketing Self-Published Books on Amazon with Amazon Ads is a recap of “Amazon Insider: Why You’re Wasting Money on Amazon Ads,” a recent episode on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast. We go deep in our discussion about this timely topic for authors trying to figure out the ins and outs of marketing…
How to Get Your Book Noticed on Amazon: Your Relevancy Score (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Get Your Book Noticed on Amazon is a recap of “Unpacking Amazon’s Secret Relevancy Score: Why It Matters to Your Book Sales,” a recent episode on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast. We go deep in our discussion about this timely topic for authors trying to figure out how to get…
Book Marketing and Promotion in the Time of Covid (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although vaccines are on the way, book marketing and promotion will be affected by the coronavirus for quite some time. Today’s post is a recap of “The Best Book Marketing Ideas for Book Marketing During a Pandemic,” a recent episode on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast. We go deep in our discussion…
How to Promote a Book: Become a Media Master (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 3 minutes One tried and true question we get from authors is how to promote a book to the media. Today’s post is a recap of “The Secrets to Getting More Media for Your Book,” which we covered in Episode 11 (Part 1) and Episode 12 (Part 2) on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast.…
Book Marketing and Promotion: Seasonal Gift Guides (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: as we head into the homestretch of 2020, it’s a good time to think about ways to tie book marketing and promotion to gratitude and gifts. In “Get Your Book into Gift Guides!” – Episode 12 of our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast – we go deep in our…
Facebook Profile, Facebook Page or a Group – Which One Do You Need? (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is our first listener inspired book marketing podcast episode! We know most of you probably have a real love-hate relationship with social media and we get asked this a lot, about whether to have a fan page, a personal profile, or a group. But wait! We covered so much more in our podcast episode…
Are Blog Tours One of the Best Book Marketing Strategies? (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are book tour companies, so firms that “tour” a book on a particular schedule and then there are firms that pitch your book to bloggers, typically as part of a multi-faceted approach, but which one of these is included in our list of the best book marketing strategies? Some tips for what works and…
The Best Book Marketing Ideas for the Pandemic (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 4 minutes To say the best book marketing ideas have evolved in 2020 would be an understatement. With author events canceled, book tours rescheduled for who knows when – and book releases moved – the publishing world has seen a lot of change. But the thing is, books are still selling. Perhaps now more than ever. Escapism…
How to Reach Bookstagrammers (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a recent episode of our book marketing podcast we covered how to reach Bookstagrammers, and how leveraging the fabulous Instagram platform can really help boost your exposure to serious book lovers and genre fans. Below are some stand out excerpts from the show, but it doesn’t cover all the tips we shared, so we…