Reading Time: 3 minutes Reviews are one key strategy when considering how to sell books. Some Amazon book promotion ideas rely on reviews. Authors sometimes right out ignore reviews because they’re a hassle — but you could learn how to handle them in just five minutes. Our Book Marketing Tips and Author Success podcast has a pretty solid library…
How to Work More Reviews into Your Book Marketing Plan (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to Work More Reviews into Your Book Marketing Plan is a recap of “Getting Reviews is More Complex Than You Think – Plan Accordingly,” a recent episode on our Book Marketing Tips & Author Success podcast. We delve deeper into our discussion about this important topic for authors trying to figure out the ins…
How to Market a Book with a Pre-Order (Infographic)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Figuring out how to market a book with a pre-order is critical for hitting new heights with your next book release. If you’ve never done a pre-order campaign, or your last one wasn’t successful, I have some tips for how to market your book to ensure you’ll sell more the next time around. Working pre-order…
How to Sell Self Published Books by Pitching Yourself as a Guest Blogger
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’ve been marketing your book for a while, you may feel like you’re running low on opportunities to get the word out there and need some new ideas on how to sell self published books. Here’s a great one: guest blogging. What is guest blogging? Well, it’s an opportunity to share your ideas, your…
Amazon Book Promotion: Why You Need More Reviews and How to Get Them
Reading Time: 5 minutes When authors ask me about Amazon book promotion, reviews always come up. As authors we always want them, and the more the better. But reviews are harder to come by and it’s easy to give up or stop too soon. I have authors contact me about Amazon book promotion, and when I start chatting recommendations…
Quick Ways to Get More Readers for your Book (Book Marketing Podcast)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Personal connections matter! When I was re-releasing my How to Sell Books by the Truckload on Amazon I relied heavily on my personal connections with readers. These readers really helped to catapult the book up the bestseller list (and it’s still a bestseller as I’m writing this). Don’t forget to follow our book marketing podcast…
3 Ways to Combat Amazon Reviews Disappearing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Seeing Amazon reviews disappearing is a pretty consistent problem for most authors, in fact some of my older blogs posts addressing this issue are some of our most popular posts, overall. This tells me that despite Amazon pulling back on being so aggressive with their review pulls, many authors still wrestle with this. So, if…
10 Myths and Facts About Publishing a Book
Reading Time: 5 minutes I talk to a lot of authors and many come to me with questions about publishing a book the right way the first time, or publishing a book the right way the second, third, or 10th time! The reality is the first step is coming to terms with what publishing a book is, and…
5 Creative Ways to Highlight Your Book Reviews and Sell More Books
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you want to sell more books in this uber-competitive market you’ll want to start putting more focus on personal recommendations. Book reviews are essentially that, real readers recommending your book to other real readers who are interested in your topic or genre. Sounds simple, but we all know it’s not that easy. But that’s…
Get More Book Reviews and Features with These Simple Tips
Reading Time: 5 minutes Every author wants to get more book reviews – they help build buzz, inform potential readers and buyers about your book and when done well, give enough information about your book to intrigue without giving away all the pertinent details. So once you’ve built a list of reviewers to go after, it’s time to start…
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