Book Marketing Tips & Author Branding Advice
Getting Permission to Use Reviews, Blurbs and Likenesses
Permissions aren't fun or sexy - but they're necessary. Any time you're using someone else's words, praise, input or inspiration there are right and wrong ways to go about it. Our goal for this episode is to share some pitfalls other authors have experienced so you...
6 Tips for Choosing the Right Book Marketing Services
Publishing a book is no small feat, but once you’ve finished your masterpiece, now comes the hard part: marketing it to get noticed by readers. Thankfully, there are plenty of book marketing services that can help you reach your target audience and make your book...
How to Make the Most Out of Every Marketing Dollar
We know it's tempting to want to do all the right things to get your book out there. But in reality, it's more important to do the right things, at the right time! Our goal for this episode is to help you avoid getting caught up in the whirlwind of marketing and...
A Step-By-Step Guide to Using BookTok on TikTok for Book Marketing
It’s hard to go to any publishing event, or read any news piece on the industry and not find some reference to BookTok which began its rise on TikTok in August of 2020. Not only had BookTok become an online sensation, the recommendations in this stream have also found...
Getting Permission to Use Reviews, Blurbs and Likenesses
On a recent minisode of our podcast for authors we covered permissions. We know, permissions aren't fun or sexy - but they're necessary, so stick with us. Any time you're using someone else's words, praise, input or inspiration there are right and wrong ways to go...
AI in Publishing: What’s Really Going On?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have probably heard a lot about AI in publishing in recent months. More specifically, AI (artificial intelligence) actually writing books, narrating audio books, and the like. If not, AI is here! And 2023 is poised to become...
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....
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