In this ebook, we discuss how to effectively use social media channels to promote your book and your brand. Twitter, for example, is the largest social bookmarking site on the Internet today, with over 500 million users in 2012. It enables users to read and reply to short text-based messages (‘tweets’), and helps users generate a following. When linked to other social media channels, such as Pinterest, for example, it can be a useful promotional tool for your book. Likewise, we explain how social cataloguing websites like Shelfari, with its book clubs and forums, and Goodreads, which allows users to rate and review books, can help you and your book to reach its intended market.

This book explains how to turn your manuscript into an ebook and use various online market channels to sell it. The opening chapters explain how to improve your book's prospects for commercial success by writing hooks into your book and proofreading it. It then describes how to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Goodreads and other social media networks to full advantage in order to promote your book. It explains how you can develop your Amazon Author Page and participate on relevant discussion boards, how to set yourself up as reviewer and secure endorsements for your book. It explains how blogging and creating YouTube videos can be useful tools in building up a strong readership and fan base, and covers how you can sell the foreign rights to your book. This book explains how to do all this and more in a detailed, simple and straightforward way.

This second - totally revised, expanded and updated - edition of the popular book marketing guide showswriters and publishers how to market books for free. Confused about how to build an author platform? Frustrated with slow marketing progress? Discover how to create a viable online author presence in this valuable and informative book, "e;111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free"e; - Detailed Plans and Smart Strategies for Your Book's Success..Creating an online presence can be a daunting task for the author. Promoting yourself and a book can quickly lead to becoming overwhelmed. Strategize your writing career by planning how to publish, publicize, and launch your book. Learn how to get your books in bookstores and libraries, and successfully contact television and radio stations, and bloggers. Develop a solid plan to market your book and watch your sales grow. Are you ready to elevate your book promotion?For newcomers and seasoned authors, "e;111 Tips on How to Market Your Book for Free "e;delves deeply into the mechanics of taking your writing career to the next level. With more links and resources, this book can easily become invaluable to the writer. Although it may be dense with information, the content is much more detailed.Reviewer: "e;I liked the author's tips on how to build online relationships. As someone who avoids social media, (it has been the bane of my author's existence). I really appreciated how the author breaks down how to work on social media. Short, to the point, succinct. Finally, I get it! I am so excited to implement so many of these ideas. I was also thrilled to read the section on how to pitch to television and radio. Another superb writer's resource book from an excellent author."e;

Today there are thousands upon thousands of self-published authors. Most of them are invisible. Nobody knows about them or their books. The sad truth is that writing a book is the easy part. Getting it out there, getting it seen, that's the hard part. A lot of people waste their time posting links in Facebook groups. Forget Facebook groups! There's a better way to promote your book.

Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Second Edition is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archives, and museum professionals in the social media age. This book serves as both an introductory textbook and as a guide for working professionals interested in developing well-planned evidence-based marketing campaigns. Chapters cover coordinating efforts with the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives, how to do a SWOT analysis and environmental scanning, the use of existing data as well as issues in collecting additional data, how to identify and involve stakeholders, a 4-step marketing model, considerations of price, placement, product, and promotion, market research, understanding customer groups and market segmentation, marketing mix strategy and evaluation, promotional activities, channel selection, social media marketing activities, content marketing, social media policies, guidelines, crisis communication, and evidence-based assessment. Discussion of social media and examples of social media marketing activities are included throughout the book, as well as case study examples of marketing and social media campaigns in libraries, archives and museums. This second edition further includes a new final chapter offering step-by-step guidance for brand-new social media managers on how to get started from their first day on the job with social media marketing, management, assessment, strategic planning, and content calendar planning activities, in addition to working with colleagues and managers to integrate social media into work activities across the organization. For educators, this text includes elements which can be developed into classroom or workshop assignments which include pull quotes highlighting important concepts in each chapter, key terms, discussion questions, illustrative case study examples from archives, libraries and museums, and an annotated bibliography for further reading.

A few years back when there was a huge demand for Kindle books with little competition and no restrictions put on sites by Amazon; if you had the right kind of book it was possible to put it up on a ‘free day’ with no promotion and get thousands of downloads. At the time there were no ‘verified purchase‘ labels and no checks so lots of people were buying Fiverr ads that gave them 2-3 reviews for $5. This gave readers the impression that these books were well worth buying. The Kindle devices had limited display features so the quality of the book formatting did not matter as much as it does today. People had to download a sample to get a proper look at the book so in the case of a ‘free’ book, it was easier just downloading the whole thing than the possibility of virtually downloading it twice. This book is one of more than 30 e/Books in the genre subject matters of fundraising, governance, organisational, & ePublishing material series.

Author Byron Solstice lives an idyllic life; a beautiful girlfriend, a successful writing career, loyal friends, and a cute little home with a white picket fence on Prince Edward Island. Or so he thinks. A manic preoccupation with writing takes a debilitating mental and physical toll on his health and love life with Akila Bartley. Under doctor's orders, he takes a break to try and rekindle the waning romance. Unexpectedly, they witness a two-vehicle crash that leaves his best friend Elias Masters burning alive in a fiery metal grave. Events turn disastrous when, on a leisurely outing with Elias' girlfriend, they discover a strange old man at East Point Lighthouse who promises to resurrect Elias from the dead. Soon, Byron realizes he's pitted against forces far more powerful and destructive than any characters he's ever created in novels. Along with seasoned Detective Clay Redmond, he embarks on a macabre and epic battle to save his friends and the small island from a terrifying and unspeakable evil.

Read this if you want to sell more books, make more money as an author, or rank higher in your category. My name is Nick Vulich. The first thing you should know about me is I'm not a writer, and I'm not an expert on self-publishing either. I never worked in the industry, and I don't have any experience working for the big publishers. In fact, the only thing I consider myself an expert in is how to sell on eBay, Amazon, and Fiverr... So why should you listen to me? Like most indie authors, I came into publishing through the back door. I had a story to tell, and one day I just sat down and let it all come out. What I wrote wasn't pretty, or polished...but, it helped a lot of people sell more stuff on eBay. What I couldn't say with fancy prose, I made up for with enthusiasm. Because of that, my books sold. I'm not going to lie to you. It wasn't easy. I read just about every book available on self-publishing. I studied up on KDP Free days, Countdown Deals, price pulsing...

Sit down first thing in the morning and write, everyone says. The best marketing is writing and releasing the next book, they say. Rapid release is the only way to make money, I've heard. Well...almost. Kind of? Maybe. Not everyone can write 10,000 words each day. Not everyone can release a book every month. Does that mean all is lost for self-publishers who only have a few books out and struggle to get more ready in today's rapid release culture? Nope. Are you ready to increase your productivity? Want to learn ways to work smarter, not harder? Need a practical, over-the-shoulder look at how successful authors plan and carry out marketing tactics, set goals, and then knock them out of the park? If you want to write more in less time, and learn the ins and outs of selling the books you have out now, as well as any future publications, you need a system to do both the writing and the marketing. It takes two halves of your brain to run your self-publishing business, and believe it or not, you can use both sides in the same day. Come find out how to develop your own system for writing more books that will fit with your lifestyle. Then learn how to set up marketing systems to sell those books while you sleep, vacation, or simply while you work on your next great literary masterpiece. Get inspired in your Indie Author career with Elana Johnson, a three-time USA Today bestselling author and a Top 20 Kindle Unlimited All-Star Author!

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