How Promo Stacking Helps Authors Hit Bestseller Lists
Hitting a bestseller list is no easy feat, but with the right budget and coordinated strategy, it’s not outside the realm of possibility. While there is no one single formula for hitting a list, we’ve seen several authors successfully hit the USA Today or retailer bestseller lists by promo stacking — running multiple marketing campaigns within a short time frame to maximize the volume of sales within a bestseller list’s reporting period.
In this post, we’ll share how a number of authors have stacked promotions to hit a bestseller list, with links to articles where each author shares more details about their marketing campaigns.
Read more https://insights.bookbub.com/promo-stacking-helps-authors-hit-bestseller-lists/
Revealed: How to Start a Blog and Succeed in 2018
Last Updated January 8th, 2018 — Trying figure out how to start a blog and succeed in 2018? I reckon I might be able to help you with that!
This article was first published four years ago and has since helped thousands of bloggers get started. It’s now constantly updated with the latest trends and information.
I first learned about blogging back in college when I was lucky enough to sell some blogs for 5-figures. Since then I’ve been so fortunate to work full time from my couch! I honestly don’t say this to brag, but just to show you how powerful this format can be for changing your career or revitalizing your existing business.
.@Amazon is encouraging authors to advertise their ebooks
Amazon has just sent out an email to authors and publishers that states “eBook season is just getting started. With so many new E-readers being unwrapped this month, there’s never been a better time to start promoting your eBooks.” If you are not aware, Amazon is referring their own pay per click advertising program that helps with discoverability when users are typing in keyboards in the search bar or a text/image based ad unit.
How to Give Away an eBook From an Author Website
There are a hundred and one different sites on the web where authors can give away an ebook. They can use services like InstaFreebie, forums like MobileRead, or blogging platforms like BookLikes.
I was just working on a list post on the topic (stay tuned) when I was reminded of one option that almost never makes this type of list.
An author’s website.
An author’s website is both the most common place for an author to give away an ebook and the most overlooked. While the site won’t get as much attention as, say, a free ebook link shared in Facebook, offering free content on your site is still a good way to build your fan base and mailing list.
I have helped a lot of authors set up their site so they could give away an ebook, and setting this up is really not all that difficult once you know the steps involved. Here’s the what, the why, the where, and the how of giving ebooks away on an author website.
read more https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/12/02/give-away-ebook-author-website/
How To Sell More Books When Facebook Fails You
Late last year, Facebook rolled out a big algorithm change, which scared a lot of authors. It sank a lot of pages in terms of visibility, changed how authors sell more books and book marketing goals in general.
The thing is, while social media sites like Facebook are great, to use them exclusively in your promotion is never a good idea. Because if you lose the page, or if Facebook changes this or that, or whatever social media site you’re on, you’ve now lost a big share of your market.
Never put your success in someone else’s hands.
read more: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/sell-more-books-facebook-fails/
Five Ways to Organize Your Writing
Over my writing life, I’ve written in many cluttered and noisy places—but it is not my preference or where I do my best creative work. For example, with my journalism training, I have written in busy noise editorial offices where everyone is pounding on their own keyboard right next to each other. The distractions are incredible in these situations. Some of my friends haul their laptop to a coffee shop and write.
I’ve discovered I do some of my best creative work when my environment is organized. Yes some writers use organization as a method of procrastination. They sharpen their pencils and other such tasks to put off getting their hands on the keyboard and writing words. If I take time to get organized, I’ve discovered my writing is more focused and less distracted and I become more productive.
5 Things for Indie Authors to Revamp in 2018
This year is wrapping up, no pun intended, which means as an indie author you should already be thinking of ways to make 2018 your best year yet.
There are a lot of aspects to book marketing, and I know it can get overwhelming, but here are 5 things to consider doing differently next year to shake up your approach.
read more: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/indie-authors-revamp-2018/
Eight Reasons to Start an Author Blog: Guest Book Marketing Tips
I’m really glad Anne R. Allen agreed to do a guest post for my book marketing blog!
She’s a multi-award winning blogger and the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Camilla Randall Mysteries. You’re in good hands!
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If you tell your non-author friends you’re thinking of starting a blog, you’ll probably hear some noise about how blogging is “totally over.”
People have been declaring blogging dead for a decade. Google “blogging is dead” and you’ll see thousands of entries.
But it turns out the blog is a pretty resilient medium.
Your friends are right in one sense: the “make a zillion dollars with a blogging-about-blogging” blog has passed its sell-by date. You can only teach a finite number of people how to make money teaching blogging until the market is saturated and everybody goes back to the current version of selling Amway.
But that stuff has nothing to do with author blogs. As an author, you’re blogging to get name recognition and publicity for your books, not to sell advertising. You’re using it as a book marketing sales tool. That means most of the rules of business blogging don’t apply to you. The money comes when you sell your books.
Author blogs are easy, fun, and only need to appeal to your target book readership, not vast hordes of consumers. They’re a venue for entertainment and information, not a hard-sell advertising machine. And they don’t have to take much time. Posting once a week or less is fine for an author blog.
Even beginning authors can benefit from blogging, and the blog will pave the way for your future career.
Here are some reasons to blog: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/start-author-blog/
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