Since I’ve got nothing up for sale at Amazon right now, I’ve put this in my “good to know” mental file. You should do the same. — EES
Promote Your Book – How to Hit #1 on Amazon For Free – Tag You’re It!
Article by Todd Fonseca
Our Shared Story
Like any author, you spent months, perhaps years writing your novel. Hours of writing and re-writing, conversations with your editor, discussions over format and typesetting, more editing, self doubt, cover design, back blurb, reviews, placement, on and on. Now it’s published but how do you get that visibility that will translate into book sales? You may have written the next Harry Potter but without marketing how will anyone know?
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I figured this out a ways back, with MS Word .DOC files being one of the popular formats the publishing world has to learn to work with. I had to do it again today, which reminded me that strangely enough, not a lot of people have figured out the technique I’ll share with you today.
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Lots being said and written about creating blogs to generate affiliate income. But from what I’ve seen it’s actually a somewhat rare experience to come across aff merchants (not affiliates) who use the tech and medium, let alone use them to their advantage.
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Article by Bob Baker
Every March, book people across the country celebrate Small Press Month. While the term “small press” can refer to a modest-sized publishing company with multiple titles from various authors, it most often applies to self-published authors. That’s another term that is subject to interpretation: “self-publish.” In the old days it was considered something you were forced to do if you couldn’t get a “traditional” publisher to put out your book. These days, however, self-publishing is a different ballgame. But many aspiring authors I meet still wrestle with that old stigma.
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Amazon Associates was the very first “affiliate program” I remember joining way back when. The industry and concept was so new, the jargon hadn’t even been standardized yet, hence the “Associates” moniker. And it’s still going strong.
Stronger, I bet, with the new affiliate “Site Stripe” technology it recently introduced. In simple terms, the Stripe makes it a heck of a lot easier for us to create Amazon affiliate links to its products. So easy, there’s really no reason now why you can’t create a product link every time you happen to mention a book in your blog (or just about any product out there, for that matter, considering all the stuff we can now purchase at Amazon). Like, say, the book I’m reading now.
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Now here’s one of those rare “traffic how to” articles that actually teach us something practical and useful, beyond the usual “good content/good keywords” formula (still a must, but duh!). Granted, it isn’t the cleanest of articles, but it’s clean enough (I’ve seen much worse from native Engish-speaking pros!). Heck, I learned something new… you probably will too. Good job, Kurt! — EES
Make Money Blogging – How to Generate Traffic Using Web 2.0 Sites
Article by Kurt Bai
I’ve been using some of the most popular web 2.0 sites to generate traffic for my travel blog for about 2 months. Traffic is not flooded, but I’ve seen some good results using them and I’m sure there’s a huge potential if I put more time and effort into it. Now I’m going to share with you my experience getting traffic and backlinks using these sites.
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This article just reminds me of one of my favorite “success how to” quotes, paraphrased: “There is no secret to success… success comes from doing what you already know you have to do.” Maybe this article will help you with that little nudge to help you actually go start doing. — EES
Freelance Writers – Get Closer to Your Terror Barrier to Create the Writing Career of Your Dreams!
Article by Suzanne Lieurance
Whether we admit it or not, most of us have some sort of “terror barrier.” Some door we refuse to open and walk through for fear of what lies on the other side.
Yet the very thing we dream of probably lies on the other side. But we still refuse to open the door to reach it.
Why?
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No shortage of sites out there offering free photographs for use on your blogs/sites and print pubs. Unless you happen to be looking for truly good images, then the pickings get slim. And if you also happen to require high-resolution images for best print quality, then your choices just about dry up.
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Well here’s an invaluable list. Must bookmark! — EES
Article by Dave Sherwin
Wondering where to submit your press release? Well, in my never ending quest to find the laziest methods of marketing (Is it weird to work your butt off trying to be lazy?) I have finally become converted to press releases.
Why? Because last week I met with Steve A (name is abbreviated to protect the innocent) a great SEO guy, and he told me how he convinced a client to submit press releases on a weekly basis, like article distribution. I always thought press releases were for “special occasions” like product launches and big announcements. Not so, says Steve. You get great link love, the Press Release services WANT tons of content anyway, so if you’re going to create content why not leverage it everywhere you can?
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I need to do this for the new Wordpreneur Press NTK titles, and I keep forgetting. So what better way to remind myself than to find and run a post on the very subject, and with enough information so we all can learn a thing or two while I’m at it! — EES
Book Press Release — Promote a Book on the Web
Article by Andrew Bolinger
It pays to be versatile.
Press releases can be used to promote almost anything — whether you are looking to release a product, offer a service, or hold an event, you will find that a press release addresses a huge part of your promotional needs. For book promotion, the press release is particularly suitable.
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