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Top Ten Getting Started Tips to Market Your Book and Business


Want to sell a lot more books? Want clients calling every day to find out more about your service? Most emerging businesses forget the #1 way to promote anything--the Internet. Specifically, writing and submitting articles.

Attract More Buyers to Your Book: Use Metaphors


Surprise your potential buyers. Give them chocolate frosting!After we entered school we had a lot to learn.

How to Market Your Unsold Books on the Internet: Its Easy


Your book expresses your wondrous information, your creativity, and your genius. It's your dream come true.

Book Titles that Make Big Bucks


Do you know how readers decide to buy a book? 1) They get a referral from a friend. 2) They see an interesting book title on the best-seller list.

Top Six Lies About Book Marketing: (And the Truths to Set Your Book Free!)


If you're like me, you have a book and the passion to spend the rest of your life making it a success. But, with all the ways to market your book, the costs and the inevitable sinking feeling of utter helplessness, what can you do?You COULD run around in circles trying to get your book in every bookstore in town.

How and Why to Start a Business Book Club


Book clubs have been quite a rage over the last few years. Fueled in part by Oprah and others, the concept of reading a book then gathering with others who have read the same book has become "cool" again.

Book Promotion Woes?


Too many new authors believe that once their book is written the sales will just come pouring in and they will make a bundle. Sadly, this disillusionment is shattered when they receive a royalty check.

How to Get Your Book Reviewed in Magazines


In one of my past magazine jobs my office was next to that of the book editor. He would get boxes and boxes of books daily. There was a separate room devoted to storing these books, but that still didn't keep them from piling up in his office.

Building an Author's Media Kit


Much has been written about media kits and on what should be included in them. When I started putting mine together, I searched for information high and low.

Promote Your Book: 5 Free and Low-cost Ways to Boost Book Sales


Congratulations! You've published a book! The hard work, all those hours of writing, of editing, and of sweating over just the right word, are over.

Book Proposals 101: What Publishers Want


Lots of writers like to talk about writing books. You hear very few talking about writing book proposals. Maybe that's why it's easy to forget that a strong book proposal is the first step togetting a great deal for your non-fiction book.

Persistent Offline Promotion and Eyeball-To-Eyeball Selling Pay Off Big For Self-Published Authors


Face it, writing and printing your self-published book are relatively easy tasks, compared with all the other requirements for marketing it successfully.

Writing The Blockbuster Book Proposal: How To Sell Your Non-Fiction Book


You did it. You crafted the perfect query letter for your non-fiction book, and as a result, an editor at a large publishing house has requested a full book proposal.

The Value of Negative Publicity


Extremely harsh criticism helped boost my book sales. I explain what they said, what I did and what results I experienced.

Book Signing Nightmare


Are book signings worth all the hard work and heartache? Isn't there an easier way that's not as taxing on the ego to let the world know you wrote a book?

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