IS BAD PUBLICITY POSSIBLE WHEN TRYING TO GET ATTENTION FOR A BOOK?
You're not a celebrity and not too many people are waiting for your book. Is any public attention for the book possibly bad attention?
Read more…You're not a celebrity and not too many people are waiting for your book. Is any public attention for the book possibly bad attention?
Read more…Don't just do something, stand there. Does that ever work?
Read more…Get a structure together and maybe the $ will follow.
Read more…Book signings are old fashioned but will never go away, unless all tree die one day. Some people claim that no one showed up. Others say it was great; probably because they promoted it, sent invites, etc.
Read more…Do you have your own radio show (online or a regular radio show) that promotes your cause and your book? Do you feel that this works as a promotion method for your book? Do you have call-ins on your show? What format works the best for you?
Read more…The front page of today's Boston Herald is about a routine coffee company that's advertising itself with photos of attractive "Hooter" type women. I never heard of the coffee before, but as of this morning both I and more than a million others who si
Read more…It could include family and friends, and you'd have no control over final edits. Only promise: Nothing faked.
Read more…It was born self-published. It grew quick into a hit. A major mama publisher paid $1million for it. And it keeps on owning the street. Promoters/marketers: What's going on around here?
Read more…I have just recently come across this service from Amazon:
http://www.acx.com/author/welcome
It looks like a great way to promote already published books, but a couple of things about it seem a little odd.
First, I don't understand why the payment to th
Read more…What if the book is truly dumb by everyone's standards, but yet it's selling like hotcakes due to an ingenious marketing program? Is this possible? How does it make you feel?
Read more…Given that promoting a book can get costly, even if you don't pay a company to do an Amazon campaign, what are some of the ways in which you budget for book promotion and how do you decide how much to allocate in terms of the Return on Investment you
Read more…Hello all.
I am using twitter and fb to market my self-published series. I'm tracking a fair number of clicks from these social networks over to my website. I'm also tracking (as an Amazon Affiliate) a fair number of clicks on my individual titles. A
Read more…While putting together a "book trailer" for our new project, I looked at trailers by other authors. I found one I really liked by an author I had never read before. Must have worked. I bought the book. (Ron Tanner, From Animal House to our House, htt
Read more…Should one go about marketing and promoting one's Kindle books differently to the way one markets and promotes print books? I'm asking because my sister and I are going to be publishing our first Kindle book, and I want to learn from those of you wh
Read more…Has anyone in this group put up their prelease (fiction) on Netgalley? If so, have you had any success (increased buzz, more reviews) with it? How long before publication did you list with them? I'm just trying to determine if the fee is worth the li
Read more…Unless you live in a big media market, how do you feel about publicizing yourself where you live?
Read more…Has anyone here done an Amazon bestseller campaign where you get all kinds of celebrities with big lists to email their list on your behalf in return for the celebrities supplying gifts that will be downloaded?
If you have, did this work well for you?
Read more…Has anyone here done an Amazon bestseller campaign where you get all kinds of celebrities with big lists to email their list on your behalf in return for the celebrities supplying gifts that will be downloaded?
If you have, did this work well for you?
Read more…I was searching for a resource of publications that I can use to send out press releases when the time comes to promote my book. The Gale Directory is expensive, $1300+. However, I went on eBay and found a two-year-old 5 volume edition and only paid
Read more…Fortune 500 firms have spent millions to promote new products that subsequently failed. Was it the marketing, the product, both, neither? When do you abdicate? Or is the answer to try a different strategy?
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