Tag: marketing
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The Power of Keywords: How to Make Your Book Discoverable on Amazon with Keywords
You wrote a book with months or even years of time and energy, but what if your book got lost into the pool of hundreds of thousands of books published each year? It would be a bad nightmare for every author! But wait . . .! You can make your book discoverable on Amazon—the number…
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Why Building an Email List is Important for Your Book Marketing
Building an marketing email list for both authors and publishers is a great help in targeting specific readers. In this inexpensive digital marketing method, readers are provided with free content to easily download such as sample chapters, prequels, or previews in exchange for their emails. The email subscribers are then followed up with promotional emails in order to…
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Why Setting Up Your Author Central Page is Great for Marketing Your Books
The world’s largest online retailer Amazon has over 90 million visitors per month. It also has the lion’s share of the book business, both in print and digital. Though Amazon introduced its marketing platform through the Author Central Page, many independent authors have yet to discover this wonderful marketing tool. By using this tool, authors can effectively promote…
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The New Barnes & Noble: Attracting Readers, Not Authors
Barnes & Noble may be the last big name physical book store still around but they are barely hanging in there. In an effort to drive sales, they’ve started taking measures to bring in (and keep) people hanging around their bookstores. It isn’t as beneficial for indie authors to go try to promote their books…
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How to Market and Sell Yourself (and Then Your Book)
In today’s world, you have to learn how to sell anything and that includes even yourself. It’s what publishers and authors know all too well. It’s easy to assume the book would sell itself since it is what you have to show for all that time and hard work you put in. But it just…