There’s been some buzz in the industry this past week regarding an informal survey about why people choose to buy their books. In summary, the survey reveals that: The most common reasons why someone will buy a book is because they like the author and/or because it was recommended by a friend A good book […]
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It’s one of the most common questions I get from authors: “What in the world would I blog about?” Most authors who’ve done their research understand that blogging is great for keeping their site current and for driving traffic there. But as far as what to blog about … well, that’s a lot harder to
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I came across a blog entry today from Phyllis Zimbler Miller, an Internet Business Consultant. Her blog entry, titled A Book’s Promotion Should Be Helped by a Book Author Website backs up what I’ve been saying to clients for years! So many clients I’ve worked with have wanted Flash intro pages on their websites. Or
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In case you missed my post a few days ago, I provided some really interesting details from Bowker’s newly-released “2009 Book Consumer Annual Review: U.S. Demographics & Buying Behaviors.” Click here to read it. What I touched on a bit in that post, but would like to expand on here, is the segment on what
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It used to be that a publisher promoted an author’s book. If an author wanted to do more, they hired a PR person who made phone calls and sent out copies of the book for review. How times have changed! Now, an author has to do nearly all of their publicity themselves! After all, you
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You probably built your author website because you were trying to promote your first book. And, if you were smart, you built it around yourself as an author. That way, when you got future books published, you could easily promote those on the website as well. But what do you do between books? Do you
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Ask any reader and they’ll probably say that one of the reasons they visit an author website is to learn more about the author. They want to get a peek into who the author is as a person. But how do you know what to share? How do you get personal … but not too
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When you look at other authors who write in your genre or on the same subject matter, you very well may view them as competition. But the purpose of this post is to convince you that those authors aren’t your competitors. They’re your potential allies. First, when someone has an interest in a subject matter
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Ever wonder where people come up with ideas on what to blog about? I’ll share my secret. It’s Google Alerts. In case you haven’t heard of it, Google Alerts is an automated system where you sign up to be notified whenever a certain word or series of words is used anywhere on the internet —
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I know … I blog a lot about blogging. But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, I didn’t start this blog until about a year ago. After all, who has the time to sit down and do this regularly? Who’s reading it anyway? Well, I just got more proof that blogging really does make
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