Would you like to have your website, book or blog featured by a magazine that reaches hundreds of thousands of targeted women readers?

You can. Just join the VIV Blogger Network:

1. Tell me you want to participate and where your target site is.

2. Help us share VIV and the other bloggers who participate

3. Submit a guest post on a topic that appeals to VIV’s readers

Start by sharing this page using the buttons to the left, then let me know where to send the VIV Blogger Guide

by Warren Whitlock

Do you want more blog readers?

Here’s a quick way to show your blog to thousands of readers, starting with just one click. You sign up with Facebook. (old school email accepted to).

The first option will register you and I’ll start helping you promote your blog. EVERYONE WINS SOME PROMOTION

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Why You Want to Do This

The toughest thing for most blogger is getting new readers.

I want to help you be seen by thousands of readers who are looking for great content.

You don’t need to spend hours or dollars on this, because I found the readers for you.. then figured out how to channel them to your blog.

We Go Where the Readers Are

Traditional big media have readers. By now, you’ve read that they won’t be growing like they use to, but they have millions of readers who subscribe and look for content.

I’ve contracted with a group of magazines to feature bloggers in online promotions. No matter what you blog about, there are huge audiences that you will appeal to.

Our current promotion is VIV Magazine. We’re promoting online to millions of readers in the next few weeks and you and your blog could be featured.

If you write well, and your topic matches the one of the many topics, you can also be a guest blogger on a major magazine site.

VIV Readers are women looking for luxury and lifestyle. Topics they are looking for include:

• Fitness
• Style and Fashion
• Beauty
• Travel
• Healthy Eating
• Issue Awareness

If you write for women on these topics, just click on the link above and let me know. I will follow up with specifics.  I’ll include information about extended topics in other areas. If you are blogging and want to be better known, click on the “contest” button above.

We’ll feature selected posts in Facebook and Twitter promotions, give you a contest widget to share luxury prizes on your site and show you how we do it.. FREE!

Any Questions?

There is no obligation, no time requirements and no costs involved. The click above will LIKE a Facebook page, and you know that’s easy to undo (but why would you.. it’s all free!).

Q: I’m not an author. Can I participate?

A: Yes. This promotion is for anyone with a blog or online following. It’s perfect or authors or those working on a book, or anyone who is passionate about sharing great content on the web.

Q: Will I be in the magazine?

A: Maybe. The future of media is the online properties like we’re building for VIVmag. We willl make sure all real bloggers (i.e. spam and robots don’t qualify) have a chance to get FREE online promotion. We work directly with the editorial staff and they are very smart about seeking ideas that work for future publication.

Q: Are you going to spam me?

A: The link above goes to a LIKE button on Facebook. When you share your email address, I’ll use it only to send more information to help you get set up for additional free promotion. You will be able to read VIV for free online and you can opt out with one click.

Q: How do I make sure I’m featured?

A: After you click, you’ll have a couple options to share in the box above. Please do that, and share using the buttons on the left of this post. If you are on Twitter, talk to me. I’m @WarrenWhitlock and I read and reply to every mention of my Twitter handle. Let’s have a conversation so I can personally get to know you.

Everyone who share a URL in the entry form above will have their blog reviewed us and get some promotions. We’ll reach out to blogs with relevant content and share some tips via email and here for everyone.

Please share this page with others. The more you share, the more we’ll share your good posts!

I heard from a friend working with best sellers from new authors. They are allowing thousands of people to download a book for FREE, intending that it will be so well received that others will buy it.

This is the competition out there for great books. The playing field is getting a lot larger.

My suggestion: Download this today and study it before you plan anything for the future.

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Guest Post by Shane Belceto
Author of “Inspirational Quotes: Social Media Findings to Inspire & Motivate”

Social Media today grows fast and seems to change often. Yet it can add so much to a persons’ life. For me, I find one thing that moves me well through each of my days are the quotes many of my online contacts share via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the rest. In fact, I started a habit some years ago to start copying and pasting those that caught my attention and tossing them onto a note pad to review at the end of the day as I shut down my PC. This habit provides me a great way to end my day on a positive note.

I recently decided to take some of these findings that others shared with me and share with the world in a new book, “Inspirational Quotes”, here I will share a piece with you …
Book Excerpt:

“In a high tech world, high touch is of high value."

- James Ray

Commentary:
We are living in the depths of a true microwave society, where everyone seeks instant gratification. We even want our BIG dreams now. Some components are missing, though, in today’s emails, texts, social media and online lives. Find ways to add that personal touch and personal attention we each seek in what you do, and you will be able to change lives, including your own. I believe this may be a reason why videos are doing so well online. Videos provide more personal aspects and bring the person back into the equation.

Action Steps:

Write down how you interact with others online and offline.
Find ways you can personalize these interactions.
Implement your “personal touch” ideas into your day.

Your Reflections:

From this I trust you see how quotes can impact our lives in a great way in just one example. Inspiration planted in the words of another that can stick with us each in different ways from simply hearing, or in this case reading them, and taking a moment to consider what is really being shared. Along with this, I trust as you run into quotes from others that effect you that you take the time, allow it to help grow your own ideas and dreams, and also in many cases choose to pass it on to others so they too may share in the value a quote can have.

You may even notice I wanted to do more then just generate a list of quotes. My goal is to spark something within the reader and allow it to initiate an idea they then can grow. Many quotes have done and continue to do this for me and I wish to help others do the same with the book.

So yes, social media grows fast and moves forward quickly, each day, and in many cases can get a bit overwhelming. I invite you to take a moment here and there, now that you have read this, and watch for those bits of knowledge that are passing in front of you each and every day. Find ones that mean something to you and think about how you might take what is being shared and use it positively for inspiration.

Every author wants more readers. Today that means you need more readers at your website, blog or book sales listing. Now there’s help to bring you web site traffic.

I teach and implement marketing and promotion for authors. In the last decade, I’ve seen thousands of authors reach new readers. We have seen books break out to reach new audiences and create more opportunities for it’s author. We’ve also used marketing and publicity online to give a book the jump start it needed to become a best seller.

Along the way, I’ve helped develop some back office tools that insure success. I’d like to share one of those proven systems with you today.

Why Some Great Books Don’t Succeed

Unfortunately, I have also met a lot of authors with good books who struggle to stay in the public eye, and never seem to get to the tipping point  that a huge launch promotion or media tour would bring. Some have spent thousands of dollars on a web site that can’t be found.

After a string of best sellers, I know what works. The truth is, no matter how great your book and online presence is, you won’t sell books if you can’t be found. A website is like a billboard built on a dead end street. You need traffic before anyone can see it.

If you have a best seller, you get coverage in the media, and the results start to snowball. What many authors need is that first burst of traffic coming to their web site.

How the Author Traffic System Works

Every book, author and launch promotion we work on today gets fed into this search engine optimization system for continued results.

I’ve not talked much about this system in the past, but used it to build lasting traffic for clients paying $5,000.00 per month or more to optimize their web sales.  This is considered to be a small SEO (search engine optimizer) budget so often difficult for an author to get started.

It’s worth the price. The traffic coming from the search engines is free, and there’s no end to the strategies that can add to results from the billions of searches done each month online.

Because of the volume of book specific projects we’ve done, I have worked with my SEO experts to build an affordable alternative that any author can use with any book.

Best of all, the system is 100% hands free. Our staff does all the work and you get the traffic.

Special Offer for a Few Authors

The Author Traffic System is not for everyone. If you don’t have a website, you’ll need to build one so there is someplace to send readers. Once you have a web page, any web page, the system can work for you.

It’s best to set up online presence for yourself and your book at least six months before you launch. We’ve seen results in as little as a few weeks but I caution you not to wait until your book is published.

Through our partnership with AuthorsTraffic.com you can now get access to the Author Traffic System for as little as $74/month.

As you can see, the cost per month drops drastically when you commit to a full year. This works because so much of the work gets prepared at the beginning of a project. The longer time commitments allow use to save on repeating the plan and installation, so we pass that savings on to you.

Each month, additional links and cross promotion allows the web of links and connections to grow. You can add new pages on your website, or use the promotion to drive more readers straight to your book listing. Most authors let the results build until they come out with a new book.

I’ve committed to work directly with AuthorTraffic.com for TEN AUTHORS during the rest of the year. I personally review the website promotion plan and will be adding two bonuses that will give you even more results if you order the 6 or 12 month package:

1. Promotion of your press release or article. You get a certificate for this that you can use right away, or redeem to get extra news coverage for a special event.  $497 value

2. Book announcement of your book to my following of several hundred thousand readers on my blog sites, email and social media networks. $997 value

This Author Traffic System package is new, but the work being done has proven to work for the authors and books we have promoted.

This special offer will be deleted once we get the 10 authors I am working with. If you have a book web site that needs a lot more traffic, or a new book planned during 2102, this is the best time to get started.

To order click on the link for package you want to see details needed to order.

My highest praise for a book is “it causes me to think in a new way about things.”

I read books to get a background on what is going on in the world rather than the sound bites on TV, which don’t tell the story with enough depth. But I refrain from writing reviews and getting into political discussion online. There’s just so much misunderstanding and emotion and the rhetoric rarely has anything to do with my illusion of reality.

Why I’m Writing Today

I love reading books because there’s a period of a few hours where I get to focus on a topic that someone spent real time on. It’s also the reason I write books and encourage others to write.

The events and interviews Trita Parsi shares in A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran are the best I’ve see on the subject of the US relationship with Iran. I’m sure I’ll be sharing the ideas with friends and quoting Parsi frequently.

Today, I’d like to share a different story about my new friend @TParsi.

My Story on How I Find Great Books

This story starts with me catching up on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I watch all the episodes online and find that Stewart and Stephen Colbert introduce 3-4 good authors each week.

If Stewart didn’t read the book, it’s the best job of faking it I’ve ever seen. I don’t agree with Jon often on many things, but respect the intelligence behind the comedy. (and it’s more fun than any other news source). It’s a great interview. Parsi is smart, and Stewart show it.

In the short clip below, I learned a few things I didn’t know. That’s the first tip for authors,

Don’t hold back. Share as much as you can in interviews

After finishing the show, I jumped on my laptop and watched the second half of the interview. While watching, I used my iPad to download the book from Amazon

I read the book and got several insights that made me reconsider how I think about the situation. The book was very readable, but went into depth on all the points in the Stewart interview. The whole process didn’t take a trip to the store, a delay to get the book or any sort of planning. Connections happen in real time today.

How We Read Book’s Today

I consider myself informed, but there were some players in the stories told who I’d forgotten. I looked up a couple online and made a few notes about things I might tweet.. especially the quotations. (I’m hoping Kindle opens up cut/paste in the future. The issues there will be the subject of another blog post)

Here’s where the reading experience diverges from just reading the book.

I posted a tweet when I finished the book:

You might note I have a viewpoint, but I didn’t express it strongly nor expected to get into a discussion about geo-politics on Twitter or here.

Not long ago, this would have been the end of the story. What was different was this response from Parsi

Trita Parsi is a busy guy. He’s leading a large organization, speaks and is on TV often. Still, he found time to answer my tweet.

At times I’ve gone out of my way to connect and follow a Twitter account of an author when I read their book. I’ve met some famous people and contributed to their blogs or online chats.

I didn’t have to this time. Parsi, or someone on his staff is monitoring conversations online.

Look at that response.. “Thanx!” wasn’t even a word and it made my day. I just had to write this review and share the experience. In that, Parsi gets another connection and who knows what will come from you reading this?

I’d like to think that I’m a big shot blogger and have so much clout that people treat me special. But the truth is, I was just one happy reader today. While I counsel clients to be on the lookout for radio show hosts, bloggers, and thought leaders. Everyone reading your book can be a contact that gets you to more readers and new connections.

More important that the press you get, the engaged readers you connect with are the kind of people who help spread a message. Despite my anti-political position, I’m now likely to talk to a dozen people about Iran in the next week. I may point a few back to this post (regular readers will know I will share this post )

All it took to stand out what an abbreviated thank you.

Are You Talking To Your Readers?

The first thing we do with all new clients today is review online and social media. You’d think that everyone is online, but we find that most authors haven’t been able to get to this level of engagement.

The best authors have systems that make this happen. If you want to become a recognized thought leader and expert, make sure you are doing the same.

NOTE: If you want the Social Media Checklist I use with companies and celebrity clients, follow this link to get free (for a limited time)

Rejection – it’s an author’s worst nightmare. But it happens to thousands of manuscripts by thousands of authors every week of the year. An author pours his heart into a story and is convinced it’s going to appeal to everyone who reads it. Then he gets rejected by not one, not two, but five or more publishers. Are the publishers crazy? Or is his work truly awful? His manuscript probably wasn’t rejected for either of those reasons, but it still stings nonetheless.

If you submit a manuscript to publishers and it gets rejected, what are you to do? The first step is to revise your work and try to improve it. There are many ways to do this. Sometimes the publisher will tell you why your work was rejected and give you a place to start, but usually not. You can also seek the constructive criticism of trusted friends and fellow authors, and you can take an honest look at your work yourself. After you’ve revised, you resubmit. But what if this only results in more rejection letters? Is there anything else you can do?

The Self-Publishing Solution
You don’t need the backing of a major publisher to successfully sell your book. What you do need is drive and motivation. If you have the time and are willing to put forth the effort, you can self-publish. Self-publishing opens the door for many authors, and lots of them achieve great success and profit through self-publishing. Beyond self-publishing, there is a specific method that makes things even more possible for more authors: print on demand (POD). Print on demand is a way to self-publish without requiring a significant amount of money up front to purchase hundreds of copies of your book. It’s a way to self-publish in which your book is only printed when someone buys it. It’s that simple.

Why POD?
With POD you’re assuming a much less significant risk in self-publishing. If no one wants to buy your book, you aren’t out all of the upfront costs of offset publishing and left with a huge inventory taking up room in your basement. It helps you maximize your profits. POD publishers will also help you get your book listed on Amazon and available through brick-and-mortar bookstores. Best of all, most POD publishers won’t judge your book or reject it. They’ll print it for you, but it’s up to you to do the necessary marketing. If you don’t succeed, POD publishers don’t lose anything. There are lots of great POD publishers out there. Two of the major players are Lightning Source and CreateSpace. Rather than hoping that a major publisher picks you, with POD you have the luxury of choosing your publisher and creating your own book deal.

It’s very disheartening when your manuscript is continually rejected, but don’t forget that you have other options. You don’t necessarily need the backing of a major publisher or an agent to get your book out there and turn a profit. If you’re tired of getting rejected and are ready to just get on with things, self-publishing through print on demand may be just the thing for you.

After you’ve used a grammar checker, Life Coach Ben Sharp recommends you overcome the sting of a publisher’s rejection by publishing your book on your own. Once you outgrow print on demand, check out Associated Printing Productions, Inc.

We talk about book marketing, Internet promotion and the packing of you content to profit as an author and business. In today’s competitive market, the author platform is the key determining factor to the success of your book.

But never underestimate the power of the written word.

A kind word, an expression of gratitude, or an honest compliment can make someone’s day, turn a life around and become the inception of a world changing enterprise.

Whether you are writing your book, your blog, or just passing someone on the street today, use your words to make the world better.

If you get the message from this powerful video. Please share it with others today.

Interactive Books Are Getting Better all the time.

Sales of eBooks, and book delivered to an e-reader like the Amazon Kindle are skyrocketing, and there is more video uploaded in the time it takes to read this short post than you could watch in a week.

Text or mostly text books will be a around for a long time to come, but why not present your information in a way that is more engaging to the reader.

Mike Matas shows off one new title for the Apple ipad in this TED Talk video.

How will you use this in your next book?

Author 101 University is a must attend event for authors who are serious about making it in publishing.

I’ve told Rick Frishman that the “101” title is misleading. This has become a networking event that we go back to again and again.

The next one is March 3-6 in LA. I’ll be shooting video segments for my TV show.

Time will be tight, so I’m giving priority to my readers. You do have to be attending Author 101. If not, we’ll have other opportunities announced here in the future.

To get on the schedule, leave a comment below and let me know you’ll be there.

Author 101 is Sold Out

Last I heard, the event is sold out. Publishers, agents, book marketing professionals and authors gathering like this has a tendency to draw a crowd fast.

If you don’t have a ticket, but want to come and be in a video. let me know. I may be able to get a ticket. (leave a comment with your and I’ll email you privately).