Book Marketing, Publishing, Author Resources
I’ve been watching Chris Voss rise in popularity online using social media and other free tools to create content for his audience
His system is simple, and he just made a video that will show you how.
Any author would be wise to add this to your do promote your book and market online
guest post by Michael Volkin
Authors can have a variety of extracurricular activities. Depending on how involved the author wants to be with his/her book, radio shows, speaking tours and other activities can create extra income. Each of these activities could have a sponsor associated with it.
For example, if you have an online radio show at BlogTalkRadio.com, you could have sponsors advertise on your show. Doing this is a great compliment to book sales and can provide a good source of income.
A good sponsor will not only pay you, but also help you sell books, so the partnership might be beneficial in more ways than one. To find a sponsor, I would recommend going to the website GetYourSponsor.com, simply fill out a profile and other companies or entities wanting to provide a sponsorship might see a match.
I have a couple sponsors that even asked tosell my Social Networking for Authors, books for me! It doesn’t get any better than that.
Here’s a SMART NETWORKING idea.
Liz Lynch wrote Smart Networking: Attract a Following In Person and Online to teach you how easy it is to use networking to grow your business, attract new readers for your book, and build real relationships whether you meet people online or face to face.
The book has done well and reach best seller status.
Liz has been leveraging her best seller status and using her networking to grow rapidly this year. To celebrate, we got together for Smart Networking Day… a twist on the “buy a book and get gifts” promotions we’ve been doing for years.
you go to the book promotion web site, you won’t be required to buy a book to get gifts. That’s right. Liz teaching to GIVE first when building a network. She knows that a few people might download the 74 free networking gifts and not buy the book, but trusts that most will.
Take a look at the promotion site. Go ahead and download one or many of the free gifts. Share the promo link with your friends, followers and readers and help grow the network of all the authors and businesses involved. (These are great people to know.. the are all GIVERS).
Plus, 11 Smart Networking Tips and a FREE Audio Training Program that goes with the book. No purchase required. We know you will want the book when you see the power of Smart Networking
Will It Work?
Yes. A Resounding Yes!.. We asked authors, bloggers and online businesses to join us in the give first network building program. They responded, without pay, to offer up samples of their best work, gifts that have previously sold well on other sites, and special programs for our new friends.
323 responded… All sharing this site with those that follow them (you can too.. just share http://SmartNetworkingNow.com with your friends and readers.
Here’s a partial list of those who help (GIFTS listed at the Smart Networking Now site). Thanks all you agreed to spread the word:
Gladys Gort
Mitch Axelrod
Stefanie Hartman
Willie Crawford
Beth Fitzgerald
Brysen Bristow
Bob Marconi
Don Hinz
Sharon Horne-Ellstrom
Dan Kushell
Anita Jordan
Edward Philipp
Erika Duffy
Eva Gregory
Irena Whitfield
Greg Roworth
James Maduk
Ozer Tayiz
Sharon Montero
Jacqueline Jones
J. Kyle Howard
Joan Eisenberg
Joel Orr
Kathleen Gage
Knud Christensen
Krishna De
Larry Anderson
Lori Smith
Mark Freeman
Tahiri Abdelkrim
Mary Kraemer
Michael Rter
Mike Webster
Albert Hallado
Meredith Ndleton
Opher Brayer
Pat Thorpe
Peter Fogel
Norman Ramsey
Ray Hall
Nigel Solomon
Rosemary Heenan
Saundra Jackson
Shay Unknown
Shawn Wiederin
Tom Justin
Cathie Sherwood
Wayne Buckhanan
Elena Zanfei
Noel Lyons
Tom Huberty
HHG Architects
Paula Tarrant
Rey Misoles
Thom Scott
Penny Gabardi
Celia Westberry
Robert Garland
Katherine Scott
Tom Ramrod
Ivan Zitek
Michael Varada
Ron Henley
Georgette Pann
JP Maroney
Lisa Young
Carmen Smith
Walt Laurel
Warren Wojnowski
Erfan Hettini
Kenth Nasstrom
Gary Huynh
Dr Mani
Dechen Lau
Shane Hall
Lael Johnson
Robert Hill
Doris Helge
Rayna Litchen Litchen
Ronda Boccio
Randall Dean
Steven Arinze
Cynthia Rowland
Lincoln Ong
Kathy Atkinson
Cheryl Antier
Ed Sykes
Mark Bossert
Andi Shi
Tom Bice
Barbara Hayes
Doug Terry
Jim Sniechowski
G House
Louis Weiss
Sheryl Schuff
Sabine Nebel
Corey Lewis
Douglas Bench
Victory Darwin
Wayne Buckhanan
Bob Marconi
Martin Howey
Curtis Schmitt
Nick Romer
Keith Choy
Sherrie Koretke
Jennifer Schaecher
Mike Jay
Sarah Lewis
Chuck Bartok
Sergey Baklykov
Chris pirkey Pirkey
Paul Klein
Jerry Shamvis
Jill Koenig
Alex Garcez
Sheridan Randolph
Joe Rubino
Ken Thomson
AJ Mams
Warren Dixon
Dawn Lundquist
Tom King
Nickolove Lovemore
Manju thirani Thirani
Gayleen Williams
Denise Mense
Mike Konners
Opher Brayer
Rob Carey
Charles Kirkland
Barbara Hofmeister
Toni Shrader
Marla Bollak
Clayton Schmitt
John Mignano
Jinger Jarrett
Brian Johnston
Lisa Moreau
Phil Hughes
Todd Rhoad
Sonja Bendz
Zhexiang Chen
Dominique Goh
Rita Losee
PaTrisha-Anne Todd
Bronwyn Ritchie
Mary Grace
Barry Marks
Tara Albers
Amy Bush Bradley
Liz Lynch
Yael Cohen
Odinn Sorensen
Keith Debolt
Daniel Remon
Charles Huggins
Aniita Cohen
Sheila Betker
Carma Spence-Pothitt
Ruth Hegarty
Pam Clemons
Theresa Napa
DeAnna Troupe
Britt Michaelian
Essa Adams
Sylvia Wilson
Miracle Paul
Gary Oatis
Roz Silverberg
Mohammad Ataur Rahman
Charlene Nelson
Jerry Koh
Onyebueze Nmeribe
Jean Louis
Jennifer Aderhold
Andrea Tannouri
Blaine Berger
Catherine Behan
Tracy Needham
Glenn Smith
Ravi Bhanot
Widianto Zhu
Joe Nunziata
Wendy Evans
Peggy Murrah
Debbie Wade
Lynnette Lyles
Halli Casser-Jayne
Kirk Wilkinson
DeeDee Bader
Judith Sherven
Carolann Jacobs
SaRita Hartin
Ronda Del Boccio
Travis Campbell
Philip Mutrie
Haseena Patel
Jerold Richert
Chris Manieri
John Rodger
Nancy Marmolejo
Jane Allison Austin
Colleen Trombley
Peter Fogel
Tom Osypian
Tom. Moore
Connie Green
Rosalie Arnold
Carol Cheshire
Laura Sopp
Robert Frost
Victor Cohut
Joni Waseity-beadle
Patricia Lucey
Lisa Dingman
Lance Wantenaar
Susan Horne
Bryan Pullin
Dr John Williams
Jan Malloch
Raymond Hanna
Dennis Stewart
Lloyd Wentworth
Daniel Sladen
Phil Mutrie
Jim Schibly
Tim Mitchell
Carol York
Nan Akasha
Carol Dickson-Carr
Chris Sherwood
Alan Holmes
Ed Zimbardi
Nancy Farris
Sheri Hoff
Nancy Marmolejo
Fiona Fay
Warren Whitlock
Paula Tarrant
Carola Goetze
Telan Hosaka
Warren Wojnowski
Caroline Ceniza-Levine
Pat Thorpe
Jay Aaron
Jan Vermeiren
Brian Buckley
Ivan Zitek
David Schwartz
Biba Pedron
Andy LaPointe
Amethyst Wyldfyre
Noah St John
Brysen Bristow
One of the few areas growing in publishing is the Blogoshpere. While others are shutting down, worried that e-books or the economy will kill sales.. the bloggers I know are talking about bigger advances, best sellers and respect from media and publishers.
How to connect with Bloggers.
There are millions of blogs and bloggers. The vast majority are splogs (blogs set up to spam) or static, underutilized locations with a few posts talking about themselves.
These are NOT the ones to talk to 🙂
Instead, meet the bloggers. They love to congregate. There is a blog meetup or seminar every week in some cities.
This is how Twitter Revolution got started. I wanted to connect with bloggers to promote books, found them online, at blogger conventions and on Twitter. I started using Twitter just to promote other’s books.
At a recent convention, I met Murry Newlands. He pulled out a camera and asked me about my book. You’ll see that I didn’t have one in hand.
Murray did not edit the interview.. put it up on YouTube and I just grabbed th code from them to embed here (a simple cut and paste).
Now I’ll add a link back to Murray to thank him and encourage him to talk about my book and this site.
Watch the video and see how easy this is:
http://www.murraynewlands.com/2009/10/warren-whitlock-an-interview/
As an author you are considered an expert in the field in which your book is written. The press is always looking for experts to interview, especially during a timely news release. For example, my book on Social Networking for Authors recently drummed up some good press as someone interviewed me about the popularity of Facebook. The press called me because they noticed I was an expert in the field of Social Networking. You can get the same exposure for free, by going to PitchRate.com.
Pitch Rate is a free service that connects journalists with subject experts for free media coverage.
Simply create an account at Pitch Rate and fill in your profile as completely as possible. Your profile is what members of the press read before they decide to contact you. This is your chance to show the world what you are an expert at and why you should be considered an expert.
You can set your account to receive daily emails from Pitch Rate to see who is looking for experts in your area. Requests can be easily sorted by category or keywords by visiting the “Search Requests” tab once you’ve signed in. Once you’ve found a request you’re interested in, simply make a pitch and all of your contact info contained in your profile will automatically be attached. At this point, it’s just a matter of playing the waiting game to see if someone is interested in you and your book.
One of the constant struggles I see with authors is the need to be continually marketing your book to be successful. A website like PitchRate.com is great for authors to be able to quickly set up an account and receive marketing opportunities for an extended period of time. With just a few minutes of work, an author can expose him or herself to potentially hundreds of press opportunities.
For more tips and tricks on how to sell a ton of books, go to Michael Volkin’s new website SellaTonofBooks.com and purchase his new book Social Networking for Authors-Untapped Possibilities for Wealth.
