Book Marketing, Publishing, Author Resources
I’m getting many interview requests as author of Twitter Revolution, but still find time to help authors market their books.
Jim Kukral has become a good friend over the past few months. He’s a blogging and social media genius and wanted to know more about my Book Marketing Strategy course
So I gave him carte blanch to ask any question he wanted, provided he post it for you to see.
Listen know to learn more about book marketing
The Internet Marketing event in Atlanta this week brought hundreds of marketing professionals together to discuss the best practices for marketing books and websites.
BestSellerAuthors.com is just one of the many web sites featured in the training where we used social media like Twitter.com and out Twitter radio show to talk to the experts.
Here’s Warren Whitlock‘s goodbye from Atlanta.
If you are an author of a book, writing a book now, or hope to write a book someday, here are some important statistics for you from Mert Erkal and the Internet Business Blog Search for Blogging site
- Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
- More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
- Over 57 million Americans read blogs.
- 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
- 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
- 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
- 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
- Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
- over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
- There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
- 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
- 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
- 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
- 51% of blog readers shop online .
- Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .
If you don’t blog, and wonder how you could sell more books, attract readers for you book, or make money as an author. You have your answer here.
Start bloggin
Each day, I post some of the best book marketing sites here
YouTube gets thousands of videos everyday and while many are awful.. we are drawn to watch them.
What draws people to the social media? What makes an average person become a producer?
And, how do you get over the odd feeling of talking to a camera alone to share your thoughts, promote your book and connect with the community?
Maybe you don’t need to. You are great just the way you are.
a thought provoking, entertaining and enlightening video.