Book Marketing, Publishing, Author Resources
For some time now, the exciting place to be on the Internet has been Twitter.com
I haven’t been ready to say authors must be on twitter.. there is still more value in getting your own site, blog, and MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIN first.
Once you have all those, or if you just want to see what you are missin.. watching my feed on twitter.
Here’s a twitter baloon I’ll be adding to the blog so you can see my latest short post or status update
I’ve been telling authors how important it is to get on Facebook for months, and seen books and authors make new connections and sell books and get website visitors.
I’ve had new clients for my high end services come directly from Facebook contacts too.
Here’s an article that talk about the Top 10 facts about marketing on Facebook
The marketing possibilities are growing… Make sure we’re you have a Facebook profile and add me as a friend.
I was at a conference today. I met up with dozens of authors, some old friends and a some new.
I asked each one “Are We Connected Online?”
Even with thousands of direct connections, and a network of millions, I still find people I know that haven’t connected online… so I’m sharing this short introduction to social networking. This is the best way for every author with any sized budget to market themselves, attract new readers and partners, sell book and creat a best seller online.
Connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN and MySpace
Today’s post comes live from the Bloghaus (a room with wireless access) at the Affiliate Summit West show in Las Vegas.
My mission here is to find the best programs to help authors promote books online. There are dozens of interesting possibilities, some for authors that would like to earn money from their blogs and web sites.. others with access to millions of readers for your book.
I’ve been teaching authors to have a blog site for their book, and to write about subjects of your expertise, current events and personal antidotes to engage your readers and create a dialog to build online relationships.
Some authors have asked how to monetize a blog. That’s really quite simple.. just build a regular readership and join one of the many affiliate networks.
An Affiliate Network is usually free to join. It takes a minute to sign up, then you choose from hundreds of offers that your readers may be interested in, copy a line of code to your blog post, and get paid if your readers click and/or buy the offer.
The offers I’ve seen today include items for small business, parents, self improvement, technology, games and entertainment and health advice There is something for everyone.
One of the largest program is Amazon.com. You can sell your books, or books on any topic you want, and earn a commission from them.
However, the exciting ideas for me here at the Summit were the advertising. We put together a deal where millions of email readers will see articles about new books we are promoting. We will pay for the new leads generated and put our author’s books in front of thousands of new readers during our upcoming best seller campaigns.
I’ll have more on the details coming up in future posts. Leave a comment here and tell me if you are in an affiliate network, and how that is working out for you.
I helped Pat O Bryan launch Portable Empires last year… Best Selling Author is just one of the things Pat does in his spare time.
As Pat puts it.. you can see that life today can be all spare time
It’s not about how hard you are working.. it’s about what you get done. Pat has it right (except for the odd coffee shop choices)