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Connect Your Book With Real World

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/

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Best Way to Get Great Reviews of Your Book on Amazon

Most authors today depend on Amazon for a large part of book sales.

You will sell more books when you have your book reviewed on Amazon. Here’s some tips.

Build your network on Amazon.

Set up a profile, add a blog, make sure you have a photo and links to your email and web site. The more people who know you, the more opportunities there are to cross promote and build readership. People don’t just buy or read one book, and the ones who buy the most are already networking with author authors like you.

Review other good books in your niche.
Add a review of books you read, expecially for authors you know. There is a link on each book page (Here’s the link for “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online”). You need to be logged in to Amazon, then

  1. Click that you are over 13 (I’ll assume you are, but answer truthfully)
  2. Clcik on the number of stars you want to give the book. (I almost always choose 5 stars because I only pick books I love)
  3. Enter a Title. This is the headline, so make it interesting. One key point, with keywords, or maybe a question
  4. Write your review. You can upload a video. This have tons of “search engin cred”.. make sure you write to readers sharing an honest point or two about how the book will benefit them
  5. If appropriate, put a link to your book, or any other product on Amazon. No hype, no sales pitch.. but a link will let people read more
  6. Add Tags.. VERY IMPORTANT put the keywords that will help readers find this book, and the link to your profile

Jim Got Me to Tell My Secrets to His Listeners

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