author platforms

Booking Interviews

Book Marketing Q&A: Marketing Without an Author Platform

Author Marketing Tip: Find someone who loves you (a teenager, a neighbor, a friend, an acquaintance) and hire them to help you book some interviews if you cannot book those interviews yourself. Then have fun doing those interviews or those speaking engagements. Book Marketing Question I know 80% of books are sold by word of […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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Get Your Book Published

Self-Publishing Tips: How Do I Get My Books Published?

I get this question at least five to ten times every week in one form or another: How do I get my books published? Or, sometimes it’s made as a statement: I need help getting my book published. Or they might ask: What’s the best way to self-publish my book? Check out the answer to this […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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Jeff Davidson on Authors

Jeff Davidson: 10 Tips for Becoming a Successful Mainstream Author

Guest Post by Jeff Davidson 1. The success of a book is 10% content and 90% marketing. Unless the publishing house is behind your book, forget it. 2. The book publishing industry is agent driven. Agents sell the best books for the most money, with some few exceptions. Authors representing themselves hardly ever match this. 3. The […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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Jennifer Miller: Innovative Ways to Market a Novel

Jennifer Miller’s debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. And, yet, even with great reviews from The Washington Post and Glamour, her book didn’t generate blockbuster sales. Her publisher even produced a book trailer featuring Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Dan Rather, Christiane Amanpour, and Sam Donaldson reading from her […]

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- .

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