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1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Real World Edition

Advertise in 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

If you would like to advertise in the new Real World edition of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, you have to get your ad in within the next 8 days or you won’t get in. Why advertise? If you are a publicist, printer, designer, marketing service, editor, publishing service, or just like to advertise […]

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1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Real World Edition

Book Marketing Tips: Getting Publicity for Your Books and Authors

Here are a few book publicity tips excerpted from the new Real World Edition of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books: Book Marketing Tip #101: Set up your own information bureau. To establish your company as a source of information related to your specialty, establish a press syndicate or information bureau. A syndicate does not […]

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7 reasons to be on Pinterest

Pinterest Power: Getting Big Traffic with Pinterest

My friend Ellen Finkelstein of Change the World Marketing will interview me (John Kremer) in a free webinar this Wednesday, July 20th. As you know I’m the author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books and mentor to authors who have sold over a billion books. Over the past 30 years, I’ve helped thousands of […]

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Dumb Publishers

Book Marketing Tips: Working with Bookstores

Here are a few excerpts from the new Real World Edition of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books: Book Marketing Tip #1: Ship books fast, both to your direct customers and to bookstores. You don’t want to get this reputation: “Toyota can build a car faster than most publishers can figure out an order.” — a […]

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