Book Marketing Stories
John Kremer on Helping Others
Any smart person who has lived on earth for awhile wants to help others. It’s just common sense. And it works. As you lift up others, you lift yourself as well. — John Kremer The secret to marketing books and ebooks: Help others. That’s how you build relationships. That’s how you sell more books. Short, […]
Six Steps for Getting National Media Coverage
Guest post by L. Drew Gerber Getting national media coverage in top print, broadcast, or online media can boost your business in ways that are hard to imagine. A single placement in a glossy national magazine is worth tens of thousands of dollars – sometimes a lot more – and not just in the value […]
How to Make Your Book Dreams Come True
Here are a few inspirational messages to help you get through the hard times of marketing your books. And there will be hard times, just as there will be incredibly great times. You’ll never be brave if you don’t get hurt. You’ll never learn, if you don’t make mistakes. You’ll never be successful, if you […]
Are Ebook Sales Declining?
According to Terrance Finley, CEO of Books-A-Million, the low-hanging fruit of ebook sales have been plucked. As he notes: There’s nothing on the horizon from a technology perspective that leads us to conclude that there would be technology to push dramatically different consumption levels of digital books, and prices are already very low. So all […]