John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week
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Blog Posts on Book Marketing, Ebooks, and Social Media
10 blog posts and infographics that should help you sell more books and ebooks:
How to Install a Send Your Blog to Kindle Button (This means anyone can save one or all of your blog posts to their Kindle for later reading) – https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/how-to-install-asend-your-blog-to-kindle-button
How to Identify Your Target Audience – https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/how-to-identify-your-target-audience
Book Marketing Tip: Libraries Sell Books – https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/book-marketing-tip-libraries-sell-books
Do You Need a New Book Cover? – https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/do-you-need-a-new-book-cover
Ebooks – Why Not Try a Real Book? – https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/ebooks-why-not-try-a-real-book
Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Lessons You’ll Need – http://infographicaday.com/guy-kawasaki-the-top-10-lessons-youll-need
15 Things to Give Up If You Want to Be Happy – http://infographicaday.com/15-things-to-give-up-if-you-want-to-be-happy
Infographic: 21 Examples of Businesses Using Instagram Effectively – http://infographicaday.com/infographic-21-examples-of-businesses-using-instagram-effectively
Dr. Seuss: 10 Unexpected Social Media Tips – http://infographicaday.com/dr-seuss-10-unexpected-social-media-tips
Maria Gabriela Brito on Her Interior Design Inspirations – http://infographicaday.com/maria-gabriela-brito-on-her-interior-design-inspirations
Connect with Magazines and Get Featured in Print
Do you want to be featured in magazines? Why not write about or comment upon articles from the magazine? The editors often feature such comments in future issues of the magazine.
For example, here are a few reactions of bloggers to recent stories in Elle magazine (all reactions were featured in the June issue of Elle):
Willow Smith is like, nine, right? Just checking. The girl is talented, but I’m not sure I would classify her as a woman in music just yet… just sayin’. – Marc, Pinkisthenewblog.com
I’m really getting sick of you Willow haters. Why don’t you people just admit that Willow is charismatic and different, and just move on? Instead of this endless whining about how young she is…okay, I get it!!! – Mann, JustJared.buzznet.com
I love her honesty. She admits to being vain (and really what celeb isn’t) and she’s honest about how hard she has to work to keep her figure, etc. So many celebs are such liars about that stuff. –
Turquoise Blue, Celebitchy.com (on Gwen Stefani)
Now, read a few magazines related to your book’s topic or audience. Then pick out an article or two to write about on your blog. It may take a few such blog posts before you get a hit in the print magazine, but you will eventually get a hit if you write something interesting or controversial. Be bold. Be interesting. Speak up. Keep blogging.
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. -- John Kremer on Book Marketing.