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The Storyteller Way of Marketing

Jeffrey Hedquist: Promoting Your Books the Storyteller Way

Guest post by Jeffrey Hedquist The following article is excerpted from my good friend and talented radio voice and commercial producer Jeffrey Hedquist’s monthly Radio Hed Lines newsletter. In writing and performing radio commercials, Jeffrey is adamant that you have to tell stories. The same is true for books! Here’s what he says: People love […]

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Seth Godin's Advice for authors

Seth Godin: 5 Book Marketing Tips for Book Authors

Guest Post by Seth Godin (with comments from John Kremer) I get a fair number of notes from well respected, intelligent people who are embarking on their first nonfiction book project. They tend to ask very similar questions, so I thought I’d go ahead and put down my five big ideas in one place to […]

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Joe Vitale on manifesting cars

Joe Vitale: A Lesson in Copywriting

The following is taken from an email I received from my friend Joe Vitale a number of years ago. I thought it made a great point about the importance of copywriting in making sales. Note how he quietly promotes his own website in the process of critiquing another. He advocates that you read his website […]

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Book Marketing Secrets

Book Marketing Success Stories: Are Self-Published Books Really Good?

Self-published books once carried a stigma of being not the best books. But that has changed as more books like Wool, The Martian, and 50 Shades of Grey have become bestsellers and been made into movies. Self-published books now rule! Self-published books average better ratings than traditionally published books on Amazon. On average, self-published books also […]

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