Publicity Tips

Publicity tips for books, authors, publishers, speakers, and more.

Telephone Sales

800 Phone Numbers: Why You Should Get a Toll-Free Phone Number

Get a Toll-Free Phone Number If you are serious about providing customer support and service, install a toll-free number to make it easier for your customers to call and order from you. Toll-free numbers are so inexpensive nowadays that you really cannot afford to offer anything less. Note that with the increased demand for toll-free numbers, the FCC […]

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Seth Godin on Telling Stories

Seth Godin: 19 Points of Advice for Book Authors

Guest Post by Seth Godin 1. Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don’t expect much. 2. The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out.Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility, and build the connections […]

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Book Marketing Tips: 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

Thanks, everyone, for the feedback on how I should publish 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. I prefer publishing 1001 Ways to Market Your Books as two books: a Real World Edition and a Digital World Edition. Separately, each book would be published for $27.95 and be available as either a paperback book or an […]

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John Kremer on Joy and Kindness

Using Google Alerts to Market Your Books

Guest post by S. E. Gregg What I have done to market my book that works for me and will work for you is this: Sign up for Google Alerts via http://www.google.com/alerts. When you sign up for Google Alerts, Google will email you whenever there is a topic, blog post, news report, or article about the keyword […]

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