Social Media

Social Media Tips: Instagram

On this page I’ll be sharing various tips on how to use Instagram to build an audience and sell more books. First, some Instagram stats: Big businesses are spending hundreds of million of dollars per year on Instagram advertising. 65% of top performing Instagram posts are featured products (that means buyer traffic). 200 millions Instagrammers […]

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Funny Book Tweets You Can Retweet

Here are a few funny tweets about books, authors, and poetry that you can retweet. Have fun retweeting! Somebody should tell Forrest Gump that on the back of the box of chocolates it tells you exactly what you’re going to get. — Avi @ilovepie84 Somebody should tell Forrest Gump that on the back of the box of […]

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Joe Bovino: Hosting a Book Launch Party

Guest post by Joe Bovino, author of Field Guide to Chicks of the United States It was now or never. My business partner and I had decided to throw a festive party at a swanky hotel bar in West Hollywood, CA to celebrate the launch of my first book, Field Guide to Chicks of the United States, […]

Google Search Rankings: A Case History

For the past two months, while working for an author client, I’ve been designing and promoting a website on how wind turbines kill birds. The website, BirdsandBlades.com, promotes John Graves’s book, Broken Wing: Birds, Blades and Broken Promises. With two months of work, here are the results for Google searches (using an incognito search): #1, #2, […]