self-publishing

Book Marketing Success Podcast #9: The Five Keys to Self-Publishing Success

http://media.blubrry.com/bookmarketingsuccess/bookmarketingbestsellers.com/wp-content/uploads/5-Keys-to-Self-Publishing-Success.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download In this Book Marketing Success podcast episode, John Kremer outlines the five key things every self-publisher must do to publish and promote his or her books. Self-publishing a book is a serious endeavor. It shouldn’t be done lightly. Create a great book first. Then market your self-published book like it […]

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. -- .

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Gone With The Grits

One Self-Published Author Sells a Million Books a Year

This year Diane Pfeifer will sell over a million copies of her Gone with the Grits cookbook and other books (GritsBits.com). How did she do it? Her answer: Just a combo of wholesale gift shop sales, gift catalogs, on-site retail including holiday shows, special sales (Quaker Grits), commodities catalogs, in-office/school lobby sales and, of course, Amazon and Ingram. […]

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. -- .

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You Self-Publish

What Is a Good Self-Publishing Company?

I saw this lead question in a recent email I received: What is a good self-publishing company? The answer is simple: YOU. Yup, the only good self-publishing company is yourSELF. That’s what self-publishing is all about. I know that there are a lot of companies out there now that call themselves self-publishing companies. But the fact […]

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. -- .

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Neil Ostroff on Kindle Direct Publishing and Twitter

Niel Ostroff, author of the novels Silent Invasion and Drop Out, has just written a blog post on The Book Marketing Network where he describes the effects of just one tweet from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. As he notes in the blog post: When you’re as active on writer’s sites as I am, you occasionally receive what […]

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. -- .

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