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How to Promote Your Book on Social Media

October 30, 2024 By Training Authors Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Guest Post by Heather Erdmann Once you write and publish a book, your work switches to marketing and promoting your book to get it into the hands of potential readers. One of the most important ways authors do this is by having a platform that includes all the ways you connect with your audience. This […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing

3 Key Elements to a Successful Content Marketing Strategy

July 25, 2017 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

successful content marketing strategy

Do you have a strategy for your content marketing plan? How is it working for you? In this training, I’m going to share with you three key elements to make your content marketing a success.

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing, Marketing Tips

Book Marketing Strategy Becomes a Publishing Idea

October 14, 2016 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

book marketing strategy

What if there’s a way for you to use your book marketing strategy to also publish another book? Interesting, right? Well, that is what I’m going to share with you today.

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing, Marketing Tips

7 Ways to Build Buzz for Your Book Without Hard-Selling – Instead BUBBLE!!

July 20, 2016 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

build buzz for your book

Many authors struggle to be authentic and relatable in their book marketing. Today, I’m going to share with you a training on 7 ways you can build buzz for your book without being pushy or self-promotional.

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing

Do You Just Want to Find What Actually WORKS to Sell More Books

June 10, 2016 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Marketing books, selling more books

As authors we want to know how to sell more books. During a one-on-one call with my author, I asked her what her main goal is right now. And she answered “I just want to find what will work to sell more books” I think that’s a common feeling for a lot of authors. Have you ever felt that […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing, Marketing Tips

Word Swag Tutorial – Use Your iPhone for Book Marketing

May 25, 2015 By Shelley Hitz 2 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Since January 23rd, I’ve posted a quote graphic *almost* daily, creating and posting over 114 quote graphics on social media in the past 17 weeks. This is called momentum! People have asked me what I’m using to create these graphics and so I decided to create this short Word Swag tutorial of one of my […]

Filed Under: Technology, Book Marketing

How To Recommend eBooks To Your Library – 5 Simple Steps

April 22, 2015 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Overdrive provides an eBook lending service to libraries. I recently started using this service through my local library to read eBooks. There were several eBooks I wanted to read that they did not have yet. Therefore, I recommended my library purchase these books. Very quickly, I was notified they purchased two of the books I […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: book marketing tips

What NOT to Post When Marketing a Book – 8 Common Mistakes to Avoid

February 25, 2015 By Shelley Hitz 3 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Let’s talk about what NOT to post when marketing a book. Have you heard of the popular TV show, “What Not to Wear”? Well, in this blog post, I am not going to cover fashion, but instead, I will be focusing on what NOT to post when marketing your book on social media.  The idea for this […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing, Marketing Tips

Our Top 5 Blog Posts from 2014

December 16, 2014 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Can you believe the year is almost over? Shelley and I have been reviewing everything we’ve done this year, and one thing I always like to look at is our top blog posts. We value our followers and strive to share valuable information with you. One year ago today, I shared our top ten blog posts […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, General

The Power of a Book Marketing Plan (and how to calculate increased book sales)

October 26, 2014 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

book marketing plan

Did you know there is power in a book marketing plan?  I found this to be true in a huge way…more on that later.  However, increasing book sales is something every author is happy to see. The problem is many authors don’t know how to calculate their sales increase percentage. Unfortunately, I was one of […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: authors, Book Marketing, book marketing plan, book marketing tips, Case study

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