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Chat Light Review: Unboxing my Chat Light

July 23, 2016 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

chat light review

If you are looking for inexpensive lighting to use for your videos, you may be interested in my Chat Light review. See the Chat Light in action in this video.

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How to Create a Link on Amazon for Book Reviewers

June 30, 2016 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

link on Amazon for book reviewers

All authors love to get new reviews on their books in Amazon, right? Reviews give more credibility and social proof to your book. Therefore, in this post I decided to share with you how to create a direct link on Amazon for book reviewers to post their reviews.

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KDROI Review – The EASIEST Way to Submit Your Free KDP Promotion

September 4, 2015 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

KROI review – software that will submit your book for you. ==> Get your copy of KDROI here <== NOTE: When you purchase through my affiliate link above, you’ll also get my BONUS which is a PDF copy of my book, Amazon for Authors. Also, although my review video shows me submitting a free book […]

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KindleSpy Review – 3 Ways Authors Can Use It

July 20, 2015 By Shelley Hitz Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

In this post, I’m going to share my KindleSpy review. I first heard of KindleSpy last year and at the time I didn’t think it offered enough value to recommend it to authors or use it myself.  However, I recently had two of my Author Audience Academy members mention it in our forums and recommend […]

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How to Run an Online eBook Giveaway

March 18, 2015 By Shelley Hitz 1 Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Why Use Giveaways and Contests? Branding – get exposure for your book and/or your other services. Exposure – giveaways and contests can go viral giving you massive exposure. Reviews – ask the winners to submit a review for your book. Book Launch – a giveaway or contest is a great way to promote a new […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Giveaway, Marketing Tips, Product Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Video Tagged With: Book Marketing, book marketing tips, get exposure, giveaway, places to promote, social media marketing, tools for authors

Get the ‘Author Advantage’

January 30, 2015 By Heather Hart 1 Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

An important part of publishing your book is the book description. The cover draws the reader in, but the description seals the deal. However, many authors find that summarizing their book in just a few paragraphs isn’t as easy as it sounds. And doing so in a way that entices readers… well, that’s even harder. […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Book Reviews, Marketing Tips, Product Reviews Tagged With: Book Marketing, book marketing tips, book review, essential books, marketing, publishing, tools for authors, Writing Advice

How to Win the Spam Battle

July 14, 2014 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

After spamming 102 out of 104 comments on my author website one morning last week, I thought it was time to write up a post on minimizing spam on your website to share with you. I know I am not the only author plagued with spam. Spam seems like a common problem to all new […]

Filed Under: Marketing Tips, Product Reviews, Technology Tagged With: author websites, productivity tips, websites, Wordpress Plugins

Kinstant Dashboard Review

December 12, 2013 By Shelley Hitz 9 Comments Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Kinstant Dashboard Review

Kinstant Dashboard is software that Kindle publishers can use to track their rankings and market their books.  Here is my Kinstant Dashboard review after using it myself.   My Review of Kinstant Dashboard  (likes & dislikes)… This is a tool I (Shelley) own and use for my own publishing business.  Here is my review of […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Product Reviews Tagged With: kindle marketing, kinstant, kinstant dashboard review

The Ultimate Challenge For Authors

December 9, 2013 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Have you heard of Kristen Eckstein? She was one of the contributing authors to our book, “Indie Author Book Marketing Success,” and we have always know her for her “over deliver” work ethic. She has started over 50 publishing companies and published almost 200 books. However, she blew us away with her newest accomplishment. She’s […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Product Reviews, Publishing Tips, Writing Tips Tagged With: authors, book review, essential books, tools for authors, Writing Tips

How to Increase Blog Traffic by Repurposing Content

November 19, 2013 By Shelley Hitz 8 Comments Click here for a FREE book marketing training

Content Transformer Review

There are many ways to increase blog traffic but one of my favorite is by repurposing your blog content.   It takes time to research, write and edit a blog post.  So, why not make the most of the time you invested in that content by also publishing the same content in different formats.  Not […]

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