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5 Ways To Boost Your Christmas Book Sales

October 30, 2013 By Heather Hart 6 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Over the years, we’ve found that the Christmas season usually brings in the highest book sales of the year – even without any extra marketing! Why not make the most of the season and plan your book marketing accordingly? I’ve already seen multiple posts on Facebook about people doing their Christmas shopping – so now […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, Book Sale, Christmas, get exposure, guest blogging, marketing, places to promote

Becoming A Celebrity Author

September 24, 2013 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

We recently hosted marketing wizard, D’vorah Lansky, M. Ed., for a webinar titled, What It Means To Be A Celebrity Author In Today’s High Tech World. D’vorah has been marketing online and mentoring leaders since 1994. She is the author of several Amazon bestselling books including: Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Book Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, get exposure, hangout, marketing, videos, Webinars

Five Reasons to Work with Other Authors

September 23, 2013 By guestpost 3 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Guest Post By Author Karen Banes Do you ever work with other authors to cross-promote your books, or find new readers for your blog? Some authors see other authors as their competition, rather than their colleagues, but working together can be very rewarding. It’s a great way to expand your network, find new readers and […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: authors, Book Marketing, book marketing tips, guest blogging

Teleseminar Basics for Authors PLUS 13 Promotion Tips and 11 Tools for Success

September 20, 2013 By Shelley Hitz 6 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Teleseminar Basics for Authors

Ready to learn teleseminar basics?  With the ready availability of low-cost (or no-cost) long-distance service and conference call lines, teleseminars have become increasingly popular. Instead of spending thousands of dollars traveling to give an in-person presentation, you can meet your readers, customers and prospects right where they are, without even having to change out of […]

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

Reaching For Book Marketing Success

September 19, 2013 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Are you an author that’s reaching for book marketing success?  One of the questions we get asked the most is “Help…my book isn’t selling.” Watch our video below where we discuss these topics and more… [leadplayer_vid id=”523B6E0DA3AC0″]   If you haven’t done so already, you can download our free author training “Building a Book Marketing […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: Book Marketing, book marketing tips, hangout, marketing, videos, Webinars, youtube

Are You Losing Book Sales Over This Common Problem?

September 5, 2013 By Heather Hart 39 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Are you an author that has a book available on Amazon.com? If so, you may be losing book sales because readers can’t buy your book. “How is this possible” you ask? It’s because Amazon is country specific. That means that every book has a different link for every country – that’s over half a dozen links […]

Filed Under: Business, Entrepreneur Tagged With: Book Marketing, book marketing tips, marketing, tools for authors

{Book Review} Keys to Creating A Successful Book Marketing Strategy

August 30, 2013 By Heather Hart 2 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

This week I finished Staci Stallings book, “[easyazon-link asin=”B00BMROCUE” locale=”us”]Keys to Creating a Successful Book Marketing Strategy[/easyazon-link]” – and it was awesome! For any of you who don’t know Staci, she is a stay at home mom with a husband, three kids and a writing addiction on the side. She has over 20 books published in […]

Filed Under: Product Reviews Tagged With: Book Marketing, book review

Video Marketing Workshop

August 9, 2013 By Heather Hart 3 Comments Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Hey Authors, Have you done any book marketing with videos? Do you want to increase your online visibility? I’ve put together an exercise that will help you generate ideas and learn some basics of video marketing. Before you start, make sure you know the basics of video marketing. So I’ve put together 5 keys to video […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Video Tagged With: authors, Book Marketing, marketing, video marketing, videos, youtube

Why Should You Have A Webinar To Market Your Book?

June 25, 2013 By Heather Hart Leave a Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Webinars

Conducting a webinar can be one of many steps toward bringing potential readers into your book sales funnel – in fact it can be one of the first steps. Like social media, blogs, YouTube videos, and the vast array of other online tools you use, webinars can be an added component of a successful book […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Video Tagged With: Book Marketing, marketing, Webinars

Increase Your SEO In 5 Simple Steps

May 14, 2013 By Heather Hart 1 Comment Click here for FREE training for Christian writers

Increase Your SEO in 5 simple steps

Search engine optimization (most commonly known as SEO) is one of those things that makes most authors want to groan. We look at it as one of those techie things that we need to do, but would rather that it just did itself. SEO do not have to be difficult. In fact, I want to […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Marketing Tips Tagged With: author websites, Book Marketing, marketing, Search engine optimization, SEO, websites

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