Hope you all have had a great week! The year is off to a smashing start with all the books coming out and the wonderful marketing symposium last Monday. I got so much encouragement and awesome advice! And made more new friends, too. Today, I wanted to share some of the things I learned in a condensed format for you.
Marketing Tips that Work!
- The Number 1 tip from several participants is KEEP WRITING!
- from Jeremy and Roland - Find your readers and connect with them!
- from L. Diane Wolf - Get early book reviews to create buzz and talk to book clubs
- from Sandra - Slash prices! Here are some great bargain book sites:
- Book Gorilla
- Ereader News Today
- Book Hub
- Pixel of Ink (from Angela Brown)
- Fussy Librarian (from me!)
- from Julie Flanders - she used the April A to Z challenge to subtly promote by giving cool facts about Alaska where her book takes place - I love that idea! (btw, sign-ups start TODAY!)
- another popular tip was to make a book trailer or catchy video - you never know what will go viral! and that goes with my last tip
- from Nicki Elson - many do giveaways using Rafflecopter and use Twitter or Facebook shoutouts for entries, right? Well, Nicki added "view my book trailer" for entries. So we need to get creative with those giveaways!
'Keep Writing' is always great advice for writers. And using the A to Z Challenge to help promote is a super idea—I remember a lot of Julie's post from that go around.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of A to Z, I can't believe it's time for another one already.
Happy three-month blogging anniversary to your friend. I hope I make it that long!!
ReplyDeleteThere were some awesome tips from the symposium last week! I learned a lot.
ReplyDeleteAll great tips. The A to Z already??!
ReplyDeleteThank you for mentioning my list of early reviewers.
ReplyDeleteI've loved reading all these participant tips. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder about the A to Z. I'm not sure yet if I'll participate—the baby is due in April—but I'm definitely thinking about it.
Lots of great advice and fun things happening around the blogosphere!
ReplyDeleteHappy reading and writing! from Laura Marcella @ Wavy Lines
Thanks for taking the time to condense all those great tips!
ReplyDeleteHey thank you for the mention... I hope that some great advice came out of the symposium. it did!
ReplyDeletecan I interest you in another "MINION INTERNSHIP" for 2014?
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Nice round up of tips. I've heard Book Hub is especially good for romances and mystery/thrillers. But I hope to give it a try one day and see what happens with...well, something I have lol!
ReplyDeleteIt was a very informative day and I leaned lots also. Yahoo for A to Z.
ReplyDeleteI regularly check out Pixel of Ink. I wasn't familiar with the other sites, so thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe symposium was so awesome! Thanks for compiling the tips. :)
ReplyDeleteThe symposium was fantastic. A lot of folks said get involved in group giveaways too, and I'm doing that already!
ReplyDeleteAll great tips.
ReplyDeleteNow just to implement them!
Heather
Thanks for summing it up so nicely, Tara!
ReplyDeleteThese are great tips we all can benefit from!
Whew! I do those things, but it's nice to see them reiterated. :) Thanks, Tara!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the round-up. I was making my way around those posts, but I know I missed a lot.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention, Tara!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love your tag line for Broken Branch Falls in your header - can't wait for the release.
It was a good bloghop and I signed up for the A to Z Challenge today!
ReplyDeleteA nice summary of marketing advice. Thanks for putting it together.
ReplyDeleteGreat round up of tips! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing this, Wonderful collection of great tips from really cool readers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out Tara!
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to get through the posts from the symposium. Great info!