Marketing

Are you an avid reader? Are you trying to instill a love of reading in your children? My whole family loves to read! Right before bedtime every night, every one of us can be found with our nose in a book! It would be very easy for us to spend a fortune every month on books. But, since we don't have a fortune to spend every month, over the years I've found several ways to get good books and never pay full price! 1. Garage and yard sales are a prime source for both hardback and paperback books. There are people who will buy a book, read it once, and they're ready to get rid of it....

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There are over ten thousand daily, weekly and monthly newspapers in the United States and Canada. For the first time author they are a valuable source of free publicity. They are hungry for news and your new book is news. When approaching these papers there is a list of things that are frowned upon and another list of things under the heading of? don't you dare. We will examine the latter category first. Essentially there are four parts to any good press release and they are as follows: 1. The headline: One or two sentences that describe what the news is all about....

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NOTE: Because many words in this article are likely to trigger sp^m filters, we've disguised them with symbols (e. g. sp^m). This will ensure a higher delivery rate if you use this article in your e-zine. If you're selling your book online, you're practically guaranteed to increase sales by publishing an e-mail newsletter, or "e-zine." Why? Well, for a start, it's a super way to give readers a taste of your expertise and style along with samples of your content. This ensures they'll come to be familiar with you, trust you, and hopefully buy your book when they're ready for more information....

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It Must Be Quick To Produce Time is money and the sooner your book is ready to sell, the sooner you'll make money from it. So let us consider just a handful of many ways to create a book in a day, or less than a day, perhaps in just a few minutes! 1) Profit From Resell Rights Resell rights - a confusing term with conflicting definitions, but a great way to acquire best selling books quickly, at little cost, complete with marketing materials, web sites, representing the easiest and fastest way to start your publishing business....

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But as any seasoned information marketer will vouch, it takes time to build up your name recognition online. You'll have to spend considerable effort to develop word-of-mouth web site traffic. It's rare that you start off making $1,000 a day. But offline it's an entirely different story. In the real world, when people meet face-to-face, a 10-minute conversation with a prospect can lead to a $1,000 sale. I know this from first-hand experience. You see I've been in that position several times. How?...

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Make your book stand out from the crowd! Test your book's significance, find your market before you write, and treat your book as part of your business. 1. Test your book's significance -fun, humor-easy to read-teach something interesting, new?-original, unique info?-potential to positively affect the reader's life?-create a deeper understanding of life?-give skills and info to help people? How to's sell well-do you already have an audience who wants it? You only need 2 significances to have a book that will sell....

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How would you like to have countless people clamoring for your book and willing to visit your Web site to buy them? How would you even like to presell your self-published book before they are finished? Most authors and entrepreneurs wait until their Web site is designed before they think about marketing their products on it. What a shame! Let's say someone expresses an interest in your book. You get all excited and say, "My book is about?." You mention the features such as tips in a book. You tell your fiction plot or story....

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Many self-publishing authors plan on eventually selling theirbook to a large publisher at a good price. The fast track way toachieve this goal is to push up the market value of a book with apush v. pull strategy. This article shows you how to do exactlythat, using a simple Internet strategy that any self-publishercan afford. PUSH v. PULL EXPLAINED Books with push like Harry Potter push customers through thedoors, and the registers go kachink, kachink. With self-published titles, booksellers must pull customers through thedoor and that costs money....

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Writing has traditionally been considered a solitary craft. You wrote you article or book in seclusion. You submitted it to an editor or publisher and prayed it would be published. Along comes the Internet and the monsters out of the cage. You now have the ability to self publish your work. You can throw up a Blog, hook up to an RSS feed and syndicate your writing. You can form online communities with other writers. Readers can give immediate feedback on your work. You can promote your work in the virtual book stores such as Amazon....

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Marketing your own book can seem like a scary task. You poured your heart and soul into the writing of it, and now when you think about marketing your masterpiece, you think, "I'm a writer, not a salesperson!" But there is a simple way you can get the word out about your book. It takes a little time, but the effort pays huge dividends. More people will be interested in your book when they are interested in you. Readers become interested in you when they can read some of your writing.....

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