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Developing Your Author Platform
Originally published on opendoorpublications.com by Sonja Hegman Your author platform is the single most important thing you can create for yourself. And I’m not kidding when I write this: You must start promoting at least a year ahead of your book’s release. This might sound ridiculous, but starting the buzz early will give you a...
A Perfect How-To Guide For Real Smart, Foodie Moms
Author Lisa Barrangou’s “RealSmart Baby Food” Released As An eBook In Time For Mother’s Day RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – As a food scientist who previously worked for three different Fortune 500 food companies, Lisa Barrangou knows first-hand what processed food truly is. When she had her first child, she knew that homemade baby food, made...
Paper Is Not Dead!
by Gillian Nicol My dad passed along this video to me through e-mail and I thought it was quite clever. Being an up and comer in the publishing industry it also got me thinking about the digital industry’s affect on books and authors. The question remains…is paper dead? In my opinion and from what we...
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7 Free Tools to Market Your Book on Amazon
by Sherrie Wilkolaski It’s hard to find a needle in a haystack, not to mention a diamond in the rough, but if you look hard enough, you’ll find that Amazon offers a menu of free marketing tools for authors to promote their books. These are some real gems and the investment will last a lifetime....
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Sell More Books with Amazon’s Search Inside the Book Feature
by Sherrie Wilkolaski If you’ve gone to Amazon to buy a book, you’re probably already aware that you can take a sneak peak, or “search inside the book” before you place an order. Have you noticed that sometimes there isn’t a preview available? If there isn’t a preview available, then Amazon has not be provided...
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Amazon Launches New Feature – Amazon Author Rank
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Amazon announced today a new feature for readers to follow their favorite authors, they call it “Amazon Author Rank” and it’s a list of the best-selling authors on Amazon.com. The list is supposed to make it easier for readers to discover which authors are the top sellers on Amazon and can search...
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How to Create an Amazon “So You’d Like to… Guide”
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Uncovering new ways to use Amazon to market and sell books is a hobby of mine. The Amazon “So You’d Like to…Guides” are an incredible find for an author looking to go the extra mile to market their book. Yes, it’s the simple things in life that make me happy. Would you...
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Authors Should Use Amazon’s Marketplace to Sell More Books
by Sherrie Wilkolaski How to sell more books is a question that authors are constantly asking themselves. If you’re an author interested in another way to use Amazon help drive book sales, take a look at Amazon’s Marketplace. What is the Amazon Marketplace? Amazon’s Market place is a third-party online storefront where you can sell...
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The Savvy Author Does Book Reviews
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Once upon a time an author published a book. After the book had launched they patiently sat in their imaginary castle tower, waiting for the book reviews to start magically posting to Amazon and Goodreads. As the weeks went by, no book reviews appeared and the author lost all hope that their...
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Indie Authors Watch Out: Readers Are Looking At the Quality of Self-published Books
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Of the three browsers I regularly have open on my laptop, there are always at least 2-3 tabs dedicated to a page on Amazon, for one reason or another. Perhaps I’m looking up an author’s reviews, checking in on the Amazon sales rank or want to see what their key words are...
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How to Create a Buzz About Your Book on Amazon
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Amazon is more than the world’s largest online bookstore, it is a hub for readers and shoppers to connect with each other, share reviews, tag products and provide lists of their favorite books to one another. Scroll down to the bottom of any Amazon product page and you’ll find the most interactive,...
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Using Amazon Keyword Tags to Sell More Books
by Sherrie Wilkolaski Over the weekend I was looking for a book on Amazon and I could not find what I was looking for. I was searching for a newly released title, so I expected that the Amazon Search may not pull it right up at the top of my inquiry however, I was more...
