How eBook Writing Should be Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy eBooks have taken the world by storm during the last ten years. If you check out major publishing houses, you will discover that they are slowly but gradually making the transition towards eBooks for their businesses. Although they haven’t quite replaced regular books yet, […]
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How to Write a Press Release and Get Book Reviews: Common Mistakes, Tips, and Tricks for Authors
Hey authors! I’m taking a break from my book launch posts to tackle a question I get ALL the time: “How can I get more book reviews!?” First, if you’re self-publishing a book and want it to sell, you’re going to need a quality press release that earns you book reviews. Why? Book reviews legitimize […]
10 Tips to Self-Publish Your Book and Make a Profit
Amazon is an awesome tool for authors who want to self-publish a book. Print-on-Demand simplifies what used to be a complex business and production process, ensuring that copies of your book are printed only when readers place orders. What does that mean? As a writer, you get to focus on the creative work. You have the […]
[Reader Acquisition] The Importance of Paid Search Marketing for Authors and Writers
Unit 4: Reader Acquisition Part 2: Paid Search Marketing An authorpreneur should understand the importance of using SEO as a tool, optimizing all website content to ensure it contains keywords that will help promote natural and organic search marketing. Paid search marketing takes this a step further, by allowing you to pay to appear at […]
[Guest Post] 10 Powerful Tips to Write and Sell Your First Ebook
10 Powerful Tips to Write and Sell Your First Ebook Good Morning! In the spirit of practicing what I preach, I’m going to allow a few guest posts. I will send them on the weekend and link to some of my previous blog posts. I mentioned something similar to this in Tuesday’s Growth Hacking tip. My […]
Paperback or Ebook? How to get the most out of your book content
Paperback or Ebook? How to get the most out of your book content Even if your idea is to see your hard work appear in a printed format, it has become increasingly important to also sell your published work as an ebook. While having a physical copy of a book is always desirable—there is no […]
[Guest Post] The final word on ebooks vs paper books.
In a guest post by Neil Baptista, CEO of Riffle, he gives us “The final word on ebooks vs paper books.” He also discusses how accessibility promotes literacy and the liberation of ideas through ebooks. It’s not an overstatement to say that we’re currently going through the biggest fundamental shift in book publishing since the […]
8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
Part 3: Your Competitive Edge
Your Competitive Edge as an Indie Ebook Author Welcome to Part 3 of the 8-part Indie Author Business Plan. In this segment of our series we’ll discuss the importance of knowing your competition and explore ways you can use knowledge gained from researching competitors to your advantage. We started this series with […]
8 Parts to the Indie Author Business Plan
Part 2: The Market
If You Write It, Will They Come? Welcome to Part 2 of the 8-part Indie Author Business Plan, where we’ll be tackling the topics of getting to know your audience and propelling your e-book to a prominent position in the hearts and minds of as many people as possible. Part 1 of this series highlighted […]
Writing A Novel? What’s in a Word Count? The Lean Novella vs The Mighty Novel
Ok, so you’ve already settled one matter — you’re writing a novel. This thing you’ve got inside your head, this thing you just need to tell, would only burst through the stitches of a short story format. This thing, whatever it is, taking shape slowly but surely in your writer’s mind, could only […]