One you’ve chosen the best blog stops for your virtual book tour, it’s time to contact the bloggers and ask them if they are willing to participate in your virtual book tour. You can make these invitations in different ways, but they all require follow up via email and individualization. Plus, this is where the […]
How to Choose Hosts for Your Virtual Book Tour
A virtual book tour revolves around the blogs that participate in this promotional tool. However, you may think you have no control over what blog stops you make. That’s not true. In fact, one of the most important decisions you can make prior to beginning your virtual book tour involves choosing the type of blogs […]
Two Tips for Conducting a Better Podcast Interview
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In this final installment of her four-part series on podcasting, Catharine Bramkamp offers tips on how to conduct podcast interviews that keep your listeners wanting more. You’ve experienced dead space on the air. You ask a question and your guest pauses, for a very long excruciating minute. Don’t just cue the […]
Disaster Avoidance: What Not to Do With a Podcast Guest
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In part three of our podcasting series by Catharine Bramkamp, she explores ways to avoid podcasting disasters. You invited a number of guests to appear on your podcast. All is well, but no one new wants to play. And no one is returning your emails. What happened? After two and half […]
Podcast Guests: Three Tips to Better Bookings
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) In this second article in her series on podcasting, Catharine Bramkamp gives us her best tips for finding and working with guests for your podcast. You are a stud! You have your own podcast show, but you have nothing to say this week! After all the work and effort to create […]
Write Out Loud: How to Start Podcasting
By Catharine Bramkamp (@cbramkamp) I’m pleased to introduce Catharine Bramkamp. Catharine is a writer, author, and writing coach. This is the first article in a four-part series from Catharine about podcasting. In this post, she explains how to podcast and why authors should be running their own podcasts. You’ve been blogging for a while. So […]
15 Reasons to Go on a Blog or Virtual Tour—Book or No Book
Some people think blog tours and virtual book tours are dead. I disagree. They provide a powerful tool to promote the release of your book or your blog. Most often, authors use blog or virtual book tours to increase the visibility of their books. Indeed, this is a fabulous tool for getting the word out […]
What is a Virtual Book Tour
The days of book tours are dead and gone. It’s a rare author who spends time and money going from city to city to do signings or to encourage shoppers in the few physical books stores that still exist to purchase a new release. It’s even more rare to find a publisher who will put […]
Authors and Bloggers Can Create Magic with an Online-Offline Strategy
Bloggers and authors have something in common. They tend to enjoy spending time cloistered away in front of a computer. That means they don’t spend much time face-to-face with people. Skype video chats and Google hangouts don’t count. I’m talking about getting offline and spending time with people in the real, not virtual, world. While […]
Write and Publish Something Worth Sharing
If you are like most aspiring and published authors and bloggers, you constantly seek ways to get your work noticed. You write more, publish more, share more on social networks, and generally wrack your brain for ways to get noticed and heard in an every more crowded and noisy marketplace, by which I mean both […]
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