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May 3, 2016 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Use Effective Calls to Action to Improve Social Conversions

types of calls to action

Knowing when and how to use Calls to Action (CTAs) can mean the difference between a successful or unsuccessful blog and book. Today Nick Rojas (@nickarojas), a start-up and online marketing consultant, explains the essentials of using CTAs to improve conversions on the social media sites you use. Is your use of social media driving readers, […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: call to action, conversion, CTA, social conversion

June 23, 2015 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

3 Steps to Creating an Information Product from Your Blog

How to turn your blog into a book

The following is an adapted excerpt from How to Blog a Book Revised and Expanded Edition. Here’s a bit of information the book industry doesn’t like to reveal: Books don’t provide a huge source of income. In fact, most authors, with the exception of those who consistently hit the bestseller lists, supplement their book royalties […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: business around a blog, business around a book, information products, monetization, monetize your book

January 20, 2015 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

4-Part Strategy for Creating a Career as a Bestselling Author

Create a career as a bestelling author

I’ve devoted much of my career to helping aspiring authors become published authors. More than that, it’s my desire to help them become successful published authors. I understand how hard it can be to achieve that dream. It took me ten years to land my first traditional publishing deal. I self-published a few books in […]

Filed Under: How to Write a Book, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: bestseller, bestseller strategy, bestselling author career, bestselling book

December 2, 2014 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Why You Shouldn’t Feel Badly about Unsubscribes

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Despite all the advice that says I shouldn’t care what others think about me, I do. That’s why I used to hate it when anyone unsubscribed from my email list. I still don’t like it, but these days I don’t worry about it. I also don’t take it personally, and neither should you. I’m not […]

Filed Under: Professional Blogging, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: email list, email marketing, email marketing system, list building, unsubscribe, unsubscribes

November 25, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Make Money With Your Blog: Affiliate Marketing

monetize a blog with affiliate sales

At a certain point, you may decide you want to make money with your blog. Monetizing your blog can prove easy if you have a large number of subscribers to your posts or to your email list or a huge amount of traffic each day. However, even with a small following, it’s possible to make […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Create Information Products, Professional Blogging, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: affiate marketing, affiliate products, affiliate sales, business around a blog, monetization

October 7, 2014 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

11 Ways to Use Your Blog to Become an Expert…FAST!

If you write nonfiction, or if you have the goal of building a business around your book(s) or your blog, you want to develop expert status—assuming you don’t have it already. A blog provides the perfect vehicle for creating authority in your subject area or industry, and this helps you get noticed as well as […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Publicizing Your Blog, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: authority blogging, become an expert, blog for expert status, expert blogging, expert status

September 18, 2014 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How Authors Can Use Listmania to Promote Their Books

By Scott Lorenz (@aBookPublicist) Authors are always looking for low cost and easy ways to promote their books and I think you’ll appreciate this tip from Scott Lorenz. As a book publicist I am always on the lookout for effective inexpensive ways to reach book buyers. One way is to tap into the power of […]

Filed Under: Promote Your Book, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: book promotion, Promotion

September 16, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Make More Money as Multiple-Book Author

head full of book ideas

Are you patting yourself on the back for producing your first eBook—or even for coming up with your first book idea and for setting the goal of blogging it and publishing it in the near future? Guess what? The majority of authors don’t make any “real” money until they’ve published at least three books! Hybrid […]

Filed Under: Selling Books and Information Products, Subsidiary Rights and Spin-offs, The Proposal Tagged With: branding, hybrid author, Long-Tail Effect, multiple-book author, spin-off books

June 26, 2014 by Nina Amir 17 Comments

Can You Blog a Book and Use the Amazon KDP and KDP Select Programs?

In November 2012 I wrote a post about publishing your blogged book as a Kindle ebook. It only referenced the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program, not the KDP Select program. At this time, I’d like to update that information since I get asked about this often. Also, it has ramifications for your blogged book. Additionally, […]

Filed Under: Create an E-Book, Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: Amazon, digital books, ebook, KDP, KDP Select, publishing on Amazon

January 7, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Turn Your Courses Into (Blogged) Books (Part 2)

steps to writing or blogging a book from a course

Imagine this scenario: You decide to monetize your knowledge and create an online course. You produce the videos, documentation and membership access. In addition to explaining the benefits of the course, your sales page features a picture of you and bio explaining that you are an authority on this particular topic. You mention that you […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, How to Begin Blogging a Book, Selling Books and Information Products, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blogging a book, book to course, course to book, online courses, writing a book

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