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March 14, 2017 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Get Better Mileage Out of Your Blog Posts

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Wouldn’t you love to get better mileage out of your blog posts? Of course, you would. I bet you typically write a blog post and share it on as many social media sites as possible. That’s it. Nothing more. And then you wonder why you aren’t getting as much traffic or exposure as you’d like. […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog post, blogger, blogging, content, reach, repurposed content, share, social media, visibility

February 21, 2017 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Create Brand Loyalty for Your Blogs and Books

To succeed at as a blogger today, you have to think like a business. You have to develop a brand. As you do, you’ll develop brand loyalty, which means your devoted readers pay attention to what you do and say no matter how many other blogs or authors they encounter. In this guest post, Jennifer […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blogging, blogging success, brand loyalty, marketing, Promotion, unique selling proposition

January 31, 2017 by Nina Amir 18 Comments

How to Create a Social Media Marketing Plan for Your Blog

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Today bloggers and authors must use social media to market their posts and books. Social media marketing represents an integral part of attracting readers and selling books. In this guest post, Jennifer Brown Banks (@PENPROSPER1) provides the essential elements of any effective social media marketing plan. Plus, several writers add their best social media marketing […]

Filed Under: Platform, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blogging, blogging success, marketing, platform, Promotion, social media, social media marketing plan

October 25, 2016 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Five Social Media Strategies to Make Your Book a Bestseller

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If you want to create a bestseller, you have to do more than write a good book or a marketable book. You have to promote upon release—and before release. Of course, blogging a book helps promote while you write. But you must use strategies and tools that garner engagement and shares for your posts and […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: blog-to-book, book promotion, engagement, images, live streaming, photos, sharing, social sharing, writers

May 31, 2016 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Market a Book to Millennials

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When you market your book, you want to be sure to target those most likely to purchase it. If Millennials (also known as Generation Y) would find your book interesting, you must know where to find and how to get noticed by those born from the early 1980s to around 2000. Today Nick Rojas (@nickarojas), a […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: ask me anything, book marketing, book promotion, campaign, hashtag, launch, Millennials, Periscope, Snapchat

April 26, 2016 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Author Platform

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A platform is a necessity whether you write fiction or nonfiction. It provides the foundation for your promotion plan, which you put to use when your book is released. Without a platform, your promotion plan won’t be effective. But how do you know if your author platform has the visibility, reach, authority, or influence in […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher, Platform Tagged With: author platform, blog platform, blogging, blogging books, book blogger, effectiveness, evaluation

February 16, 2016 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Ensure Your Blog Gets Read and Your Book Sells

Book standing out from competition

To ensure your blogged book gets read and later, when published, sells, begin your project with a Competition Analysis.  In this section of your business plan, you take a detailed look at what traditionally published books have been written on your topic and how your book compares to them. This information convinces you—or a publisher—that […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Competing and Complementary Blogs, How to Begin Blogging a Book, How to Decide if You Should Blog a Book Tagged With: books that sell, competition, competitive analysis, marketable book

February 9, 2016 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

2 Steps to a Market Analysis for Your Book

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If you want to successfully blog and publish a book, you must know your readers. This step in the book blogging process, called a Market Analysis, is essential to your success and to your book’s and blog’s business plan. Without it, you might produce work that attracts totally different readers than you expect or no […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, How to Begin Blogging a Book, Markets Tagged With: book proposal, busines plan for a book, ideal reader, market analysis, proposal process, target market

August 18, 2015 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

How to Conduct a Market Analysis for a Blog or Book

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Every time I speak about the need for a business plan for a book or blog—or a blogged book—someone asks me the same question: How do you find the market for your book and analyze it? The short answer is: Google it. But there’s more to it than that. First, understand that you need to […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, How to Begin Blogging a Book, How to Decide if You Should Blog a Book, Markets, The Proposal Tagged With: business plan, ideal reader, market, market analysis, target market

September 16, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Make More Money as Multiple-Book Author

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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

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