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 […]
Every Virtual Book Tour Needs a Purpose
Most authors plan virtual book tours because they have a book release approaching. Typically, they want to drive up book sales on the day their books hit Amazon. However, trying to produce a bestseller on one day or for one hour is not the only reason to go on a virtual book tour. Neither is […]
How to Organize Your Virtual Book Tour
A virtual book tour provides you with a way to “travel” around the country or the world from the comfort of your home office. However, like any ‘round-the-world trip, which includes a variety of stops with many logistics, you must develop some way to manage all the details once your are one the move. Otherwise, […]
How to Prepare for Your Virtual Book Tour
After completing four of my own virtual book tours, I can tell you from experience that preparation plays a key role in the success of your tour. A discussed previously, you need to choose your tour stops and invite invite hosts, but you also must plan the content you will provide. Additionally, you need to […]
How to Ask Bloggers to Participate in Your Virtual Book Tour
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 […]
Gain Credibility and Build Relationships by Taking Your Book on Tour…Virtually
by D’vorah Lansky, M.Ed.(@marketingwizard) I’m pleased to introduce our guest author, D-vorah Lansky. D’vorah is an author and online book marketing expert and today she’s going to explain how and why we should consider taking our books on virtual tours. Have you taken your book on a tour, around the globe, virtually? If you have, […]
8 Questions to Help Produce and Evaluate a Business Plan for Your Blogged Book
The best way to start any book project, blogged or written some other way, is with a plan. In How to Blog a Book, I suggested you create a business plan for your book prior to writing a word and that you do this by going through what I called the “proposal process.” This entails […]
The 4 Things You Must Do to Succeed as an Indie Author
It seems as if every day blogs, news agencies, radio shows, or podcasts blast out stories of indie authors making bestseller lists somewhere. Yet, the average books sells only 300 printed copies per year. The average ebook author sells only 560 copies per year and doesn’t earn enough to support himself. According to a Digital […]
Do Subscribers Really Matter?
Most bloggers primarily focus on subscribers. One they get traffic to their sites, they want them to subscribe to the blog. But do subscribers really matter? Should this be your primarily focus, especially if you are a published or aspiring author or an author building a business around your book? Not necessarily. Subscribers represent a […]
