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June 3, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

Gain Credibility and Build Relationships by Taking Your Book on Tour…Virtually

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, […]

Filed Under: Promote Your Book, Promotion Tagged With: blog tour, book tour, D'vorah Lansky, virtual book tour

April 10, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

8 Questions to Help Produce and Evaluate a Business Plan for Your Blogged Book

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 […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book, National Book Blogging Month, The Proposal Tagged With: author training process, book proposal, business plan for a book, proposal process

March 25, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

The 4 Things You Must Do to Succeed as an Indie Author

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 […]

Filed Under: Competing and Complementary Blogs, Promotion, Selfpublish Your Blogged Book, The Proposal, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: author platform, business plan for a book, competitive analysis, marketable books, promotion plan, self-publishing

March 11, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Do Subscribers Really Matter?

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 […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, Create Your Blog, Parts of the Proposal, Platform, The Proposal, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: aweber, blog subscribers, building an email list, email list subscribers, why you need an email list

January 23, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

11 Steps for Successful Query Submission to Publications

11 Steps for Successful Query Submission to Publications

If you want expand your reach beyond the internet, consider writing not just your blog or guest posting for other blogs but actually writing for print publications. Yes, print publications still exist, and writing for a few of the many specialty magazines and newsletters could help you build your platform, extend your reach and improve […]

Filed Under: Parts of the Proposal, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: author platform, how to write a query letter, Query Letter, submitting article ideas, write for magazines, writing for publications

January 14, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

How to Build Platform and Promote Your Book with Articles

How to Build Platform and Promote Your Book with Articles

All aspiring and published authors should consider themselves journalists. Whether you want to build author platform or you simply want to find ways to promote your book, articles provide an effective promotional element to add to your marketing toolbox. It’s easy enough to simply write articles about the topic of your book “off the top […]

Filed Under: Platform, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: book promotion, guest posting, platform building, writing articles, writing for publication

August 28, 2012 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Focus Your Blog or Blogged Book on a Topic

How to Focus Your Blog or Blogged Book on a Topic

Many bloggers simply begin blogging about a topic that interests them. They also may just feel passionate about the subject they first choose to write about. That’s all well and good–if you are just blogging. If you want to blog a book or build a business around a blog or a book, you have to […]

Filed Under: Build a Business Around Your Book, How to Begin Blogging a Book, Markets, The Proposal, What Subjects to Blog About Tagged With: blog subject, blog topic, market

August 7, 2012 by Nina Amir 10 Comments

Is Your Blogged Book Idea Unique?

Is Your Blogged Book Idea Unique?

Today I ran into a woman I’ve known for a long time. We aren’t great friends, but our kids used to dance together. We’ve been connected on Facebook for a number of years mostly because of the kids. However, we both had Examiner.com columns. What I didn’t realize was that she also had a blog […]

Filed Under: Booking a Blog (Repurposing Content into a Book), Competing and Complementary Blogs Tagged With: book proposal process, competing blogs, competing books, unique books, writing books

May 17, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

The Best Business Plan for a Blogged Book (or Any Book)

The Best Business Plan for a Blogged Book (or Any Book)

To conclude this series on building a business around your book, I’d like to write about business plans. Now, I’m not a great one to spout off about business plans, since my business hasn’t had one until recently–and it’s not really quite done yet, if I’m going to be totally honest. (But I’m working on […]

Filed Under: Book Proposal, Build a Business Around Your Book, The Proposal Tagged With: book proposal, book proposal process, business plan, writing a book proposal

February 16, 2012 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

Promotion: How to Get Blurbs for Your Blogged Book

Promotion: How to Get Blurbs for Your Blogged Book

In addition to getting an expert to write a foreword for your blogged book, you will want to have authorities, authors, thought leaders, and other well-known people in your field and in related fields offer short reviews, called testimonials or blurbs, for the front and/or back cover of your book or the inside of your […]

Filed Under: Promote Your Book, Promotion, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book

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