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February 16, 2016 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Ensure Your Blog Gets Read and Your Book Sells

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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

June 19, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, The Proposal Tagged With: blog tour, book marketing, book promotion, guest posting, purpose of book tour, virtual book tour

June 17, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, The Proposal Tagged With: blog tour, book marketing, book promotion, organization, virtual book tour

June 12, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, The Proposal Tagged With: blog tour, book promotion, guest blogging, planning a virtual book tour, virtual book tour

June 10, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Promote Your Book, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, What to Do When You Complete Your Blogged Book Tagged With: blog tour, setting up a virtual book tour, virtual book tour hosts, virtual book tour invitation, virutal book tour prepartion

June 5, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog tour, blog tour stops, book promotion, virtual book tour, virtual book tour hosts

June 3, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

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

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