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December 13, 2022 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

10 Reasons You Want a Blog in Your Book Marketing Plan

Blogging as a book marketing strategy

Lots of people will tell you blogging is dead. They’ll also say a blog doesn’t build an audience for your book fast enough, so try social media instead. Or they’ll claim that blogging a book is no longer a valid way to create a platform or write a book. Overall, they’ll declare that blogging is […]

Filed Under: Platform, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog a book, blogging, blogging a book, Blogging competence, blogging confidence, competence, confidence, personal growth

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

April 26, 2016 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Author Platform

use your platform to get your author or blog career moving

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

March 11, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 14, 2014 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How to Build Platform and Promote Your Book with Articles

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

September 21, 2011 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

A Short, Quick Guide to Social Networking for Blog-to-Book Authors

I just came back from giving a talk at a local writer’s club. There I heard the same question I hear everywhere I go: What’s the best way for writer’s to accomplish their social networking — especially given the fact that they really don’t want to do social networking at all. They just want to […]

Filed Under: Platform, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog-to-book, posting links, social networking for writers, social networking goals

April 23, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Creating a Platform for You and Your Book

The publishing world has changed dramatically over the last decade. No longer can you simply present an agent or a publisher with a good idea and good writing and expect to get a contract in return. You must prove that you already have people ready and waiting to purchase your book as soon as it […]

Filed Under: Parts of the Proposal, Platform Tagged With: platform, platform building, Promotion, proposal, publicity

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