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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

March 25, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

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

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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

January 14, 2014 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How to Build Platform and Promote Your Book with Articles

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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

February 16, 2012 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

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 […]

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February 14, 2012 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Promotion: Getting A Foreword for Your Blogged Book

There are lots of ways to promote your book. Some of them happen long before you book is published as a print or ebook. Since my book is two or three months away from release, I’m currently gearing up for full-force promotion, which will begin in May. Typically, promotion begins about three months before release, […]

Filed Under: Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher, Overview, Promote Your Book, Promotion, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: authority, expert, foreword, how to get a foreword

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

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