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Book Launch Best Practices
Posted by: Kevin Tumlinson in How-To, Marketing & Promotion, Pro Publishing, Time Management 1 year, 1 month ago
The Worst and Best Ways to Launch Your Book – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the top five worst ways to handle your book launch. We just can’t leave this on a negative note, though. It would be wrong. So, in this post we’re diving into one possible strategy for doing your book launch right.
Making Yourself the Brand
Posted by: Kevin Tumlinson in Marketing & Promotion, Pro Publishing, The Business Side of Things 2 years ago
How to build your author platform (starting where you are)
Posted by: Kevin Tumlinson in Feature Highlight, How-To, Marketing & Promotion 2 years, 5 months ago
If you’ve been in self publishing for more than a few minutes, it’s likely you’ve heard the term “author platform.” In simplest terms, an author platform is your ability to sell books because of who you are and who you are connected to.
Special Guest Post - Mark Dawson on Facebook Advertising
Posted by: Joshua Unruh in Marketing & Promotion, Special Guest Post 3 years, 10 months ago
Recently we attended BookExpo America and UPublishU, a large publishing-industry conference and tradeshow. While there, we had the opportunity to host a panel that included the talented and wonderful AD Starrling. Dr. Starrling talked with great excitement about Mark Dawson and his knowledge on how to market your self-published books via Facebook ads. Our ears perked up, but we really got interested when she mentioned that Mr. Dawson planned to offer a paid course in addition to all the free advice he'd given on the subject.
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