The Complete Guide to Book Publicity


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This text provides authors and publishers with information on how to conceptualize, develop and implement a winning, multi-dimensional book campaign. It discusses differences between trade and consumers and how to construct a campaign and also includes exercises.




The Complete Guide to Book Marketing


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With an intense focus on strategy that won’t be found in any other guide, this invaluable resource will be of immediate help to publishers, authors, and most anyone who wants to succeed in the publishing industry.Completely updated and expanded with an enhanced focus on selling outside traditional channels, The Complete Guide to Book Marketing features systematic, results-oriented approaches to reaching the largest amount of readers for the least amount of money. Readers will find no-nonsense advice for building a publishing identity, cultivating feedback from your audience, and implementing an effective publicity campaign. This new edition also features a brand-new section on marketing to the lucrative education market, as well as new information on e-book marketing, print-on-demand, and marketing backlist and reprint titles. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.




The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing


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A complete guide to book marketing, from covers and blurbs to launching. Topics covered include: -how to get an effective cover-how to write an effective blurb-how Amazon's algorithms help you sell more books-how to launch your book...and more




Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (2018 Edition)


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This free book marketing primer provides authors easy-to-implement advice on how to market their books at Smashwords and major ebook retailers. It starts with an overview of how Smashwords helps promote your book, and then provides 41 simple do-it-yourself marketing tips. The book is useful to all authors, even those who don't yet publish on Smashwords. Updated August 23, 2013.




The Smart Marketing Book


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In today's complex commercial environments, marketing has become a central aspect to every successful business. Businesses need flexible, effective means of gaining commercial traction by managing their relationships with audiences, stakeholders and competitors. They require effective marketing and branding that move beyond the standard forms of brand orientation and commercial interaction. New marketing models must think smart to create innovative strategies which have long-term sustainable economic goals. The Smart Marketing Book is a practical, reliable and concise title that offers the core marketing principles - applicable for anyone who wishes to improve their organization's financial and creative values. It is a straightforward guide that avoids unnecessary and time-consuming practices. An illustrative handbook that covers marketing principles and topics through visual innovation. A credible statement to all marketers trying to source the most relevant strategies from a field cursed with infinite information.




The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing


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To succeed at B2B marketing today, you must excel across all areas: from getting your message out, to generating demand, to enabling sales teams. New technologies and new techniques make excellence possible. Now, top B2B marketer Kim Ann King brings together all the best practices and tools you need to make excellence real. In The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing, King helps you succeed by focusing on the three pillars of cutting-edge B2B marketing: automation, personalization, and experimentation. Drawing on her pioneering experience at companies like Akamai and Open Market, King shows how to: Systematically assess your context and customer, via personas, profiles, and other powerful techniques Choose among today's panoply of marketing options, tools, and techniques Build a more agile B2B marketing organization, and link its goals more tightly to strategy More accurately estimate marketing spend and ROI Systematically optimize demand generation and many other key functions Leverage higher-value approaches to web/mobile, SEO, and customer community-building Gain more value from corporate standards and your creative services vendors Discover what worked and what didn't, and use this knowledge to improve more quickly You'll find comprehensive, actionable resources, including best-practices checklists for every tactic, vendor checklists for evaluating new marketing technologies, a complete corporate marketing plan outline, and a start-to-finish marketing communications case study. If you're a B2B marketer, you'll find The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing invaluable – whatever your company's size, product, service, or industry.




How to Self-Publish Your Book


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"How to produce a commercial-looking book and avoid all the common pitfalls"--Cover.




The Savvy Author's Guide to Book Publicity


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A leading publicist for the publishing industry shares her best advice to writers on how to maximize exposure for the work, showing writer's how to become skillful at marketing and self-promotion, while also learning how to network in the right places.




Sell Your Book Like Wildfire


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Promote and Sell Your Work! You've written a book, but if it doesn't sell, what's the point? In Sell Your Book Like Wildfire, marketing expert Rob Eagar explains how to use the best promotional methods available to get your book noticed and drive sales. You'll learn how to: Increase your book sales by driving readers to bookstores and online retailers Build a brand that makes your books stand out from the crowd Secure more media interviews and speaking engagements Connect with key influencers who spread word of mouth Create raving fans who buzz about your book on social media Ignite your confidence to sell more books and make more money as an author. Whether you're a first-timer or an old-hand, self-published or traditionally published, a novelist or non-fiction writer, this is the only marketing guide you'll ever need.




The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing and Digital PR


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Ever wanted to get your business featured in publications like Forbes, National newspaper websites, magazines and trade journals? Perhaps you've noticed the rise of blogging and wondered how your business can tap into this ready-made network of highly influential people to boost your credibility and get in front of your perfect target audience? In this groundbreaking book, the superstar Digital PR team from Exposure Ninja break down step-by-step their process for getting any business in any market coverage in the most relevant online publications. Whether you want to build credibility to become an authority, drive traffic to your website or attract the sort of links that turbocharge ranking, this book will walk you through the process. You will discover: How businesses of all size - from 1 person to 100,000 people - can utilise Digital PR for free publicity. How to identify the perfect market to maximise the impact of your Digital PR. How to generate ideas and angles for stories that publications will bite your hand off for. The 'secret underworld' of Sponsored Content and how to utilise it for maximum profit. How to use Content Marketing to spread your reach through infographics, articles, and videos. How to find and connect with the most influential bloggers in your market and have them sing your praises publicly to their audience. How to use contests to boost your social media following (including one example that generated over 3,000 entries for less than the price of three cups of coffee). How and why to use live events to explode your online visibility (clue: the strategies in this section won't have even occurred to your competitors). How to create and manage a workable digital PR campaign in whatever time you have available, whether it's 20 minutes per week or 8 hours per day. How to use two hashtags on Twitter to 'unlock' a hidden world of journalists desperate to write about you (clue: see an example of this strategy where we sent 3 tweets which got us featured in Forbes, The Telegraph, and The Guardian websites in less than 2 weeks). What most businesses don't realise is that journalists, editors, and bloggers are crying out for good stories to write about. Provided that you understand exactly what they are looking for and how to position your business in a way that makes you interesting, rather than have to push push push, these gatekeepers will be coming to you asking for more! About The Authors Charlie and Luke head up Exposure Ninja's Digital PR team. With years of experience running campaigns for businesses in every imaginable market (and even some unimaginable ones!), they have developed a set of simple, easy-to-follow systems that mean any business can get the sort of visibility online that previously seemed out of reach.Tim Cameron-Kitchen is a 5-time bestselling author and Head Ninja at Exposure Ninja. Having helped tens of thousands of businesses to improve their online visibility and attract more customers from the Internet, he is one of the UK's leading Digital Marketing authorities and now runs the 65-strong digital marketing company Exposure Ninja. Who Is This Book For? Whether you are a solopreneur looking for free advertising or a large multinational wanting to develop a Digital PR strategy to tap into the new generation of online authorities, this book will guide you through the processes that Exposure Ninja uses day in, day out to get coverage for their clients in any market. From e-commerce stores to tradesmen, the range of strategies covered in this book means that whatever you sell and to whomever you sell it, you'll find the perfect angle for you.Hidden ExtrasThis book comes with FREE lifetime updates and a digital marketing review worth £198. Details inside.