Archive for the ‘book marketing’ Category
Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by by Beth Barany
Are online ads a good choice for authors? First, a word of warning – buying an ad doesn’t guarantee success. In fact, if you don’t do it right it will cost you a tremendous amount of money, with little to no return.
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Posted on January 25th, 2012 by by Ezra Barany
Welcome to our weekly guest column by Ezra Barany, the Book Mentor and author of the bestselling novel The Torah Codes. He offers indie novelists important tips, entirely under our control, to help our books be discovered by readers all over the world. This week he focuses on how to write the perfect pitch to sell your novel in person.
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Tags: book marketing, book mentor, ezra barany, novel writing, perfect pitch, pitches, the torah codes
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by by Ezra Barany
Welcome to our weekly guest column by Ezra Barany, the Book Mentor and author of the bestselling novel The Torah Codes. He offers indie novelists important tips, entirely under our control, to help our books be discovered by readers all over the world. This week he focuses on the three elements of a good book title that will help your book sell.
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Tags: bestselling novel The Torah Codes, Beth Barany, book coach, book coaching, book mentor, ezra barany, indie authors, indie novelists, novelists, stumble upon, writing coach
Posted on January 11th, 2012 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to our weekly guest column by the Book Mentor and author of the bestselling novel of The Torah Codes, Ezra Barany. He offers indie novelists two important tips, entirely under our control, to help us increase book sales. A lot of indie authors think that as long as they write a well-written novel, their book will become successful and they’ll make a million bucks in the first month. But the reality is…
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Tags: Beth Barany, book blurb, book cover, book sales, ezra barany, fiction, Q&A with Book Mentor, self-publishing, the torah codes
Posted on January 4th, 2012 by by Beth Barany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbVBgc”
What is a book trailer? Chopped ham? No! It’s chopped steak! Just kidding. It really is chopped ham. It’s also a term coined by Sheila English to describe a video that promotes a book in very much the same way a movie trailer promotes a movie.
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Tags: book sales, book trailers, ezra barany, youtube
Posted on December 28th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
How Amazon bestseller and award-winning author of the thriller, The Torah Codes, Ezra Barany, really got on the bestsellers’ lists.
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Posted on December 21st, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Many people think selling their novel takes a lot of time and energy. Well here’s a way that you can set up an automatic system in place to sell your novel to your market. That means there is no going on-line, no going to mixers, no social media, no networking. And you don’t even have to pay for this incredible system! If you have a twitter account, an email account, and just take the time to set this system up, you can have this automated marketing machine working for you in about an hour.
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Tags: award winning, bestseller, bestselling, bit.ly, book marketing, book sales, ezra barany, indie author, paper.li, the torah codes, twitter for authors
Posted on November 30th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
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A lot of authors think that once their novel is for sale, they’re done with what they need to do and big money will come pouring in from royalties. But actually, it’s rare for an author to make enough money to live off of book sales alone. However, if you just follow these few suggestions, you can maximize your book sales.
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Posted on November 9th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
In this video, book mentor Ezra Barany covers the three keys to preapring for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Many authors think preparing for writing a novel in a month is a daunting task. The truth is that the more you prepare for it, the more challenging it is for you to come up with [...]
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Tags: apropos, bestselling novel, Beth Barany, book marketing, book marketing strategy, Chris Baty, ezra barany, how to write a book, how to write a novel, indie author success, nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, No plot no problem, war and peace
Posted on September 21st, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra addresses 3 qualities of a good title.
Good news! This week’s winner of a 30-minute complimentary consultation of your book with Ezra is: Author, Emma Calin. Congrats! We’ll be contacting you for your Book Mentoring session with Ezra.
Want to be a bestselling author? Want [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, book mentor, ezra barany, kindle author success, overcome writer's block, Q & A Book Mentor videos, Q & A Wednesdays, the writer's adventure guide
Posted on September 20th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Twitter Tuesdays where I feature tips on how to use Twitter for authors by authors, like the tips that will be in my upcoming book, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors. This week I dare you and share the dirty little secret of using Twitter for authors.
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What’s up, writers? Are you scared [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, book marketing, book promotions, Effective Twitter Contests, Joel Friedlander, overcome writer's block, Patrick Schwerdtfeger, the writer's adventure guide, The Writer’s Guide To Twitter for Fiction Authors, Tony Eldridge, twitter
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Indie Author Monday. Today we feature a guest post by author. D. T. Gray how how to use the Internet to market our work
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Writing is a passion for most of us. It is a way of expressing ourselves and ideas as much as it is a way for us to entertain and inspire. [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Many authors think that marketing their novels is hard. Marketing nonfiction seems like such a slam dunk compared to marketing a novel. I’m mean, really!
I get it. I really do. I’ve been marketing nonfiction and my services as coach and a consultant for years. It does seem easier than marketing fiction.
But then, one day, while [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, book marketing, bryan franklin, ezra barany, jeffandkane.com, The Da Vinci Code, the torah codes
Posted on September 15th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Recently, I wrote a post on blogging for authors for Friesen Press, a self-publishing company that educates authors to get the best book they can out into the world. (They don’t pay me to say that!)
We met on Twitter (love Twitter!)…
Tak and I recently met at a talk I gave on risk and book marketing. [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, blogging, blogging for authors, blogging for fiction authors, book blogging, book coach, book consultant, book marketing coach, creativity coaching, Friesen Press, publishing expert, twitter
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by by Beth Barany
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra addresses 3 qualities of a good title.
Good news! This week’s winner of a 30-minute complimentary consultation of your book with Ezra is: Dixon Rice. Congrats! We’ll be contacting you for your Book Mentoring session with Ezra.
And thank you to author, Matt Posner, author [...]
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Tags: Beth Barany, book mentor, book mentoring, book titles, ezra barany, giveaway, Matt Posner, overcome writer's block, School of the Ages: The Ghost in the Crystal, writer's adventure guide