New Marketing Tips For Authors Directory

I am excited to announce a new tool for authors who are looking for good, expert information on marketing their books and for marketing experts looking to find people needing their advice. It called the Marketing Tips For Authors Directory. It currently has over sixty categories to link authors to exactly the help they are looking for.

Experts:

You can visit the site and submit a link to a tips page, white paper, article, or blog entry that you have created which gives authors advice on how to market their books. For example, if you have written a blog post on 7 Ways To Market Your Book Through Amazon.com, you can submit the link to your blog post under the Amazon.com Marketing Strategies category. When authors are looking through that category or when they search the directory for help on using amazon.com, your link will return in the results.

What happens then? If the author decides, after reading your summary about the link that he or she wants to see your page, they click on your link and are taken to your page. Many directories charge to have your links listed in them. Not the Marketing Tips For Authors Directory. I created this tool specifically as an aid to help authors and book marketing experts meet.

Experts can also, if they choose, submit full text articles to the directory. In this case, when the author clicks the link to the article, the text of the article is delivered within the directory. In order to use this feature, an expert must register as an author for the directory.

Authors:

This is an a wonderful 1 stop place to search for a collection of marketing tips around the net. Already, there are good tips in the directory with new ones being added each day. The more people add quality links to the directory, the more powerful tool this will be for you over time.

Important Points About The Marketing Tips For Authors Directory

1. This is a Human Edited Directory. This means that people submit links and articles to it and humans approve the links. While the process of growing the directory can be slower than growing a directory which pulls in links automatically, it does allow us to make sure quality links populate the directory. This means we can drastically reduce spam entries and entries on subjects other than book marketing help.

2. This directory is a focused, or nitch directory. That means it will contain only links having to do with book marketing, or link closely relating to book marketing. While an article on Creating Compelling Characters is a valuable subjects for authors, it is not within the scope of this directory. The administrators of this directory will be looking for quality submissions which fall within the scope of the directory. What this means for you is collection of laser targeted tips on exactly the subject you are looking for when you visit the Marketing Tips For Authors Directory.

3. Anyone can submit links; only article authors can submit articles. If you come across a great page with marketing tips for authors, you can submit a link to the page in the directory. You do not have to be the owner of the page the web site is on. You just need to make sure the content is freely available for everyone on the web. What will the page owner think about having their link included in the directory? Well, they should welcome any attempt to have more pages pointing to their website. However, if the directory is contacted by any web page owner about removing content linking to their page, the directory will absolutely comply with their wishes, no questioned asked.

Submitting articles to the directory is a different matter. When you submit an article, you are submitting the full text of the article to be stored and viewed on the directory. Only the author of the article who has retained the rights to it may submit their articles to the directory. Period. As authors, you know the importance of this, and you should know the possible legal ramifications of posting copyrighted information that you do not have the right to republish. Nothing will get you banned from the directory quicker than knowingly submitting a full text article that you do not have the right to submit. This is a pet peeve of mine that I take very seriously. Any author who sees their work submitted to the directory by anyone else may contact the directory for its removal. And just to belabor this point--you may not submit another author's article, even if you attribute the article to the rightful author.

Okay, 'nuff said.

Concluding thoughts:

I hope this directory continues to grow into a centralized resource for authors looking for book marketing ideas. I also hope that it introduces authors to the many outstanding experts who are out there, waiting to lend their experience and expertise in helping you find the widest possible readership for your book. I humbly submit the Marketing Tips For Authors Directory to you as a tool that I truly hope will be embraced and utilized by our special community.


In Other News...

Every Tuesday we have a guest contributor sharing their marketing tips with you. Tomorrow, Karen Harrington, author of the fascinating legal thriller, Janeology will be here to share some of her marketing experiences with us as our guest writer this week.

Also, for my Weekly Video Marketing Tips For Authors newsletter subscribers, this week's new tip is out, so check your e-mails for the link. The subject: Adding Social Bookmarking Buttons To Your Blog And Web Pages.


Tony Eldridge