5 Top Posts For February and March

Last week, I told you that I will be on vacation this week. As you read this, I am probably on a deep sea fishing boat with my father and brother in the Gulf of Mexico or on a beach with my wife and twin three year old boys. As I approach my 40th birthday in a couple of months, I find that nothing in life thrills me more than to spend time with my family. The beach is nice, but watching my sons' wide-eyed wonderment at the beach and rolling waves, tiny crabs and darting fishes is more than I could ever have hope to enjoy.

So, while I am out this week, I have arranged for a couple of guest writers to submit posts for you. I will use the balance of the days to revisit the most popular blog posts since I started Marketing Tips For Authors. I hope you enjoy these favorites from the months of February and March. In traditional countdown format, here are the top 5 posts for that time period:

Number 5: Free Toys and Downloads For Authors- Still a good list of freebies for authors.

Number 4: Have Readers Loan Your Book Out For More Sales- Sometimes what sounds odd on the surface can be a great marketing strategy.

Number 3: Finding Endorsements And Testimonials For Your Book- Every author wants them; here are some tips on how you can get them too.

Number 2: Two Items Needed In Every Author's Book Promotion Tool-Box- One of the earliest guest writers for Marketing Tips For Authors, novelist Karen Harrington, shares her marketing tips with the blog's readers.

and the #1 most visited post on Marketing Tips For Authors for the period of February and March, 2009---


Number 1: Golden Nugget: Collect E-Mail Addresses- I share my experience at helping grow a list from 70,000 targeted subscribers to over half a million in under two year. In fact, our e-commerce site called me and talked to me about how I kept our unsubscribe rate under 1%. This posts has some simple, yet powerful tips for any person with a mailing list to consider.

That's it for today's post. Keep checking in for the tops posts in other months as well as the guest posts I have arranged for you this week. Thanks again for your support. See you live next week!

Quick Update: chapter 11 of The Samson Effect serial release just came out! Read it to find out how saying those three little words, "I love her," can get you killed. If you haven't started the novel yet in this free serial release, you can start at chapter 1 or visit the Table of Contents to pick up where you left off.

Tony Eldridge