Marketing Tips Around The Net: October 2nd

It's Friday--and October. Wow, time is really flying. Football is in full swing and my Indy Colts are off to a 3-0 start. My 3 year old twin boys are now fully dressing themselves. Time is flying. Well, one thing that doesn't change is that Fridays still mean we take a trip around the net to look at some great marketing tips from other experts.

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Now, on to the trip around the net...

1. Demystifying Virtual Book Tours- Virtual book tours are becoming more and more popular. Mayra Calvani guest post on Sharing with Writers and Readers to give tips on how to pull of a successful tour.

2. Promoting Your Book on LinkedIn: Do's and Don'ts- Patrice-Anne Rutledge visits Book Marketing Maven to discuss how to use the popular Linked-In site to promote your book.

3. Podcast: Dana Lynn Smith on Book Marketing- Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn interviews Dana Lynn Smith on her weekly podcast. Sit back and listen to some great advice from an expert book marketer.

4. The 7 Essentials of Author Profitability, Part 4: Sharing- Roger C. Parker continues his must-read series with this entry on the importance of sharing content. In this post, Roger looks at author Rajesh Setty's defiant! as an example of this principle.

5. Positioning vs. target market – which comes first?- We talk a lot of target marketing, but what about positioning your book or product? Phyllis Zimbler Miller discusses the relationship of these two marketing activities.

6. Ten Rules for Great PR in the 21st Century: Frugal Marketing Tip- Shel Horowitz gives 10 gems for those who are looking for great PR.

7. 9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom- Darren Rowse gives us some tips that we all are looking for. The title says it all.

8. Why You Should Host a Guest Blogger- Larry Brooks shares some tips on the benefits of guest blogging.

9. How to Create a Book Trailer: A Q&A with Author Megan McMorris- Sandra Beckwith interviews Author Megan McMorris who shares how she created her book trailer.

10. 3 Ways Google Can Show What Your Readers Want- Ever wish that your blog readers would tell you exactly what they want to read? Well, David Godot shares his ideas on how you can find out what they want to read.

That's it for this week's trip around the net. I hope you all have a great weekend. Tomorrow, I get to spend time with my extended family to celebrate a belated birthday with the people I love. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I look forward to seeing you next Monday.

Go Colts!

Tony Eldridge