Marketing Tips Around The Net: October 30th

It's Friday (actually Saturday), but that still means that it's time to take out tour around the net to look at some great marketing tips from experts all over. Yesterday, I did a clean install from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and it took a lot longer than I anticipated. But now that's it's over, I am glad I went through it. With that looming task done, I'm glad to forge ahead with the rest of my computer work (Kudos to Dell for making the process relatively painless-at least for me).

Before we look at the tips, here are a couple of housekeeping announcements:

1. The new video tips for my subscribers is out today. The 3 videos deal with time-management tools available to most users. These videos were prompted by a few requests for me to share my time-management tips with others.

This series of videos is actually three parts of a larger video broken into smaller videos of about 10 minutes each. Part 1 looks at Outlook and internet calendars. Part 2 looks at integrating e-mails into your task list and creating e-mails to go out at a later date. Part 3 discusses creating e-mail folders, automated rules to file new messages, and syncing everything with your mobile PDA devices.

The videos are free to all, but you do need to sign up for my free Video Tips Newsletter. Check it out. You can even view a sample tip before you sign up. And when you do sign up, you get access to over 45 minutes of free video tips instantly as my way of saying thanks.

2. Chapter 20 in my award winning novel, The Samson Effect, has been released on the serial release site. If you have not started this novel that NY Times best selling author Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure", then you can visit the Table of Contents to start from the beginning. While there, check out the announcement of the novel being acquired by a major Hollywood film producer.

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

1. Author tips for creating profitable online stores- Roger C. Parker kicks us off this week with a look at creating an online store to sell your books, products and services.

2. Internet business: 10 reasons to revise your online profiles- Phyllis Zimbler Miller discusses 10 reasons to revise your online profiles--I personally have my work cut out for me here.

3. Thriller Novels: 7 Lessons Learned From Thriller Writer Matthew Reilly- Joanna Penn looks at one of the best thriller novelist in the business and pulls out 7 tips for writers to take away.

4. Is Self-Publishing an Impediment to Landing a Publishing Contract?- Dana Lynn Smith hosts guest Stephanie Gunning, a former senior editor at Bantam-Doubleday-Dell, to discuss the question on many author's minds.

5. Adding a Neglected Argument to the Great E-Reader Debate- Carolyn Howard-Johnson invites guest contributor Aggie Villanueva to weigh in on the great E-Reader vs Paper Book debate.

6. Effective E-mail Sigs- Shel Horowitz discusses what he calls "the 'business card' that goes at the end of an e-mail message."

7. The Case Of The Disappearing Blog- Sharon Hurley Hall writes about the time she nearly lost her blog via an accident by her. What would happen if you lost yours? Read on to see what you can do to protect yourself.

8. Audio MP3s for Download or Replay- What if you could sit at the feet of a book marketing guru anytime you wanted? Now you can with John Kremer's audios he's making available to you for free anytime you want them.

9. 6 Reasons Why You Need to Consider Email as a Communication Strategy on Your Blog- Who says E-mail is dead? Not ProBlogger's Darren Rowse. See why.

10. 6 things that makes your readers visit your blog again and again- Want to get people to return to your blog again and again? Read what Bloganol's Deineshd says.

That's it for this week's Trip Around The Net. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you on Monday with more tips to help you market your book.