One educational opportunity you might want to check out before we begin is a teleseminar I conducted with Dana Lynn Smith last week entitled, "Boost Your Book Sales With Twitter." In the first half, Dana discussed how authors can use Twitter to sell books, then I talked about how authors can use Twitter contests to find more readers for their books. You can now purchase the recording and also get these added bonus guides:
1. Dana's Twitter Learning Guide
2. Dana's special report, 10 Steps to Online Networking Success
3. My 10-Step Guide for Conducting Effective Twitter Contests
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Now, on to today's tips from around the net!
1. Website Microcopy Tune-Up After User Experience Question- Phyllis Zimbler Miller kicks us off today with a fascinating observation that all off us need to look at to help us become more effecting in increasing our opt-in rates.
2. Authors Beware The Oprah Scam- Carolyn-Howard Johnson gives some straight talk about authors' hope that many scam artists pray on and how you can protect yourself from these scams.
3. Promote Your Book with a Twitter World Tour- Dana Lynn Smith invites novelist Graham Storrs to share an interesting marketing activity that you may never have thought of for your book: A Twitter Tour.
4. How To Improve Your Blog: Lessons Learned From The Problogger Event- Joanna Penn shares some must-read tips to help you make your blog better.
5. Design tips for making your blog compelling & credible- Roger C. Parker uses a case study from Mark Levy’s website to pull out examples of how you can use your site to increase your credibility and make your site more effective.
6. Publicizing Your Book: 13 Rules For Getting the Most Out of Your Marketing- Todd Rutherford invites Mark David Gerson to share some great marketing tips for authors that you won't want to miss.
7. Social Media is Bringing Sexy Back to Branding- Paula Krapf shares some great tips that cover the spectrum when it comes to getting the most from social media to market your book.
8. Ten Ways to Sell Books On Amazon- BookBuzzr invites Carolyn Howard-Johnson to their blog to share her tips on using Amazon.com to market your book.
9. Are EBooks Really Green?- For many people, being "Green" is an important value. L. Diane Wolfe takes a look at this issue with an interesting perspective on a something that we might assume is green: E-books. But how "green" are they really?
10. 8 Google Products I use Daily- Jonathan Bailey shares some great products that Google offers for free that can make you more productive with your online presence.
That's it for today's tips from around the net. Grab a cup of Joe or your favorite tea and settle into great reading from some great experts. I look forward to seeing you on Monday.
8 comments:
Dear Tony:
I am so glad that you've resumed your Friday wrap-up of blog posts. I've been on withdrawal for a long time.
I don't know where you get the time to follow so many blogs.
Thanks for mentioning the Mark Levy post, too.
Best wishes--
Tony, thank you for including my piece on the Oprah scams in your roundup this week. It's good to have you back from hiatus.
And Roger, I've been absent for a bit, too. I've been redoing my Web site. Whew!
Glad to see so many others I know here, too. I'm jumping over to these blogs to get my weekly dose of hand-picked wisdom from you Tony.
Best,
Carolyn
Hi Tony .. thanks for these .. I'll come back and check them out - a few really interest me. I've left the Google Reader 'unread' .. so I can click back in quickly in ten days or so .. goals to do this weekend & moving next week ..
Bye for now .. thanks love the look of some of these .. have a good weekend .. Hilary
Hey Roger, I have to admit that these roundups are one of my favorite blog pieces. Thank goodness for Outlook rules! They allow me to funnel all the blogs I am subscribed to directly to it's own folder for easy scanning. Hopefully, others can get something to help them market from the sites I highlight.
Carolyn, your Oprah scam was a very interesting and informative piece. New authors, by nature, are excited about any opportunity and I think it's important to help them be judicious in their expectations, especially when there are people out there that will prey on their excitement.
Hilary, thanks for your comment! There are a lot of nugget from some great experts to come back to. You have a wonderful weekend as well!
Hi Tony .. I did look at two of them .. I'll put the others on hold for now .. I know you have a fantastic resource centre here,
I looked at Diane's 'Are ebooks really green' & commented and at the Google products .. which probably needs more thinking about .. especially as I don't use many of them .. but need to learn!
Thanks - really useful resources .. & I picked up the Mark Levy name (he came up elsewhere at the weekend .. so rang a bell) .. so I'll be back sometime! Have a good week .. Hilary
Tony,
Thank you for including me in your round-up! I also like this feature, because it's a chance to discover more good information to share.
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