Marketing Tips Around The Net: August 27th

Another Friday, another week gone by. For many parents, school has started a whole new routine replaces the one from the summer break. But for us, our routine continues as we spend Fridays looking at some of the marketing tips that caught my eye this week. Hopefully, they will bring some value to your marketing activities.

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Now, on to today's tips from around the net!

1. Book Marketing: Use Your Email Signature Effectively- Joanna Penn leads us off this week with a discussion on how to use your e-mail signature to help market your book.

2. Be Kind to Your Book Designer- In this post, Walt Shiel discusses what you can do to make your relationship with your book designer go smoothly.

3. How to announce your book with an e-mail blast- Sandra Beckwith shares some tips on how to avoid common mistakes if you use an e-mail blast to tell others about your book.

4. Book Marketing Resources for Children's Book Authors- Dana Lynn Smith shares some great resources for authors of children's books.

5. 12 Secrets to Selling More Books at Events- Dana Lynn Smith hosts Penny Sansevieri on her blog. Penny teaches you how to really get the most of your book marketing events.

6. Free and Kindle: Promotion Tactics That Can Work if You Work Them Right- Carolyn Howard-Johnson answers a reader's question on selling items for the Kindle and how giving away something may actually help.

7. Twitter Is NOT About What a Celebrity Ate for Breakfast- You know Twitter can help your company, but what if your boss just doesn't get Twitter? Phyllis Zimbler Miller walks you through the steps of having a conversation with your boss that helps him or her "get" how Twitter can help their company.

8. 3 Tips to Get More Out of the Videos You Post on YouTube (video)- Denise Wakeman embeds a great, short video that will teach you 3 ways to leverage your videos on Youtube.

9. Shut Up and Podcast- Drew Bennett (Ben Spark) gives you the basics when it comes to starting your own podcast.

10. 11 tip-filled articles about marketing and promoting your nonfiction book- Roger C. Parker shares a wealth of resources for those who are looking for marketing tips for their nonfiction books.

11. Criteria to Consider When Choosing a Royalty-Free Book Cover Photo From the Internet- Todd Rutherford invites Harriet Hodgson as a guest on his blog. Harriet gives answers to some of the common questions we all have when choosing an image for our book cover.

12. 10 Ways to Market a Book on Facebook- BookBuzzr invites Breana Orland to share her tips on marketing your book on Facebook.

That's it for this week. I hope you found something here that can boost your own marketing activities. Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to spending time with you here, at my Internet home, next Monday.