Blog an Ebook to Gain Exposure and Successfully Promote Your Book

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by Nina Amir Successful promotion of any ebook begins long before the book’s the release date. Those one-day bestseller campaigns you hear about—or participate in—don’t happen because an author asked everyone to purchase the ebook on that day. Those authors began telling people about themselves, their work and that book months, if not years, before [...]

Anatomy of an Ebook – The Bones That Hold Your Digital Content Together

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by Sue Painter Many people say they want to create an ebook, an information product, or a special report – some type of digital content.  It’s similar to saying that one wants to become a writer – lots of people think about it but very few ever do. I often coach people through the process [...]

SlideShare: The Over Achiever is Under Utilized [tutorial]

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by Kathleen Gage Using social media to market your digital products is a must do. This goes without saying for most people, but the difficult part for many people is knowing which social media to focus on and how to optimize what they are doing. We’ve all heard that for a good majority of people [...]

Are There Different Types of Virtual Book Tours?

by D’vorah Lansky, M.Ed. I’d like to thank Denise and Ellen for graciously hosting me, as a guest blogger, in celebration of the launch of my newest book, 21 Ways to Launch a Successful Virtual Book Tour. In answer to the question posted in the title of this article; “Are there different types of virtual book [...]

10 Reasons Why Self-Published Books Don’t Sell – and What You Can Do to Ensure Yours DOES

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by Kristen Eckstein One of the biggest complaints I hear from self-published authors who found The Ultimate Book Coach after they published their books is, “My book isn’t selling. Can you help me?” And 99.9% of the time when I look at their book on Amazon or their website, I can name several reasons why [...]

What the Music Biz Taught me About Perfection

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by Lou Bortone “Music biz? I thought you were a video marketing guy,” you may be asking… Yes, I spent over 2 decades in the television industry, but I bet you didn’t know that I was in a local rock band in and after college! First, I was in a cover band called “Parallax,” and [...]

How to Use Facebook to Do Market Research for Your Digital Products [Video]

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by Marnie Pehrson When you’re naming a product or describing what you do, the terms you use are important. Each industry, hobby or interest tends to have its own terminology. Words that mean one thing to you could mean something entirely different to your potential consumer. In your marketing materials, you’ll want to use terms [...]

Easy Ways to End Copyright Confusion

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by Lynne Klippel Whether you are publishing an eBook or a print book, you are probably wondering about copyrights.  Authors are rightly concerned that their works are protected and want to make sure they are not infringing on the rights of other authors. Copyright information is governed by each nation.  In the United States, the [...]

Top Creativity Killers for Your Projects [Video]

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by Laura West Creativity is the lifeblood of entrepreneurial success. One of your main goals in creating content is to keep feeding those creative ideas, unique thoughts and perspectives and the Flowmentum ™ going for projects in action. Every day you are coming up with ideas for articles, blog posts, information products, sales pages and [...]

Blog an eBook So You Get Read As You Write

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by Nina Amir Many writers and entrepreneurs wonder why they should blog an ebook rather than write it the “old-fashioned way.” I can think of many reasons, the first of which is that you can publish as you write. That means you become an author and a publisher the instant you hit the “publish” button [...]