Monday, April 16, 2012

Web links for more e-book marketing

Here are some sites that come highly recommended...

Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Required reading. Read as much of this as you can...
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/


Savvy Self-Publishing (podcast): MobileRead's own Lindsay Buroker tells her journey of publishing trials and tribulations in her own words. Recommended. Insightful!
http://www.savvyselfpublishing.com/category/podcast

BookMarket.com: John Kremer, one of THE book marketing experts, has all kinds of useful links and free resources on this page.
http://www.bookmarket.com/

Irene Watson's Author Access: A near comprehensive compendium of author information!
http://www.authorsaccess.com/categor...s/irene-watson

Hubspot.TV: Hubspot in general is a great jumping-off point for developing your social media and web presence skills
http://www.hubspot.tv/marketing-cast/

A great lot of content on how to make a success of using Twitter to market

http://www.molly-greene.com/how-to-succeed-on-twitter/

More on marketing your ebook

Here are a dozen more suggestions for getting the word out about your ebook..

1. Blog Pinging i.e. Ping-o-matic, Pingoat.com, Feed Shark (enter your blog address and RSS and they ping these content aggregators).

2. RSS Syndication i.e. Amazon Author Page, Goodreads Author Page (enter your blog's RSS address, and syndicate your blog content around the web).

3. Link Dump Sites i.e. Fark.com, CollegeHumor.com, Gorillamask.com

4. Blog Comments and Blog "Liking" for a link (perhaps the most effective).

5. Social Media Pinging i.e. Ping.fm (set up an account to post a message to a bunch of social media sites at once).

6. Guest Posting 7. Blog Tours

8. SEO tactics, keyword, title, anchor text optimization

9. Forum Signature Line Links

10. Social media participation (tweeting, Goodreads-ing)

11. Syndicated podcasting with open/close calls to action, text links, etc.

12. Free ebooks through Smashwords with embedded blog links

Let me know if you have any other ideas!