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Book Marketing On A Budget: 4 Cheap Options For Authors

At this time of year book marketing is a challenge, because everyone’s trying to get a slice of the massive holiday spending. We talked about publishing short stories to boost holiday sales, which will help you.

Now let’s look at CHEAP marketing and promotions at any time of the year.

Many authors just don’t have a budget for marketing because they’re:

• New to self-publishing and spent their last dollar on paying an editor and buying a great cover image;
• Traditionally published, and they’ve long since spent the advance on royalties;
• Unforeseen expenses, which demolished their book marketing budget;
• … and any one of a hundred other reasons.

Before we get to the options, a word to the wise. Services for authors abound. If you find a company that’s offering cheap book marketing services, remember that it’s your name as well as your book that they’re promoting, so stay classy.

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Want To Sell Your Writing? 3 Tips To Sell With Images

Want to sell your writing?

Use more images.

Marketing has changed, for everyone.

Yes, even for you and me. In 2018 and beyond, image marketing rules. There’s a reason for that — according to 3M research, your brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text.

So, when you want to sell your writing, think images. Yes, I know we’re writers, but if you don’t somehow grab a reader’s attention you won’t have a reader.

To sell your writing, grab attention with images

Attention is everything. You need to grab attention, otherwise you can’t sell.

Let’s look at a couple of authors who take ATTENTION to heart with clever images.

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Set Your Writing Goals For 2019: 4 Tips You Can Use Today

1. Set writing goals which excite you

If your goals don’t excite you, you won’t strive to achieve them. Ask yourself: “what goal, if I achieved it, would be thrilling?”

Write down the question and answer it.

Writing stuff down is vital — don’t try to do this in your head.

Try journaling. Journaling can change your life. I’ve always found that when I journal, I not only get more done, I’m inspired too.

When you’re journaling, ideas will come more easily, and your motivation will grow.

Make a list of 20 goals you’d love to achieve, then choose three exciting goals on which you’ll work in 2019. Choosing too many goals can distract you.

Make one goal your primary goal: more on this in Tip 4.

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Goals: 2018 Lessons Learned And Planning For 2019

Review your 2018 goals: celebrate your progress

Even if you missed achieving your big goals, celebrate your progress, and review. Why not divide a big goal like “buy a new house” into several smaller goals?

When we discussed 2019 in our final writers’ group meeting for the year, a writer said that he set much smaller goals this year, and achieved all of them.

Achieving goals boosts your confidence. I’ll try that method going forward, by setting smaller goals which will be milestones to my larger goals.

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Book Marketing: 3 Tips To Drive Sales With Image Marketing

Why book marketing with images?

In brief, so that you can grab readers’ attention. According to 3M research, visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text. Devoting a little time to book marketing with images can pay off hugely.

Doubt me? OK: check out large brands on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. You’ll find images, images, and more images.

Unfortunately, when it comes to book marketing, an author thinks only in terms of cover images, and perhaps cover image mockups. (Mockups are those images where your book’s cover is superimposed on an image of an iPad, or phone.)

There’s a WORLD of book marketing images beyond your book’s cover.

Here are some tips to help you to expand your book marketing with images.

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Black Friday Offerings: Story Power And Content Witchery

Black Friday is here again, so it’s time for some very special offerings for loyal readers.

Black Friday offerings for a fabulous 2019

As 2018 winds down with holiday celebrations, 2019 is just around the corner, and will be upon us before we know it. A brand new writing year — let’s make it your best-ever year.

This year’s Black Friday offerings will help.

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Blogging: Still The Answer, Whatever The Question

So, after two decades, why is blogging still important?

Because…

Blogging is free (more or less) promotion

It’s simple. Blogging is promotion.

When you stick your name on a blog, at the very least, you’re advertising yourself, and taking baby steps to building your writers’ platform.

Yes, “exposure” is a crock. But promotion is part of marketing, and it’s essential. Even if it takes time and energy.

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3 Tips To Writing Page-Turning Fiction, Starting Today

Want to write page-turning fiction?

Start by writing in scenes.

Then focus on the emotions.

Fiction is all about emotion

From Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic:

Fiction is all about emotion, and that emotion has reasons, which derive from action. You’ll often see novels which critics hate on top of various bestseller lists. Remember the fuss about the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy? Critics hated the books. However, those books sold in their millions. Why? Simple. Emotion. The books gave readers an emotional experience: they entertained readers, so the novels sold — and sold some more.

They’ll go on selling, because readers will always want entertainment.

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Self-Publishing Short Stories: 3 Tips To Boost Holiday Book Sales

Ready for Christmas holiday sales in your self-publishing venture? It’s tempting to slow down your publishing at this time of the year, because you’re busy.

However, traditional publishers and indies will be promoting heavily — your sales may dwindle if you let things slide.

Promote your books, but also, publish a new book or two. For fiction authors, the popularity of short ebooks makes it easy to publish and sell short stories quickly.

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New Author Fast-Start: 5 Productivity Tips For Fiction

The big new author secret: your story question (who wants what? And why?)

Your story question is the point of your novel; it’s why readers will read it. In Gone Girl, readers want to know what happened to the missing wife. Think about the novel you’re reading now: what’s the point of the novel?

You’ll arrive at the story question via your characters. Each of your characters wants something desperately. (If they aren’t willing to fight for something, toss them out of your book; they don’t belong in it.)

Readers read romances to discover how two mismatched souls will get together. They read mysteries to solve the mystery, whatever it is. When they’re in the mood for a thriller, readers want lots of excitement.

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Fiction Writing: 2 Strategies To Make Revision And Editing Easier

Revision and editing: what’s the difference?

In self-publishing today, authors conflate revision and editing. I like to separate them, so that I know exactly what’s happening, and when.

Revision is re-vision: that is, seeing again. It’s looking at the story of your novel afresh, rather than tinkering with words.

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Mind Mapping: 3 Tips To Plot And Revise Your Novel

When you’re writing a novel, there’s a thousand pieces of information you need to keep straight. Mind mapping is the easiest way to do that, without stress.

That’s the biggest benefit of a mind map: you can take in information at a glance. Rather than rereading chapters of prose, you can check your mind map, and you’re good to start writing.

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3 Steps To Write A Book With The “8 Hours” Strategy

Looking for a side hustle? Self-publishing is hot, so perhaps you’ve decided to write a book. Sadly, books can take months and years to write.

What if you could write a book within hours?

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(New) Write AND Sell In Just 8 Hours: Video Training

 

Do you wish that you could stop trading hours for dollars? You can. Over the past 12 months, I’ve had many requests for video training on our popular ebook, Write AND Sell in Just 8 Hours: Create Top-Selling Ebooks FAST.

The video training is available now.

AS ALWAYS, COACHING IS INCLUDED

You’re an individual, with your own needs. Personal coaching helps me to create products which work for you, whether you’re a beginning writer/ author, or are an established pro.

JUST IN TIME FOR HOLIDAY SALES: START CREATING NOW

I’m encouraging my coaching students to ramp up their productivity for the holiday season. What could you create and sell?

Whether you choose to create fiction, or nonfiction, I know that the new Write AND Sell in Just 8 Hours: Video Training will help.

Join us. Here’s the introduction to the course.

3 Quick NaNoWriMo Writing Tips To Boost Your Inspiration

Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? If you are, you’re around a week into your novel, and your inspiration is flagging.

Professional novelists know that after a week or two of writing, or at around 10,000 words, they’ll hit “the wall.”

The wall is the point at which you think you’re writing the wrong novel.

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