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Book Signings – Do I Sit or Stand?
A book signing can be a nerve-wracking experience for some authors. You worry about how you look, whether you'll sell any books and how people will perceive you. Having a successful signing is all in your approach. There are many authors--experienced or first-timers--who are still asking this question: Do I sit or stand when I'm at a book signing? My answer is: Why not do both? And here's why...

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Get This Book
I scan a lot of books to find out if anything in them might be useful to you. Most of them are library books, and after scanning, the measure of how useful a book will be to you is the number of bookmarks I've placed in it.

Marketing Your Marketing
Don’t limit your marketing merely to the media you’re using. Market it all over the place. Anything worth promoting is worth cross-promoting.

The Value of Amazon Reviews
Have you ever noticed that customers can add their reviews to Amazon books? Many books never have a single review. You can add them and increase your own visibility in the marketplace and have many other benefits--like the one mentioned in this article.

Top Ten Leopard Tips
Here are the top-ten Leopard tips from my friends, Adam Engst et al, at Take Control Books. They’ve already released five ebooks to help people upgrade to Leopard. These books cost either $10 or $15, but you can save 30% if you buy all five. Take Control publishes minor updates for free, so the authors can revise their books on the fly.

How To Write Better AdCopy
Right now, you’re probably thinking, “Now he’s gonna tell us to read all the books we can find on copywriting.” Wrong, paperback-breathe! -- The first thing I’m gonna tell you is -- after you’ve read all those copywriting books for general knowledge; like learning english composition, grammar and syntax -- throw away those books and ...

It’s All About PR
You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure house of 140,000 books. Online at amazon.com, there are 2.5 million books. Somewhere in your mind, dimly, you knew that, but nothing drives it home so much as walking into a bookstore and seeing rack upon rack of beautiful books and then you go find your section and see all the racks of beautiful self-help books and then...

The Brand Story Web Marketing Process
If websites have one overarching goal it is to create confidence in whatever the website is promoting and who's promoting it. It doesn't matter if it's a product, a service, a sales campaign, or an idea, if the presentation is not minimally credible or optimally motivational, then it fails as a means of marketing communication.

Social Media Strategy
Simply becoming a member of one or more social media groups does not constitute a social media strategy. A strategy involves joining these groups with a specific purpose in mind and taking precise actions for the purpose of promoting something. You may be promoting yourself or your online business. What you are promoting is not as important as how you are promoting it.

The ABCs and 123s of Self-Promotion For Independent and Self-Published Authors Part 1
Now that ebook readers such as the Kindle and Nook and their PC applications have made ebooks (short for electronic books) more popular than the traditional hardcover/paperback novel...almost anyone who ever dreamed of being a published author can make their dream come true. Sounds great, doesn't it? Unfortunately the luxury of becoming a self and/or independently published author also comes with a caveat...you, and you alone, are responsible for promoting your book! Don't be discouraged, however. It is actually easier than it sounds--once you have learned a few of the tricks of the trade.... So that's what I'm here to teach you, easy tricks for promoting your own book--and the good thing is, they'll work whether your book is traditionally, self and/or independently published.

Writing Your Own Obituary
Those of you who are consistent readers of this regular offering, realize that I rarely recommend specific books. Instead, I encourage people to read those books that will help them in the pursuit of their own passion. However, recently I have completed both of Tom Brokaw's books dealing with the Depression and World War II era-The Greatest Generation and The Greatest Generation Speaks.

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