Articles - Selling Your Book en-us http://proofpositive.com N/A http://proofpositive.com editor@proofpositive.com 20 http://proofpositive.com/articles/400/1/How-to-Market-Your-Unsold-Books-on-the-Internet-Its-Easy/Page1.html Your book expresses your wondrous information, your creativity, and your genius. It's your dream come true. Or is it? You have already tried a few venues--maybe an expo, book signings, press releases, book reviews, distributors, wholesalers, speaking and book tours. Now, there is a new way to market those unsold books. Use the Internet. And you don't even have to have your own Web site or spend money. info@proofpostive.com (Judy Cullins) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/399/1/Sell-More-Books-With-an-E-mail-Newsletter/Page1.html If you're selling your book online, you're practically guaranteed to increase sales by publishing an e-mail newsletter, or "e-zine." info@proofpositive.com (Alexandria K Brown) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/398/1/Successful-Book-Marketing-The-Natural-Way---Part-2/Page1.html Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, "I'm not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book" or "I just wish someone else could market my book for me"? info@proofpostive.com (Judy Cullins) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/397/1/Successful-Book-Marketing-The-Natural-Way---Part-1/Page1.html Is your mind muddy on book marketing? Do you wake up each day and say, "I'm not a social person and I hate to beat the drum for my book" or "I just wish someone else could market my book for me"? info@proofpostive.com (Judy Cullins) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/395/1/Book-Marketing-101---Setting-up-Author-Events-and-Book-Signings----Get-the-Most-from-Book-Publicity/Page1.html We all have at one time or another had the fantasy of our books being absolutely indispensable to readers - and that our genius is immediately recognizable even without the benefit of creating awareness or self-promotion. Well, for some very famous authors this may be true - but then again, publishers still spend millions of dollars promoting even the greatest writers' books. Having your book recognized for the high quality endeavor that it is, and selling some in the process, really is ALL about an awareness of both you as an author and your book. One of the hard truths of the self-publishing industry is that authors must work diligently to create a market for their books - and all without the multi-million dollar budgets of the big publishers. info@proofpostive.com ( Ray Robinson) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/391/1/How-to-Get-Your-Book-Reviewed-in-Magazines/Page1.html In one of my past magazine jobs my office was next to that of the book editor. He would get boxes and boxes of books daily. There was a separate room devoted to storing these books, but that still didn't keep them from piling up in his office. Whenever he returned from vacation he practically had to use a bulldozer to get his door open! info@proofpostive.com (Sophfronia Scott) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/390/1/Book-Proposals-101-What-Publishers-Want/Page1.html Lots of writers like to talk about writing books. You hear very few talking about writing book proposals. Maybe that's why it's easy to forget that a strong book proposal is the first step togetting a great deal for your non-fiction book. It's where you make the big pitch and tell the editor everything that's going to make him or her want to buy. info@proofpostive.com (Sophfronia Scott) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/389/1/Using-quotTipping-Pointquot-Concepts-to-Market-Your-Book/Page1.html Ever wonder how trends get started? As much as we'd like to think that all trends are Madison Avenue creations propagated by the media, many times a movement is sparked by the action of a few. Then word of mouth makes it spread. Author Malcolm Gladwell examines this phenomenon in his 2000 book "The Tipping Point". There's a chapter where he describes how this kind of movement by a few groups powered Rebecca Wells's 1996 novel, "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", to surprising success. When I read that I sat up and took notice. I realized I could use the same concepts to market my first novel, "All I Need to Get By". You can too! Here's how. info@proofpostive.com (Sophfronia Scott) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/387/1/Building-an-Awesome-Audience-for-Your-Book/Page1.html I got lucky. The month that I sold my novel was the same month that I started my newsletter, Living the Dream, for my coaching business. I had no idea that as my list of subscribers grew I would have a great platform from which to launch the book 18 months later. Thanks to that list, I was pre-selling my book long before it hit store shelves. info@proofpostive.com (Sophfronia Scott) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/386/1/A-Quick-Guide-to-Marketing-Your-Book-on-the-Internet/Page1.html Selling your book will be ten times easier as soon as you can accept this one, think-out-of-the-box strategy: your book doesn't have to be inside a bricks-and-mortar store to sell copies. Too many self-published authors get caught up in trying to figure out how to get distribution which will get their book into big box stores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble. The process can be expensive and daunting. But these days the best grass-roots marketing that can sell tons of books happens on the internet. Using a few tricks of the trade you could reach a wider audience, sell more books and do it while spending less money! info@proofpostive.com (Sophfronia Scott) Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600