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Marvin Double
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Book Marketing Success Stories
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Book Marketing Success Stories
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- Hometown:
- Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- About Me and My Book:
- I am a blogger, writer, photographer, artist and internet marketer. I create and market information products on specific topics of interest. I am currently working on a book about alternative healing techniques as these pertain to the treatment of Reactive Hypoglycemia. This book touches on a number of specific issues which regarding the impact of life style changes which accompany treating hypoglycemia affect relationships, with family and friends, co-workers. It deals with the sociological aspects of the condition as well as dealing with doctors and conventional vs non conventional medical treatments.
Marvin Double's Blog
Wow, Golly and Gee Wiz
Self promotion can be a tough job. This is something which which I am very familiar. In the early 90's I was the owner operator of a small Canadian import / export and distribution company. I sourced products overseas which I imp… Continue
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 8:40am —
Great Place to Be
A network like this is a great place for writers to hang out and exchange information, tips and generally rub elbows with other writers. I's often said that misery loves company but, just being part of a supportive network might in fact make one somewhat les… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
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Bert Martinez
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Check out my latest blogs about my design project for the upcoming release of Confessions of a Former Rock Queen.
thanks,
Aidana WillowRaven
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Literacy is our purpose.
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By involving the local community, authors, publishers, editors, journalists and all forms of the literary world, we are opening their minds and bringing hope where there was doubt.
Scribblers’ Retreat is not the typical classroom setting. It was designed to bring world-class authors, literature professors, editors, journalists, illustrators, photo journalists, proofreaders, publishers, publicists, screenplay writers, and website/graphic designers, etc. one-on-one with young and old alike. It is the opportunity of a lifetime for someone who has had a manuscript in a desk drawer for 40 years or who has an outstanding poem that simply must be read.
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I want to show off my latest cover design for one of the books I am illustrating and invite you to comment on my latest blog post introducing Puff Bear Goes to the Hospital and it's author.
Hope to see your comments there...
Aidana WillowRaven
www.WillowRavenIllustration.com
This is I think the largest book marketing site on ning (the largest I have fond anyway, and I am on 109 nings).
I wanted to say hi and let you know about the sales I am having at my website at the moment.
www.WillowRavenIllustration.com
Talk later,
Aidana WillowRaven
Because I am a marketer I've been researching various ways that blogs can be used for product promotions. Here's what I've found so far.
Blogs fall into roughly 2 categories, personal and business (commercial) The blogging communities tend to be oriented toward personal and non-commercial use of the medium. Non commercial / personal online journaling was the original intention for blogs. Many bloggers feel, often passionately, that blogs should not be used for commercial purposes. Some in fact rail against commercial or promotional blogs at some length.
Bloggers in fact tend to gather around specific topics and become loose communities. The objectives of such communities can be very tightly focused however from a commercial perspective they don't generally represent well qualified perspective buyers. This is a broad generalization but it holds true in most cases.
According to everything I have learned however a blog can be effective as a promotional platform provided you can attract, targeted traffic into the site through typical marketing methods which do not rely simply on other bloggers.
As I see it now promoting a book through a blog is kind of a unique / hybrid marketing challenge. Attracting readers or prospective readers to the site and then converting them to buyers might require some creative marketing.
The way in which you market your site would be dictated by what you want the site to accomplish. a site created to build a fan base would be different from a site where you intend to sell books directly or even via a third party.
I can see that both things might be accomplished using a non sales-approach. Most people are put off by sites that simply push a product. Because you are an author, which is a natural attraction for readers blogging in an indirect way about your writing process might be a way to attract and enamor readers. Kind of a preternatural meet the author format.
The trick I imagine for doing this would be to write a blog that is highly engaging for readers, (think teasers), personal (think social media) with an element of marketing which is not obvious but still very much a part of the underlaying concept.
Apologies for being long winded in my response but, I felt I couldn't do justice to your question with a very simple answer.
I will be expanding my blogging efforts as I bring new products online , including books and information products. I'll be pleased to share with you any of the techniques which work for me in the future.