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Book Marketing Success Stories

This is a forum to allow people to showcase the things they've done that have worked well for them in marketing their books. Please share your stories here. Then we can all read them and learn from them. If we work together, we will all be much stronger and more successful in marketing our books.

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Permalink Reply by John Kremer on February 9, 2012 at 11:14am

Now let's get back to talking about our success stories for marketing our books.

Traffic laws rarely impact such marketing.

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Permalink Reply by CBM Christian Book Marketing on February 20, 2012 at 12:48pm

Vista Print offers marketing tools like this, magnetic door banners, post cards and other great goodies. www.vistaprint.com

Love the cover of your book

Smitty
CBM Christian Book Marketing

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Permalink Reply by John Kremer on February 21, 2012 at 12:04pm

VistaPrint.com also offers business cards.

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Permalink Reply by martin koszegi on February 20, 2012 at 9:50am

I'm a beginner, and wondering if Lightning Source has a feature in any of their packages whereby they use an author's web address (named after the book title, as "thedoorway.com") to feed into their sales and distribution packages directly. I'm hoping that that's the case. Thank you. Marty

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Permalink Reply by Pål Brekke on February 25, 2012 at 6:04am

I had a great release presentation - a full house at one of Washington DCs best high resolution auditorium.

http://www.norway.org/News_and_events/Research--Technology/Pal-Brek...

More about the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Explosive-Sun-Visual-Source/dp/146140570X...

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Permalink Reply by John Kremer on February 26, 2012 at 10:55am

I hope you sold a ton of books. And autographed them for posterity.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Bowers on November 21, 2012 at 5:55am

Is it possible you could share how much in dollars your business efforts paid off. When I myself imagin how your business side of marketing has burst upon the scene, my sensibilities equally explode and I start thinking of money rolling in in huge amounts. On the really big book deals I've seen the $500,000 figure and then there's the $200 one. Because of my interest in markaeting, I just can't help asking such questions. Thanks, Richard

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Gligor on March 30, 2012 at 10:25am

Ann, the main character in Mixed Messages, the first novel in my Malone mystery series, is of Irish descent. On St. Patrick's Day, I attended a festival at the Irish Heritage Center in Cincinnati (where my book takes place).

I had a great time and met a lot of nice people. I gave each of those people a business card - white background with Kelly green print - that listed the information for my book release. I got some great feedback and I'm pretty sure I sold a few books. And, to my delight, the IHC has expressed interest in doing "something" to promote my novel.

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Permalink Reply by John Kremer on May 1, 2012 at 11:27am

I hope you've followed up on your contact with the Irish Heritage Center. Remember: If you want action, you have to do the follow up.

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Permalink Reply by John Kremer on June 17, 2012 at 12:42pm

Come on, members of this network. Tell us some of the things that are working for you.

Share your success stories here. Inspire others and you re-inspire yourself.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Gligor on June 21, 2012 at 4:13am

John,

Thanks for the reminder. The director of the IHC was in Ireland the whole month of May. I need to contact her.

Something else I've done to promote Mixed Messages - I contacted Janeen Coyle, a DJ on our local Oldies radio station who hosts a monthly book club. She features books by "big name" authors but she also occasionally invites a local author to bring some of their books to sell. I'll be doing that this coming Wednesday. As a bonus, she's been announcing the meeting all month long, mentioning my name, my book and even the fact that it's available on Amazon!