For book/ebook authors, publishers, & self-publishers

Online Tools We Use for Book Marketing

Do you have a favorite book marketing tool or software you use to speed things up? A special Firefox plugin? A web site that offers some things that have saved you time and money in marketing your book? We'd love to hear about it!

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Permalink Reply by Lorilyn Roberts on September 4, 2010 at 1:09pm

Check out the Bookbuzzr. It is a free marketing tool that can be posted on varous sites, where your excerpt opens up like a book. It includes the capacity to include videos, press releases, and reviews; and can be set up for automatic tweets from your book. There is also an optional paid technology, but the book buzzr tool is free.
Here is the link: http://www.bookbuzzr.com/

If you would like to see how I used it on my website, click here:
http://www.lorilynroberts.com/subchildrenofdreams.html

Permalink Reply by Marilynn Dawson on August 23, 2012 at 10:02pm

It's no longer free. . . 30 day trial and then you need to pay a monthly fee. If you have the funds, then perhaps it will work.

Permalink Reply by Deborah McCarragher on September 4, 2010 at 7:33pm

I concur with Lorilyn. I love the Bookbuzzr widget. You can join Bookbuzzr for free and upload your book, control how many pages are viewed, and allow readers to purchase it - all on their site. I have my widget on my website homepage and my blog.

My website: http://www.Godmissionpossible.com

My blog: http://www.Godmissionpossible.blogspot.com

There are also other free features like auto-Tweet, adding a miniature to your email signature, etc. Great product.

Permalink Reply by Amanda Stephan on September 6, 2010 at 9:26am

I think so far, my favorite marketing tool is Twitter. Short fast blurbs and add my website link, and the numbers jump. BookBuzzr's pretty good too.

Permalink Reply by Lorilyn Roberts on September 6, 2010 at 10:57pm

How is Twitter helping you to sell more books? That has not been my experience.

Permalink Reply by Lorilyn Roberts on September 26, 2010 at 9:11pm

Check out this free (with ads) or very inexpensive tool for marketing

http://www.widgetbox.com/i/1d6ece04-85a7-4c66-afcd-d319d8ae07da

This is for my blog. But you can make many different widgets. I also made one for my videos that can be posted on websites, et cetera.

Permalink Reply by Marilynn Dawson on August 28, 2012 at 10:20pm

AtContent.com

Just came across this method for promoting and selling ebooks and digital content. Interesting concept! I've signed up and will see how it goes. They track impressions almost instantly!

If you want your friends and acquaintances to help promote your books, this is one way to pay them back for doing so.

Permalink Reply by CBM Christian Book Marketing on September 14, 2012 at 11:53am

We promote and marketing a lot of Christian authors and books. We believe that building a strong online presence is very important in marketing a author's book. With that said, we use Twitter, Goodreads, various sites here at Ning, and other networks and communities. We also have the ability to place a Christian author's book on 100 great Christian sites through book reviews, author press releases, author article blasts and many other great services that we offer.

For the self promoting author, we recommend, that you put a marketing plan together and in the process, do your homework to find what will work best for you and your books.

Blessings,
Smitty
CBM Christian Book Marketing
www.christian-book-marketing.com
"Get Your Book On 100 Great Christian Sites.

Permalink Reply by Marilynn Dawson on December 10, 2014 at 1:53pm

For all authors who are baffled by how to use Pinterest to promote your books, or for other entreprenaurs who want to learn how to use Pinterest to promote your own endeavor, here is a how-to video I created over the past 1.5 days. Feel free to spread it around to those in your own circles of influence who have wondered how to do this.