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I hope to meet you in Colorado

I'm doing one of my Ten Million Eyeballs Events in Boulder, Colorado on August 8 and 9th. I hope some of you can make it to this event where I will be teaching everyone how to get their books, themselves, their websites, and more in front of at least 10 million people.

Details at http://www.10millioneyeballs.com.

Added by John Kremer on July 3, 2008 at 9:21pm — No Comments

There's more to the Internet than social networks.

If you want to sell more books via the Internet, social networks is only a small part of the answer. The full answer includes four key ways to market via the Internet. To find out more about these way, check out http://www.tenmillioneyeballs.com.

John Kremer's Ten Million Eyeballs Event: COLORADO

August 9 to 10, 2008, 9 to 5 each day, in Boulder,… Continue

Added by John Kremer on July 2, 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

BookExpo America in LA

BookExpo is lightly attended this year, but still active. Lots of things happening. The authors and publishers who are here in LA are optimistic about the coming year in book sales.

POD, ebooks, and other formats for books are becoming commonplace. Lots of new developments in this department.

More later.

John Kremer

Added by John Kremer on June 1, 2008 at 1:54am — No Comments

Ten Million Eyeballs and BookExpo America in Los Angeles

I'm teaching my Ten Million Eyeballs Event tomorrow and Thursday and then on to BookExpo America here in Los Angeles. I spoke on creating bestsellers today at the PMA University. Hope to meet some fellow networkers here.

Added by John Kremer on May 28, 2008 at 12:48am — No Comments

BookExpo America and Ten Million Eyeballs in LA

Well, I'm off to Los Angeles on Friday to prepare for the Ten Million Eyeballs Event in Los Angeles as well as BookExpo America. I'll be spending a few days with a friend working on a book proposal, then speaking at PMA University on Tuesday, doing the Ten Million Eyeballs Event in Wednesday and Thursday, and then doing BEA the next three days. A full schedule.

If you are in LA next week, I hope to meet you.

If you need to reach me during that time, I will be checking this… Continue

Added by John Kremer on May 24, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

The Alexa Top 150,000 -- Where Are You?

If you were to get 10 million eyeballs to see, hear, or learn about you, your book, or your website, here are a few of the things that would happen:

1. The Alexa rank for your website would jump from wherever it is to somewhere in the top 150,000 sites in the world (out of more than 150 million sites and counting).

2. You will get from 60,000 to 200,000 unique visitors to your website every month. Some months your traffic would spike to half a million to a million unique… Continue

Added by John Kremer on May 21, 2008 at 12:58am — No Comments

Ten Million Eyeballs Event in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Denver, and Atlanta

I'm speaking at the Ten Million Eyeballs Event in Los Angeles, California on May 28th and 29th right before BookExpo America. The event will be in at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. I'll be teaching four incredible ways to get five to ten million eyeballs (impressions or visitors) for you, your book, or your website.

Even if you are attending the PMA University, you can walk down the hall to attend this as well. We are in the same hotel.

For more… Continue

Added by John Kremer on May 13, 2008 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

Robin Jay Interviews John Kremer: On Book Marketing

Robin Jay recently interviewed me on new ways to market your books. It was a great interview. I've made the interview available on my Ning page. Check it out at: http://bookmarket.ning.com/profile/JohnKremer. Look at the audio listings in the left column.

I've also now featured the audio on the main page of BookMarket.ning.com. Check it out on the bottom right of the main page, under Music.

Added by John Kremer on May 11, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

May You Be Blessed: From 10 People to 3 Million

Kate Nowak, the creator of the May You Be Blessed video, kicked off her movie by emailing it to 10 people. The movie, forwarded on to many, many friends of friends, was seen by 3 million people in the first six months. Her Better to Bless website is now a community of blessers as well as a thriving gift shop.

For more success stories involving online marketing or Internet promotions, check out… Continue

Added by John Kremer on May 8, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Internet Success Stories

Here are just a few examples of people and companies using the Internet successfully to sell books and build careers. For more such examples, see http://www.tenmillioneyeballs.com.

After loading three viral videos on YouTube, the publisher of Chad Kultgen's novel The Average American Male had to go back to press three times in the first month.

The Dash Poem Movie written by Linda Ellis and produced by Mac Anderson, has… Continue

Added by John Kremer on April 17, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Ten Million Eyeballs: Get them to your website or book!

I've just complete writing the opening page for a new website devoted to getting 10 million eyeballs for your book, service, website, idea, or cause. Check it out here: http://www.tenmillioneyeballs.com.

Added by John Kremer on April 13, 2008 at 9:34pm — No Comments

Alive! multimedia books: Beautiful

Wow, I just discovered the Alive! eBook Network and it is beautiful and enticing. It allows you to create and sell multimedia ebooks that feature text, audio, and video.

They've already featured Dan Millman, Marc Allen, Carolyn Ellis, and others. You provide text, audio recordings, optional photos and other graphics, video (if you have some) and then they do the heavy lifting of creating the multimedia ebook plus the… Continue

Added by John Kremer on January 9, 2008 at 8:41pm — No Comments

Celebrate New Year's Every Month of the Year!

I do wish all of you a happy new year and a prosperous one as well. But if you fail to celebrate the new year on January 1st, you have more than 100 other new year's days you can celebrate. For details on those, see http://www.manyhappynewyears.com.

Added by John Kremer on January 6, 2008 at 2:15am — No Comments

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Yuletide, and a Great Winter Solstice.

I do wish that everyone on this network have a happy and wonderful holiday as well as a fantastic new year.

I believe 2008 will be an incredible year for new books. I do hope you sell tons of books in the coming year.

John Kremer, webmaster, BookMarket.com

Added by John Kremer on December 24, 2007 at 10:46pm — 1 Comment

Book Marketing Blast-Off Seminar

Book Marketing Blast-Off Seminar: December 7 to 9 in Los Angeles

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Would you like to sell more books — a lot more books? If you do, I can show you how! I wrote the book on the subject: 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. For the past twenty years, I've edited the newsletter on the subject: Book Marketing Update. And, also for the past twenty years, I've consulted with some of the top bestselling authors in the country. Who am… Continue

Added by John Kremer on November 24, 2007 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Book Marketing Tip of the Week

If you haven't yet subscribed to my Book Marketing Tip of the Week ezine, check out the latest issue at http://www.bookmarket.com/tip070925.htm. Always good content useful to any author. From there you can also access many of the back issues.

Added by John Kremer on September 27, 2007 at 12:20am — No Comments

The Kremer Glacier

While in Alaska for the Alaska Writers Group Conference, I discovered that there were over 100,000 glaciers in Alaska but only 700 of them had names. I asked the ranger on the boat if the one I'm pointing to below was named. He said that he didn't think so. So I named it. The Kremer Glacier.

After naming it, I asked him to let everyone on the boat know. He did. So now it is officially the Kremer Glacier. If you'd like a glacier named after you, let me know. I'm thinking of setting up… Continue

Added by John Kremer on September 2, 2007 at 10:54pm — 1 Comment

Pitching Magazines: Research Them First

In a recent blog post, Kelly Powers of
Obie Joe Media offers some great advice on how to read a magazine to
dissect how to pitch them for maximum effectiveness.

Read about it here: http://obiejoebooks.blogspot.com/ 2007/08/dissecting-magazines-for-authors-gain.html

Added by John Kremer on August 24, 2007 at 12:18am — No Comments

Poetry Books: Best Options

Question from Poet: I'm 15 years

old and love writing. It's my true passion. I write free verses, modern

poetry. I was just looking for a good publisher. Could you please

assist me through this? I really want to bring out new poetry to the

audience, because people seem to have forgotten poetry and go for Harry

Potter or other fiction genres. I really know I can do this, and will

try my best. I'm still writing and have around 20… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 24, 2007 at 12:00am — No Comments

Spend Less, Tell More Stories

Seth Godin always has interesting points to make. In his post today at his blog, he made the following point, one that I've been trying to get through to people for a very long time:

"The art of marketing is not finding more money to do more marketing. It's figuring out how to tell a story that spreads with the resources you've got."

So many self-publishers and new authors want to throw money at… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 19, 2007 at 10:30pm — No Comments