by Steve Spillman | Mar 28, 2017 | blog, Books, Marketing |
I used to travel more than I do now. I’ve spent a lot of nights, more than I wanted to, in hotels. When you spend the night in hotels regularly you develop favorites. The “frequent stayer” reward programs do their best to garner loyalty to their brand. But I preferred...
by Steve Spillman | Nov 16, 2013 | blog, Books, Marketing |
Last week we talked about how to use Facebook to engage your readers and ultimately sell your book. Today we’re going to focus on the other Social Media giant, Twitter. Twitter has about 500 million active participants, but unlike Facebook many folks new to Social...
by Steve Spillman | Nov 9, 2013 | blog, Books, Marketing |
This week’s Author Tips is filled with rich content to help you either get started or substantially grow your Facebook audience. You may be tired of hearing it, but Facebook is the Social network. The platform has around 1.2 billion members and many of them may be...
by Steve Spillman | Nov 2, 2013 | blog, Books, Marketing |
* Just a note about the difference between marketing and sales: marketing is making others aware of your book; sales is actually selling your book. What we’ll be discussing the next few weeks (and last week) is marketing. You’ve got to reach your audience before you...
by Steve Spillman | Oct 3, 2013 | blog, Books, Marketing |
Last week we talked about how technology has allowed (really forced) two fundamental shifts book industry landscape: 1) Technology has allowed the content creator (the author) direct access to the content consumer (the reader) and vice versa. 2) Technology has changed...
