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  • Marketing Virtual Assistant Services to Authors - Although objectively I know there are far more authors in need of virtual 'author's assistant' services than there are trained virtual assistants to meet their needs, the first question I hear from someone considering adding to their virtual skills to work with authors is: "How do I know I can...
  • Well, Are You or Aren't You? - No matter what you want to be when you grow up, you have to BE that person to become successful. If you want to be a writer, you have to do what writers do. If you want to be a pro-athlete, you have to do what pro-athletes do. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to do what entrepreneurs do. Then, and only then, will you BE a writer, pro-athlete, entrepreneur, or whatever. Let me give you a specific example from a recent article I wrote: "Most want-to-be authors think writing a book is all about sitting down and punching out some pages when they have some free time. No, no, no! To be an author, you have to BE an author. What am I talking about?
  • It's Time For Independent Authors To Join Forces - Imagine the power of a website dedicated to Independent authors and their books. A place where readers could find over a million Independently published books at one online location. The time has come for Independent authors around the world to join together on the Internet at one location to sell our books.
  • Trying Self Publishing in EBook Format - Today, more than ever before authors are presented with publishing opportunities that have never existed before. This is not to understate the hard work that authors have to go through to get recognition, write great books, and make a full time living from their passion of expression. However, it is to say that today, due to advances in communications technology, authors can now get their books distributed much easier than they could a decade ago. One very popular way that authors are distributing their work is digitally through eBooks.
  • The Concept Of Book Marketing Networks - For authors and readers alike, there are many ways to promote the books that they write and love to read. If you are at an end on how to market your books, poems or even articles then try a book marketing network. It is just what it sounds like, an online network to market what you have written. If you no longer want to wait around for publishers’ acceptance or rejection letters, then you need to think about marketing your literature on your own with the help of a book marketing network.
  • Is All Fair In Love,War, and Dating Blogs? - People blog about just about anything these days, from celebrities to restaurants to their painful dayjobs and everything in between. It seems like everyone and their cat (seriously, cats CAN have blogs too), has something to say. Thanks to the internet, and free blog space, everyone is able to broadcast whatever they want to out in the internet universe. Since online dating and social networking are among the most popular uses for the internet, its only natural that dating would become one of the many topics for blogs. But, people aren't only blogging about their dates, but also integrating blogging into their dating lives. But what about the privacy issues with people featured in these dating blogs?
  • Self-Published Authors: A New Market Niche for the Virtual Assistant - More and more people are publishing their own books as independent publishers rather than waiting and hoping to find a traditional publisher who will appreciate their work. While this was seen as a desperate attempt to get a book published about twenty years ago, times have changed. Many people rightly see publishing a book as an entrepreneurial venture and they are willing to take on the risks to keep more of the profits as the eventual reward. The virtual assistant is now a key component in the success of these entrepreneurial book publishing efforts as new authors are using virtual services of all kinds instead of hiring employees. Even established publishing companies themselves use virtual services. Authors' needs for virtual services fall into two categories: to coordinate parts of the publishing process itself and to coordinate and assist in the marketing of the book once it is published.
  • Seven Tips To Get You Reading For Enjoyment - There are many reasons for reading; one can find information about particular interests e.g. travel, health, hobbies,religion and much much more. The most enjoyable is as a pastime, you will never be lonely if you can lose yourself in a good book. Avid readers will tell you there is never enough time to read all the books that will be of interest to you. Personally I like to read authors, I keep checking to find out when the next book, from a particular author that I like, is to be published.
  • Book Marketing - How Rich Authors Make Money - You are probably right, you can but the difference is not always in the quality of the content, the difference is in the marketing. True, a well written book makes a huge difference however if no one knows about the book, you are not going to make a dime. Here are a few key ingredients in a profitable book marketing campaign. Tell the world! Press releases are only the beginning of a book marketing campaign. They are important, however they are only the first step. Include a link to your website or your amazon.com page in every single communication you have; your email, your business card, brochures, and in your other publications. You will note that I mentioned three other key ingredients in the prior paragraph: Website Email Other publications.

  • I'm Published, Now What? - So you’re published! Congratulations! Now if you’re like most authors you may be asking yourself, now what? There are so many ways to market yourself, so many in fact it’s sometimes tough to know which one you should chose.
  • The 4 Biggest Reasons Every Author Should Count on an Author's Assistant - Author's assistants are well-known inside the publishing world, but not recognized by many outside of it. We predict that will change very soon because of the increasing numbers of authors who are getting published, either as independent publishers themselves or the more traditional route with established publishers.
  • Article Marketing: A New Addition to The Search Engine Optimization World - Article marketing is a relatively new addition to the search engine optimization world but the number of people that are taking part is growing every day. Of course, the number triples all the time because there are authors, article directory owners, as well as web publishers all involved in this search engine optimization technique. As time goes on and page ranks rise, article marketing will only become more popular. Everyone involved in this type of marketing sees the ability to profit and thrive just doing what he or she do best, so why wouldn’t it become more popular?
  • Define the concept and features why people involved with Article Marketing - Article marketing is a relatively new addition to the search engine optimization world but the number of people that are taking part is growing every day. Of course, the number triples all the time because there are authors, article directory owners, as well as web publishers all involved in this search engine optimization technique. As time goes on and page ranks rise, article marketing will only become more popular.
  • Internet Authors are farmers, really - Internet Authors are like farmers, in that they plough their own furrow. They work alone, often separated from friends and family, wondering - like all writers - if the stories they are producing work will ever see the light of day.
  • Can Book Giveaways Hurt Sales - As an author and publisher, I have attended a number of Internet chats in support of eBook and print book releases. Internet chats are largely informal, hosted either by the publisher or a third-party website (usually a site for book reviews), where authors and readers can interact, ask questions and have fun. Look around some of the popular book review websites, particularly those which focus on romance fiction, and you will find chats are scheduled almost daily. Some eBook publishers, for example, host regular monthly chats to keep readers up to date. Whether or not the chats do anything to stimulate sales is up for debate.
  • Create Your Own Market For Independent Books - There's an estimated 3 million Independent authors worldwide. If these writers join forces the potential impact is staggering. As of right now, the print-on-demand companies estimate that over 90% of their authors sell less than 30 books per year. The question is: how do you expand the position and exposure in the bookselling market and offer Independent authors an opportunity to sell more books?
  • Getting Quality Contents from Google Adsense, the easy way - Google Adsense is a wonderful way to increase your earnings on the Internet. The concept of Google Adsense is based on keywords of your website, which alert Google which ads to place there. One of the best ways to have keywords on your website is with keyword-rich articles. However, in order to have a good return with Google Adsense, you need to have quality content on your website that is keyword rich and makes sense.
  • Getting Quality Content from Google Adsense the easiest way - Google Adsense is a wonderful way to increase your earnings on the Internet. The concept of Google Adsense is based on keywords of your website, which alert Google which ads to place there. One of the best ways to have keywords on your website is with keyword-rich articles.
  • Discover Mind-Grabbing Books by Talented Tampa Bay Authors - If you live in the Tampa Bay area, you might be inclined to try out new books written by authors in your area. Sure, there are some well-known authors from the Tampa area such as Stephen King (lives there during winters), Connie May Fowler, Linda Crockett Gray, and Sterling Watson. But why not try some new books by talented, up-and-coming authors? Why not be at the leading edge of a trend with books by Tampa Bay authors who are on the rise? When their books start to hit the mainstream, you can proudly say that you noticed them before the rest of the crowd!
  • Start Writing A Novel Today! What's Stopping You? - When you start writing a novel you may find doing so somewhat more difficult than you expected. You are not alone when you make this discovery, as many novice writers and even published authors find themselves in the very same predicament. Perhaps one of the most difficult things may be trying to discover who, what, where, when, why and how you are going to develop the next "Pulitzer Prize Winning" fiction book. This article will provide you with a number of thoughts and ideas which should make your task not quite so difficult and much more enjoyable.
  • The East Way To Get Quality Contents form Google Adsense! - Google Adsense is a wonderful way to increase your earnings on the Internet. The concept of Google Adsense is based on keywords of your website, which alert Google which ads to place there. One of the best ways to have keywords on your website is with keyword-rich articles.
  • What's Wrong With The Big New York Publishers? - The traditional marketplace for book sales is shrinking. The six largest publishers are shipping more books and selling less than ever before, even though the distribution chain is saturated with copies that will eventually be returned. The basic laws of supply and demand are being ignored and no one is trying to do anything about it. What's wrong with this picture? Reports show that book sales are falling and have been for almost 15 years. In response, the six largest publishers in the country are romancing retail bookstores to take as much inventory as possible, often more than they can handle. Experts say more than 800 new titles are published independently and traditionally every single day in the US.
  • Generating lead using Article Directories. - Article Contents: Article submission is still one of the most comprehensive ways of generating free traffic to your website. It has been at the fore front of some of the internets highest traffic generating marketeers for years now, and is still going strong on a consistent basis.
  • How To Quickly Submit Your Software - For software authors or publishers, the software publishing is a complicated and careful job. There are literally hundreds of shareware sites and each site has a slightly different method of submitting your program information. Because of this variation, most commercially available software submission programs simply cannot work for every different site. To publishing software successfully, we must take a series of preparative work ahead. Fellow are some tips and advices that can help us. 1. Take your software be ready for submission.
  • It's A Great Time To Be An Independent Writer - The world of publishing is about to change. It's an exciting time to be an Independent author. This long ignored group is beginning to organize and establish an entirely new marketplace for selling books.
  • Stop Wasting Time And Money - Getting a manuscript published has never been easier; marketing and selling books has never been harder. Authors who pursue the smallest place for their Independent book on the shelf of a traditional bookseller is wasting valuable time and resources. The six largest publishers in the world, all based in New York (five owned by foreign corporations), tightly controls the traditional world of retail bookselling. They pay an enormous price for prime retail space for all their titles. Space that is not only cost prohibitive, but space that also carries a huge financial risk for the successful Independent author.
  • The Amazon Battle, Continued: An Interview With BookLocker's Angela Hoy - Amazon is a big piece to our success and as they continue to change their model, how we market and sell our books needs to change as well.
  • What's Killing Your Publishing Career? - With the large increase of books being published by self-publishers, and the up-rise of print on demand, there is still a lot of death taking place in the publishing industry. In the United States, over 291,920 books were published in 2006, per Bowker. Are you a part of this population? There are many aspects that make up these individuals. However, let us target just three that are undeniable to anyone reading this article. As in anything we do, a large portion of it is about taking risks.
  • Write a Book, How To Change Your Life Dramatically - Step into a bookstore or a library and you are surrounded by books. Walk up to a stranger and ask them if they have ever wanted to write a book.
  • Publishing Options For New Authors - Most of us have dreams of writing a book one day but the statistics verify that the vast majority never complete the task. There are lots of reasons for this failure but one of the most important is that would-be authors have heard that publishers accept only a tiny percentage of the book proposals they receive. People have heard how difficult it can be and they give up on the task as a result. Technology has changed a lot of things in the publishing industry, not to mention just about every other industry you can imagine. Not only is it easier for an entrepreneur to start a book publishing company but the costs of printing a small number of books has come down dramatically, allowing authors to avoid the prohibitive minimums that used to characterize the book printing business.
  • How to Make Money Self-Publishing a Book - This is a tough one. Very few books make money. The most profitable self-publishers use the book as a thick business card. They use it to introduce people to their concepts or ideas, and in exchange, the reader is enticed to buy their higher-end products and services. Thus, the book is a loss-leader used to bring in new customers to a business. However, if you're writing a book of fiction, you can still do well with self-publishing. A well-written book that is interesting to a large number of readers will attract an audience.
  • Crown Publishers, Ltd. Announces 200th Author - Crown Publishers, a division of Jury dot Com, Ltd., announced recently that it has signed up its 200th author. Crown's authors pen articles on subjects ranging from Arts & Entertainment to Writing and Speaking and provide soon-to-be-famous authors an internet forum. Crown Publishers is devoted to working with, enhancing the skills of and publishing up-and-coming authors who yearn to tell the world about themselves - and do that in their own words, and then publishing the resulting articles free-of-chare on its website. Charles Benninghoff, publisher of Crown Publishers, stated, "We invite authors to sign up as article contributors to enjoy worldwide exposure for your ideas. However, before submitting an article to our directory please read our guidelines.
  • Internet Authors aren't losers - Ask the majority of so-called 'gurus' to talk about business or self-improvement, and here's a funny thing. They start talking about sport. That's odd. Sport isn't the same as life. It's completely different. As Brian Tracey says, in sport you get three chances to hit the baseball and then you're out, but in life you can go up to the mound as many times as you've got the energy and the inclination, try hitting the ball, miss and still keep coming back for more. Or, to be precise, keep on swinging until you hit the home run. That's not allowed in the actual sport. They're very strict. Three strikes and you're out.
  • Ten Things Rookie Authors Do To Mess Up Their Non-Fiction Book Success - First time authors just don't know what they don't know. Learn and be better prepared to maximize your potential for book sales and publishing success. Here are the top ten things we find that are most likely to sabotage that first book effort: 1. No book development, publishing and market planning – Rookie authors believe they must run when the creative muse calls and ignore the reality of what it really takes to successfully write, publish and market a book. If you want to write a journal or a blog, then keep going down that path.
  • Internet Authors aren't Dummies - There are plenty of people out there who've written a book. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you've thought of trying to get it published, (not on the internet, but with a real, live, bricks-and-mortar publisher). OK. First step? You need advice.
  • Building Your Marketing Team - Spending money on marketing is never easy, but it's worse when you hire a marketing team and don't understand how to work with them.
  • Internet Authors are Market Traders - Picture the scene. You jump into your car and drive out to the nearest supermarket, maybe part of the local shopping mall. As you drive in through the gate of the car park, you notice a number of scruffy market stalls on the roadway outside the store. Who are these people?
  • What Is An Article Directory? - The easiest way to explain what an article directory is - it is a website where authors from all over the world submit their articles on a massive range of topics on one site. Now, I can imagine you thinking - why would these authors do this? Why give away free content to a website? Well there are two main reasons, the first being self-promotion. Think of it this way: you have a small business with a website. As an example, let’s imagine you are a professional dog groomer.
  • Defining Your Audience and Positioning Your Book Is Critical for Success - The more clearly you can define your audience-and identify their precise needs-the better you are positioned to develop a book and create sales pieces that address those needs.
  • Three Myths About New York Publishers - As I travel the country speaking to writer's groups in workshops and seminars, I'm struck by the amount of misinformation that is floating around. Having spent 25-years working for two of the largest publishers in the world, I thought it would be important to set the record straight and write about three of the most common myths. It's not about who published your book, but will it make money First, there seems to be this impression that if an author publishes with a print-on-demand company – or god forbid self-publish their own manuscript – the big publishers will never be interested in their book. This is wrong! The fact is that the biggest companies in the world are focused on making money.
  • Three Rules Of Publishing - The business of publishing is old world, mature, and has changed only incrementally over the past fifty years. One thing that can be said about publishing is that the biggest companies lead and the rest tend to follow.
  • Blind Author Coaches Aspiring Authors - New authors may believe that if their book is published in New York, they will not need to do much more than have a website in order to market their book. The truth is that anyone who writes a book will need to do the majority of the marketing, whether the book is self produced or published by a small press or a large New York publisher.
  • The Five Key Marketing Elements Critical to Publisher Interest in a Nonfiction Book - The author's platform is her established audience following and the way to reach readers through a large database, syndicated radio show, national television show, magazine column, large and well-known company—in other words, name recognition on a large scale. The larger your platform, the easier it is to find a publisher and sell larger quantities of books. You now have an avenue for getting yourself recognized as an author. Further, you have a way of influencing people to buy your book because they already listen to you.
  • Internet Authors don't need money - Perhaps the biggest surprise to all would-be writers and first-time authors is that they don't need to spend a pile of money to see their brand new book get into print. You can do it through the internet these days for practically nothing, probably for not more than the price of each book itself. Look at it another way: most aspiring authors imagine that one day they can go into their local bookshop and see their own books up there, on the shelves, alongside all the other great and famous people. Then, taking a book down, they would probably march up to the counter and proudly say, 'I'll take this, please. After all, I wrote it'. Then you pay.
  • Seven Things Authors Must Know to Be Successful - Publishing is a very competitive business and the choices for getting a manuscript into print are numerous. Everyone who writes has to make a decision on what's best for them and their manuscript or book, but the decision should be based on their personal goals and not what someone else is trying to sell you. There are plenty of so-called "experts" who only have themselves in mind, so choose wisely and keep in mind these seven crucial points. First: Publishing and marketing of books is a business. It's about making money and the last thing you want as an author is to have the "experts" taking money out of your pocket selling you products and services that can't hold water in the marketplace for bookselling.
  • Discover a New Platform to Sell Your Ebooks From - If you are an eBook author selling your own eBooks, or you are selling eBooks written by someone else, are you taking advantage of all the available places you can market your eBooks online? You do not even NEED to be an author.
  • Return On Investment of a Non-Fiction Book to the Author - A soft cover book, perhaps 6" x 9" or other industry standard size for a trade paperback would be priced retail anywhere from $12 to $30 for consumer distribution, up to $50 for a professional book, and even higher for a textbook.
  • The Road from Completed Book Manuscript to Publication - Books published by New York publishing houses tend to garner a higher degree of respect than those published outside of the Big Apple.
  • The 7 Biggest Opportunities for the Virtual Assistant as an Author's Assistant - The occupation of the author's assistant has been around for at least two hundred years, but it has taken on new meaning and relevance over the past few years with...
  • Join The Fight To Give Self-publishers An Even Playing Field - Are you a self-published author who is tired of getting the door slammed in your face by reviewers, contests, conferences and more just because your books aren't published by a traditional publisher? Join the club!

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