Blog by Zhana, author of Write Your Book in Two Days and Success Strategies for Black People. Information and tips for writers and authors to help you to write and publish your work.
These blogs promote the healing of the planet and focus on the healing and upliftment of African people and, everything that contributes to this - books, films, Black history, Black health, Black business and more.
Zhana is a modern griot, writer, publisher and Transformational Growth Consultant. Author of Black Success Stories and Success Strategies for Black People, as well as The Key to Everything and What They Don't Want Us to Know. Editor of the More Black Success ebooks.
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In this video, Derek Murphy describes his strategies on how to get reviews, including how to ask for reviews without asking for reviews.
What is the relationship between pricing, freebies, sales and reviews? How can you get higher quality reviews? Derek Murphy shares some of his experiences.
This is a great video from Joanna Penn of the Creative Penn podcast and blog on how to get reviews.
It's very important to get reviews for your book, especially for indie authors. Not all book reviews need to come in during the first week of publication. It can be useful to have a long-term book review strategy.
The members of your street team are some of the best people to review your books. Go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius, for more about how to build your street team and get them to review your book. Please comment below and please share this with your networks. Thanks!
Who are the best people to review your book? Which members of your audience are most likely to be willing to read and review your book? Check out this film to find out.
What strategies do you use to get book reviews?
The members of your street team are some of the best people to review your books. Go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius, for more about how to build your street team and get them to review your book. Please comment below and please share this with your networks. Thanks!
Here's another great blog post from John Kremer: Double Your Book Sales. One thing I particularly enjoy about John Kremer's work is that his suggestions are always practical - practical methods we can implement TODAY to market our books. Practical steps we can take TODAY. For my interview with book marketing genius John Kremer, go here to download my FREE ebook Book Marketing Genius now. Book Marketing Genius gives step-by-step instructions on how to build your author street team.
You
may have seen The
Big Short,
the movie with Brad Pitt. The movie is great, but, I promise you,
the book is even better.
The
Big Short
charts the months leading up to the 2008 financial crash – from the
point of view of people who predicted the crash, and profited from
it.
If
you ever wondered what, exactly, caused the crash, this book makes it
very clear in a way that's both easily understandable and, in fact,
funny. It will put a smile on your face and may even make you laugh
out loud.
The
author, Michael Lewis, manages to make what you may see as a dry
subject engaging and entertaining. He achieves this largely through drawing short but very effective portraits of each character.
The
Big Short describesa handful of people in the world of high finance who could see
what was coming. They (probably) weren't psychic, they just paid
attention. Their colleagues and wives (these experts were all male)
thought they were crazy. Nobody wanted to get on board with their
predictions, but, somehow, they managed to find each other, and to
come up with different ways to profit from the situation.
For
example, Michael Burry auto-enrolled his finance clients in his vehicle. He had created this vehicle specifically in
order to bet against the market. He was paying huge insurance fees
every month but, when he hit, he hit big. He, and all of his
clients, made enough money to keep them and their families for
generations to come.
Have
you ever read a book that's so good you never want it to finish?
That's how I feel about The
Big Short.
I keep putting it down and picking it back up again a few months
later. As a result, I have read – and enjoyed - some parts over
and over again.
Thus,
I have come to understand, in a certain amount of detail, exactly how
and why the 2008 crash happened.
It
was a combination of greed, stupidity and hubris
– the belief on the part of those who manipulated the financial
markets that they were right, no matter what.
As
I said, I never wanted this book to end. But we all know how it
ended. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes, and people –
like you and me – had to endure years of austerity. For example,
government cuts, reductions in services for the elderly and the
disabled and, certainly in the UK, cuts to the health service. And
some financial services had to accept that they were not “too big
to fail”. Meanwhile, the rich continue to get richer.
If
you want to understand how, read this book.
And
bear in mind, this can all happen again.
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My FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius, gives step-by-step instructions on how to build your street team. Plus my interview with book marketing genius John Kremer. Go here to download Book Marketing Genius now.
This blog post explores the ways that many successful authors
strategically use the world of blogging to advance their brand and
promote a book.
Actually, I did not find this article particularly useful. Having said that, befriending bloggers is often recommended, and I'm sure this is excellent advice.
I would love to know your experiences with blogging as an author. Please leave your comments below and please share this with your networks. Thanks. Your street team is part launch team, part focus group, part fan club for your books. Your street team can help you by providing blog posts, reviews and testimonials. Go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius. It gives step-by-step instructions on how to build your street team.
I tend to be a pantser rather than a plotter. Pantsers fly by the seats of our pants. There are inherent drawbacks as well as rewards for using this method. Rewards include the joy of discovery and the freedom to change things. However, I am starting to explore plotting. Plotting feels like a straitjacket to me, but Plotters tend to write a lot more books, and this definitely interests me! Go here for this great blog post on Building a Better Novel. She breaks it down into logical steps. And remember, you can always change the narrative if it's not working for you. Your street team can help you to write your book, and to market it afterwards. For more about how to build your street team, go here to download Book Marketing Genius. Subscribe to this blog for more great tips and information. Plus go here for my Facebook page, Writers' Secrets. Please add your comments below and please share this with your networks. Thanks.
As authors, we need testimonials. They are an important way to attract readers.
So how can we get testimonials? One way is to ask your street team to give you testimonials and/or reviews. Go here to download my FREE ebook, Book Marketing Genius. It gives step-by-step details as how to grow and develop your street team.
