Archive for the ‘Online PR’ Category


20-Minute Book Marketing Podcast: Joan Stewart on Selling Books on Goodreads

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Listen in as Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound, as she talks about how authors can make maximum use of the book reader social network known as GoodReads.com. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Goodreads for Book Authors 1. Why are you so excited about Goodreads for authors who want publicity? Goodreads.com is a good [...]

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20-Minute Book Marketing Podcast: Dianne de Las Casas on Creating a Movement

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Listen in as Dianne de Las Casas talks about her original promotion of Picture Book Month in November – and how to create a movement. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] During Dianne’s promotion of the first Picture Book Month last November, the month-long event was featured on Oprah.com and HuffingtonPost.com as well as [...]

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Book Author Success Story: Getting Reviews From the Right People

Guest post by Gueh Yanting One of the best marketing strategies I’d made when launching my first picture e-book, My Clearest Me, was asking for reviews. Specifically, it was asking for reviews from the right people. My Clearest Me is a picture e-book for quiet and shy children. So I sought reviews from children’s books [...]

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Google Page One and Alexa Boost Services

Over the years, I’ve learned how to get page one Google rankings for many keyword phrases. You can see the proof here: http://www.bookmarket.com/bookranks.htm for a ton of book marketing and book publishing terms. But to prove it’s not a fluke of my book marketing specialty, here are a number of more general terms that I’ve [...]

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