benefits of organic traffic for authors
Selling eBooks and Media

The Benefits of Organic Traffic for Authors

You may have heard of doing work to ensure better ‘organic’ traffic on Google, i.e. natural, unpaid traffic. There are certainly many benefits for book authors to capitalise on SEO for their book or author website. (Though this article is not about search engine optimisation).People will generally find your website through a combination of their remembering your author name and/or book title. An especially rare keyword might also work.Google isn’t the only source of free visitors; there is also Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. However, these folk mostly won’t click through to your website to find out more. Happy as a clam on FB or Instagram, they often don’t move from that spot.Whereas, with a Google search, many will click on the top three ‘organic’ spots… unless there is the answer right on the search results page. (An informational search).As…
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ramp up a personal brand with new AI tools

How to Ramp Up a Personal Brand with Canva’s New AI Tools

Why Canva? Well, 16 million paying subscribers and 150 million free monthly users believe it’s the tool that will make their content marketing sing. Some of us (like me) also use it to make workbooks, business cards, brochures or beautiful pitch decks.Canva can be used for anything visual, and that’s why it’s great for promoting books.I have already done plenty of mockups with my book cover in different variants. For my personal profile on Facebook, Magic Edit replaced a boring background with blue and gold balloons. It used to take hours in Photoshop to do what’s now done in a click or two.Now there are 10 more AI tools, some of which could be handy for authors:Magic Switch: Like Re-size on steroids, Switch converts your design into a range of formats with one click. For example, you could turn a slide…
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contributing articles guide

Influential Author: A Contributing Articles Guide

In this series, I hope to give you some ideas for contributing articles to magazines and other places like major blogs, newswires or news platforms. When time is short, you must only work on what matters. So, select the magazines and sites that already have a following, one who may be interested in your work.As well, think of your friends in business who may have blogs or Instagram followings, and on top of this, add podcast guesting or local magazine columns.One way to manage this is to have a master spreadsheet. I use Google Sheets for sorting out list of partners for marketing, places to post, and lists of niche bloggers.I know it takes a long time to find these lists of niche blogs and magazine editors, so another idea is joining in with another author or two in your…
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find book audience

Find your Book’s Ideal Audience

Many of us want to write a good quality book for the right audience… but what kind of audience is right for us? The truth is, if we can narrow down our audience and understand the depth of the pain problems and desires, then we can write a book that resonates deeply with them.I like to give some support on these areas and so have a brief video in the Book Creation Success course on competitive research. Independently, you can go along to Amazon and with ‘Amazon Suggest’ you can see what types of keywords people are typing in to find your area.You need to have a competitive overview of your marketplace and the key bestsellers in your niche.Then you can do some further research on BuzzSumo (free account, 10 searches) or SparkToro (free account) to get clearer on what…
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Smart Marketing for Indie Authors Review
Book Marketing, Book reviews

Smart Marketing for Indie Authors: My Review

Mike Kowis is mostly like us: an Indie Author who put heart, soul and $5,000 into his first book, one of a few. That number was just the marketing part, by the way. The reason I liked ‘Smart Marketing for Indie Authors‘ is because he goes through each marketing tactic with pros and cons, a rating from his experience, insider tips and supreme attention to detail.His honesty level is admirable in the chapter “What not to do”, all of which are going to save you time and cash, as it is throughout the book.“No amount of marketing will help if your book is filled with grammar and spelling errors… or your cover is unprofessional”.– Mike KowisBook Marketing TacticsCherry-Picked Book Marketing Tactics by MikeSome of the main areas I liked are covered below, but there are hundreds of other points.Create a…
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Author-First marketing

Author-First Book Marketing: First 4 Tips

Having a foundation in online book marketing makes a difference to any author’s ability to succeed in the market.With an Author-first approach, it’s making sure you and your brand goes out into the world. Many of you will have a coaching, consulting or a particular business in the background and with this approach, it’s going to have the most effect.The first three times I published, I had zero brand and no real connection to ‘me’.  The next time I published, I went hard on research and achieved some relevance by adding my own case study experiences (and supplier details) to the book.If I could start again, I would make all my books talk to the one audience, even if on a number of different topics.  Well, I guess it’s never too late to start over!1. Start marketing earlyIt’s also never…
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