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Email List Building: The Slides

November 15, 2015 by DKudler

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Saturday's session with Joel Friedlander on the subject of the whys and hows of creating an email list was terrific! Not a surprise to any of us who know Joel. Joel has kindly shared the slides with BAIPA. Click on the image below to download the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, Book Promotion, marketing, publicity, self-publishing Tagged With: author platform, BAIPA, BAIPA events, book marketing, independent publishing, PDF, presentation slides, publicity, self-publishing

6 Reasons You Need to Be on Goodreads

June 15, 2015 by DKudler

At this past Saturday's BAIPA meeting, I led a roundtable about the reasons that every independent author and publisher (as well as every “dependent” author) needed to have an active presence on Goodreads.com. It was one of three roundtable sessions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, BAIPA News, Book Promotion, marketing, publicity, self-publishing, tips, website Tagged With: author platform, BAIPA, book marketing, book reviews, David Kudler, Goodreads, marketing, review sites, self-publishers, self-publishing, social media, workshop

David Kudler's Do-It-Yourself Book Marketing Tips

March 24, 2015 by DKudler

Every author wants to know how to get the word out about his or her book—and most are frightened that it’s going to cost an arm and a leg. To be honest, the most effective marketing that an author can do doesn’t involve paying money—just lots and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, marketing, publicity, tips Tagged With: author platform, book marketing, David Kudler, social media

Make Your Own News

May 26, 2013 by Jeffrey Samorano

Make Your Own News If you are looking to build your status as an expert and build your author platform, write and publish a news release every week. It can be an article about you, your expertise, an aspect of your book, the research you did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, publicity, tips Tagged With: author platform, expert, news release, pr, press release, publicity, story

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