Here’s a gift that’s perfect for small business owners, a nonprofit that needs publicity, authors who want to sell more books, or anyone who wants to self-promote on a shoestring budget and without an expensive publicist.
It’s “The Best of The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2014,” an ebook that includes 26 tips from my popular email newsletter. I’ve been offering this ebook as a holiday gift for the last several years, and my subscribers love it because almost all the tips, tricks and tools are free, and the ebook is a helpful reminder of promotion they might have put off earlier this year.
Download the ebook, or use the handy app we created, by clicking on the links in red, below.
When sharing it, use this link which will lead people right over to this blog post: http://PublicityHound.com/bestof2014 (you can’t download the book from this link, which leads right back to this blog post. Look for the download instructions in large type, below.)
This year’s ebook has a special emphasis on book publishing, marketing and publicity. The ease of publishing means more authors will be facing stiffer competition online and offline to sell print books and ebooks. Read my pointers on how to sell a truckload.
Here’s what you’ll find in my free ebook:
Book Publishing, Marketing and Publicity
—Where to find a helpful list of 39 places to promote your books for free, including erotica and books for kids.
—The three most important groups of people to send requests to review your book.
—5 ways to use animated GIFs for publicity on Pinterest.
—Where to find 15 tips for marketing your book for less than a dollar.
—A fun, free idea for promoting your ebook and attracting attention galore on your Facebook page.
—Where to find 12 digital publishing tools the experts, including me, recommend.
—How to find book reviewers on LinkedIn.
—What to do, and not do, if someone gives your book a one-star review.
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The “Best of” Mobile App
This is “The Best of the Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2014”, delivered to your mobile device. This is an app you can download to your smartphone or tablet so you can keep the ebook at your fingertips!
Problems accessing the book? Email my assistant, Christine Buffaloe, at Chris@SerenityVA.com
Make Money While Self-promoting
—9 reasons you should use crowdfunding, a way to get financial help from friends and strangers, to fund marketing your book or any other project.
—How you can make money from your blog by using the same simple tool used by a blogger and freelance writer for prestigious publications like Wired UK, The Atlantic and the New York Times.
—Why lots of website visitors aren’t completing your annoying “Contact” form and, instead, doing business with one of your competitors.
—How to take better product photos for your website and press releases, and drive more sales.
Radio Publicity
—The one word you should never use if you’re being interviewed on a radio talk show.
—What you need to know before you pitch multiple shows on National Public Radio.
—A directory of paid listings that radio show hosts, TV talks shows and newspaper and magazine journalists use to find expert sources and guests.
Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn
—Where to find almost three dozen killer Facebook tips, most of which are free.
—How Pinterest can pull traffic and give you excellent search ranking, even if your topic is dull, academic, yucky or difficult to illustrate.
Free Tools
—The free online tool that will analyze your press releases, blog posts, articles and any other type of writing and tell you how to improve it. It’s a digital editor, and the closest I’ve seen to a human editor.
Pitching an Idea
—One of the very best ways to pitch top-tier media when they won’t take your phone calls. (No, it isn’t email.)
—How to make a journalist to say “yes” to your pitch by doing what 9 out of 10 other people who are pitching don’t do.
—The one thing magazine editors say you must have if you want publicity for a new product (they are begging for this).
—5 reasons you should follow up pitches to journalists and bloggers, even if they tell you they don’t want follow-ups.
—How to use “before and after photos” in a publicity campaign, a super idea for nonprofits and small business owners.
Click on the book to download the free ebook
Click on the phone to add the app!
The “Best of” Mobile App
This is “The Best of the Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2014”, delivered to your mobile device. This is an app you can download to your smartphone or tablet so you can keep the ebook at your fingertips!
Problems accessing the book? Email my assistant, Christine Buffaloe, at Chris@SerenityVA.com
Blogging
—6 reasons why blogs won’t die, and the most important reason you should be blogging.
Finding Your Target Market
—3 places where your target market hangs out online and can use someone with your expertise.
—A brain-teaser that will show you exactly how well you know your target market.
Let me know if you like the ebook and have used any of the tips. The Comments section awaits….
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Click on the book to download the free ebook
Click on the phone to add the app!
The “Best of” Mobile App
This is “The Best of the Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2014”, delivered to your mobile device. This is an app you can download to your smartphone or tablet so you can keep the ebook at your fingertips!
Problems accessing the book? Email my assistant, Christine Buffaloe, at Chris@SerenityVA.com
Joan-
Thank you so much for the wonderful gift of your 2014 Tips of the Week. I have saved many of your posts, but it’s so handy to have them compiled like this. You’re the best! You really go out of your way for your subscribers.
Thank you again,
Melissa L. Gill
Thanks for being one of my Publicity Hounds, Melissa. I wish you the best success in 2015 and beyond.
Melissa, thanks for your kind words. The ebook is a big hit with readers because the like being reminded of things they meant to do but might have put off and forgotten about.
Thanks so much Joan! I look forward to applying what I am about to learn!
Hugs & woofs & meows to you too!
Viveca
Return here after you’ve used some of the tips, Viveca, and let us know what worked for you. Good luck with your promotions!
Joan,
The only discussion I have ever heard about you is that you are helpful, kind, selfless, patient and a wonderful friend and colleague. And the work you produce fits in with the appropriate compliments. I am pleased and honored to know you, and work with you, and hope to do more of that this coming year. Here’s to an abundant and over the top 2015.
Warmest Regards to you and your family,
Raleigh R. Pinskey