How To Get Rid of That Song Stuck in Your Head

Blogs, Social Networks and the Internet in general are great for spreading a meme

While reading the history of mememtic theory, I found a link to a Mark Twain story.

If you have ever had a song stuck in your head, you'll like his cure found in this post that includes the entire story.

Authors Must Know This for 2008

Authors ask me to give them one easy quick and inexpensive way to sell books online.

Until now, I sold an fairly expensive solution.. teaching you everything you need to know.

By now there is a simpler way.. and if you act now it's FREE

Giving Away Marketing Resources for Authors

Seems I spend most of my day dreaming up ways to give stuff away.

I'd say it's a fun job.. but I can hardly call it work.. more like "my life's bliss"

This morning, I started a new project over at Squidoo.com. When looking for a name, I thought "hey why not call it "free-book-marketing" and just make everything free there?"

So I did

http://BestSellerAuthors.com/squidoo

If you have a resource you think I should add, let me know. I'll be adding a lot more soon.

But first, go sign up free and grab a cool link.. there are many topics still available.

Then watch this space for tips and idea on how authors can market books on Squidoo.

I suggest every author, publisher and business get a Squidoo "lens"

Authors Get New Readers Using Blog Tags for Book Marketing

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Guest Posting Secrets - How to Get Published on an A-List Blog by Blog Perfume

Choosing where to guest post

Make a short-list of popular sites likely to be visited by your target audience. Rather than aiming for the top of your niche straight away, you might want to try to be published on the second or third most popular site, just so you have somewhere to go once you succeed.
Guest Posting Secrets - How to Get Published on an A-List Blog by Blog Perfume

Why you'll finally use LinkedIn

Every author should have a LinkedIn account

If you don't.. please read this and then get signed up.

Why you'll finally use LinkedIn

Be sure to add me as a contact

http://linkedin.com/in/books

Why you want to have a book Squidoo Lens

Here's a 3 way cross promotion that is chocked full of goodies

1) MindBites is promoting Squidoo for free promotion of their expertise:

"You should share what you know with the world because it will enrich your life,
enrich someone else's life and earn money while sharing your passion. Something
that you are very skilled at or something that you have been professionally
trained to do is worth sharing with other people. MindBites makes it easy for
you to upload your own 'how to' video and post it up for sale."

2) They used a great example of a cheaply made video that has great information that you can use plus a very fun song about cheese. Watch and learn now.



You can also upload videos the way I do using http://authorsvideo.com/
3) They are also promotion Squidoo (where every author should have a book lens)

And thanks to the power of blogging, I am promoting my tips about promotion by telling you about this and placing a comment on their Squidoo lens.

You can easily do the same. Just find something cool, comment and talk about it on your blog.

And be sure to put a comment here to let us know what you are up to.

Let's Grow Together Next Year

Ross Goldberg called and asked me to share my best new strategies for sending a book to the best seller's list, selling books, and attract more readers in 2008.

When I saw this line up.. I knew I had to be there

http://growyourwebprofits.com/

Come to Las Vegas and let's take your online business to the next level next year.

A Game for Authors Who Want to Sell Books Online

There are two reasons you should see this site:

http://www.webasagame.com/

1) The topic.. You get just what you need to get up and running on Digg, YouTube, and Facebook (and every author should have account on each)

2) The book is a free ebook from posted using Lulu.com.

The book won't win any award for writing or presentation.. but it's a quick read, and exactly what you need if you aren't using all three of the above.

I came up with 3 new ideas while reading and will soon post a video, tell my friends on Facebook, and hope they DIGG it.

Post a comment here (you can DIGG too) and tell me how you are using social networking to promote your book.

How effective are the ads on social networks?

As it stands, Facebook does not know all that much about us, and the ads that we are shown are not relevant as a result. The jury is still out on whether social networks can get big via highly targeted advertising. Early trials have shown that CPC is not a likely route and CPM plays are just not as interesting. Yet, Facebook is certainly very aggressively pushing for monetization, likely in preparation for a future IPO. Will they be able to turn it all around and re-invent contextual advertising? The company is full of brilliant people so it's certainly possible, but so far it does not look impressive.

Forbes.com: Technology 2

Which Social Network Should I Use To Promote My Book?

Many authors have tried one or more of the social networks and felt it was a waste of time.

Maybe it was the wrong network?:

Social Networks Study Released - MySpace & Facebook Are Different After All!

Whichever you choose, you need to plan on spending a little time building a base to your following.. inviting friends and participating as much as you can to learn the system and make the initial connections.

Which is best?

Depends on your book/topic. However, I look at it like any marketing problem.. I go where the readers are.. test the promising ones and keep the ones that work.

One things is certain. Moving forward, you should have a presence on at least some of these networks