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RED HOT INTERNET PUBLICITY: An Insider's Guide to Promoting Your Book on the Internet
Penny C. Sansevieri
$17.05

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DISCOVER... · 6 need-to-know rules of publicity for the Internet age · The best way to design, write, and promote a website to sell your book · 12 blockbuster techniques to use blogs for book publicity · Proven "live promotion" techniques you can use to reach a worldwide audience, and much more.

The Internet has changed the landscape of book publishing forever, which is why leading New York book publishers hire Penny Sansevieri to mentor their own publicity staff. It's also why these major publishers routinely recommend Penny to their authors as a top Internet publicist."

Penny made one of her own books an Amazon bestseller for three months running. She's the inventor of the Virtual Book Tour(tm) and is a leading expert on using the Internet to promote books of all kinds. No ivory-tower theorist, she is a hands-on visionary with her feet on the ground and her eyes on the prize.

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Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking
Steve Weber
$16.89

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Get massive exposure for your book, no special computer skills needed -- trade published or self published, fiction or nonfiction

Discover why authors fail with paid advertising, pay-per-click, fee-based reviews, and "bestseller" campaigns

Blog to connect with readers, driving them to Amazon and bookstores

Boost your visibility with Google, use MySpace for viral marketing

Ignite word of mouth with Web social networks

Capitalize on peer content and "amateur" book reviews

Here's what the experts say about this book:

"A wealth of ideas for making your book stand out, including many techniques for Internet buzz you won't find elsewhere."

-- Jane Corn, Amazon.com Top Reviewer

"I spent two years building up skills to market my books Earthcore and Ancestor online, and I can tell you right now that Plug Your Book would have saved me MONTHS of time. I bought this book just to make sure I wasn't missing anything, but it blew me away."

-- Scott Sigler, # 1 bestselling author

"An amazingly rich collection of cutting-edge promotional tactics and strategies. Makes most other books about online publicity look sickly."

-- Aaron Shepard, author: Aiming at Amazon

"...The one book every author needs to read. I don't care if you're writing a computer book, a science fiction novel or the next great self-help guide, you need to get copy of Steve Weber's Plug Your Book!"

- Joe Wikert, executive publisher, John Wiley & Sons "Practical, pragmatic, low-cost ideas for promoting the heck out of your own book, whether it's fiction, nonfiction, technical, business or anything else."

-- Dave Taylor, author: 'Growing Your Business with Google'

"I've worked with most of America's largest book publishers, helping many of them build online marketing departments. I've worked for authors too. Plug Your Book is the new training manual."

-- Steve O'Keefe, author: 'Publicity on the Internet'

"...Plug Your Book reveals the most effective and least expensive tools to promote your titles and to increase your exposure. It's the best book on online marketing I have ever read, and I read quite a few in the course of my consulting practice with small presses."

-- Marion Gropen, president, Gropen Associates

Here's what's inside the book:

... Taking control of your book sales; Electric word of mouth; Amazon's `long tail;' Personalized bookstores; Book recommendation effectiveness

... Amazon Bestseller Campaigns; How Bestseller Campaigns work; Haywired recommendations

... Amateur book reviews; Credibility through peers; Amazon Top Reviewers; Negative reviews; Posting trade reviews on Amazon; Fee-based book reviews

... Building your author Web site; A survey of author Web sites; Your online press kit; Multimedia for books; Podcasting for publicity; When to launch your site

... Blogging for authors; Connecting with readers; Blog comments: pros and cons; Blogging categories; Over the long haul; Blog-to-e-mail service

... Social networking; MySpace: Not just for kids; Facebook; Create your own group; Other places on MySpace; More social-networking sites

... Tag - You're it!; Personal book tagging; Amazon tags; Amazon Media Library; LibraryThing; Tag-based marketing

... Advanced Amazon tools; Buy X, Get Y; Free paired placement; Single New Product e-mails; Amazon Connect; Listmania; So You'd Like to . . . guides; Search Inside the Book; Statistically Improbable Phrases; Writing book reviews; Amapedia; Customer discussions; BookSurge; Your Amazon profile

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Fine Art Publicity, 2nd Edition: The Complete Guide for Artists, Galleries, and Museums (Business and Legal Forms)
Susan Abbott
$11.22

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This savvy resource helps artists and art professionals generate the publicity that keeps their artwork and business in the public spotlight. Provided are practical tools for attracting the media's attention and building bridges between artists, their galleries, and collectors, and between museums and their audiences. This new edition provides the latest word on new art markets; how to research the Internet, build a Website, and launch e-mail publicity campaigns.

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The Savvy Author's Guide to Book Publicity
Lissa Warren
$3.50

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Here is the essential reerence for writers-from the self-published to those published by major houses-written by a leading book publicist who pitches books to media every day of her working life. Each chapter details what happens to a book once it's off press, and how authors can be helpful in the promotion process-or even spearhead it if need be-to get the coverage their books deserve.

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Folding Patterns for Display & Publicity (Agile Rabbit Editions)
$15.00

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Packaging is an important factor in any retail environment and a key element in most marketing strategies. Consumers react immediately to package shapes, and are influenced by them when making buying decisions. Different product categories are often easy to recognize by their characteristic form, for example chocolate boxes or milk cartons. On the other hand, a manufacturer of an exclusive product, such as jewellery or perfume, may deliberately choose an unusual, eye-catching form. How to Fold and Folding Patterns for Display and Publicity are unique step-by-step manuals, containing hundreds of great folding ideas and ready-to-use designs. These books are essential tools for anyone involved in the fields of graphic and industrial design, advertising, and printing. All patterns are stored in eps vector format on the enclosed CD-ROMs. They may be used freely to create new designs, and can be scaled and modified to suit any conceivable purpose.

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Guerrilla Publicity: Hundreds of Sure-Fire Tactics to Get Maximum Sales for Minimum Dollars
Jill Lublin
$2.21

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When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, its edgy approach helped it shoot to the top of bestseller lists. The book was a breakthrough for small businesses and has since yielded several classics bearing the immediately recognizable, Guerrilla name.

Now, at long last, Jay Conrad Levinson has teamed up with two high-profile PR execs - Rick Frishman and Jill Lublin - to produce GUERRILLA PUBLICITY: Hundreds of sure-fire tactics to get maximum sales for minimum dollars

The PR bible for a new decade. The book lays out an aggressive plan for learning how to build publicity campaigns from the inside out, zeroing in on a targeted market and infusing a marketing plan with publicity hooks.

This powerhouse work also includes:

Inside information on how to make friends in the media

Simple ways to get others to spread the company's message

Sample press releases and media kits-"Guerrilla" style

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Complete Publicity Plans: How to Create Publicity That Will Spark Media Exposure and Excitement (Adams Streetwise Series)
Sandra L. Beckwith
$23.88

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All business owners want to garner publicity for themselves, their products, and their organizations. So how do you create distinctive materials and more importantly—the buzz that sets you apart from the competition? Award-winning publicist Sandra Beckwith goes beyond other PR primers to not only show the mechanics of writing pitch letters and publicity kits, but also how to strategically create a PR plan for your business.

Streetwise® Complete Publicity Plans is filled with sample forms, resources, and great ideas that you can use right away:

·Press releases
·Pitch letters
·Press kits
·Op-eds and public service announcements
·Sample editorial calendars and media checklists

Target Your Approach, Get Results

·Different types of media exposure—and which is best for your business
·How to tailor PR plans for trade vs. consumer media
·Dealing with print vs. electronic media
·What is—and isn’t—newsworthy

Reaching the Right People

·Determine your audience
·Reach diverse communities
·Building relationships with the press
·Media directories

Executing Your Plan

·Staying within budget
·Managing schedules and timelines
·Hiring outside help

Quantify Your Results

·Track new clients or product sales
·Jumpstart a stalled publicity campaign
·Refine your media base
·Justify your effort

Streetwise® Complete Publicity Plans doesn’t just show you how to put a plan together, it enables you to maximize results!

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Publicity: 7 Steps to Publicize Just About Anything
David Carriere
$3.97

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Generating publicity is a journey that requires persistence as well as proper planning. In Publicity, veteran publicist David Carriere guides readers through the sometimes mysterious and often intimidating process of generating publicity while spelling out the details needed to orchestrate a successful publicity campaign. With twenty years of experience, Carriere's seven-step program outlines everything needed to create a comprehensive, systematic, and efficient method to publicize just about anything, anywhere, anytime.

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Publicity for Nonprofits: Generating Media Exposure That Leads to Awareness, Growth, and Contributions
Sandra Beckwith
$12.98

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Guerrilla P.R. 2.0: Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign without Going Broke
Michael Levine
$8.62

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The world's most widely used and seminal introduction to public relations—now fully revised and updated for the 21st century with online strategies that work

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen knows that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. But if you're a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, it's unlikely that you have your own high-powered publicist.

Guerrilla P.R. 2.0 offers all the resources necessary to mount your own campaign and get the media exposure you need. In clear and concise language, Michael Levine, one of the top public relations counselors in the country, reveals the same procedures he uses every day to get press on major stars—and how those strategies can be utilized on little or no budget. You'll learn how to think like a publicist and map out the perfect strategy for success.