Free Advice Friday

How to create a new edition or a revised edition?

How do I tell the difference between traditionally published books and self published book?

Recording audio books

Setting up pre-orders

The best day for a book to drop

What steps did Amy take to be an influencer?

Ways to generate money for advertising with the book

What's the latest trend for trim size?

How can we promote our outdoor events?

What are some good types of events that were and authors and experts create?

When you have a release date for your book, is it okay to sell or give away copies before that date?

Bob Eckstein is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer whose work frequently appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and MAD magazine. He is the author of Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores and, most recently, The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons

We discover how Bob got his first book deal and more.

Find Bob at http://bobeckstein.com/

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel

Author Q and A's as a marketing Tactic?

Do I need to pay for skype?

how we to have both free content and paid content

How much money and time should you be budgeting towards what areas of marketing?

When is a good time to start an author or a book landing page?

Return policies

Best elements for books trailers

How many Proofreaders do you need?

Recording your audio book

millennials and libraries

Book Covers

How much profit per book?

Marketing with Libraries

can you put only your book cover on KTP while finishing the book with an editor and set your release date or does the full book need to be out on Amazon before the pre release date?

Tax write offs

how do we find bloggers and blog sites for a blog tour of your book?

I understand that you can't have different prices on different platforms, but is it okay to sell your book cheaper on your website?

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel

Getting book into libraries

Kirkus review is a worthwhile investment.

Contacting a warm list to say your book is for sale cheaper than Amazon

YouTube as an advertising tool

Free Facebook Groups

Real Fast Library Course

realfastlibrarymarketing.com/amy

Auto Pilot Marketing

Is pricing too low hurting your brand?

How Facebook live work?

How do you plan out a marketing year?

How to do a contest outside of Facebook?

what are some ways that you would recommend to build a platform and audience?

Do you know of a software that would allow me to send people to  a link but then expire the link?

Is there a preferred or a suggested price for a children's paperback book?

The insider program

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel

How do you build the platform one for marketing too

Formats for book covers

What resources are there for being able to find a book printer and getting print quotes?

Using Social Media for your book

Setting up time for marketing

Set it and forget it marketing

Getting Reviews

How To Get Your Old Edition Removed From Amazon

Writing the perfect bio for a nonfiction author

How to keep your reviews while releasing a new edition

What is going on with libraries and ebooks from the major publishers

How to find conferences to speak yet

Kindle Direct discussion

If she has a book on Amazon by one independent publisher, can you use my services?

Does getting published vs self publishing give you a leg up?

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel

If you change your book cover, does you need a new ISBNs and a new catalog block

bookbub overview

How to test marketing ideas on a small scale before investing larger amounts

How do people add books that are not yet at the library?

Time, money, talent, pick any two

Do you include all the ISBN on a copyright page?

Revising a book percentages?

I'm not seeing any money from Ingram spark and she knows that books are selling.

Trina is saying she has an agent interested in her manuscript and the agent saw the proposal, the manuscript is done, but the agent is not responded to her last two notes to see if she wanted to see the completed manuscript.

What things should be in place before launching a marketing campaign?

Mentioned in This Episode

partners.bookbub.com

janefreeman.com

www.newshelves.com/blog

bestsellervideo.com

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel

Should I pay to have my book at a conference?

Working with Virtual assistants

How to pick the size of your book

Free places to promote your book

How to get your book ready for the Christmas season

The first step in preparing her book for publishing in preparing the book

Promoting a 99 cent book

www.newshelves.com/blog - complete list of conferences

www.bookbub.com

Amy's Resources

www.newshelves.com

bestsellerbuilders.com/insider

Amy's YouTube Channel