Book Marketing Success Podcast

John Kremer
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John Kremer share stories of real-life book authors who have marketed their books in innovative, fun, and money-making ways. He talks about bestseller strategies, licensing subsidiary rights, creating large Internet tribes, social networking for book sales and prestige, and ultimately selling a lot of books. These stories are short, sweet, practical, inspirational, and doable by any book author, whether a self-publisher, an author published by a big publisher, or a Kindle ebook author. You will love this show! Please subscribe now. Thanks. This Book Writing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire writers, book authors, novelists, poets, storytellers, and content creators of all sorts. It focuses on how and why to write a book. This Book Publishing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book publishers and self-publishers to edit, design, distribute, and promote the best books. This Book Marketing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book authors and publishers to do a better job publicizing, promoting, and marketing their books. I know at least 1001 Ways to Market Your Books! This Content Creation Podcast is designed to educate and inspire all content creators, including writers, bloggers, podcasters, videomakers, social media marketers, and internet marketers with new ideas and the latest promotional opportunities. bookmarketing.substack.com

  1. 3월 7일

    Lesson 2: On Writing Back Cover Copy

    First, a few notes from yesterday’s podcast episode. 1. The author of Power and Petroleum died shortly after I reviewed her back cover copy. Apparently her book was never published. 2. I write promo copy for all authors, no matter where they are on the political spectrum. My job is to write great copy for any author who hires me to copywrite for them. Here’s my copywriting on environmental policy and promotion: If you want people to be worried about global warming, don't talk about global warming. Too big. Too hard to grasp. Too hard to figure out how to help. Tell the story of one lone polar bear cub who is losing its home as it melts around him. We will respond to that. 3. I have no problem with people speaking Spanish. For the past 18 years, I’ve lived in two bilingual states: New Mexico and now Arizona. I interact with Spanish speakers all the time. I studied Spanish in college. It’s a beautiful language. But in the context of the sales copy for the book, I did essentially denigrate Spanish. I apologize for that. A Novel of Ancient Rome This novel had a front cover that looked much more like a nonfiction academic title than a novel. It needed fixing. The back cover read: “A thought-provoking story that is truly original — Copernican in nature. The premise meshes well with historical evidence, which lends startling merit to a sequence of events exquisitely revealed in this gripping novel. The theory proposed will inspire intriguing debate among readers, historical scholars, and theologians for decades to come.” That’s it. There's nothing in the back cover copy to draw the reader into the drama of the novel. Is the novel truly gripping just because the back cover says so? The cover also says other things — none of which indicates the novel is gripping. The rest of the copy says that the book is a theory, an academic think piece. Nothing wrong with an academic think piece, but think pieces are not novels. Not ever. My guess — and it is only a guess based on the jacket — is that this book has a great story to tell, but where is it? Stories involve people, not ideas. Focus first on people. Then focus on the plot. Only then can you move on to tell stories about those people struggling with ideas or conflicts. Besides better descriptive copy, the back cover needed a few testimonials or reviews. The copy was too sparse to sell the book to most readers. Website: https://www.BookMarketingBestsellers.com Website: https://www.BookAuthorAuthority.com Book Marketing Success is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bookmarketing.substack.com/subscribe

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  2. 3월 6일

    Lesson 1: Creating Back Covers That Sell Books

    As you may know, I critique book covers as part of the consulting services that I offer. A number of years ago I had the challenge of reviewing a number of book covers for a client. One of the books was titled Power and Petroleum. Now, the front covers of the books were okay, but the back cover copy was terrible. In this episode, I’ll critique the back cover of Power and Petroleum. First, the title is boring. It has no power to convince people to pick the book up. The back cover of this book was too focused on abstract ideas rather than immediate impact. Here is the original back cover copy: A Wake-Up Call! Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is the successor to Fidel Castro as the enemy of the United States in the Western Hemisphere!! Read quotes from Chavez's speeches to know his intentions: To absorb Colombia and form La Gran Colombia, with Castro as his guide; and with China assisting in future adventures! This warning is by a former resident of Venezuela, and former advisor to the Venezuelan oil industry. In writing the above copy, the author used four exclamation points. There’s only one reason why the writer used so many exclamation points: The copy was weak. Note: Exclamation points do not create excitement. Details create excitement. If you don’t believe me, read my rewrite below: In the coming years, gasoline prices will triple. Cocaine will be on every street corner. Cuba will dictate U.S. policy in the Americas. South America will be ripe for revolution. Mexico will fall. Communists will be knocking at our door. Terrorists will be streaming in through our porous borders. You will be sitting in jail—along with three of your children. No one will be safe. Are you listening? If Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has his way, the above headlines will be the norm in just a few years. Venezuela and Columbia will join with Cuba and China to create a new reality for the Western Hemisphere. It's time Americans woke up. In Power and Petroleum, Emma Broussard, a former adviser to the Venezuelan oil industry, reveals the hidden intentions of Chavez and his cohorts. You have a choice: Read this book, or learn how to speak Spanish and keep your head down. Notice how the details above created more drama, more urgency. Now that’s drama (whether it’s a true projection or not). It gets attention. And it’s not out of line with what the old cover copy hinted at. Whether the book matches the back cover copy, that I don’t know. I didn’t read the book. But I could certainly sell lots of copies with a back cover with the drama outlined above. How is your back cover copy? Ask yourself: Does your back cover copy get readers excited about picking up your book and buying it? Does it make them want to start reading the book right away? Does it create urgency and excitement? If it doesn’t, rewrite it. Add more details. Create more urgency. Give people reasons to open your book. If your back cover copy does succeed, congrats. You’ve take the first step in selling more copies of your book. Website: https://www.BookAuthorAuthority.com Website: https://www.BookMarketingBestsellers.com Book Marketing Success is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bookmarketing.substack.com/subscribe

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  3. Jack Canfield Testimonial

    1월 25일

    Jack Canfield Testimonial

    I just loved this video I created and then pinned to Pinterest: It combines a testimonial video from Jack Canfield along with a gif of my 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. I think it’s fun. “We love 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. We followed it to the letter. Without his book, we wouldn’t be where we are today at the top of the bestseller list.” — Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul series And here’s the transcript from Jack’s testimonial: Read books on marketing books. John Kremer wrote a great book called 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. When we did Chicken Soup for the Soul, we took about 900 of those ideas that we thought were relevant, made a post-it for each one. I had two staff people writing them for days. We put them on a wall about 12 feet long. Every day we took a post-it off and did it. It took us two years to get through all those post-its. But by the end of that, we were #1 on the New York Times list and we stayed there for three years. When the second book came out, it was #2 on the list. At one point, we had #1, #2, and #3 on the New York Times list because we kept doing those things. You can watch this video on Pinterest as well. Check it out here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/57983913942730196 Or watch another video on Rumble: https://rumble.com/vg2xaj-jack-canfield-on-1001-ways-to-market-your-books-by-john-kremer.html Book Marketing Success is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bookmarketing.substack.com/subscribe

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소개

John Kremer share stories of real-life book authors who have marketed their books in innovative, fun, and money-making ways. He talks about bestseller strategies, licensing subsidiary rights, creating large Internet tribes, social networking for book sales and prestige, and ultimately selling a lot of books. These stories are short, sweet, practical, inspirational, and doable by any book author, whether a self-publisher, an author published by a big publisher, or a Kindle ebook author. You will love this show! Please subscribe now. Thanks. This Book Writing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire writers, book authors, novelists, poets, storytellers, and content creators of all sorts. It focuses on how and why to write a book. This Book Publishing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book publishers and self-publishers to edit, design, distribute, and promote the best books. This Book Marketing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book authors and publishers to do a better job publicizing, promoting, and marketing their books. I know at least 1001 Ways to Market Your Books! This Content Creation Podcast is designed to educate and inspire all content creators, including writers, bloggers, podcasters, videomakers, social media marketers, and internet marketers with new ideas and the latest promotional opportunities. bookmarketing.substack.com

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