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Book Marketing Success Podcast

Book Marketing Success Podcast

By: 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.

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  • Give Away Your Books

    Give Away Your Books
    Jun 30 2025

    Why give away your books when you can sell them instead? Here are ten reasons why you might want to give away your books as a strategy for making more sales of everything you have to offer.

    1. Entice People to Action.

    If you want a potential customer to act, you can give them a free book as an enticement. Many websites offer free reports or books to encourage people to sign up for their newsletters or podcasts. A key reason: Books are still valued by consumers.

    2. Make an Upsell.

    If you are using your book to sell a higher-priced course, webinar, or summit, then giving away the book is a good strategy for convincing people to buy your upsell.

    3. Offer a Sample.

    Give away a shorter book to give readers a taste of your larger, more expensive book.

    Note: A similar strategy is to sell a shorter book on Amazon for a very low price to give people a taste for your more expensive books, your longer books, or any additional books in a series.

    4. Give as a Prize.

    Give your book away to charities as a prize. Books as prizes are a great way to promote your business or service or higher priced products.

    5. Offer Speaking Take-Aways.

    If you are speaking at a conference, a summit, or another group event, giving away a book is an easy way to have attendees take you (or your ideas) home with them.

    A free book builds credibility and provides audience members with your contact details so they can follow-up on any of your services or products they want to buy.

    6. Create a Moon Book Club.

    Offer your books as monthly mailings to key contacts for coaching, consulting, speaking, and other high-paying engagements. In this situation, you mail out copies of print books to your key contact list as a tool for establishing your credibility with these key people.

    7. Offer 99 Cent Specials.

    Books under a dollar are considered just like free books for most readers. So, offering low-cost books for sale are a way of setting a value for the book but essentially keeping the book as “free.”

    Bestselling author Robert Allen recently offered his #1 Bestseller: How You Can Become a Bestselling Author in Only 30 Minutes a Day as an ebook for only 99¢ via Amazon. He used it to introduce his high-priced service to help writers become bestselling authors.

    8. Introduce Readers to a Series.

    One of the best ways to introduce readers to your series of novels is to give away the first book in the series. If they like that book, they will buy into the entire series.

    9. Publish a manifesto.

    Write and share a manifesto that proclaims your new vision for society, the environment, the world, the universe, or your key topic. Manifestos are generally given away to build the widest possible readership for your new vision.

    10. Share Your Book.

    You can give away your book to anyone and everyone simply because you want people to benefit from what you’ve written.

    If you give away books, never give away junk. Never give away AI creations as your own work. Whatever you give away must represent your work, your writing, your ideas, your creativity, your thought processes, and the higher priced services and products you offer.

    If your giveaways truly represent what you offer, you’ll be able to upsell recipients to anything else that you want to create. And at a higher and higher price. Great content inspires great fans.

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    4 mins
  • 10 Key Strategies for Marketing Your Books

    10 Key Strategies for Marketing Your Books
    May 24 2025

    Judith Briles, The Book Shepherd, and book marketing expert John Kremer deliver a fast hour of 10 plus strategies to deliver book marketing success in 2025 on the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. Your takeaways include:

    Overall strategies to leap forward.

    Why every author should have a newsletter.

    Tips for creating your own Summit and why you should.

    How to start your marketing offline.

    Why magazines are still hot and how to target/pitch to them.

    Why you should reach for a national TV show.

    Why being a podcast guest is a must do and two sources to use.

    And, of course, much more.

    Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.

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  • Connie Bennett: On Getting a TedX Talk

    Connie Bennett: On Getting a TedX Talk
    May 21 2025
    JohnToday I'm interviewing Connie Bennett, author of I Blew My Diet, Now What? She's going to tell us a little bit about how to get to speak at a TEDx event.TEDx is a local event produced in different cities around the country. TEDx talks are a really great opportunity to expose you and your book to a book buying audience.ConnieI'm an author and I've been a long-time fan of yours since my first book, Sugar Shock, came out. Later, I came out with a book called Beyond Sugar Shock. And now I just came out with I Blew My Diet, Now What?I am a former sugar addict and also a former carb addict. For years I did really, really well. I ate very, very cleanly. But more than a decade ago after my mom passed away. It was a difficult year watching her lose a battle to cancer. I blew my diet.Hence, the new book. I come clean at last to the world about what I was doing, which was hanging out in movie theaters and in my home and secretly stuffing my face with crunchy, greasy, salty movie popcorn and other carb garbage, what I now call carbage.JohnI know that you recently spoke at the TEDx conference in San Diego, If you’d like to watch her TEDx talk, check it out here: I wanted to find out from you. Connie, how did you get in to do a TEDx talk? Because I know that it's not always easy to get to do a TEDx talk.ConnieWell, the very first thing I did was I decided that I was going to do a TEDx talk, come hell or high water, I was going to do it. So, my first step literally was deciding that I was going to do it.So then I began to research. I even took a course or two about how to get a TEDx talk.Then one day it hit me. I had moved to San Diego. I had been living there for a number of years. Then I thought: Why don't you just volunteer at my local TEDx? I don't even know how I got the idea, but I did. So I volunteered at the local TEDx.I watched the speakers and became friendly with them. I think, yeah, I want to be up there just like them. So that was my first step, volunteering.Then the next year, I actually applied to my local TEDx San Diego and I got turned down. But I did make it through round one. So, round one you submit something in writing and then round two you had to submit a video. I made it that far but was rejected that first attempt.A few months later, TEDx had auditions yet again, so I applied again and got turned down again. Then I got an email saying, hey, would you be interested in doing this special thing that we're doing with TEDx San Diego? And that is what let to my talk.Going local was the way to go because after the first time they turned me down, they knew me.I've met several people who'd been through a similar situation. They had applied, and they had been turned down. They tried again. They applied, and they got turned down again, and finally they were accepted.You can apply for TEDx talks in other cities, but it's good to start first with the TEDx event closest to where you live.JohnActually, I think that that's two incredible pieces of advice that you really talked about.One was simply being persistent. You have to knock on the door more than once. You can't take it as a rejection. It's just they have to know you better.ConnieThe other part of it is you have to be very gracious. They turn you down. You do not want to write to them and say, why was I turned down? You've got to be really careful about the way that you're persistent.You want to be politely persistent. But you don't want to get turned down and then all of a sudden send an email and say, hey, why didn't you accept me? So you need to be very, very careful and walk this fine line.JohnBut I am convinced that that going local is the way to go.I also thought it was really wise of you to volunteer. It's an incredible way to get to know the people behind the local TEDx. It's a really great opportunity, as you said, to meet the speakers and get to talk to them.ConnieIt was it was totally fun. And it also it stoked me. It got me like really excited about doing like I want to be one of those people,But I volunteered to get to know more about the talks and the people behind the local TEDx talks. I was like, I want to know more about this.I know I want to do a TEDx talk at some time. I hadn't set my sight on doing it in San Diego. But the actual act of volunteering, it was just so exciting to see these speakers do their thing. You just learn so much just watching what they went through.Now my talk was less than seven minutes. A lot of TEDx talks, they're a little bit longer. And I went even a little long. I'm telling you, every single word counted.I've heard of a lot of situations where people give a TEDx talk and then it goes so viral that it could lead to a book.JohnThat's one reason that speakers want a TEDx talk, because they're more likely to get an offer from some publisher saying, wow, I saw you and I liked what you did. A TEDx can open doors. Such talks give you great credibility and it gets a lot of attention.Book Marketing Success...
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