Archive for May, 2007

Promoting Books While Posting “Comments” to Blogs

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I’m having pretty good luck selling my new book, DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), while posting comments to blogs that are discussing VBACs.

Richard finds the discussions for me and sends me the links. I then go in and read the discussions and start participating. I don’t do any hard-sell at all as I find doing so offensive. I give my opinions and experiences (and I really enjoy doing that!) and then I sign my name like this:

Angela Hoy
Author of
DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
That’s it. No link, no marketing materials…nothing. And, it’s working! People are finding my book online and buying it. :)

Here are some of the blog sites I’m posting to:

http://www.blogspot.com

http://www.lifejournal.com

http://www.wordpress.com

I’ll add more later as Richard sends them to me.

Online Audio Seminars

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

This is a great idea for those of you selling non-fiction. You can make and sell your own online audio-seminar. Here’s an example of one being offered at MediaBistro:

http://mediabistro.com/career-reinvention-4-ondemandvideo.html?c=mbhsh

Flippies – one of those “wish I’d thought of that!” ideas!

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

This is really cool.

http://www.flippies.com/gallery.htm