Amazon Advertising: The Definitive Guide
Learn the basics behind Amazon Advertising, including overviews on the ad campaigns, key performance metrics, and much more!
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How to Analyze your Visitor Data
Google Analytics and your own WordPress Statistics (available through Jetpack, if you're self-hosted) can be among the most useful book marketing tools. Who visits you and which pages do they frequent the most? Do people find what they're looking for? How long do they...
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Fear of Missing Out. Or is that Joy?
When I was in my first year at Uni, about a century ago or so, I took a summer job. For a few months, I was running a one-man quality control lab. I was responsible for taking daily samples of cement, processing it, and recording a number of data including...
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My Freelance Writing Portfolio
As part of my efforts to make writing my full-time job, I've taken on some freelance writing--mostly blog posts and web content. I am sharing below a kind testimonial and some samples of my work. Future jobs will be shared on my new Freelance...
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BookLuver Newsletter Swap
Newsletter swaps are very trendy right now, especially among authors of similar genres. This is because they have three big advantages over traditional promos: You grow your list of subscribers. This way, you can reach them in the future without paying anything,...
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The Fermi Paradox
Have you heard of the Fermi Paradox? Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, is an argument explored by him and physicist Michael H. Hart. At its most basic, it goes like this: if we, humanity, have started our attempts at space travel in the past century and are now...
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Free Story: Is There a Doctor in the House?
*** Read Infinite Waters for free on Kindle Unlimited *** In April 2018, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I started sharing here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series...
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A Small Guest Post Rant
Those of you who've been following me for a long time know that I don't do rants. But I have to make a small exception now. As you may have noticed, I welcome guest posts on my blog. This is mainly to help writers who're looking for a break, as I know how hard it can...
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4 Tips for a Successful Book Fair
So far, I've never attended a book fair, but will probably do so here in Greece. So, I found this guest post by Elaine Bennett of particular interest. I hope you, too, enjoy it! Elaine is a marketing specialist-turned blogger, currently writing for Bizzmark Blog. 4...
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Spring Deals and Giveaways
I haven't done one of these in what feels like ages, so here are some great deals for you! One Heart/One Heart for Two First of all, and just in time for Mother's Day, Marina Gioti is giving away her sweet book about the relationship between mothers and daughters, One...
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Happy May Day 2019
Once again, spring is finally upon us, after a long and drich winter. Like every year, we will celebrate May Day the Greek way--with a nice wreath of flowers. This year, we'll have the wee one to help with that (for once, we won't scold her when she cuts flowers but...
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A Greek Easter
Easter was celebrated yesterday in Greece and I came across this video describing some of the Greek traditions, courtesy of the Greek Reporter: Interestingly enough, I only did four of them yesterday and hadn't even heard of two ones (the burning of Judas and the hot...
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Flexclip: Making a Video in Seconds
I was recently asked to review Flexclip for this blog. And no, this is not a sponsored post, as I'm getting no compensation in any form. What I am getting is the pleasure of introducing to you another free tool that can help with your book marketing efforts....
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