How Many Users on Social Media?

The Social Media Hat recently published the latest numbers for social media users. So, how many active monthly users does each social medium have? Facebook: 1.55 billion As expected, Facebook is the largest and most active of all social networks. YouTube: 1 billion As...

Getting Book Reviews: Rayne Hall’s Take

You may remember Rayne Hall from my author feature. Or, you may have met her on Twitter, her preferred medium. She has literally written the book on the best ways to use Twitter – it’s called “Twitter for Writers” and is part of her celebrated Writer’s Craft series....

Holiday Book Marketing: a Holiday Cheat Sheet

Taylor of the Written Word Media has written an excellent post titled, Holiday Book Marketing: An Author’s Guide to Black Friday and Beyond that lists all the remaining holidays of 2015. Why is that important? Well, people are in buying moods. Authors can take...

Amazon Pulls Books Because of Wrong Keywords

As the Bad Luck Detective informs us, Amazon removed thousands of books from their site on November 5th. Books were removed because of three keywords located in the title’s information page in the keywords section: Free, Bestseller and Kindle. It didn’t matter if your...

Can Facebook Really Help You Sell Books?

Following from yesterdays’s post on pacing your Free Promos on Facebook to avoid getting banned, here is a second post on the subject. As you may recall from my Call to Arms survey, Facebook didn’t do well in promotions. Because of their high cost,...

Pace your Free Promos on Facebook, or Risk Getting Banned

In my post, Promo Results: Using Free Promo Services I included a number of Facebook groups where you can promote your free days/sale for free. Today, I discovered on KBoards a caveat that you should be aware of. According to author J.E. Taylor, posting the exact same...