Book bloggers who have popular websites can provide powerful promotion opportunities for book authors. Bloggers can help authors drive up sales and build their reputations. Here are our expert marketing tips for how to get featured as a guest blogger on more websites...
9 Ways To Build Book Sales With Your Author Website
Whether your book is self-published or traditionally published, you’ll still be expected to do a fair amount of the sales promotion on your own. Your author website is a great tool for increasing book sales—but only if you know the online marketing strategies that...
9 Reasons Authors Should Be Thankful For The Internet
Some things were definitely better in the good old days: apple pie baked from scratch, handwritten thank-you notes, and not being bombarded by Christmas decorations in stores before Halloween! And there are authors who feel writing was easier before the Internet...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, September 2014, Part 1
This installment of our Links Roundup features great tips to help you market your writing online. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author platform and get your...
Tumblr For Writers: A Picture-Perfect Marketing And Promotional Tool
Tumblr, meet Writer. Writer, meet Tumblr. While you might think that a short-form blog like Tumblr would be counterintuitive for writers, this photo-centric platform is quickly becoming a viable marketing tool for promoting your writing. If you're ready to shake up...
Your Author Website: Should It Focus On You As A Writer Or On One Book?
Here at Web Design Relief, we often get the following question: Should a writer create a website that focuses on a particular book or on the work of the author in general? As with so many elements of Web design, there’s no singular answer that will work for everyone....
Our Secret To The Best In-Person Pitch For Your Author Website (Psst! You Can Use It In An Elevator!)
After countless hours of considering font choices, photos, and editorial selections, you finally have a shiny, new author website. Whether you write books, short stories, or poetry, an author website provides an anchor for your online identity and is an essential...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, May 2014
This installment of our Links Roundup features great tips to help you market your book online. Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author platform and get your...
Think Outside The Bookstore: The Benefits Of Cross-Promotion
How do you convince complete strangers to market your book—and have them be happy to do it? Cross-promotion! Quite simply, cross-promotion is when two parties agree to promote each other’s product, service, or interest, to the benefit of both. One well-known example...
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