Book Marketing Tip of the Week
September 8, 2009: National Pledge of Allegiance Day, Obese Kids Day, Starting Over Day, Wild Rules Day, International Literacy Day, Feast of Our Lady of VictoriesDetails on these days — and 18,800 others! — can be found in
John Kremer's Celebrate Today Special Events Data Files.In this issue . . .
-- Red Hot Special: Ten Million Eyeballs
-- specialty retailers
-- Display Opportunity to Florida School Librarians
-- Nautilus Book Awards - 10th Year - Early Entry Discount
-- Educational Opportunity in Florida
-- Sell Books by the Truckload: Free teleseminar on September 10th
-- a few key tweets from John KremerRed Hot Special: Ten Million Eyeballs
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Save $300 by joining the Ten Million Eyeballs self-learning course now. Ten Million Eyeballs teaches anyone how to get millions of eyeballs (that's impressions) via the Internet in the next two years. Learn the four major ways to reach millions of people via the Internet. You'll learn:* How, why, and when to give things away free on the Internet
* How to organize and run an Amazon bestseller campaign that actually sells books
* How to create a viral video that gets millions of views, not tens or hundreds of views (Note: the average book trailer is seen by 65 people)
* How to develop a viral website that people come back to again and again - and do all the work for you!
* How to create effective selling relationships with major websites
* 35 ways to profit from the Internet. Book sales are just one of those ways. You can multiply your income by turning your book into a variety of products and services.
Sign up now at http://www.TenMillionEyeballs.com red hot special.
Don't waste another day. Do it now!specialty retailers
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Here are a few more retailers who sell books as well as other items. If one of these retailers fits the kinds of books you publish, send them info on your books and how to get them.Dino Gift Shop, Dakota Dinosaur Museum, 200 E Museum Drive, Dickinson, North Dakota 58601; 701-225-3466. Email: info@dakotadino.com. Web: http://www.dakotadino.com. Features minerals, fossils, clothing, books, puzzles, and gifts related to dinosaurs.
Ever'man Natural Foods, 315 W Garden Street, Pensacola, Florida 32502; 850-438-0402; Fax: 850-434-2628. Email: info@everman.org. Web: http://www.everman.org. A co-op natural foods store that features health and cookbooks.
Exploration Station Gift Shop, LaNeisha Anderson, Gift Shop Manager, Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, 65 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602; 251-208-6877. Email: giftshop@exploreum.com or landerson@exploreum.com. Web: http://www.exploreum.com. Science kits, toys, books, etc.
Flight Deck Store, National Naval Aviation Museum, 1750 Radford Boulevard, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida 32508; 850-456-7037; 800-247-6289; Fax: 850-456-0099. Email: sales@navalaviationmuseum.org. Web: http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org. Features aviation-related gifts, clothes, books, DVDs, toys, and more.
Fort Discovery Store, The National Science Center, One 7th Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901; 706-821-0200; 800-325-5445. Email:
fortdiscoveryonline@yahoo.com. Web: http://www.fortdiscovery.biz.
Features science, math, biology, and space gifts, books, puzzles, games,
and more.HMA Museum Store, Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church Street S,
Huntsville, Alabama 35801; 256-535-4350. Email: info@hsvmuseum.org.
Web: http://www.hsvmuseum.org. Art books and gifts.Lake Country Stitches, Jil Baird, Owner, 275 Pacific Avenue, Medora, North Dakota 58645; 701-623-4393. Email: bairdlcs@midstate.net. Features yarns, sewing supplies, gifts, and books.
Morris Museum of Art Store, 1 Tenth Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901; 706-724-7501; Fax: 706-724-7612. Web: http://www.themorris.org. Offers books about all aspects of the art of the South, Southern history, and Southern culture as well as related gifts, clothing, etc.
The Science Shop, Kelly Brown, Coordinator, Sci-Quest Science Center, 102-D Wynn Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35805-1957; 256-837-0606; Fax:
256-837-4536. Email: kbrown@sci-quest.org. Web: http://www.sci-quest.org. Features science activity kits, books, gifts, models, and more.Display Opportunity to Florida School Librarians
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The Florida Publishers Association is offering display of books/catalogs in its booth at the FAME (Florida's school librarians and educators, preschool through college) conference at the end of September. To receive a brochure, email Betsy Lampe at FPAbooks@aol.com. Deadline for receipt of display materials is September 26: http://www.FLbookpub.org
Nautilus Book Awards - 10th Year - Early Entry Discount
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Publishers & Authors - Enter Your Life- and World-Changing Books
(& Audio Books) in the 2010 Nautilus Book Awards. 28 categories
including 5 for children and teens. For guidelines & entry forms enter
now & save! For more information, email: marilyn@nautilusbookawards.comEducational Opportunity in Florida
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The Florida Publishers Association will hold its 2009 Publishing Ed-U Conference on September 26 at the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel on Sarasota's Lido Beach. Speakers include Eric Kampmann (Midpoint Trade Books), Pam Lontos (PR/PR), Frank Gromling (Ocean Publishing), Dennis Fried (Eiffel Press), and Warren Caterson (IBPA Pub-U Scholarship recipient from FL). Evening book awards banquet. To receive a brochure, email Betsy Lampe at FPAbooks@aol.com. Web: http://www.FLbookpub.org.Sell Books by the Truckload: Free teleseminar on September 10th
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Would you like to get a single book order for one million copies, or even 10,000 copies? Learn how to get such orders from an author who's sold over 5 million books. Free teleseminar, Thursday, September 10th, your choice of two times. Go to the following website to sign up for this free teleseminar: http://www.freepublicity.com/mattbennett/?10005Matthew Bennett is a self-published author who's relatively unknown to the general public. Yet he's sold over 5 million books in quantity to Fortune 500 corporations including Disney, Reebok, NBC, Abbott Labs, Pfizer, US Healthplans, Subway and innumerable others.
In this free teleseminar, Matthew will describe:
* The top 3 reasons it's often easier to make a huge sale than it is to make small sales.
* How shy writers can sell boatloads of books to big corporations.
* 5 secrets on how to identify and reach the right person at the right company to sell loads of books.
* How to get nonprofit organizations to endorse your book.
* 3 proven ways to avoid wasting months (and sometimes years) on your project.
* How to use his strategy to sell millions of books AND raise millions for charity at the same time.
Again, to register for this free teleseminar, go to:
http://www.freepublicity.com/mattbennett/?10005a few key tweets from John Kremer
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Quotable Books
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come
from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
- Bruce Barton, advertising executive
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