by Harriet Hodgson Publicity is crucial to book sales. Your book may be the best thing since sliced bread, but I guarantee that sliced bread will get more publicity. Here are some ideas to get your book and name noticed. Follow-up by delivering an information packet about your book to the library. Be precise. Good luck!

Animated Trailers My first encounter with movie trailers for print books--rather than films made from books--was the VidLit for John Warners Fondling Your Muse. VidLit may be an excerpt from a book, or a synopsis. The VidLit team does a nice job of making nonfiction books seem entertaining as well as edifying. and more!

Click on the picture to go to Joseph Sullivan’s list of Favorite Book Covers for 2008. Now, imagine you wrote a book this year. And your book just entered the market, along with the 172,000 other books published in the U.S. But definitely not about books. Because everybody judges books by their covers.

Wanting to do paid speaking is similar to wanting to write a book: it sounds like paradise until you become familiar with how the industry works. My friend Penelope Trunk wrote a great post called 5 Reasons why you dont need to write a book. If you write a book, speaking is the natural follow-on. Many authors echo her advice.

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chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of The Art of Butts in Chairs March 20, 2009 · Comments I run a series of conferences. Logistically, they require the same things most conferences run on: great speakers, relevant exhibitors and sponsors, and eager attendees. It’s a kind of ecosystem. Maybe.

chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of Make Better Presentations - The Anatomy of a Good Speech February 23, 2009 · Comments You deserve some great tools, so I’d like to share what I’ve been working on. Look at comic book covers. Plan on writing a book review at SquaredPeg soon.

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (3) ▼ Mar (1) Want to be a better speaker? 9658; Jan (4) Shelving Books and Muscle Memory This is a test. Disclaimer These posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer March 8, 2009 Want to be a better speaker? There were JavaMX talks being given at OSCON as far back as 2006.

Are you hoping to share the learnings found in your awesome book (available for 24.95 One of my goals for 2009 is to develop a unique small business speaking presentation focused on the web, online reputation, new media, etc. You really motivated me to get serious about speaking (just as soon as I finish procrastinating on my book!).

New Year�s Eve 2004, I started working my next book in the Sparkle-Tudes� Series (Creating Sparkling Attitudes), researching quotations about love. Why not have the book ready and released for this event, only one month away! happen to be a 28-year veteran in graphic design and self-published this book, using one of our NSA vendors.