This free, short (62 pages) Kindle book is a helpful resource for new authors who have limited book promotion time and choose to use it on social media. The overview of KDP Select’s free days and Kindle countdowns is helpful for anyone who hasn’t been exposed to that piece of the Kindle puzzle\u00a0yet.<\/p>\n
I like the\u00a0links to online resources and a list of Twitter handles to include in a giveaway tweet in hopes that those accounts will re-tweet your offer.<\/p>\n
The sample 90-day\/five-minutes-a-day book marketing\u00a0plan and corresponding template undoubtedly help those authors who are continually\u00a0searching for a plug-and-play solution to book promotion. Following this example, or, more importantly, personalizing it so it focuses on the right social media networks for your<\/em> audience, will reduce your planning time and help you structure your time. All good.<\/p>\n Still, the book has value in that it acknowledges that authors don’t always have a lot of time for book marketing and helps them zero in on specific things they can do in just a few minutes a day.<\/p>\n My advice would be to\u00a0mix into this some of what you know already about how to use social media effectively, how to build relationships with readers, and how to position yourself as a writer whose books are worth reading.<\/p>\n When you’ve got just five minutes to do something to promote your book, what do you do?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bubbles above the title on the cover of 5-Minute Marketing for Authors:\u00a0<\/em><\/a>Get More Sales for Your Books in Just 5 Minutes a Day<\/em><\/a> by Barb Asselin hint that it could\u00a0use another phrase at the end of the subtitle: “by Using Social Media.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This free, short (62 pages) Kindle book is a helpful resource for new authors who have limited book promotion time and choose to use it on social media. The overview of KDP Select’s free days and Kindle countdowns is helpful for anyone who hasn’t been exposed to that piece of the Kindle puzzle\u00a0yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,126],"tags":[706,707,708],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-5-minute-marketing-for-authors","tag-barb-asselin","tag-review"],"yoast_head":"\nOn the other hand\u00a0. . .<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>The book is well-written and offers enough information to be worth reading. I suspect that Asselin focused on social media rather than taking a broader approach because it’s easy to tweet, post, and share in five minutes or less. \u00a0Still, a few things surprised me in 5-Minute Marketing for Authors<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n
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