{"id":9945,"date":"2017-08-23T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:36:34","slug":"easy-author-hack-for-more-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandra.oddjar.com\/easy-author-hack-for-more-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy author hack for more book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite marketing strategies is pretty simple: Study what successful people are doing and copy them.<\/p>\n<p>Authors can do this with the best-selling or well-known authors in their genre or category, too.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the approach behind today&#8217;s hack for getting more book reviews. This one focuses specifically on getting book reviews on blogs.<\/p>\n<p>It will take you seconds &#8212; literally <em>seconds<\/em> &#8212; to find bloggers who review books just like yours.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short, 2.5-minute video showing you how to do it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOKUu0UtHEE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Loose transcript for getting more book reviews video<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get more out of this if you watch the short video, but here&#8217;s a loose transcript:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a quick and easy author hack for finding more blogs that review books in your genre or category.<\/li>\n<li>It starts with Google. I&#8217;ll show you an example for both fiction and nonfiction.<\/li>\n<li>Type the name of a popular author in your genre or category plus &#8220;book review&#8221; into the search box.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll get a list of bloggers that reviewed that author&#8217;s books.<\/li>\n<li>(I go through this process for a romance novelist and a business book author.)<\/li>\n<li>These bloggers might review your book, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More ways to find\u00a0reviewers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/9-places-to-look-for-readers-who-write-reviews\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16998 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9_places_to_look_for_readers_who_write_reviews_image-300x258.png\" alt=\"readers who review books\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>There are many other ways to snag those essential reader reviews, too. They include using social media and paid services.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of resources you can use to secure reviews, download my free report, <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/9-places-to-look-for-readers-who-write-reviews\/\">9 places to look for readers who write reviews,&#8221; here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you get reviews for your books? What&#8217;s working for you right now? Share your best tip in a comment!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Easy-author-hacks-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9951\" src=\"https:\/\/buildbookbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Easy-author-hacks-3.png\" alt=\"more book reviews\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite marketing strategies is pretty simple: Study what successful people are doing and copy them.<\/p>\n<p>Authors can do this with the best-selling or well-known authors in their genre or category, too.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the approach behind today&#8217;s hack for getting more book reviews. 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