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Book Marketing Quotes

Quotes tagged as "book-marketing" Showing 1-29 of 29
Jo Linsdell
“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.”
Jo Linsdell

Jody Hedlund
“My theory is that every little bit has the potential to help. We just have to learn where to focus our limited time and energy, because we obviously can’t do it all.”
Jody Hedlund

Jo Linsdell
“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”
Jo Linsdell

Madi Preda
“Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does.â€�
~Madi Preda”
Madi Preda, How To Promote and Market Your Book

Bethany Atazadeh
“The truth is, you could write a masterpiece, but if you're hiding it under a rock, no one will ever know.”
Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

Madi Preda
“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”
Madi Preda, How To Promote and Market Your Book

Alistair Cross
“I firmly believe that writers must take full accountability for their careers. It’s a business, and part of business is marketing. You wouldn’t slap an OPEN sign on the window of your new barber shop, go home, and wait for the money to start rolling in.”
Alistair Cross

Heather Hart
“Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.”
Heather Hart

Bethany Atazadeh
“Good marketing is reminding your readers regularly about all the valuable things you want to give them out of your own experience, including your book, in a new and genuine way.”
Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

Joanne Kraft
“Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.”
Joanne Kraft

“…based on second hand knowledge and first-hand experience, a successful online marketing cocktail looks like this: Equal parts hard work, talent and persistence, shaken for a long, long, long, long time, and some luck skewered onto a toothpick and thrown in for good measure.”
Kristin Weber

Penny C. Sansevieri
“Don’t be an expert, be a filter.”
Penny Sansevieri

Christina Katz
“For me, there is no separation. Writing is the centerâ€� But it’s all critical.”
Christina Katz

“Marketing isn’t sleazy car salesman tactics.
Marketing isn’t tricking people into buying.
Marketing isn’t unethical.
Marketing isn’t intrusive self-promotion.
Marketing is two things: (1) creating lasting connections with people, through (2) a focus on being relentlessly helpful.”
Tim Grahl

Cory Doctorow
“YA doesn't get librarians fired!”
Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

Madi Preda
“You don’t stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don’t cut off advertising when you want to save money.â€�
~Madi Preda”
Madi Preda, How To Promote and Market Your Book

Bethany Atazadeh
“Simply talking about your book is the biggest, easiest, most often over-looked, cheapest marketing tool.”
Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

Sally Rooney
“Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money.”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

Charmaine Hammond
“Authors, why sell books one at a time when you can sell them by the set, boxload or trunkload.
Charmaine Hammond
.bookasabusiness.com”
Charmaine Hammond

“If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours.”
Carole Jelen

Judith Briles
“Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?”
Judith Briles, Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers

Bruce T. Batchelor
“EAN codes ordinarily have the first three digits (the prefix) identifying the country of manufacture, but that doesn't make sense for books. The industry committee's clever solution was to invent two new imaginary countries -- called Bookland 1 and Bookland 2 -- with corresponding prefixes of 978 and 979." (29)”
Bruce T. Batchelor, Book Marketing DeMystified: Enjoy Discovering the Optimal Way to Sell Your Self-Published Book, Practical advice from the inventor of print-on-demand (POD) publishing

Bernard Kelvin Clive
“The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book”
Bernard Kelvin Clive

Alistair Cross
“I've always thought the best way to promote a book is to write a damned good one. If it's good enough, people will talk about it and do a large part of the marketing for you.”
Alistair Cross

Trevor Carss
“The mansion has been built in the forest, now to light the fireworks and draw the playmates in.”
Trevor Carss

Scott  Lorenz
“Think of your book’s title as a headline for a breaking news story. For as long as newspapers (and now internet news content) have been around, diligent scribes have been searching their thesauruses for the right combination of power words for headlines as a way to draw in readersâ€� curiosityâ€�”
Scott Lorenz, Book Title Generator: A Proven System in Naming Your Book

Joel Stafford
“If you would like to promote your book, first forget about words "traffic", "marketing" and "social media". You are looking for real humans after all.”
Joel Stafford, The First 100 Days of Your Book: Book Marketing for Self-Published Authors

Charmaine Hammond
“Authors, now is the time to get your message, your story, your book into the hands of readers around the world

BookasaBusiness.com”
Charmaine Hammond, On Toby's Terms:

“Cats make terrible publicists. Hire me instead.”
Hajni Blasko