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55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet

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Mr Bob Baker's book follows in a clear and consistent way all the necessary steps and available tools for online book promotion. His practical information and insightful advice inspires and encourages the readers while providing the stepping stones of the online marketing. As a self-publishing author, I find this book very helpful and will gladly recommend it not only to writers and creatives, but to all people who want to use the power of Internet for increasing their popularity, sales and ultimately their success.

Bob Baker's generosity in this book is exceptional. He gives a huge number of resources and a simple to follow road map that is ideal and useful for anyone wanting to marketing and sell their book (or any info product) on the Internet. This applies whether you're just starting your publishing journey or have been at it for awhile. As a bit of a veteran in this field myself, I was especially delighted to find instantly useful ideas that I'm eager to implement this week. Thanks, Bob, for all that you've provided. You've done a superb job of modeling how it can work well when doing it differently. Your book stands above the crowd of book marketing tools. I'm eager to let my world know about this excellent must-have addition for their tool box.

As a newly self-published author, I am finding out that the hard part of writing a book is really what comes after: marketing. At first, I created a website, then naively did nothing else and hoped that buyers would find my book. Next, I started doing research on the internet about using the internet to market a book. I found myself overloaded at that point with options and information. Information-overload was almost as overwhelming as a lack of any information. I found myself wandering down a winding road, branching off into this site and that and wondering if I was on the right road at all.

"55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet" is a really great guide, organized into logical sections, which really helped me to figure out a strategy.

Bob Baker offers good solid advice (one of the best pieces of advice being to be patient and be in this for the long-haul, not to think of it as a big splash-on-the-scene-and-then-stop type of effort). I used a lot of his suggestions and refer back to the book when I have questions.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for advice on internet marketing! I ordered the e-book so I could start reading it right away.

Thank you Bob Baker!
Lisa
Children's Book Author

Finally! Someone has written a book that translates the mumbo jumbo of Internet promotion into plain, easy-to-understand English.

"55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet" is a nifty overview that even someone who is not a child can understand. The typical chapter is only 4 or 5 pages long, so the book does not go into mind-numbing depth. Instead, each chapter presents an intelligent summary of the technique or tactic, discusses the whys, touches on the hows, and points to resources for people who want to dig deeper into the subject. By the time you are finished with this very readable book, you'll also understand the connections among all these interdependent facets of marketing.

Bob Baker has written a very useful book. I thought I knew quite a bit about web marketing, but I learned a lot from this book. I am going to recommend it to all my authors and clients and, in fact, to anyone who wants to sell books successfully on the Internet.

I personally think that anything by Bob Baker is pure gold. This book is full of really good tips that every self-publisher can use to up their book sales. You can follow along and apply most strategies within a few days. if you are a new author, or a seasoned writer self-published or published through small or big company, you should know that it is usually up to the writer to promote their book. If you want to learn some quick, free, easy ways to get your book noticed, check out this book and start learning the ropes of book marketing the easy way.

Bob Baker has written a concise and informative book on using the internet to improve book sales. He's the expert and it shows in his advice: real and unadorned. Get it. Read it. Do what he says. It's a winner.

David W. Page, MD FACS MFA

POINT #1: Excellent book.
POINT #2: Full of specific up-to-date how-to's.
POINT #3: The book really is not about how to sell books, but is about how an expert or a creative writer with a lot to offer his fellow human beings can let his fellows know what he has to offer. There are no crass, "hard sell" techniques or get-rich-quick gimmicks in this book.
POINT #4: Another way to say this is that this book is really about how an artist/writer/musician builds positive relationships with fans. Bob Baker stresses the word "fans," rather than readers, consumers, etc. He shows how this creator-fan relationship begins with the creator's intentions for and with his fans and fans-to-be, and continues through the whole cycle of creating and marketing. For Bob Baker, marketing is a part of creating, and creating is a part of marketing. "Marketing" is an ugly word to many artists/writers/musicians. But underlying Bob's book is an very holistic, uplifting vision about what it can mean to be a creative person who earns a living, or is striving to earn a living, by producing creative works. In my whimsy, I might re-title Bob Baker's book as "55 Ways To Get and Keep In Touch With Those You Are Meant To Bless and Benefit, and Who Are Meant To Bless and Benefit You." Another alternative title might be: "For Artists, Writers and Musicians, The Relationship Is The Product: Let Me Show You How and Why Connecting Intentionally and Strategically With Fans and Fans-To-Be Is An Integral Part of The Creative Process, Not Something Secondary To It."
POINT #5: What gives this book such credibility is that its author has been successfully earning a living as a full time book author for over a decade now. His book on indie music marketing is a classic, and even appeared in the major Hollywood movie titled "School of Rock," starring Jack Black, Joan Cusack and Sarah Silverman.
POINT #6: This book is not for creative types who feel they should never write for an audience other than themselves, and who feel that creative types wrongfully soil and sully themselves by involvement with marketing. These see Art and Commerce as being irreconcilable and implacable opposites. These see Art as being an expression of Ego and Self, with a corresponding disdain for what other may think or feel.
POINT #7: Creative types such as Beethoven, Mark Twain, Mozart, Dante, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Shakespeare--all of whom had intentional, dynamic relationships with their respective audiences, and who wanted and worked to enrich the lives of their fans, and wished and planned to be heard and loved by their sizable audiences--would heartily approve of the ideas and methods in Bob Baker's book.

Some books on internet marketing leave me feeling even more confused and overwhelmed, but Bob Baker's book left me feeling that the task of marketing was indeed "manageable." His strategies are easy-to-understand and clearly described and helped me to make a reasonable to-do list. Highly Recommended!

If you are marketing your book or in the business of marketing books for others, give yourself a nice hefty jumpstart and read this book. Each chapter is easy to read and easy to implement. Do a bit at a time and you will suddenly find yourself with actual, measurable success! This book is like having your own mentor and coach right at your fingertips. I have gone to it again and again, picking up more pieces of the marketing puzzle each time. Thank you, Bob, for this wonderful offering!

~ Mich Hancock, author of The Wizard of Oz Code

At the time of writing this, the book's Amazon sales ranking is over half a million. So it's hardly selling anything. If his tips are so good, why can't he even sell more of his own books !