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Tips for designing your own logo

Posted January 11th @ 12:00 am by Roger C. ParkerPrint

David Airey’s Logo Design Love blog is for authors and entrepreneurs who want to design their own logo for blogs, business cards, e-books, or back-end products.
The Logo Design Love blog is also for you if you want to learn more about logo design so you can be a more helpful and informed client. The more [...]

Marketing tip for next December- New Years Resolution Generator

Posted January 2nd @ 7:50 pm by Roger C. ParkerPrint

Add a New Year’s Resolution Generator to your December 2010 marketing
It’s not too early to begin thinking about your 2010 end-of-year marketing–or, at least, start collecting ideas for it.
As a starting point, I recommend Monina Velarde’s Resolution Generator.
Monina assembled a collection of New Year’s resolutions from family, friends, and other sources around the world [...]

How to test-market your book’s title for free, before it’s too late

Posted November 26th @ 1:01 pm by Roger C. ParkerPrint

Here’s an excellent “real world” example of how you can test-market your book’s title before your book appears.
Simply visit this Survey Monkey link and indicate your choice of title and subtitle.

How much did this cost the author to set up the survey? Nothing!
What’s the value of the information generated? Priceless!

As in so many aspects of [...]

How to use teleseminars to market & promote your book

Posted November 7th @ 3:50 pm by Roger C. ParkerPrint

Authors interested in low-cost ways to market and promote their writing and their books will want to attend the next Published & Profitable Tuesday Teleseminar, An Author Guide to Book Marketing with Teleseminars.
I’ll be discussing topics like:

Marketing power of teleseminars. Top 7 Reasons teleseminar marketing is such an effective way to promote your writing and [...]

7 tips for authors who want to get a literary agent from a literary agent with over 30 years of experience

Posted May 24th @ 1:33 pm by Roger C. ParkerPrint

Michael Larsen’s How to Get a Literary Agent provides authors with an experienced insider’s perspective and tips for locating, approaching, and convincing literary agents to represent them.
You’ll learn what to do, and what not to do, including best practices, suggestions, and the right protocols to follow when writing query letters, preparing your book proposal, following-up, [...]