We CAN! promote our books

Smart choices promote smart time investment

Aloha from Karen,

Yesterday a camera crew came to my home and filmed for a TV show about money. It’s called  Money Wise. This happened because of choices I made and because I have been intentional about promotion. Let’s chat about ways to make smart choices and act intentionally. You'll discover that by making good choices you use your time wisely.

A focused pitch saves time

Aloha from Karen,

Last weekend I taught at the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writer's Conference. I co-taught a workshop on practicing your pitch with my fiction author/CAN member friend, Jeanette Windle. The people who took our worksho p thanked us time and again as they had so much success with editors or found they had a better handle on the direction they want to take on their book idea.

Pitfalls to our time for marketing

Aloha from Karen,

    Sometimes we stumble and our plans fall, as through into a deep dark cavern. We intend to do some marketing, but the time we planned is no longer available or we waste our scheduled time.  Let’s talk about some problems that cause our good intentions to go nowhere.

10 Commandments of Marketing Time Management

Aloha from Karen,
    We need to invest time in marketing, but we don't want to be wasting our time. I wrote up a list of ten important guidelines for time regarding marketing. These are things that should be integrated into your marketing to help you from getting stressed out or ineffective.

Word Quilters Joint Marketing Efforts Part 2

Aloha from Karen,

   I'm home from ICRS and want to share the rest of the interview I began two weeks ago. This is an interview with a team of women who have worked together on a book and are now  teaming up on the marketing.

Here are the faces behind the book:

ICRS and Time Investment-to go or not

Aloha from Karen and sunny Florida. I'm at ICRS , the International Christian Retail Show. This is where the people in the publishing indy=ustry meet. That includes bookstores, publishers, editors, and authors. Let's chat about the pros and cons iof investing time in attending.

Co-author Marketing (team efforts)

Aloha from Karen

    I've shared marketing tips with others, traded networking, and belong to CAN, this amazing group of authors who teamed up together to help one another in marketing. Any teaming up can save time and help you reach out to more audiences. Today I want to chat with six ladies who wrote a book together (not quite out yet) and hear how about their plans to team up in marketing.

The Word Quilters will be releasing a book this fall, A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts. They have tons of marketing plans and have started implementing them. Let's find out more....

Interview with Mitali on time saving/marketing online

Aloha from Karen,

                                    I skipped last week due to my Dad's funeral and passing on to heaven. I appreciate all your prayers and know he is in heaven now.

Today Mitali will share more with us on how she uses her time in promoting books.

We are so happy to have you back Mitali.

Interview with Author Mitali on her marketing/time management

Aloha from Karen

I noticed an author I've never met a while ago. She is on an egroup with me (The Writers View) and gave such great advice about marketing that I just had to visit her blog/website and more. She is great at using the latest technology. I asked her to tell us about herself and what she does to promote her books.

Welcome Mitali Perkins, author of both fiction and non-fiction!! 

Decide where to spend marketing time

Aloha from Karen,

    I am still driving between Connecticut where my Dad is still in the hospital and Maryland. That shifts the day I blog as it can be hard for me to get online in Connecticut at time.

   With so many choices of where to spend time and money marketing, it’s important to make good decisions before allocating the time, effort, and cash.  We can become overwhelmed with too many marketing ideas. Let’s chat about how to make wise choices.