The following excerpt is from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill.

Understanding Your Target Market Blogs 6

As mentioned earlier, bookmarks that include the cover of your book, along with where to order it, are still a favorite. In addition to bringing them to book signings, they are appreciated by libraries.

Consider donating a copy of your book to a local library. The book can be accompanied by a press release.

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The following excerpt is from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill.

Understanding Your Target Market & Sale of Books

The best way to increase traffic to your blog is to get other bloggers to visit and link to your blog. This is not as easy as it may seem. So, we’d suggest starting with one or two at a time.

They need to be customized and bloggers need to know you’ve read their posts more than once. Reference their recent posts. Keep it simple.

If you do not get a response from the blogger, you can follow up once, but that is it. Let it go and move on to the next one. Popular blogs get many e-mail requests. They do not have time or interest to get involved with everyone. But, be sure to put a link to your blog and mention a post that may be of interest. Bloggers like incoming links. We suggest linking to their blog from yours before you approach them.

This hint comes from Penny Sansevieri. When you reference an article from another publication in your blog, be sure to insert the web address for that article. That will give you an incoming and outgoing link, which will increase your presence (platform) on the web.

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