Customer Avatar and how to write one for your book business

By now you may or may not know what a customer avatar is. In case you don't that's okay. It's a technical term. Your customer avatar is your ideal customer. That one person you wish would be your fan,

Your Author YouTube Page Can Get You More Fans

Get more fans with an author youtube channelAs an author, whether you write fiction or non fiction, it is important to have a YouTube channel. For exposure to more eyeballs, for credibility, for people

How To Format Your Manuscript For Kindle, Nook & Kobo Fast and Easy, Free!

In this 6-minute video you will learn how to format your Word doc manuscript into PDF, Mobi (for Kindle) and epub (for all other e-readers like Nook, Kobo, Ibook etc,) in a few easy steps. No cost, no

CreateSpace versus IngramSpark templates for print books

If you have been wanting to check out the CreateSpace templates to create your own print book, the size tables below could be useful. Under the CreateSpace template sizes are the templates provided by

Create a WordPress author website in 1 hour, with landing page and email capture

Should an author have a WordPress website that is self hosted? Meaning it’s not a free WordPress (the WordPress.com version).It depends. If you mean to just write one book. I think getting a free website

Self publishing on Amazon: tips on publishing on KDP

  How to upload your manuscript onto Amazon’s Kindle platform video presentation This step by step tutorial will help you in your self publishing journey.Get your pen and paper ready to take

Create a Custom Website with a Blog in 30 minutes

There are many ways to create a blog and also a website. For the fool proof under 5 minute way, you can read my post here: But if you want something that can grow with your business you might want to try

Why, when and how to use ISBN–free or paid.

Buying an ISBN and when and how to get free ISBNs. ISBN or International Standard Book Number is a 13-digit number that’s used as a unique identifier for books. ISBN is used internationally. It

Doing this before you advertise can increase your readership

​So you have your book ready ...now what? You got your website ready but...oh, oh...no visitors visit?How do you get readers to your site, explore your content and discover your book?There are a few

One promotion strategy can get you more readers, drive people to your book

Cross promote with other authors to give your book more exposure, it can pay off..and create a bond with fellow authors for future promotions. This is for a one week promotional and it works best if you

How to increase social media shares of your posts by 40 times!

Why your book marketing efforts should include a book trailer

We’re not talking about Hollywood quality trailers, naturally. This is no Frozen-quality trailer but you want to get a feel of what your book presents. And that’s what a trailer does—build excitement