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That’s what the web designer’s e-mail said an author friend sent me. This was a sale!  It comes with a year’s free hosting.  $3000 and they have no control over their site and have to pay out the nose for updates and changes.  The clients gets three site mockups to choose from and eight pages. [...]

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Internet book promotion is crucial in self publishing, particularly digital self publishing.  My friend told me he paid twenty-five grand over and above what his wife was paid for her advance to a well-known book promoter to push his wife’s new opus.  There was no way to tell how, if, and when, that promo cash [...]

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It goes back to what you want to accomplish with your online presence. Are you traditionally published and are you trying to get the word out so folks will pick up your books from Borders and B&N? Are you e-published and need an Internet presence appealing enough so folks will want to click over to [...]

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No More Stranger Sign Ups

 

A popular blog host with over 70,000 blogs got shut down by the guv’ment last week because of terrorist fears.  I’m not nearly as worried about terrorists than about funding black hat spammers with my limited funds and a general lack of desire to deal with strangers. So yep, free blogs are available, but you [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes (an ongoing saga)

 

7/9/10 I reorganized my post categories, and got my newsletter list up and going.  I’m going to focus my content on the newsletter, and reproduce it here, but post content will only be visible to list members.  My newsletter content will follow my new categories, Book Marketing, Getting Traffic, and Social Networking.  So check the [...]

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