How to Market Your Book Online - In Spite of Amazon

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Getting your book published without begging for reviews - a web-guy's approach

Just as a matter of record, something I'd like to bury in a blog post somewhere, but so I can say "I told you so."

Most of the theory of this is found over in "How to Build Your Own Honest Online Business." This also builds on what I laid out in "Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors." Having spent a few months sorting out the various fictional narratives which are sold as Gospel for Authors to market their own book (see my Storify posts), I can proclaim with impunity that Amazon's review system is an arbitrary hoax and a time-burner.

The question comes: what do you use instead?

Money from blogging - an old idea come to maturity

One of these sidebars I clicked through. Not on our beaten path, but something worth looking over...

Buy Reviews from SponsoredReviews.com - Blog Advertising Made Easy!

I'd head the controversy about this years ago. But here they still are, more gussified and glorified with fancy-pants graphics and everything!

The deal is that if you have a good blog that you've built traffic to, you can review some advertisers product and they will pay you for it if they think it's good enough. You bid, they agree, you blog, they pay - or not. Get good at it and you can charge higher rates.

The interesting thing is that they look your blog up on Alexa, Technorati, and a few others - so you get an instant feedback on how your blog stacks up. I was surprised to find a blog I had pretty much sidelined ranked better than the blogs I was regularly posting to (like this one).

Check it out for yourself.

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