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April 1st, 2013 | By: Karen Saunders

Use Google AdWords Keyword Planner to Help Market Your Self-Published Book

You can use the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool to research and choose productive keywords to use in your book marketing campaigns. This free tool allows you to type in a word or phrase then see the results of your search term and additional keyword ideas. Each word or phrase is ranked by competition and by the number of global monthly searches on Google. You want to select and use keywords and phrases that have low competition and high search volume. Go to this page: https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner For this exercise, let’s suppose I’ve published a book on puppy training. I’ve typed in…

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February 27th, 2011 | By: Karen Saunders

3 Steps to Take the Heat Off Grammar Mistakes

This article on avoiding grammar mistakes is written by Barbara McNichol, a member of my creative team. Barbara is an expert editor and author of Word Trippers available in Kindle format at Amazon.com. She has edited numerous award-winning and best-selling books. Here’s her article: Did you know grammatical errors are a hot topic? Yes! I learned that when a blog post about writing connected with Ezine Articles took a subject close to my heart and made it relevant to everyone. Within 24 hours of posting an article about 6 grammatical errors that make authors look unprofessional, this blog post received 776…

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November 19th, 2008 | By: Karen Saunders

66 Ways to Turn Your Expertise into Profits

Susan Levin has put together a list of 66 ways to turn your expertise into profits. If you are a speaker, author or coach, it pays (literally) to leverage your intellectual property! Books – Published or Self-Published Mini-Books – Smaller versions of your book with cut-down content used as premiums E-Book– Compile related product information or instructions into an ebook. You could publish it in text, pdf, html format E-Book Of Reviews – Publish an ebook of stuff that’s related to your target audience that you could review like products, web sites, movies, etc Dictionary Of Terms-Publish a web directory or…

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