Book Marketing Success Podcast

Updated: 24 May 2025 • 167 episodes
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John Kremer share stories of real-life book authors who have marketed their books in innovative, fun, and money-making ways. He talks about bestseller strategies, licensing subsidiary rights, creating large Internet tribes, social networking for book sales and prestige, and ultimately selling a lot of books. These stories are short, sweet, practical, inspirational, and doable by any book author, whether a self-publisher, an author published by a big publisher, or a Kindle ebook author. You will love this show! Please subscribe now. Thanks. This Book Writing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire writers, book authors, novelists, poets, storytellers, and content creators of all sorts. It focuses on how and why to write a book. This Book Publishing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book publishers and self-publishers to edit, design, distribute, and promote the best books. This Book Marketing Podcast is designed to educate and inspire book authors and publishers to do a better job publicizing, promoting, and marketing their books. I know at least 1001 Ways to Market Your Books! This Content Creation Podcast is designed to educate and inspire all content creators, including writers, bloggers, podcasters, videomakers, social media marketers, and internet marketers with new ideas and the latest promotional opportunities. bookmarketing.substack.com

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Judith Briles, The Book Shepherd, and book marketing expert John Kremer deliver a fast hour of 10 plus strategies to deliver book marketing success in 2025 on the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. Your takeaways include: Overall strategies to leap forward. Why every author should have a newsletter. Tips fo

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John Today I'm interviewing Connie Bennett, author of I Blew My Diet, Now What? She's going to tell us a little bit about how to get to speak at a TEDx event. TEDx is a local event produced in different cities around the country. TEDx talks are a really great opportunity to expose you and your book to a book buying aud

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How can you tell if you’re a professional writer? Professional writers do three things: 1. They don’t write anything until they’ve sold it. 2. They sell their work more than once. 3. They write every day without fail. That’s it. That’s how you become a professional author. Are you professional? Or are you an amateur? N

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I'm sharing a note from somebody that I'm newly following on Substack, Yana G.Y. I've been doing episodes about stories lately. And the key thing about stories is you've got to be real. You've got to be human. The title of this episode is The World Needs More Humans. The subtitle is Are You Ready to Write Relatable, Ra

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Do you have a nonfiction book out now or one coming out soon? If so, you’ve probably wondered, "How can I sell as many books as possible in the limited time I have?" After working with more than 15,000 non-fiction authors and helping launch such bestsellers as Rich Dad Poor Dad and Chicken Soup for the Soul, my friend

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The following is excerpted from a newsletter Guy Kawasaki, the Apple and Canva evangelist, sent out about a week ago. I love his advice. I’d recommend you follow it when appropriate. Facts tell, but stories sell. If you want to change someone’s mind, skip the data dump and share a story that resonates emotionally. When

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