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Review: Richard Branson – Like A Virgin (& Streamline Your Book Production Journey)

Richard Branson - Like a Virgin Review

“Looking for advice on setting up your own company, improving your career prospects, or developing your leadership skills? Why not ask Richard Branson?

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Week in Review – 12th August

With love of books, business development and innovation, for the purpose of sharing (and caring), here are the key trends and latest publishing industry information from this week:

  • The Essentials of E-Book Publishing For Content Marketers – Marketeer
  • StoryBundle Brings Indie Authors to Readers – Mashable
  • How to Save Bookstores: 28 Ideas From Existing Locations – Huffington Post
  • The Future of Book Publishing – Smashwords
  • How to Fund Your Self Published Book – EPublishABook.com
  • Lessons For Marketers From CommBank and Tourism Australia – mUmBRELLA
  • 6 Ways to Make Your Short Story Collection Stand Out – Huffington Post
  • The 4 Different Paths Authors Can Pursue Today – Indie Book Writers

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ROCHELLE STONE IS THE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLISHING SPECIALIST AT BAREFOOT BASICS – WORKING WITH SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, SOLOPRENEURS AND SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS ACROSS THE SUNSHINE COAST, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, CAMPBELLTOWN AND WOLLONGONG REGIONS.

How To Market Your Book #9: Plan, Plan, Plan!

Like all things if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Carefully construct a strategic marketing plan that will hold you accountable and will establish key goals/outcomes for you to work towards.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ROCHELLE STONE IS THE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLISHING SPECIALIST AT BAREFOOT BASICS – WORKING WITH SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, SOLOPRENEURS AND SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS ACROSS THE SUNSHINE COAST, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, CAMPBELLTOWN AND WOLLONGONG REGIONS.

How To Market Your Book #8: Price Your Book Correctly

Correctly price point your book in the marketplace.

Don’t undercut your competitor’s purely because you think this will achieve you a greater number of sales; and yet don’t overvalue the content that you have produced. Model your pricing on relevant sized books in the market as well as those within your specific sector.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ROCHELLE STONE IS THE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLISHING SPECIALIST AT BAREFOOT BASICS – WORKING WITH SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, SOLOPRENEURS AND SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS ACROSS THE SUNSHINE COAST, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, CAMPBELLTOWN AND WOLLONGONG REGIONS.

How To Market Your Book #7: Content

Spend time developing quality content and invest in proofreaders and editors to transform your manuscript into an edited, professionally written book.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ROCHELLE STONE IS THE MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLISHING SPECIALIST AT BAREFOOT BASICS – WORKING WITH SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, SOLOPRENEURS AND SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS ACROSS THE SUNSHINE COAST, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, CAMPBELLTOWN AND WOLLONGONG REGIONS.