E56: How To Launch and Market Your Self Published Book Efficiently? – Interview with John Kremer

John Kremer

      The Book Marketing Expert, the Owner of Open Horizons Publishing and the author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

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How to prepare the right book launch and marketing plan, what to do step by step?

How to plan a giveaway campaign on amazon efficiently? How to pitch publishers efficiently? How Self Published authors should create their book codes and ISBN correctly?

 

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Bio

Introduction

John Kremer is a Book marketing expert, the owner of Open Horizons Publishing and the author of1001 Ways to Market Your Books

Bio

Book marketing expert John Kremer is the owner of Open Horizons Publishing. He is the author of1001 Ways to Market Your Books; Book Marketing Magic: How to Sell Your Novel, Children’s Book, Memoir, or Nonfiction Book Like a Pro; The Complete Direct Marketing Sourcebook; Do-It-Yourself Book Publicity Kit; and Celebrate Today.

He is also the developer of the Ten Million Eyeballs Internet marketing self-study course and theBlog Tour Palooza program.

As a book marketing consultant, his clients include a self-published author who has sold over two million books, a new age publisher with 60 titles, and a $100 million publisher with a rapidly growing list of 1,000 titles.

John is the founder of the Institute on Book Publishing Innovations as well as The Book Marketing Network social network for book authors and publishers (https://www.thebookmarketingnetwork.com).

John Kremer is 63 years old. His wife Gail, a storyteller, is author of Little Fox and the Golden Hawk. They live in Taos, New Mexico, where they take care of two dogs named Becky and Elsie.

For more about John Kremer’s book marketing consulting services, click here.

For more about John Kremer’s speaking events and book promotion seminars, click here.

“John Kremer deserves the thanks of so many of us. John has set a standard and example, showing us how to keep focused while looking ahead, be creative while playing by the rules, how to achieve the impossible while approaching our tasks one item at a time, and how to maintain our integrity while never, ever giving up.” — Mary Westheimer

John Kremer is an acknowledged publishing expert who can answer all your questions on book publishing and marketing. Besides being the owner of his own publishing company (Open Horizons in Taos, New Mexico), he was the editor of the Book Marketing Update newsletter for more than twenty years.

John is the founder of the Institute on Book Publishing Innovations as well as The Book Marketing Network social network for book authors and publishers (https://www.thebookmarketingnetwork.com).

As a book promotion expert, John is also the author of a number of books on publishing and marketing, including 1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and Publishers (6th Edition),Book Marketing Magic, Real Fast Book Marketing, 15,000 Eyeballs Internet Marketing Program, The Complete Direct Marketing Sourcebook, High Impact Marketing on a Low Impact Budget, andCelebrate Today.

He has also designed the Do-It-Yourself Book Publicity Kit and databases of the Top 700 Booksellers and Public Libraries.

John Kremer has spoken at book publishing, marketing, and publicity seminars in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Orlando, Miami, Denver, Boulder, Tucson, Portland, Seattle, Bellevue, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Toronto, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Phoenix, Saint Louis, Kennebunkport, Atlanta, Fresno, Indianapolis, Nashville, West Palm Beach, Saint Petersburg, Melbourne, Alexandria, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Sacramento, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Cleveland, Omaha, Calgary, London, Las Vegas, Washington DC, and many other cities.

His speeches have ranged from half-hour talks on book marketing to two-hour sessions on getting national publicity to three-day seminars on how to open new markets for your books.

Here are just a few of the hot topics John can talk on . . .

  • The A to Z Guide to Building Brands and Selling Rights
  • Creating a Brand: The 10 Principles of Success
  • Book Promotion 101: The secrets to book marketing success
  • Selling Rights: The Basis of a Successful Publishing Company
  • Seven Secrets of Success in Marketing
  • How to Open New Markets
  • 12 Alternatives to a Press Release — That Get Results
  • 25 Ways to Make the National News
  • How to Create a National Bestseller — Without Breaking the Bank
  • How to Build Your Customer List for Little or No Money
  • How to Sell to Special Markets: Catalogs, Premium Sales, Etc.
  • 50 Creative Book Marketing Ideas
  • What I Have Learned in 20 Years of Book Marketing

How to Create an Amazon.com Bestseller and 20 Other Ways to Sell More Books on Amazon

Website & Social media links

https://www.bookmarket.com

https://blogtourpalooza.com

https://thebookmarketingnetwork.com

https://bookmarketingbestsellers.com

https://askjohnkremer.com

https://askthebooksellers.com

https://www.facebook.com/thejohnkremer

https://www.pinterest.com/johnkremer/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkremer

https://twitter.com/johnkremer

https://www.selfpublishinghalloffame.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnKremer

https://www.amazon.com/John-Kremer/e/B001H6L2T4

Interview Questions

Questions

  • Why and how you decided to become an author and book marketing consultant?
  • What’s your background?
  • How did you start in the internet marketing would?
  • How to prepare the right book launch and marketing plan, what to do step by step?
  • How to plan a giveaway campaign on amazon efficiently?
  • How authors can be featured in the media efficiently?
  • What’s The book marketing network?
  • What’s the blog tour palooza? Why you created different blogs for your services and didn’t focus on putting all these content on only one blog?
  • How to create a supper start blog tour for authors?
  • How authors can create a loyal tribe efficiently?
  • Which book designing service do you recommend?
  • Where to find the best book editors and agent?
  • Top 2 editors that you recommend?
  • Do you recommend authors to use different editor for each one of their books and why?
  • Top 2 agents that you recommend for non-fiction and fiction?
  • How to pitch publishers efficiently?
  • How the open book horizons publishing works in terms of deals with authors?
  • Is it possible to agree with traditional publishers without giving their online selling rights?
  • Publishing Vs. Self – Publishing, if the author has both options to choose from, which one to choose?
  • Best e-books and audio books distributors that you can recommend?
  • How Self Published authors should create their book codes and ISBN correctly?
  • How self published authors can pitch book stores efficiently?
  • How to hit the amazon best selling list? How many books are required to be sold and within how long?
  • How to hit the wall street journal list?
  • How to hit the new york times best selling list? How many books are required to be soled?
  • Is it possible for self published authors to hit eh NY Times list?
  • What are the types of coaching packages that you have and how much do you charge for 1 on 1 coaching sessions?
  • Do you handle the entire marketing campaign for launching and marketing a certain book, if you do, how much it costs?
  • Best blogs for book marketing that you recommend?
  • How many online and offline team members are working with you?
  • Best service that you recommend for book trailers?
  • Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
  • Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
  • What’s your daily life and work routine looks like? 
  • What are your other hobbies?
  • Who are your top 3 mentors?
  • If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
  • What are your top 3 favorite books?
  • What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by? 
  • What makes you really happy?
  • How people can contact you?

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