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PUT CALL TO ACTION IN THE BACK OF YOUR BOOKS TO SELL MORE BOOKS

By:  Book Marketing Tools

There are two different kinds of book marketing, active marketing and passive marketing, and both are important.

Active marketing is when you go out to tell others about your book through blog tours, giveaways, free promotions, tweeting about your book, and more.

Passive marketing is setting up fan building and book selling mechanisms once, which will help you to continue to sell books passively once they are all set up.

A combination of both of these forms of book marketing will definitely help you to sell more books.

Use Calls To Action

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Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. Seriously Write: Five Tips for Marketing Your Masterpiece, Part Two by Meaghan Burnett http://ow.ly/CMVxp
2. Writer Unboxed » What You Pay for When You Hire a PR Firm http://ow.ly/CMY0Z
3. Top 10 Mistakes Every Author Should Avoid|Small Business PR http://ow.ly/CMYdC
4. How Authors Can Create Successful Blog Plans - Write Nonfiction NOW! http://ow.ly/CMYm1
5. Six Keys to Writing a Story with Spiritual Content | WordServe Water Cooler http://ow.ly/CMYs3
6. Why a Newsletter is a Marketing Must - Author Marketing Experts, Inc. http://ow.ly/CMYyt
7. Writability: How to Write Effective Betrayal http://ow.ly/CMZ8w
8. Voice – what you say, and how you say it at SF Novelists http://ow.ly/CMZjh
9. Put Calls To Action In The Back Of Your Books To Sell More Books | Book Marketing Tools Blog http://ow.ly/CMZuP
10. 5 Things For Authors To Tweet About (That Aren’t “Buy My Book!”) | Book Marketing Tools Blog http://ow.ly/CN1qC
11. Book Publishing, Not Fact-Checking - The Atlantic http://ow.ly/CN1LH
12. Fiction University: NaNoWriMo Prep: Planning Your Novel’s Middle http://ow.ly/CN20I
13. Author, Jody Hedlund: Encouragement for Writers Who Don't Know If They Should Keep Going http://ow.ly/CN28i
14. From Sarah, With Joy: How To Write In A New Genre (And 4 Reasons You Should) http://ow.ly/CN2kD
15. How One Business Increased Facebook Fans by 200 Percent | Social Media Examiner http://ow.ly/CN4jy
16. 25 Ideas to Transform Ho-Hum Infographics into Something Extraordinary - Copyblogger http://ow.ly/CN4nW
17. Your Blog as Part of an Overarching Business Strategy : @ProBlogger http://ow.ly/CN4rb
18. Is Crowdsourced Editing Right for Your Book? by Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas — The Book Designer http://ow.ly/CN4zY
19. Dreams vs. Goals: Give Your Writing Dreams Marching Orders | KayeDacus.com http://ow.ly/CN4EW
20. Five Things to Know About Your Book–and Yourself–Before Starting a Publicity Campaign - Where Writers Win http://ow.ly/CNNkZ
21. How to Write Successful Emails (and Improve Open Rates): @problogger http://t.co/gdZNytfiHu
22. 6 Tools to Make Your Life Easier - Books & Such Literary Management: Books & Such Literary Management http://ow.ly/COLSq

Happy writing and running, Kathy