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Mardi Gras Updates
The winner of Monday's Daily Prize drawing is ...
Jemi Fraser!
You win a LOT of Meg Cabot books (3 Hardbacks and 1 Paperback): Sweet Sixteen Princess, Pants on Fire, How to be Popular, and The Boy Next Door.
Please email me your address. Congratulations and thanks so much for following me and participating.
Reminders on how to Enter
There are 3 different ways to win! You must Follow me and Elana (who is also giving away agent critiques!)to be eligible for any prizes
- Daily prizes - Comment on each daily post (random drawing, awarded daily)
- Follow Prize - Follow me by Thursday night 12 PST (random drawing, awarded Friday)
- Two Grand Prizes (1 agented, 1 unagented): Answer Scavenger Hunt question on FRiday and Fill in Friday's form.
- You can get extra entries by doing these things.
- For rules and schedule, go here.
- You do not need to email me or comment and include all the links you are doing for extra points. Be sure to come back on Friday and fill out the mandatory form to be included in the Grand Prize Drawings. BTW - This is on the honor system.
- These prizes are for agented authors AND unagented. You both can win!
Frugal Marketing for Authors (Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of Frugal Marketing)
Remember:
- A big prize will be awarded to a post commenter (you must also be a follower): A copy of her ebook of Frugal Marketing along with other great books. You must comment by 12 midnight PST/3am EST.
- Clue #2 for the Marketing Scavenger Hunt will be hidden in the post
42 Comments on Mardi Gras Tuesday! How to do Frugal Promotion!, last added: 2/20/2010Display Comments Add a Comment
Great interview. Such helpful tips!Thanks so much!
I'll definitely be checking out the websites and books.
Wish I had had this information and the tools back in 2000 when my first book was published. Great tips.
Thanks for the great help to store for later!
GOOD STUFF! My favorite line :Quit thinking of marketing as selling books. Marketing is about building your career. :)
This blog continues to be a gem as I work through my first novel. Thanks for offering such helpful info, Shelli.
Thanks for the great advice. I'm going to check out your website & books too. It's really helpful to know the pitfalls to avoid.
A friend of mine recommended your contest, and I'm happy I've checked this out. Great interview, Shelli! I will have to spend the next couple of days becoming acquainted with your blog, it looks rich in information and inspiration (yah, I got the perspiration part, tee hee).
Nice to meet you!
A friend of mine recommended your contest, and I'm happy I've checked this out. Great interview, Shelli! I will have to spend the next couple of days becoming acquainted with your blog, it looks rich in information and inspiration (yah, I got the perspiration part, tee hee).
Nice to meet you!
Great interview - I'm surprised to hear the 7 times exposure before buying - I hadn't heard it was that high (I think I'd heard 3 times) but I guess by hearing good things the 7th time I'd be way more likely to buy something! Also, I love the bit about "Marketing is about building your career." That's right on!
thanks and
Namaste,
Lee
Nice writerly contest y'all have going on.
Happy Fat Tuesday! Laissez les bon temps rouller!
Another great interview! I'm filing it all away...
I'm all about frugal! That was a great interview!
Awesome advice, Carolyn. I"m off to buy your book right now. Can't wait to start reading it and using all your fabulous tips!
Jennifer
Great stuff! As the CFO of the household, I'm all about frugality -- I'm off to check out the website. Thanks!
VERY COOL INTERVIEW. I love what Carolyn said, "Quit thinking of marketing as selling books. Marketing is about building your career." Perfect advice. Because I have often thought if marketing as selling books.
And the Amazon thing too. She's right. So right.
Thank you Shelli (your awesomeness =)) and Carolyn. Great advice that I will remember from now on. =)
Very interesting! This is such important advice when you know that you will have to do a lot of your promotions out of your own pocket (yikes!).
Wow! Great advice! Thanks Shelli and Carolyn!
I suppose being online only helps if I'm not playing computer games ...
I love the idea of marketing as building a career. It reminds me that successful authors are the ones who are in it for the long haul!
Great tips.
Loved the article. That's the thing I like about Carolyn - she's clear and concise and doesn't leave the reader wondering.
That's the thing I like about Carolyn - she's clear and concise and doesn't leave us wondering.
I might have to buy the Frugal Promoter....some great ideas there!
Shelley
I agree with Heather several posts up...this interview whets my appetite and piques my curiosity...now I'm curious about the idea of using Amazon...
Clearly I need to read the whole book!
Thanks for being thought-provoking, Carolyn & Shelli!
Great tips. I'm going to check out her blogs. Thanks!
Congrats to Jemi Fraser!
Thanks, Shelli and Carolyn.
Thanks for the tips! I like that persistence is key. Not money, or connections. Persistence. That sounds like something I can do.
Fabulous tips! Thanks!
Sounds like a very useful book!
Great post! Frugal--LUV it!
Great interview - thanks for the tips. I especially liked the part about thinking about marketing at building your career. That makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the great post!
I'd love to get this book--- sounds so helpful!
Great interview. Very interesting about the 7 points of contact. I believe it!
I loved the tips in this post. Fave tip: "Quit thinking of marketing as selling books. Marketing is about building your career."
I loved the tips in this post. Fave tip: "Quit thinking of marketing as selling books. Marketing is about building your career."
"Quit thinking of marketing as selling books. Marketing is about building your career."
Love that!
Cool contest and thanks for the interview.
Frugal-to avoid waste. I love that word,its something I need to practice in all parts of my life.
Great interview, thanks for sharing.
Wow, this was a popular post! I thought I'd never get to the end of the line of comments. I have her marketing book and it's wonderful. Of course, like anything else, it's only as good as your commitment to following THRU on her advice. Time to pull it back out!
Thanks for this! :D
Great interview with great advice. I really like that you point out the need to evaluate the source of the tips you are receiving. I feel this is so important in everything we do. The internet is making getting to information so easy that people are forgetting to evaluate sources. Thanks for the great tips and reminders!