Rob Eagar’s Monday Morning Marketing Tipis written to help authors, publishers, and organizationsspread their message like wildfire. This week’s focus: My wife, Ashley the Wonderful, is a voracious reader. She can easily go through a book a week, and she enjoys referring her favorite books to friends. Last week, she made a statement that stopped

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Rob Eagar’s Monday Morning Marketing Tipis written to help authors, publishers, and organizationsspread their message like wildfire. This week’s focus: In today’s publishing climate, nothing influences a publisher’s interest more than the strength of an author’s platform. If publishers don’t think you can help sell books, then they will pass on your proposal and choose

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Rob Eagar’s Monday Morning Marketing Tipis written to help authors, publishers, and organizationsspread their message like wildfire. This week’s focus: The Top 10 MisconceptionsAuthors Believe about Marketing 1. My publisher will market my book for me. That’s wishful thinking. Unless you’re an established bestselling author, publishers will do very little to market your book. You’ll

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Rob Eagar’s Monday Morning Marketing Tipis written to help authors, publishers, and organizationsspread their message like wildfire. This week’s focus: As winter approaches, snow begins to fall – which means fun activities, such as building a snowman or throwing snowballs at an unsuspecting spouse, kid, or neighbor. To build a snowman, you start by packing

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Rob Eagar’s Monday Morning Marketing Tipis written to help authors, publishers, and organizationsspread their message like wildfire. This week’s focus:Social networking is typically a passive approach to marketing, because you’re at the mercy of other people deciding to visit your blog, “like” you on Facebook friend, “follow” you on Twitter, or subscribe to your YouTube

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