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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
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Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Fri May 16, 2008 12:35 pm | |
| " Word of mouth: Albert Greco, professor of media management at Fordham University in New York says that despite the marketing efforts of publishers, nothing continues to sell a book like word-of-mouth recommendations, passed on from one reader to another or one reading group to another." [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] |
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lin Five Star Member
Number of posts : 2753 Registration date : 2008-03-20 Location : Mexico
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Fri May 16, 2008 12:55 pm | |
| Absolutely. There's no better way your friends and fans can help you than just going into a bookstore and wondering why they don't have your book there for them to buy. |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sat May 17, 2008 12:31 pm | |
| I had this written and in an open window for a day or two. Just saw it so please forgive the length of time on posting it, Shelagh.
Quite an informative article, Shelagh. Thank you for posting the link. I do believe that word of mouth is quite successful. I also think once I go back to presenting that my book will be sold that way too. I seem to have more patients than my readers though. *grin* They want everyone to read it NOW. *giggle* |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sat May 17, 2008 12:32 pm | |
| Yep, lin, you are soooo right!!!! |
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flashgordon Four Star Member
Number of posts : 241 Registration date : 2008-01-11
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sat May 17, 2008 12:40 pm | |
| Also, get your friends that are into the internet to drop Amazon reviews, or bits on the social networks they visit about your book. Word-of-mouth can also work as word-of-internet.
Good luck. |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sat May 17, 2008 12:47 pm | |
| Thanks, Peter. I have given out the link for a review on Amazon.com. People say they will leave a review. Only 3 have out of over 100 that have said they would actually did leave one. Some are friends. Some are acquaintances. I figure I can 'nudge' my friends. What about the acquaintances?
I was also thinking about sending out emails and postcards to those who have purchased the book (that I know of) and ask them for a review also. Just back to that time thing. Doing it all is rewarding yet frustrating sometimes. *smile* |
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JoElle Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1311 Registration date : 2008-05-09
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Thu May 22, 2008 2:31 pm | |
| My first two books are due to be released later this month ... or at least sometime before 2010 .....
Of course I want my novels to sell, why else bother with having them published right? But I pretty much expected most of it to be word of mouth. I've already had quite a few pre-orders for them.
Word of mouth can be pretty effective. My four book series is YA fantasy and the main target group is young adult girls. Fortunately I have six nieces in this age bracket and all of them are readers. Five of them have read three of the four novels and love it.
All of them have told their friends in school about it. The other great thing is that three of my nieces live in Calfornia, two in Minnesota, and one in Texas. Then I have a nephew who lives in Illinois with his girlfriend, and she is a librarian, and she is ordering several copies for her library.
I also have a sister in law, who LOVES fantasy. She loved my novels and just happens to be the principal of a middle school in Southern Calfornia.
And so on and so on .....
There is this three degrees of separation I would like to make work: I have another sister in law, who has a sister, who knows Chris Gardner (real life character Will Smith portrayed in Pursuit of Happyness), and Chris Gardner was on Oprah ... sooooo, maybe ........
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Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Thu May 22, 2008 3:44 pm | |
| Reminds me of the song about the girl "who danced with a man, who'd danced with a girl, who'd danced with the Prince of Wales." |
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Fri May 23, 2008 9:28 am | |
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Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sun May 25, 2008 9:18 am | |
| It's frightening to think that we all know somebody who knows somebody who once slept with somebody who works with the editor of a BIG PUBLSING COMPANY.
The frightening part of that is that there's no trail of breadcrumbs to follow.
Malcolm |
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zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sun May 25, 2008 9:46 am | |
| Gee, I wish I knew somebody who slept with somebody! |
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Sue Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1216 Registration date : 2008-01-15
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Sun May 25, 2008 12:50 pm | |
| Love your sense of humor, Zada!!!!!! |
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Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
| Subject: Re: Recruiting Readers Tue May 27, 2008 3:28 pm | |
| That was a wonderful song, Shelagh. If I'm not mistaken it was the theme for that great British series on Lillie Langtry. It reminds me a little of the story about the man who owned the hatchet George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree, but the blade had been replaced three times and the handle six. |
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