Today, you can’t walk down a street in any small town or major city in the United States without observing a person with a mobile device, whether it’s a Smart phone pressed against the ear, tapping with strong thumb action on an IPAD or reading on the Barnes & Nobles Nook Book or the Amazon. Com Kindle. We need a new marketing idea to take advantage of this technology market. Authors let’s get out of the box and uncover this new audience for our books. Let’s capture our share of the mobile e-commerce business! My solution that is working for me: Mobile Website! My website provider (Web.com) created a mobile website that is a version of my online website. This is not a plug for my website provider; it’s just the company that gave me this beneficial service. Just think of the numbers and the people that can be reached on their mobile devices! Today, consumers don’t have to sit down at a computer or crack open a laptop to get information about your books. You can reach this mobile audience with a mobile website. This will drive visitors, not only to your website, but to your Facebook, twitter and Linkedin.com and other social media outlets. We need innovative and fresh ideas to get the message out about our books and a mobile website is another means to gain readership for our books. There are millions and billions of cell phone and mobile device users on planet earth. Let’s make our website, our 24-hour marketing tool, available to as many people as possible. Jus Do You have a Mobile Website? Today, you can’t walk down a street in any small town or major city in the United States without observing a person with a mobile device, whether it’s a Smart phone pressed against the ear, tapping with strong thumb action on an IPAD or reading on the Barnes & Nobles Nook Book or the Amazon. Com Kindle. We need a new marketing idea to take advantage of this technology market. Authors let’s get out of the box and uncover this new audience for our books. Let’s capture our share of the mobile e-commerce business! My solution that is working for me: Mobile Website! My website provider (Web.com) created a mobile website that is a version of my online website. This is not a plug for my website provider; it’s just the company that gave me this beneficial service. Just think of the numbers and the people that can be reached on their mobile devices! Today, consumers don’t have to sit down at a computer or crack open a laptop to get information about your books. You can reach this mobile audience with a mobile website. This will drive visitors, not only to your website, but to your Facebook, twitter and Linkedin.com and other social media outlets. We need innovative and fresh ideas to get the message out about our books and a mobile website is another means to gain readership for our books. There are millions and billions of cell phone and mobile device users on planet earth. Let’s make our website, our 24-hour marketing tool, available to as many people as possible. Just another idea for marketing our books. Check out my mobile website, a version of my website, that you can download on any mobile device. Mobile email: m.jtwrites.com My website: http://www.jtwrites.com God Bless, Julius t another idea for marketing our books. Check out my mobile website, a version of my website, that you can download on any mobile device. Mobile email: m.jtwrites.com My website: http://www.jtwrites.com God Bless, Julius
Month: December 2011
Purple Phantoms Marketing Logo!
For my new Young Adult novel, Purple Phantoms, one of my high school students, Joshua Marlow, created a logo for the marketing of the novel. He did a wonderful job! This is not the book cover.
The Young Adult novel is about the haunting of a high school basketball team.
I’m looking forward to your feedback: Please email me: Purplephantoms@yahoo.com
Please click on the link to view the logo on the website: http://www.jtwrites.com/id16.html
Chapter One
They were five marauders, seeking to find an athletic home. It would be a place for ghosts to…
The rest will be coming in 2012!
Purple Phantoms: Young Adult Novel!
When my editor, Dennis DeRose, and I talked about my fourth novel Purple Phantoms, two words came up that sent shivers up my spine: Young Adult. Oh my God, how do I handle the marketing of a young adult novel?
My three previous novels have been marketed to adults: A Brownstone in Brooklyn, Philly Style and Philly Profile and the 2011 national award winning Ghost of Atlanta. Now, with Purple Phantoms scheduled for publication in 2012, I must plan the marketing process now.
I read that the young adult market covers ages 12-18. This group spans an age range which covers almost an entire decade. This is a complex genre as there are tremendous differences in the intellectual and emotional maturity of fourth grader versus a college freshman.
I know there are certain unique features which set the young adult novels apart.
My problem: How do you market to such a diverse group? I’m not afraid to ask for help and advice to reach the maximum number of young readers. Where and how do you blog to this group? What kind of website do you develop for young adults? How do you get libraries involved in the marketing of young adult books?
Help! Help! Help!
Please email me with any advice:
Fantastsic Ghost of Atlanta Book Review: Barnes & Nobles!
I wanted to share this wonderful news!
This is why I write.
As an author it’s an incredible feeling to see that you have touched a reader with the books you write.
The 2011 National Gold Medal Award winning novel Ghost of Atlanta received an incredible book review by a reader on the Barnes & Nobles Website:
“Great Read!
Mr. Thompson has a way of writing that puts your right alongside his characters. He has taken the use of all senses to another level. A literary piece indeed! I will be picking up more of this authors work.”
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