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Using Tech for Book Marketing

Kate Gingold from Sprocket WebsitesKate has been building websites with her husband Don since 1996 for all sorts of clients, including authors.

Kate regularly writes about online marketing for Sprocket Websites and provides tips and techniques for entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Since being an author today is not really different from being an entrepreneur with a small business, most of those tips are just as useful to authors.

Kate is an author herself. She writes books on local history, including the award-winning "Ruth by Lake and Prairie," a fictionalized account of the true story of Great Lake pioneering to the shores of Chicago and beyond to found Naperville, Illinois. 

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At the Party-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named
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At the Party-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named

Since I missed the first Party-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named, I was super-excited to go to this year's event. Jefferson Avenue, just east of my homestead, was closed off and the downtown stores were prepared with games and give-aways.

According to articles on the internet, there were 70,000 people at the first event in 2007! Chicago didn't have that many people in the whole city until midway through the 1850s!

This time, "only" about 10,000 folks showed up for the 2016 party -- which is still a whole heck of a lot of people! There were crowds of well-behaved children, even though there was a great deal of wand-waving. Many of children were dressed up in costumes from the Harry Potter books. Plenty of their parents were dressed up, too!

The weather was perfect and everyone -- including me -- had a grand time!

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Marketing Author Interview

Following a presentation for In Print Professional Writers Group, Kate's husband (and publisher!) Don was interviewed by author Louise Brass for WBOM Radio. During the conversation, Don shared many of the marketing tips from his presentation. You can listen to it online here.

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The Sprocket Report is published every other week with Internet marketing tips, tools and techniques. The archive features articles from 2011 up to the present. You are welcome to read how business owners are using technology to market themselves and apply those tips to your author business.


 

 

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Kate will be happy to send you her brief Book Signing Checklist. Treat your book promotion like a business - because it is!

AND, since much of your efforts will be online, she'll also enroll you in her Sprocket Report, an email newsletter sent every other Tuesday, that includes 2 Internet Marketing tips and a post from a guest blogger on related business.

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