Authors on Talk Radio & Writing Articles Online

Again, Mark Victor Hansen of "Chicken Soup for the Souls" live by this one method of book publicity...at least one talk radio show every single day for the life of their books...and, they still do this today. Free publicity, my dears.

How to Clinch Radio Interviews by Don Crowther's 101PublicRelations.com offers these basic tips.

I just wrote up my ad that I'm going to fax, email and pitching to talk radio stations this month: March being Women's History Month.

Tell me whaccha think? If this doesn't get me booked...I have 5 other pitches in my back pocket. You should have 5-6 "hooks" as a good show...not your book's hook, there's a drastic difference.

I'll keep you posted of the results.

BTW, you have to read my How I Became an ezinearticles.com Platnium Member blog post today at Empowering Women Right Now Blog.

Here's the thing, fellow Authors...you wrote a book...you have chapters and chapters of free articles to reprint. This is what I did...and look at the results. My website and blog are hopping!

More Free publicity!

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Perfect Show to Celebrate Women’s History Month—March
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What Do Oprah, Condoleezza Rice and Britney Spears Have In Common? And, How Can Ordinary Woman Make Their Mark in History With This One Principle?

A horrible car accident in July 2004 empowered this work-at-home-mom to write a one-of-a-kind inspirational, multi-cultural and spiritual resource-guide in three-days while in bed. Ponn offers tips, tools and steps to empower women to create a power network so they will live a life of success every single day.

According to recent data:

- Stress is a more serious problem for women than men.

- Roper Starch Worldwide Survey showed that nearly one in four mothers who work full-time and have children under 13 feel stress almost every day.

In an energizing, enlightening, and hysterical manner, Ponn reveals:

• What’s the one critical thing successful women do every single day that ordinary women just don’t understand?
• How to stop obsessing, perfecting and stressing-out right now.
• What it means to say “I’m beautiful, I’m gorgeous, and I’m sexy”?
• What’s a chick chick’s club, and how every woman can be a proud member today?
• Why mastering the art of networking in the old boy’s club doesn’t compare a woman’s ability to power network to building their power new girl’s network?
  
  Available Last Minute.
  
  Credentials: Ponn Sabra is the author of Empowering Women to Power Network ~ How-to Save Time, Earn More Money & Live a Life of Success By Building Quality Relationships Everywhere You Go, PublishAmerica, Summer 2005. At the age of 25 with a Masters in Public Health, Ponn became one of the youngest appointed public health officials in the US. In just three years, she was published in the nation’s most prestigious public health journal, received numerous local, regional, and national honors and awards, and featured in multiple local media outlets. Three years later, Sabra became an accomplished freelance writer, top-producing licensed Realtor®, world-traveler, and homeschool mother of three.
  
  Availability: Northwest Ohio/Southeast Michigan. Nationwide via telephone. Available Last Minute.
  
  Contact Information: Ponn M. Sabra, MPH Phone: 419-882-2338, Email: ponnsabra@yahoo.com, Website: http://www.empowerwomennow.com/

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Empowering Book Authors on A Shoestring Budget

First, thank you (my loyal readers) for staying tuned to this blog.

Second, I apologize for being a way for the week.

Third, please logon to Empowering Women Right Now Blog as often, if not more, to catch-up on all the new-news and projects I'm working on. That will be the primary blog where I share everything. There's tons of marketing online and offline that will ultimately aid in your book publicity.

I will keep very specific book-publicity materials here.

Here's some examples (details and examples at Empowering Women Right Now Blog):

- Press release campaign positions you as an authority on your topic. I'm becoming known for (local & national):
Empowering women, Women entrepreneurs, Work-at-home-moms, then home-business professionals and entrepreneurs in general.

- Writing articles and sending to ezinearticles.com and more...(more on this subject later)

- Targeted audience for your website with a specific-USP (Unique Selling Point). See EmpowerWomenNow.com for what I mean.

- Hosting/Organizing a local event yourself: Toledo Home-Business Moms Expo

- FREE resources at your Website:

• Articles: FREE Women's Empowerment Articles
• E-course: FREE Empower Your Way to Success E-Course
• Ezine: FREE Empower Me Now Tips Newsletter

Please sign-up for all my resources, duplicate the theories, and re-print the articles protected by copyrights.

Remember: The Marketing Law of 7 (6-10, depending on the resouce quoted):

It takes 6-10 times of you and your products or services to be promoted or publicized before a purchase is made. Your website has to be your online storefront where visitors surf by frequently. During which time you need to build trust and respect (as an expert), so they will ultimately purchase your products.

Here's the great thing about creating content: as an author, you have your book with your own the copyrights. So re-print them in various mediums for maximum publicity. No one else is going to do this, but you!

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MarketAbility--Book Publicity and Promotion with a Twist

1. Get on their MarketAbility's mailing list and consume their free articles right now,
click here.

I mentioned their blog before too: Book Marketing & Publicity. Tons of archives, get lost and read up. great cost-effective ideas!

2. Jerry Minchew offered great tip about his brochure to yesterday's post Valuable email real estate wasted . Read up.

Keep 'em coming.

3. Here's one other thing, link relevancy is more important than link exchange. So, learn how to give SEO-effective (Search Engine Optimization) links.

Instead of posting my link: Ponn M. Sabra at http://www.EmpowerWomenNow.com


I offer this html for my main page at
{a href="http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Empowering_Women_Entrepreneurs.html"}
Empowering Enlightened Women Entrepreneurs{/a}: [Replcae {} with <> ]

And it looks like this:

Empowering Enlightened Women Entrepreneurs



I offer this html for my book page:

{a href={a href="http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Empowering_Women_Power_Network.html"}http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Empowering_Women_Power_Network.html{/a}}
{a{/a} class="" href="{a href="http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Empowering_Women_Power_Network.html"}Empowering'}http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Empowering_Women_Power_Network.html"}Empowering{/a}
Women to Power Network -
How-to Save Time, Earn More Money and
Live a Life of Success Everywhere You Go{/a}{/a}

And it looks like this:

Empowering Women to Power Network - How-to Save Time, Earn More Money and Live a Life of Success Everywhere You Go


Just copy the code and insert your html with a description that best describes your main page, or I use the full book title.

Too techie for you? Please post your questions and I'll try to break it down more for ya.

PS. Do NOT feel that that I'm such kind of computer-geek...I'm a Newbie. I just got online last month, and launched my website officially on February 14th. Click here for my Buy Your Own Box of Candy This Valentine’s Day press release for my website launch.

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Valuable email real estate wasted

My dears,
Please utilize your email signature. How do I know if you're an Author, Author, Author?

Tell me...and tell me how to reach you.

I just received two emails from PA Authors today, and both without contact information. You're wasting good email real estate and an opportunity for free book publicity.

Here's mine:

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Ponn Mahayosnand Sabra, MPH
Women's Empowerment Author & Speaker
Toledo, Ohio 43623
Phone: 419-882-2338
Fax: 413-643-8594
Email: ponnsabra@gmail.com

For F'REE Women's Empowerment Tips, Reports & Articles logon http://www.EmpowerWomenNow.com

Empowering Women Right Now Blog: http://empowerwomennow.blogspot.com

Book publicity budget guidelines & more

$50,000+ OR 40+ hours a week to publicize a book effectively!?
Holy cow! For more details, click here. to read "Book Marketing Budget Information" by Kim Dushinski. Publisher of Book Publicity and Marketing Blog. A must-read, I have in My Yahoo! account.

AND, this does NOT guarantee a best-seller by any means! Am I surprised? No. Considering Authors are professionals and they make a living writing and promoting their books.

Since I wrote Empowering Women to Power Network as my own inspirational, empowerment journal after my car accident, I knew I wanted to share it with the world...BUT, the world is a pretty darn big place.

Here's the thing, it (our books) can not be taken lightly. Yes, it's our story, our 'gift to the world', our empowerment, etc...but, I also knew that writing my book was a means for me to share my voice, my words, and my views to fill a void I know I can fill. Therefore, I have to put everything into perspective and promote, promote, promote.

I just popped up my Sponsor The Book page. Pretty bold? Maybe. But, remember it's all about working with Your Target Market...you must have a USP (Unique Selling Point). What are yours?

My target market is Enlightened Women Entrepreneurs, and my site is jam-pack with FREE resources to help my readers. Therefore asking for Sponsors on my page is not asking too much.

I opened my merchant paypal account (free), you just pay a percentage when you transfer the money into your bank account. As you'll see I accept American and Canadian dollars, because I have a ton of family in Canada and a ever-growing power network of colleagues now that I'm online.

I actually just got a subscriber from Australia and a ton of family in over a dozen countries. So, I'm actually still have limitations, so I have a "Send a check or money order" clause below.

Again, I'm posting updates of my book publicity here, and you better bet your book that I'm gonna keep track. Accountability is one very important step to achieving success, as in my Empowerment Equation for Success. Which I have reprint rights for in my FREE 7-day E-course entitled, Empower Your Way to Success.

I'm working on my FREE Articles so I can submit them to FREE ezine article sites and positioning myself as an Enlightened Women Entrepreneur Expert. What's your speciality?

Back to work. Later!

Must have book marketing guide

A must-have book of all time:
1001 Ways to Market Your Book by John Kremer. Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen praise this book (Chicken Soup for the Soul) as this is where started off years ago with their very first book.

Not only is this a great reference book, but it's actually very fun to read.

Shoestring Book Publicity Blog Goals

I plan to use this blog for a number of reasons:

1. Have one convenient place to log book publicity articles and ideas rather than filling up "my favorites" folder with anymore "read this" "read this first", or "read this later" links. I can title each submission, and use the ideas as time allows.

2. To jot down all the book marketing and publicity efforts I do so I can track (with time & dates) which methods works best. My binders and marketing notebooks are getting pretty messy too. Since I plan on utilizing the internet and WWW as much as possible to publicize my book, it's another covenience for me as well.

3. (The most important) To build a forum for other self-published or small press published authors to post comments, ideas & share their successes and failures. Why reinvent the cycle or let anyone waste their time and money?

4. (Closest to my heart) To find the best means of publicizing my upcoming book, Empowering Women to Power Network, on a shoestring budget. After experiencing a horrible car accident 8 months ago, our family of five is down to one-income. I had no idea how much time and costs are invested in one's pre-publication book publicity.

Read this article, How Much to Invest in Your Book and What It Means to Your Workload, right now.

Empowered to share my words with the world, I'm penny-less to get it to the masses on the publication date. While I have some time, it's also limited to my physical and mental capabilities as well. I vow to be patient, ingenious, and optimistic, and I know this blog will aid in my endeavors.

5. (Creating a PAPub) For my fellow PA authors, I want to make this blog a real-time marketing tool for all of our creative words to be seen by the world. Please comment as often as possible, share your books, post your websites, and let's have fun publicizing our books together.

To our empowerment & success,
Ponn

How Women Can Save Time, Earn Money, Find Success

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Let Me Show You How Women Can Save Time, Earn Money and Live a Life of Success Now

Contact information:
Ponn M. Sabra, MPH
Author, Empowering Women to Power Network
4615 Holland-Sylvania #6 Toledo, Ohio 43623
Phone: 419-882-2338
Email: ponnsabra@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.empowerwomennow.com/
Toledo, Ohio (February 11, 2005) – A horrible car accident empowers a work-at-home-mom to share with other women how-to save time, earn more money & live a life of success in her debut book, Empowering Women to Power Network.

Empowering Women to Power Network is a one-of-a-kind inspirational, multi-cultural and spiritual resource-guide that offers tips, tools and steps to empower women to create a power network. A ten-step system, this is one of the first networking books that challenges women to start building a power network from the very first page to the very last. Sabra acts as a guide and cheerleader as she walks the reader through every single step. A motivating chapter for the shy and introverted was added as well. This unique book prompted PublishAmerica, LLP, to offer Sabra a contract after only 12 days of receiving her proposal.

Written in 3 days while in bed, Sabra shares that women can achieve their goals with tips, such as her Empowerment Equation for Success. While still undergoing therapy for her back, shoulder, knee, vertigo and dizziness, Sabra shares her joy to be alive.

At the age of 25 with a Masters in Public Health, Sabra became one of the youngest appointed public health officials in the United States. In just three years, she was published in the nation’s most prestigious public health journal, received numerous local, regional, and national honors and awards, and featured in multiple local media outlets. Three years later, Sabra became an accomplished freelance writer, top-producing licensed Realtor®, world-traveler, homeschool mother of three, and profiled in Marquis’ Who’s Who of America & Who’s Who of American Women. Yet, none of these achievements measures up to what Sabra considers being the most important thing in life—loving and taking care of herself as a woman first.

Happy and healthy women attract other like-minded people to them, described as power people. The instantaneous bonds created through compassion and genuine interest is where the power lies. Power people keep returning to one another’s friendship and company, and not just their products and services. This is where a power network starts and how it grows.

As a world-traveler, Sabra explains cultural and religiously-sensitive situations that may occur in this global economy. Sabra offers fun tips to notice and handle uncommon situations with respect.

“…This is the best thing to come along since “Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul”…I look forward to offering this book to all of my Team Women members”, says Karyn Fagan the Founding President of Team Women, the world’s first “women-only” network marketing organization.

Planned for a release this Summer 2005, Sabra submitted her final draft on Friday, January 28, 2004. “I’m humbled by the positive response I received during the peer review stage, and honored to be able to help other women. Achieving true balance in my life is not always easy; it’s empowering to walk this journey of life with other aspiring women”, says Sabra.

For more information about the book & FREE women’s empowerment resources, visit http://www.empowerwomennow.com/ or call Ponn Sabra at 419-882-2338.
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