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Dave Hallier on October 25th, 2011

Apparently, I’m desperate. It seems I only think about blogging when I have absolutely nothing else to do or when something is weighing heavily on my mind and I feel the need to get it out of my system. Today’s reason is that my Internet connection has been down for 12 hours and I’m running [...]

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Dave Hallier on September 8th, 2011

If you have a book listed on Amazon, you are probably familiar with “tags.” Amazon allows you, the author, to assign tags to your book listing. Tags are descriptive words or short phrases which describe your book. Some tags relate to characteristics of your book (kindle, text to speech enabled, nonfiction, etc.) and others hint [...]

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Dave Hallier on May 26th, 2011

I recently read about one successful author who said he spends half his time writing and the other half marketing. These days, unfortunately, marketing and promoting are a major part of an author’s job description. Unless you have unlimited funds, you can’t put your book’s title in front of every potential customer. The best you [...]

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