16 Author Success Principles
Authors want to know what the secret sauce to
good book marketing is. Though there are tactics, resources, events, and people
to call upon for that, nothing works best until you have your act together. You
can improve your book marketing by examining ways to improve yourself.
Do you:
1. See, say, and/or do things that others won’t,
can’t and don’t?
2. Have strong convictions and beliefs that guide
your actions, a foundation of values that focuses you?
3. Look at how to be different while making a
difference?
4. Set long-term, short-term, and daily goals?
5. See the possibilities in others, circumstances,
and yourself?
6. Look to help others who can help you?
7. Understand your value and unique selling
proposition?
8. Take action over contemplation?
9. Recognize that little separates success from
failure, but that the gap must be bridged nevertheless?
10. Promote positive thinking, take right action,
and treat others respectfully?
11. Seek out new opportunities, see them where
others don’t, and create ones that don’t yet exist?
12. Accept things as they appear to be, or change
the way things are?
13. Listen to what people say and want -- or do you
ignore their needs and concerns?
14. Put others first?
15. Understand how your perceptions dictate your
actions?
16. Rely on the help of others to enable your
success – and recognize that you are the product of your experiences,
connections, and thoughts?
I understand that we are all different from one
another and that some of the rah-rah self-help, inspirational and motivational
speeches out there are not for everyone. Nothing is one-size-fits-all, but
still, you would be hard-pressed to disagree with any and all of the principles
stated above, because there’s a truth to each of them that is undeniable. Yet,
we live our lives ignoring, violating, or mis-executing these principles, just
like we fail at times on our diet and exercise regimens, our fiscal
responsibilities, and our self-control when it comes to addictive substances,
habits, and people.
We are humans, not robots that can just be
programmed. We are not just animals that follow our basest instincts without
consequences.
We are not characters in a film or novel. We are
real – fragile and fearful, weak, tired, angry, and anxious.
But, we have the power to do better. To measure
and improve. To seek out help. To switch courses and to play up to our
abilities. Keep it simple. Change something today that makes you better
tomorrow. Repeat and rinse. Never stop striving for improvement no matter what
station you have reached in life. The better you, the better writer and book
marketer you are to become.
Need
Book Marketing Help?
Brian Feinblum, the founder of this
award-winning blog, can be reached at [email protected] He is available
to help authors promote their story, sell their book, and grow their brand. He
has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in
all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator!
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About Brian Feinblum
Brian Feinblum should
be followed on LinkedIn. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2023.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two
kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His
writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent. This award-winning blog has generated over 3.4
million pageviews. With 4,600+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named
one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018
as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by
www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades,
including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book
publicity firm, and two jobs at two independent presses, Brian has worked with
many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with
best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen,
Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard,
Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C.
Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He recently hosted a
panel on book publicity for Book Expo America, and has spoken at ASJA,
Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction
Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland)
Writers Association, APEX, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association.
His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News
(Westchester) and The Washington Post . He has been featured in The
Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald . For more information, please consult:
www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum
