{"id":1045,"date":"2012-09-16T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicityarticles.net\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:38:00","slug":"sell-your-blog-for-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/sell-your-blog-for-the-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Your Blog for the Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s<br \/>\nTips of the Week<br \/>\nIssue #648 Sept. 15, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>===================================<\/p>\n<p>In This Issue<br \/>\n===================================<\/p>\n<p>1. Sell Your Blog for the Kindle<\/p>\n<p>2. How to Pitch a TV Segment<\/p>\n<p>3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n<p>4. Hound Video of the Week<\/p>\n<p>This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/p>\n<p>The Duluth Trading Co. opens a new store today where I live in<br \/>\nPort Washington, Wisc. I love the company&#8217;s website and their<br \/>\nReal Women Model Contest.<\/p>\n<p>======================================<br \/>\n1. Sell Your Blog for the Kindle<br \/>\n======================================<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers are looking under every rock for ways to monetize their<br \/>\nblogs.<\/p>\n<p>But most of them aren&#8217;t doing one of the easiest things possible<br \/>\nto get massive exposure and earn a little money. They aren&#8217;t<br \/>\npublishing their blogs in the Kindle store.<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon employee told me this week that only 4,050 blogs are<br \/>\navailable for the Kindle. I almost fell over!<\/p>\n<p>There are, roughly, more than 6.7 million blogs. If my math is<br \/>\ncorrect, that means less than 1 percent of the bloggers publish<br \/>\ntheir blogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/kindlepublishing.amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go there now for instructions on how to get started.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and<br \/>\nupdated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your<br \/>\nKindle so they can be read even when you&#8217;re not wirelessly<br \/>\nconnected.<\/p>\n<p>People can subscribe to my blog there for 99 cents a month, and<br \/>\nAmazon automatically renews their subscription monthly until they<br \/>\ncancel. I make only a pock full of change, but the exposure is<br \/>\nfabulous, considering the millions of people who buy from the<br \/>\nKindle store.<\/p>\n<p>I know 27 other ways to make money from blogging and I explained<br \/>\nthem all during the webinar<a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/shop\/27-ways-to-monetize-your-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;27 Ways to Monetize Your Blog.&#8221;<\/a> It<br \/>\ncomes with the 16-page electronic transcript on how to outsource<br \/>\nwork to freelancers. Hint: Give a freelancer several dozen blog<br \/>\nposts and tell her to turn them into an ebook that you can sell.<br \/>\nIs that easy, or what?<\/p>\n<p>Grab the video replay.<\/p>\n<p>=====================================<br \/>\n2. How to Pitch a TV Segment<br \/>\n=====================================<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called a segment proposal, and if you want to get onto a TV<br \/>\ntalk show, it can separate you from all the other publicity-<br \/>\nseekers who are clueless about how to approach the TV station<br \/>\nwith a great idea for a show.<\/p>\n<p>The segment proposal is a one-page summary of not just your idea,<br \/>\nbut of little details that will help the producer visualize the<br \/>\nsegment.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve written a book about dogs, let the station know you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nbring your lovable collie with you. (These shows LOVE animals.)<\/p>\n<p>What about props? If you have them, mention them.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the take-away for the audience? These shows LOVE counter-<br \/>\nintuitive messages such as &#8220;How to lose weight by eating buttered<br \/>\npopcorn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the webinar I hosted on Thursday, author Clint Arthur<br \/>\nwalked the audience through the most important elements of a<br \/>\nsegment proposal and showed them exactly what it looks like. He<br \/>\nalso listed the four ways to pitch TV shows and explained why<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have to be good-looking or slim (even though the hosts are)<br \/>\nto get onto local shows. Tips galore!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220701172046\/http:\/\/www.realfasttvpr.com\/joan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the video replay.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you&#8217;re welcome to use the &#8220;How to lose weight by eating<br \/>\nbuttered popcorn&#8221; formula but substitute your own topic.<\/p>\n<p>====================================<br \/>\n3. New Posts at My Blog<br \/>\n====================================<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/what-rich-authors-know-that-poor-authors-dont-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What rich authors know that poor authors don&#8217;t<\/a><br \/>\n[Free webinar Thursday]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/climb-the-tv-publicity-ladder-one-rung-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climb the publicity ladder, one rung at a time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/authors-your-big-advantage-on-local-tv-talk-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authors: Your Big Advantage on Local TV Talk Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/dog-tweets-21-tips-for-pulling-off-a-spectacular-live-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dog Tweets: 21 Tips for pulling off a spectacular event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>====================================<br \/>\n4. Hound Video of the Week<br \/>\n====================================<\/p>\n<p>Bingo came into Cole Hein&#8217;s life when he was just 2 years old to<br \/>\nassist the boy with an undiagnosable disorder that stops Cole<br \/>\nfrom breathing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/summeranne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The dog has saved Cole&#8217;s life many times.<\/a> When<br \/>\nBingo was diagnosed with a debilitating disease, Cole decided to<br \/>\ncreate a &#8220;lick it list&#8221; of things he wanted Bingo to experience<br \/>\nbefore she dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week Issue #648 Sept. 15, 2012 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== &#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221; =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Sell Your Blog for the Kindle 2. How to Pitch a TV Segment 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. 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