{"id":6094,"date":"2015-11-10T22:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:43:00","slug":"publicity-tips-pinterest-travel-photos-sell-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/publicity-tips-pinterest-travel-photos-sell-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest Travel Photos Sell Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue #967 Nov. 10, 2015
Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n

“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/h2>\n

In This Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  1. Pinterest Travel Photos Sell Books<\/li>\n
  2. Flabby Words That Rob Your Writing<\/li>\n
  3. Retweet Your Reviews<\/li>\n
  4. Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    This Week in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"cheesehead\"Green Bay Packers fans are in mourning. Our team has been shredded like a big hunk of cheddar, last week by the Denver Broncos and on Sunday by the Carolina Panthers. Win or lose, I still wear my Cheesehead hat with pride.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    1. Pinterest Travel Photos Sell Books<\/h3>\n

    \"Joanna<\/p>\n

    People on Pinterest are suckers for travel photos like this one of author Joanna Penn<\/strong>, scuba diving in New Zealand. <\/p>\n

    That’s why Pinterest expert Beth Hayden<\/strong> tells her author clients to relate their book topics, even tangentially, to travel.<\/p>\n

    “Most authors can come up with boards on travel, even if it’s just a place for them to keep their own ideas for their personal lives, so it’s usually not terribly hard,” she says.<\/p>\n

    For example, Joanna adding to her board, The Thriller Life. Travel and Adventure!<\/a> and invites armchair travelers to go with her.<\/p>\n

    You can too, whether you write romance novels, sci-fi, children’s books, mysteries or books in any other genre.<\/p>\n

    All those gorgeous travel photos can, indeed, help you sell books. Beth will explain how when I host a free webinar with her from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Nov. 12. It’s called “The 3-Step Strategy for Doubling Your (Fiction or Non-fiction) Book Sales Using Pinterest.”<\/p>\n

    Register here<\/a> and come with questions.<\/p>\n

    2. Flabby Words That Rob Your Writing<\/h3>\n

    People in The Publicity Hound Mentor Program know about my disdain for flabby writing.<\/p>\n

    If you come from the worlds of academia or nonprofits, you were trained to write in a convoluted style that makes you sound smart and important. You love using words with four or five syllables and mile-long sentences. The problem is, no one can understand what you’ve written. <\/p>\n

    Improve your writing, starting today, by reviewing Shane Arthur’s<\/strong> list of 297 Flabby words and Phrases That Rob Your Writing of All Its Power<\/a>. <\/p>\n

    If you need ongoing coaching with writing or publicity, unlimited email support and two one-on-one calls each month, join my mentor program.<\/a><\/p>\n

    3. Retweet Your Reviews<\/h3>\n

    \"14<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Pay attention to your Amazon product and book reviews, testimonials people email to you, and nice things clients say about you.<\/p>\n

    It’s all fodder for Twitter.<\/p>\n

    Tweeting your own reviews and testimonials, and your clients’, is just one of 14 ways to add spice to your Twitter feed. \u00a0<\/p>\n

    See the other 13 here<\/a> (I love #9).<\/p>\n

    4. Hound Video of the Week<\/h3>\n

    \"bella\"<\/p>\n

    Meet 11-year-old Bella<\/a> who weighs only 43 pounds, and George, her really Great Dane who weighs three times more than she does and helped her walk again. She suffers from a rare genetic condition that affects her bones and limits her mobility.<\/p>\n[Tweet “#PublicityTips from @PublicityHound–Pinterest Travel Photos Sell Books #BookPromotion”]\n

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    The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n

    – Issue #967 Nov. 10, 2015<\/h3>\n
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    1. Pinterest Travel Photos Sell Books<\/li>\n
    2. Flabby Words That Rob Your Writing <\/li>\n
    3. Retweet Your Reviews<\/li>\n
    4. Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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