Book-Blog Hybrid That Works
I’m not sure how I stumbled across the blog Ultra-Gross: Your Source for Gross News, but I’m impressed. It gets the job done, which is to say it offers ongoing promotion of author Bart King’s The Big Book of Gross Stuff, published last year by Gibbs Smith.
The site also offers a front door to draw in potential buyers through Google, with enough sampling to offer reassurance about precisely how gross the book is and enough new material to keep big fans coming back.
Not every book lends itself to this sort of promotion, of course. Even with other nonfiction topics, it would be hard to find such a steady supply of news to share.
2 comments:
Thanks for the post! Ultra-Gross has been sort of an ongoing experiment in marketing ... while the lab results came back quickly ("disgusting!"), the jury's out on whether it's worth the time investment. (Mixed metaphor alert!)
But it IS a nice bit of fun.
Yeah, it’s tough to figure out the return-on-investment from daily blogging. But then publishing in general has no idea what marketing really works anyway.
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