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Context vs. Content: What Sells Your Book

Debbie Weil

About 5 seconds if it's a Kindle eBook. That's why Voxie Media's Beta Authors are writing a short Kindle eBook. There are too many steps (hurdles) to start reading if you post a short book to Scribd , for example. Readers can dive in via multiple devices: smartphones, iPad, Kindle Cloud Reader and Kindle.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Scribd If there are written works, such as documents, eBooks, and use cases, that you want available to your team or customers, Scribd is the way to go. Scribd allows people to read a piece of writing, share it with others, and provide comments on it.

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How To Be A Twitter Spammer

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » How To Be A Twitter Spammer How To Be A Twitter Spammer Written on September 3, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media 13 Comments - Leave a comment! How To Be A Twitter Spammer is a humorous look at Twitter Spam.

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Newsjacking: David Meerman Scott’s New Book on Real-Time PR Is Released in Real-Time

Debbie Weil

As always, David packs the book with spot-on examples like Oakley giving Oakley Radar sunglasses to each of the 33 Chilean miners when they first emerged into daylight after 69 days underground. DMS: Newsjacking is only available as an ebook and not via dead trees. Makes sense, doesn’t it? If so, why? so it had lots of reach.

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Newsjacking: David Meerman Scott’s New Book on Real-Time PR Is Released in Real-Time

Debbie Weil

As always, David packs the book with spot-on examples like Oakley giving Oakley Radar sunglasses to each of the 33 Chilean miners when they first emerged into daylight after 69 days underground. DMS: Newsjacking is only available as an ebook and not via dead trees. Makes sense, doesn’t it? If so, why? so it had lots of reach.

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65 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Let’s take article marketing as an example. Then submit your PDFs to document sharing sites like Scribd and DocStoc. If you are in “online money making” niche, a free ebook that teaches people who to make money on Twitter might make an appropriate freebie. But again, it all depends on you and your situation.

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Making Contact: How You Deliver Your Content Matters

Convince & Convert

Utilizing sites like DocStoc , SlideShare , Scribd , and Visual.ly For example, if you are publishing a 30-page eBook, you might consider posting the first 10 pages to SlideShare and then directing people to your website to download the rest. One way to help ensure this happens is by only posting teasers for your content.

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