Comments on: How to Become a Virtual Book Tour Host http://marketmynovel.com/2009/08/how-to-become-a-virtual-book-tour-host.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-become-a-virtual-book-tour-host Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:38:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cheryl Malandrinos http://marketmynovel.com/2009/08/how-to-become-a-virtual-book-tour-host.html/comment-page-1#comment-327 Cheryl Malandrinos Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:02:44 +0000 http://marketmynovel.com/?p=453#comment-327 I honestly don't feel that mixing a personal blog and a blog where you review products always works out to be the best thing. When I began hosting clients, I used my personal blog. Pretty soon the blog became more about others than me. That's when I branched off and created The Book Connection. Using Facebook and Twitter to promote your stops has definitely helped increase my readership; FB more so than Twitter. Holding giveaways certainly helped to beef up my numbers too. My one suggestion is to try and get into giveaways where the author, publisher or publicist is the one shipping out the book to the winner. Otherwise, it can get quite costly. This week alone, I spent $40 to ship out books to winners of the giveaways I held over the past month. I look forward to more great posts, Ang. Cheryl I honestly don’t feel that mixing a personal blog and a blog where you review products always works out to be the best thing. When I began hosting clients, I used my personal blog. Pretty soon the blog became more about others than me. That’s when I branched off and created The Book Connection.

Using Facebook and Twitter to promote your stops has definitely helped increase my readership; FB more so than Twitter. Holding giveaways certainly helped to beef up my numbers too. My one suggestion is to try and get into giveaways where the author, publisher or publicist is the one shipping out the book to the winner. Otherwise, it can get quite costly. This week alone, I spent $40 to ship out books to winners of the giveaways I held over the past month.

I look forward to more great posts, Ang.

Cheryl

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