11 Free Resources to Improve Your Marketing Skills

You want to sell your books, right?

But like many of us you don’t have the budget to hire a publicist or marketing expert. That means learning marketing skills for yourself.

I know a whole lot more than I did when I first started freelancing, but I have a lot of room to grow, too. Plus, with today’s advancing technology the landscape is always changing. There will always be something new to learn.

The task of marketing can fast consume our time, so I offer the following resources as a way for you to find what helps you the most. You certainly don’t need to use them all. Find a balance with those sites you follow and how much time you spend on the task of marketing each week.

• Social Media Examiner, they offer both a blog http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/ and a podcast http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/category/podcast-episodes/
• Firepole Marketing offers both a blog http://www.firepolemarketing.com/blog/ and a podcast http://www.firepolemarketing.com/connect-engage-inspire/
• Book Marketing Tools.com http://bookmarketingtools.com/ and their vlog, The Author Hangout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_nHKypUXE
• The Publicity Hound, http://publicityhound.com/
• Build Book Buzz with Sandra Beckwith, http://buildbookbuzz.com/
• The Savvy Book Marketer, http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/
• Buffer, the blog of the Bufferapp social media posting tool, http://blog.bufferapp.com/find-audience-build-a-community
• Hootsuite, the blog of Hootsuite social media posting tool, http://blog.hootsuite.com/

Do you have different ones you like? Please share them in the comments below.