Holiday Greeting Cards for Self Publishing Authors
Want to send out a Holiday mailing to promote your book? Outskirts Press now offers personal and customized Holiday Greeting Cards, featuring your published book!
Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes.
Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Options screen of their author’s center.
*Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4 weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing.
** The interior image in the example features “Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Details and cover image will be replaced by the details and cover image for your book.
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Self-Publishing Spotlight: So…You’re An Actor?! PROVE IT!
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Canaan W.E.J. Robinson is an actor, a businessman, and a marketing expert. Throughout his career, he has fine-tuned the art of self-promotion, and he has an inside scoop on how the entertainment industry really works. This combined experience came in handy for his new book, So…You’re an Actor? Prove It!—Branding and Marketing for Today’s Aspiring Actors, published by Outskirts Press. It’s a straight-shooting guidebook designed to help actors stand out from the crowd and turbo-charge their careers—a self-marketing how-to book no actor should be without. |
| Packed with tips and secrets collected from New York City industry professionals, So…You’re an Actor? Prove It! teaches self-promotion through engaging exercises and practical tips. In this highly competitive field, actors must learn to stand out from the crowd, and Canaan’s new book will help any actor establish their stage name and visibility both online and off.
In this industry there are many advice, how-to, and instructional books, but they come from working actors or industry professionals, and while some of these books might have a wealth of knowledge, there is danger the advice might be outdated or skewed by perspective.… This is where Canaan’s book is a revelation, because it isn’t a “how-to” by someone trying to make his place in a competitive field, but a book for beginners by a peer who understands what you are (or will be) going through. The contents act more like a guide from a friend than a “do it this way.” —Jagger Kaye |
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About the Author:
Canaan W.E.J. Robinson has participated in numerous projects for television, movies, commercials, and documentaries, as well as off-Broadway productions. With a degree in business and marketing, he takes the same principles for branding small businesses and applies them to his craft. Robinson lives in East Orange, New Jersey. To learn more visit his website at www.soyouranactor.com |
Canaan has proved his marketing chops by purchasing the Book Blast, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast his book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the author’s center.
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Self Publishing Bestseller Spotlight: Precession
What makes a best selling book in the competitive self-publishing market? It can be a variety of things like…
- a professionally designed custom cover
- professional copyediting
- the content of the book can be very niche, targeted at a very specific and voracious audience
- the use of productive marketing services/products from the publisher
- whether the book is fiction or non-fiction…
The following book was among the top 10 best selling self published books by Outskirts Press in September 2009.
What contributed to the success of this book? Let’s take a look.
By seeing what works for other authors, you can take the appropriate publishing and marketing steps to chart your own course toward successful book publishing!
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Of course, books cannot become best sellers if they’re only printed and then only sold from the publisher’s website. Books must to be available via multiple sales channels, both wholesale and direct. This bestselling book falls into that category, as does every Outskirts Press book published with the Diamond, Pearl, and Ruby packages. See details about the Distribution-on-Demand Sales Channels by clicking here.
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Self publishing authors promote their books with their Christmas cards
November 3, 2009 – Denver, CO – Outskirts Press, the fastest growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, today announced an exciting new line of personalized seasonal greeting cards. Authors published through Outskirts Press can now conveniently promote their books on a variety of different occasions, including the upcoming holiday season and New Years.
According to the Greeting Card Association, 7 billion greeting cards are sent by Americans each year. Greeting cards remain one of the most widely accepted customs in the United States and 90 percent of all households send an average of 30 separate greeting cards each year. Nine out of ten Americans say they look forward to receiving greeting cards and, not surprisingly, the majority say they prefer the old fashioned, handwritten cards – like those now offered by Outskirts Press — to e-mail or text messages.
These handsome greeting cards are 4.25” by 6” on Premium 14 point gloss cover stock. They are full color, both on the front and back, and they are scored for easy folding. The line of personalized greeting cards recognizes not only the traditional occasions such as New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day and Easter, but also those days special to authors such as National Reading Month, Poetry Month and even Book Lover’s Day. The line of greeting cards recognize at least one occasion for every month of the year, so there is always an excuse to promote the book.
The inside, left of the card highlights the author’s book with its title, the author’s name, a webpage address for it, and a full-color image of the book’s cover. The inside, right is blank so that each card can be personalized with a handwritten message. Envelopes are included with the cards, which come in packages of 250. A perfect complement to a pack of greeting cards is a package of Custom First Class Postage Stamps available separately, and exclusively from Outskirts Press. Custom first-class stamps feature the author’s book cover and work just as if purchased from the post office.
“Sending out holiday cards is something most of us do anyway. Our authors can now promote their books at the same time,” said Outskirts Press Director of Author Support Kelly Schuknecht.
With its Personalized Greeting Card option, Outskirts Press continues to expand the marketing services it offers its authors and remains at the vanguard of self-publishing firms, as demonstrated by Inc. Magazine’s October 2009 issue in which a panel of VC firms cherry-picked Outskirts Press from its Inc. 500 list of privately held companies and recognized OP with “Best of the Best” honors.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.: Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Excellence in Self Publishing – 2010 EVVY Awards
Here is everything you ever wanted to know about the EVVY Book Awards…
What are the EVVY Awards?
The EVVY Awards recognize excellence in self-published books. Each year, 5% of the books published by Outskirts Press become finalists for official Outskirts Press nomination by receiving an invitation to participate from Outskirts Press.
When are books nominated by Outskirts Press?
Exemplary Outskirts Press books are nominated by the Author Support Department and OP Executive Team for submission to the EVVY Awards in the fall of the year of their copyright. For example, books with a copyright date of 2009 are invited to participate in the 2010 EVVY Awards by receiving an invitation via email in the fall of 2009.
The Outskirts Press Author Support Department will be notifying select authors of 2009 copyright books throughout the week of November 2nd via email. If you receive an invitation from Outskirts Press, you have a limited amount of time to accept the nomination and take the steps outlined in the email.
Where are the EVVY Awards held?
The EVVY Awards Banquet and Awards Ceremony are held in Denver, Colorado in March of each year.
Who sponsors the EVVY Awards?
The EVVY Awards are named in honor of the first president of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association; and CIPA continues the tradition of recognizing excellence in self-published books with their annual EVVY Book Awards.
Why should eligible authors accept their EVVY Award nomination and participate in the Awards?
Winning any kind of book award is one of the most recognized and effective methods of differentiating your book from the masses. The EVVY Awards improve the chances of your book winning an award because just being nominated to participate indicates your book is in the top 5%. In fact, recipients of the EVVY Invitation should strongly consider entering their book in additional book award contests. Details about saving 25% with the Book Awards Submission Package can be found by clicking here.
Furthermore, unlike many other national contests, the EVVY Awards typically involve less than 250 total books, among numerous categories. Plus, the CIPA EVVY Awards are nationally recognized as being indicative of excellence.
Along with the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from winning the EVVY Award, Outskirts Press Officially Nominated EVVY Award-winning authors receive a variety of marketing and promotional materials, opportunities, and prizes. Depending upon the placing of your book among the winners, you may receive some or all of what is listed below:
- Marketing materials like bookmarks and placards (all winners)
- 50 cover stickers (1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners)
- A framed award featuring the cover of your book (1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners)
- Bonus blog and newsletter exposure (all winners)
- An invitation to be featured in national advertising (selected nominees)
Framed awards for the 6 First Place Outskirts Press Books from the 2009 Awards
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