Other Marketing Resources for Publishers

Other Marketing-Related Sites

Gropen Associates hosts this directory as a free service to the community. We hope it helps you find just the professional you need!

We don't provide any of the services below.

Please do ask us about any financial or operational problems. We provide advice to publishers on an inexpensive "question-by-question" basis. We also offer software packages, helping you tackle common issues independently.

Contact us for assistance whenever you face a difficult situation. If it's not Marion's area of expertise, she probably knows who does cover it!

Articles on How to Write a Marketing Plan on Sites Elsewhere
on the Write Market
in Entrepreneur

4Imprint
Promotional items customized to reflect your book or brand. Low cost and high volume a specialty.

Best Impressions
These folks make customized promotional items, aka "gimmes," for use in promoting your book or imprint.

Book Promoters by Substance Books
A new site from the owners of Substance Books, focusing on book promotion, using internet-based techniques.

Bookscan
The premier source of point-of-purchase sales data for books. Collects something like 70% of all the sales through the book trade.

Brenner Books
Pricing Your Book: Brenner Information Group is the world's best source for pricing guides, pricing tables, hourly rates by state, and an online, searchable database of actual prices. Free newsletter: "The Price Point"

Dawnstar Books
Want to increase your fan base and sell more books? Dawnstar Books produces video seminars that help authors get published, market, and sell books more effectively. You'll learn how to maximize your efforts to achieve the best possible results. Just open the box, insert the tape in your VCR, and start learning. It's that easy!

Foner Books: Amazon Rankings Quantified
Morris Rosenthal has a quantitative mind, and has analysed Amazon's sales rankings to come up with approximate copy-equivalents. These can then be extrapolated to come up with total sales/title. Good stuff.

Guide Services Press
We are a unique short-run printing service designed to assist authors during their adventure in self-publishing. Even after their first book, many authors still like the support of a professional team while navigating the unfamiliar territories of book production. Guide Services Press wants to be part of your expedition and provide any and all support you may need. We provide digital and offset printing of books, marketing materials, direct mail, posters and banners.

Indy Books
IndyBook offers independent publisher-direct sales and news to the retail, wholesale, library and education markets.

Inktree Marketing
Ink Tree aims to help publishers maximize non-returnable book sales through innovative marketing techniques including target market sales and publicity. We also offer consulting services to help you outline your marketing plan or to discuss any area of publishing.

iPage
Ingram's information service: Some of this is available to anyone, and more to those companies that are Ingram Vendors. Whether or not you have access to Bookscan numbers, you should subscribe to this, too.

PMA's Remainder Expo
PMA has set up a site on which you can list your excess books, so that you can reach as many remainder buyers as possible as efficiently as possible.

Pneuma Books
Helping publishers succeed through education, inspiration, and the creation of excellent books. Professional book development, editing, cover design, interior book design, and marketing materials for writers and small presses.

Publishing Game
The always-amazing Fern Reiss has many marketing tips, e-reports, and resources on her site. And, if you are an expert looking to leverage your brand, check her Expertizing site and seminars, as well.

Successories
Add your logo to many of their most popular items. Give them away at trade fairs to promote your book or brand to your customers.

Switchboard.com
Find lists of any type of business or institution, by region or nationally, using the yellow pages function.

Tu-vets
Tu-Vets Corporation is a nationally recommended printer of full color marketing materials at affordable prices. Included are brochures, folders, flyers, post cards, posters, press kit pocket folders, CD sleeves, video boxes and more.

Interested in a reciprocal link? Know of a good site we should include? Please let us know.

Gropen Associates does not endorse any of the sites listed, nor do we participate in affiliate programs or benefit in any way from your use of these vendors services. We also should tell you that we frequently use copy from the vendors themselves.

Please use your own judgment here, as in all business decisions.

All rights are reserved with respect to all material presented on this site. Re-use requires written permission.


	Other Marketing-Related Sites Gropen Associates hosts this directory as a free service to the community. We hope it helps you find just the professional you need! We don't provide any of the services below. Please do ask us about any financial or operational problems. We provide advice to publishers on an inexpensive "question-by-question" basis. We also offer software packages, helping you tackle common issues independently. Contact us for assistance whenever you face a difficult situation. If it's not Marion's area of expertise, she probably knows who does cover it! Articles on How to Write a Marketing Plan on Sites Elsewhere on the Write Market in Entrepreneur 4Imprint Promotional items customized to reflect your book or brand. Low cost and high volume a specialty. Best Impressions These folks make customized promotional items, aka "gimmes," for use in promoting your book or imprint. Book Promoters by Substance Books A new site from the owners of Substance Books, focusing on book promotion, using internet-based techniques. Bookscan The premier source of point-of-purchase sales data for books. Collects something like 70% of all the sales through the book trade. Brenner Books Pricing Your Book: Brenner Information Group is the world's best source for pricing guides, pricing tables, hourly rates by state, and an online, searchable database of actual prices. Free newsletter: "The Price Point" Dawnstar Books Want to increase your fan base and sell more books? Dawnstar Books produces video seminars that help authors get published, market, and sell books more effectively. You'll learn how to maximize your efforts to achieve the best possible results. Just open the box, insert the tape in your VCR, and start learning. It's that easy! Foner Books: Amazon Rankings Quantified Morris Rosenthal has a quantitative mind, and has analysed Amazon's sales rankings to come up with approximate copy-equivalents. These can then be extrapolated to come up with total sales/title. Good stuff. Guide Services Press We are a unique short-run printing service designed to assist authors during their adventure in self-publishing. Even after their first book, many authors still like the support of a professional team while navigating the unfamiliar territories of book production. Guide Services Press wants to be part of your expedition and provide any and all support you may need. We provide digital and offset printing of books, marketing materials, direct mail, posters and banners. Indy Books IndyBook offers independent publisher-direct sales and news to the retail, wholesale, library and education markets. Inktree Marketing Ink Tree aims to help publishers maximize non-returnable book sales through innovative marketing techniques including target market sales and publicity. We also offer consulting services to help you outline your marketing plan or to discuss any area of publishing. iPage Ingram's information service: Some of this is available to anyone, and more to those companies that are Ingram Vendors. Whether or not you have access to Bookscan numbers, you should subscribe to this, too. PMA's Remainder Expo PMA has set up a site on which you can list your excess books, so that you can reach as many remainder buyers as possible as efficiently as possible. Pneuma Books Helping publishers succeed through education, inspiration, and the creation of excellent books. Professional book development, editing, cover design, interior book design, and marketing materials for writers and small presses. Publishing Game The always-amazing Fern Reiss has many marketing tips, e-reports, and resources on her site. And, if you are an expert looking to leverage your brand, check her Expertizing site and seminars, as well. Successories Add your logo to many of their most popular items. Give them away at trade fairs to promote your book or brand to your customers. Switchboard.com Find lists of any type of business or institution, by region or nationally, using the yellow pages function. Tu-vets Tu-Vets Corporation is a nationally recommended printer of full color marketing materials at affordable prices. Included are brochures, folders, flyers, post cards, posters, press kit pocket folders, CD sleeves, video boxes and more. Interested in a reciprocal link? Know of a good site we should include? Please let us know. Gropen Associates does not endorse any of the sites listed, nor do we participate in affiliate programs or benefit in any way from your use of these vendors services. We also should tell you that we frequently use copy from the vendors themselves. Please use your own judgment here, as in all business decisions. All rights are reserved with respect to all material presented on this site. Re-use requires written permission.
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