About Promo Day 2019

About Promo Day 2019

Date of the event

Promo Day will back on Saturday 11th May 2019 with a brand new format!

As always, it will be an all day event. Webinars will be available on demand throughout the day so you can join in regardless of your time zone making Promo Day a truly international event. 

No registration required

You no longer need to sign up for the event. That's right, you can take place directly on the website. Registration is no longer required. 

You will have immediate access to all the webinars, live events, and the giveaways directly through the navigation bar on the website. 

Awards

New for 2019 is the Promo Day Awards. Attend the event and you might win a certificate, and acknowledgment in the awards ceremony. 

Support Promo Day

Sign up as official sponsor of Promo Day 2019 or have your book added to the Promo Day bookstore.

Check out the media page for Promo Day 2019 promotional materials.

To offer a giveaway prize get in touch via email.

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How To Get the Most Out of #PD15

Promo Day is a one day event packed with webinars, pitch sessions, and loads of opportunities to promote and network. 

How to get the most out of the PD15 event:

1) Register in advance and set up your profile. 

Although it will be possible to register on the day there are advantages to signing up earlier. Once you've registered you can set up your profile. You can upload an avatar and program a signature to show on all your posts to the forums during the event. 

2) Let people know you'll be attending. 

Part of the Promo Day event is networking and connecting with others from the industry. Let people know you'll be at the event and that you're looking forward to connecting with them there, using the hashtag #PD15. 

3) Prepare a media kit to use during the event. 

The Promo Day event is fast paced with lots of activities happening through out the day. Having a file with all your information (author bio, links, book descriptions, short excerpt, etc) will save you time during the event as you'll have everything to hand in the one place. Also useful for quick turn around should someone offer to host you on their blog for a spotlight piece (which often happens during the Promo Day event). You can even take it a step further and upload a copy of the file to Google Drive (or a similar tool), that way you can easily share the link to the document... even in tweets during the event (obviously using the hashtag #PD15 ;)).

4) Be pitch ready.

If you're planning on pitching one of the publishers during the PD15 event, it's a good idea to work on your pitch beforehand. Give them your best pitch and increase your chances of success.

5) Use the hashtag #PD15 to join the conversation.

Promo Day is attended by hundreds of people from all over the world. Make the most of this opportunity to network and promote your work to a global audience by using the hashtag #PD15 on your tweets and status updates on social media before, during, and after the event. 

As you're all attending the Promo Day event you already have a conversation starter. Reach out and say hello. Chat about the webinars. Support each other by sharing promotional tweets and updates. Say thank you to the presenters for giving their time and experience. Join in discussions about the publishing industry and book marketing techniques. 

6) Take part in the giveaways.

This year there will be a variety of giveaways taking place during the event. Join in and you could be a winner!

7) Join in the promotional activities during the event.

As well as all the action happening in the forums, there will be plenty of social media action too. You'll have the opportunity to promote your books and services and even be interviewed in live Google+ hangouts, Twitterviews, and Facebook wall chats through out the day. Don't be shy. Just pick the format you feel more comfortable with and jump on in.

Promo Day gives you a platform with lots of opportunities. Use it. The more involved you get, the more you'll get out of it ;)

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#PD15 Webinar: How to Organize for Efficient Marketing and Promotion with Sandy Lender

Presenter:

Sandy Lender

Presentation title: 

How to Organize for Efficient Marketing and Promotion

Presenter Bio:

Fantasy enthusiasts will recognize Sandy Lender as the author of the 2007 breakout novel "Choices Meant for Gods" from ArcheBooks Publishing, but the South Florida resident has been writing since she was knee high to a grasshopper. At the early age of about six, Sandy entertained the folks in her great grandmother's apartment building in Southern Illinois with stories of squeaky spiders and mice picking berries. Sandy won a first-place award with that imagination when she wrote a sequel to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" during her school days in the St. Louis area before earning a degree in English from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. That led to a career in journalism where she's worked for a variety of publications the past 23 years.

Today she's the editorial director of two construction magazines and editor/publisher of an avian publication. ArcheBooks is releasing the final of the “Choices” trilogy late this summer in hardcover and a number of her YA novels are getting star treatment. She presents workshops on writing, editing, online marketing and the surprising topic of parrot husbandry. But writing and marketing are only half her story. Sandy is also a sea turtle conservationist, serving in the group Turtle Time since 2005. She also has companion parrots and turtles in her home who keep her hopping. It takes one ring on her cell phone to discover she's remained obsessed with Duran Duran since 1984. She's beaten cancer twice, but still fights the IRS. For PD15 she’s teaching us the art of organization for marketing—looking at her schedule, you can see the need for organization to keep everything on deadline.

Connect with Sandy:

www.SandyLenderInk.com

https://www.facebook.com/FantasyAuthorSandyLender

https://www.pinterest.com/inyourflock/

All webinars are free to all attendees, and are available for the entire day on Saturday 30th May during the Promo Day event. Click "Register Now" above for access to this, and all the other webinars. You'll also have access to the pitch sessions with Publishers, and all the other activities and opportunities that PD15 offers.

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#PD15 Webinar: "Creating Social Media Content That Works" with Rivka Kawano

Presenter:

Rivka Kawano

Presentation title: 

Creating Social Media Content That Works 

Presentation outline:

What is the 80/20 rule of content and how does it apply to you? How can you create content that draws in your fans and makes them want to buy, review, and share your book? Why do most authors feel like they are on social media all day without results and what can you do differently?

Presenter Bio:

Rivka Kawano is an author, speaker, and book marketing coach who loves to help people learn how to use social media more effectively to market their books. 

Connect with Rivka:

http://www.AuthorSensei.com

www.Facebook.com/AuthorSensei 

www.Twitter.com/AuthorSensei

https://plus.google.com/+Authorsensei 

All webinars are free to all attendees, and are available for the entire day on Saturday 30th May during the Promo Day event. Click "Register Now" above for access to this, and all the other webinars. You'll also have access to the pitch sessions with Publishers, and all the other activities and opportunities that PD15 offers.

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How To Register for #PD15

Registering for the 2015 Promo Day event is super easy and will only take you a minute. Just click on "REGISTER NOW" in the navigation bar above and you'll be taken to this screen:

As you can see the form is very short and won't take you long to fill out.

Once you've clicked on "Submit" you will have access to the forums where the Promo Day event takes place. Free webinars, pitch sessions with publishers, opportunities to promote and network... You'll have access to it all! 

Did you register to take part in past Promo Day events? If yes, you can just log in using the details from before. No need to re-register. 

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How Authors Can "Kick it" with Crowdfunding with Julie Hedlund

Julie Hedlund will be presenting at Promo Day on Saturday 31st May. Register now (it's FREE!) to take part in her webinar How Authors Can "Kick it" with Crowdfunding. Top 10 Steps to a Successful Campaign.

Webinar will cover:

• What is crowdfunding?
• Why consider crowdfunding your book?
• What platforms are available?
• Ten steps you MUST take to run a successful campaign

Bio:

Julie Hedlund is a Children’s author. She’s had two books published as interactive storybook apps for the iPad by Little Bahalia Publishing -- A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS and A SHIVER OF SHARKS. A print version of TROOP was released in fall 2013. Her next book, MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE SUN, will release from Little Bahalia in Fall 2014.

Julie is the creator of Julie Hedlund’s Template for Storybook App Proposals and the founder and host of the 12 x 12 picture book writing challenge, with more than 500 members. She is a monthly contributor on Katie Davis’ Brain Burps About Books children’s literature podcast, a PAL member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and a contributing editor on the subject of 21^st Century Publishing for Children’s Book Insider (CBI). She has been a speaker at SCBWI, O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing, and other industry events.

Links:

Website: http://www.juliehedlund.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JulieFHedlund

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulieFHedlund

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JulieHedlund

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/juliehedlund/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top

Kickstarter campaign page for MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE SUN: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/juliehedlund/my-love-for-you-is-the-sun-a-picture-book

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Google SEO Tips for Bloggers with Linda Randall

Linda Randall makes her return to Promo Day this year and this time she'll be sharing Google SEO tips for bloggers. 

BIO:

Linda Randall is an author in - The Power of the Platform Speakers on Life, a video film producer on her four YouTube channels - the idea girl says, idea girl canada, idea girl consulting and IGC Entertainment Ca.  She is also a daily blogger on WordPress with ten sites that range in topics. Her personal blog - Linda Randall is about her daily journal of activities. Her travel blogs - Idea Girl Canada, The Idea Girl Says, The Calamity Girl, and Niagara Region Ontario Canada include her photographs and videos of local community events in the Niagara Region in Ontario, Canada including family travel Ideas, Restaurant Reviews, Hotels and local Tourist attractions. She also likes to write up ideas for Local Festival events and Tweet and Facebook people with those ideas:)

Linda has created blogs on WordPress with the same names as her YouTube Channels. Some of the blogs average from 2,000 to 12,000 views or higher each month. She also does psychic investigations and remote viewings into missing person cases on - Victoria Stafford a Psychic Investigation. She enjoys doing scientific studies into weather patterns, earthquakes, geomagnetic storm cells and more on her severe global weather warnings and news stories blogs - Tropical Storms Hurricane Predictions Idea Girl, and Idea Girl Severe Storm Predictions Warnings.

She features movie chick flicks and all things that chickie's like to do nails, hair, makeup, music, books, movies, restaurants and travel ideas for Toronto and global destinations on - the calamity girl.

She receives submissions on her YouTube channel and posts them on her WordPress blogs - the idea girl says and idea girl consulting - topics being submitted are - international Music, Short Story Films, Movie Trailers, Animations, TV Series and new TV Shows, Celebrity Interviews and News Stories, along with Author's Book Trailers and Interviews. 

Linda Randall's physics/science project since December 2011 is figuring out keywords she found in an alien radio signal called WOW!  It was thus named by Dr. Jerry Ehman who was working on a SETI Project on the big ear satellite. NASA confirmed that the signal was alien in origin and made it public knowledge on August 15, 1977.

Linda found ancient hidden math equations in the computer binary code of numbers. Once she started to decode the math equations she found certain keywords that connected numbers, while doing a Google Search. She is using the keywords to connect results from scientists, physics journalists, university professor's theories and student abstracts and lab results from physics and chemistry, Space Jet Propulsion, DARPA, COUGAR, CERN, ATLAS and people that work on particle physics and space travel from all around the world. 

Linda blogs her ideas and formula's to help advance the world's space travel technology by looking "outside of the box" of normal physics. She also enjoys connecting ancient math algorithms and equations which also speak of space travels in different dimensions, big bang theories and dark matter particle research theories.

So far she has created over 2234 research videos and has gotten over 243,325 Lifetime views as of 2 March 2014 on - the idea girl says youtube channel and the data with it's research links are being blogged on: Alien Space Science News WordPress

Linda also loves to write different genre's of novels (not yet published) and participates each year in the NaNoWriMo writing challenges since 2008 (she has written over 26 novels). She has also written five screenplays when the Script Frenzy challenges were on in the past.

She lives in Fort Erie Ontario Canada with her husband Harold Chisholm and their toy poodle Daisy (both are on YouTube as well). Linda's two adult sons who live elsewhere - Tim Tenbrinke and Jeff Tenbrinke  - are musically inclined (see their YouTube channels for some good music tunes) and create comical, videos with their Mom, Harold and Daisy when they visit.

http://lindarandall.wordpress.com/

http://ideagirlcanada.wordpress.com/

http://theideagirlsays.wordpress.com/

http://alienspacesciencenews.wordpress.com/

https://www.twitter.com/theideagirl

https://www.facebook.com/ideagirlconsulting

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linda-randall/12/8a/a64

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