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Wednesday, 19 December 2007
By Glen Hopkins Your prospects are looking for information, and Amazon is one place they turn to in order to find that information. But how do they know which books to choose? Books, especially self-published books being sold on Amazon, need credibility the same way sales letters need testimonials. That's what reviews are: testimonials for books. Shoppers rely on these reviews to make their buying decisions. In stores, they can see the book, flip through the pages and make a confident decision about whether or not it's worth the price. Buying a book on Amazon, however, is a little riskier if you've never heard of or seen the book anywhere else. You can help lessen that risk by providing reviews of books in your niche. Anybody can choose to review a book and have that review posted at the bottom of the sales page for that book. Along with that post is the reviewer's name and a link to "see all my reviews." That's right. Book reviewers get their own home page on Amazon that lists all their reviews along with a personal profile and their Amazon ranking. Just like with their books, Amazon has a ranking system for their reviewers. Ranks are based on the number of reviews a person posts as well as how helpful readers found the reviews to be. How does any of this help you bring traffic to your site? Well, if you provide a good review for a book in your niche, you help targeted prospects decide whether or not to buy the book. If your review of a good book provides a comprehensive summary and shows how the reader can benefit from buying the book, they are grateful for the advice. If your review of a bad book helps them decide not to buy, they are grateful to you for saving them both time and money. Either way, they're grateful! They like what you had to say, so they visit your home page to see what else you have reviewed. On that page, you get to include information about yourself and a link to your site. Becoming an Amazon book reviewer costs you nothing and is as simple as clicking on the "Write Your Own Review" at the bottom of the page of any book. All you have to do is fill in the form, and you are officially a book reviewer. Here are tips to making this traffic tactic work for you: 1. Read books in your niche, then write a paragraph or two about the book. The best reviews are 75-300 words and tell why you did or did not like the book and why. Focus on the book's content and context. 2. Include as much information about yourself as possible on your reviewer profile page. This helps the readers come to know, like and trust you. You're establishing rapport with them before they even reach your main site! 3. Tell why you're an expert on your profile page. Sharing about your business explains why you are qualified to review such books. 4. Be authoritative. Give specific, helpful information. The more specific you are about your reasons for liking or disliking the book, the more helpful your reviews will be. The more helpful your reviews, the more the reader of the review will like you and want to learn more about you. 5. Providing good reviews makes the reader obligated to give something back to you. He'll feel obligated to read your profile and then visit your site. It's the principle of reciprocity at work. You give freely of your expertise, and you'll get traffic. 6. Review as many books as possible. The more reviews you have on your Amazon home page, the more credible you appear as a reviewer. 7. Don't review anything you haven't read! Increased traffic isn't the only way you benefit when you review books on Amazon. You also increase your knowledge. You need to be reading, learning and growing in your area of expertise anyway. The more you know, the more value you'll be able to deliver to your customers. Plus writing about the book locks in the learning. When you read knowing you have to share what the basic concept of the book is, you read with a purpose and get more out of the learning process. Finally, when you are a book reviewer, you learn who your competition is and find potential partners. You can contact the authors and possibly create Joint Ventures with them. And that can lead to a massive flow of traffic to your site. Glen Hopkins is a Best-Selling Author, Information Marketer, Speaker, and Consultant. Glen specializes in teaching struggling entrepreneurs how to turn their small Online businesses into thriving money machines using specific systems that will allow you to work less and earn more. Get his List Building Report and Web Traffic CD (valued at $97) for FREE at http://www.GlenHopkins.name "Love, Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby" Book Review By Susie Cortright "What was I like as a baby?" All moms know how their kids' eyes light up when they hear stories about themselves as babies and young children. All moms also know that when a mother takes the time to record these precious stories in written form, she preserves a mystery and a magic that is impossible to recapture any other way. Still, even the most well-intentioned of us (myself included) have a hard time following through when we have something we wish to write down, particularly those everyday details that make up our lives. Sometimes we are swept away by the daily tasks of motherhood and sometimes we are simply too deep in the enjoyment of the experience itself to take the time out to write about it just then. Sometimes it all seems too much to do, but more often it is a gentle ebbing away of the time. In Love, Mommy: Writing Love Letters to Your Baby, Judy Siblin-Librach leads us on a journey that helps us capture the major milestones (the birth story, the first day at school) as well as those that may not immediately come to mind (the first time your child caught a baseball, the way her hugs felt, the first time she went through a car wash). Siblin-Librach's writing style is elegant, perfectly capturing the depth of emotion that all mothers feel at one point or another. We are in good hands with a natural-born poet and mother who will lead us into creating and recording the lyrics of our own lives. Part of the beauty of this book is the way Siblin-Librach makes it simple to write these life stories, whether or not you have ever enjoyed the process of writing in the past. The book is equally helpful in bringing back memories you may have thought were gone, just in case your baby has grown. Siblin-Librach opens each chapter with incisive questions to prompt your writing, followed by sample letters from her own family. These examples can really help you to get an idea of all the different ways you can take a particular letter. The author includes notes to parents about how to write the letter, as well as tips and ideas to keep you inspired in this grand task. This book helps us to record the specific stories and memories, as well as the deeper story: the wisdom, the life lessons and the wishes you have for your child. Judy Siblin-Librach has written a beautiful and heartfelt book that simplifies the process and that reminds us that it need not be a big deal to record these memories and to give ourselves and our children the greatest gift. In doing so, she has given a gift to all mothers and all those who will be mothers. Susie Cortright is the founder of several popular websites, including Susies-Coupons.com, BestSelfHelp.com and Momscape.com, where you can register to win gift cards from top online merchants. Book Reviews Share Your Opinion. (0 posts) Tag it: ?
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