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How to Market Your Business Book (Your Publisher Probably Won't).

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Publishing a book increases credibility and helps bring in paying clients -- but marketing your book can be a challenge.

First-time authors tend to become discouraged when they realize that publishers don't spend much time or money turning books into bestsellers for anyone but the highest echelon author.

The bottom line is, whether you're published by a mainstream publishing house, a small university press, or are self-published, the job of marketing your book falls squarely on you.

We talked with Ned Barnett, public relations/marketing consultant to the publishing industry, about two areas on which to focus in order to become a media darling (whether your publisher helps you or not).

Area #1. Pitching the media

Barnett offers three tips:

a. "Snakepits to Avoid..."

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