New Authors Community.

by Tom Blubaugh | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting, Relationships, Social Media, Writing

I’m Tom Blubaugh, CEO of Common Sense Marketing Strategies, LLC and Tom Blubaugh Literary Strategist, LLC. My corporations and I are developing an online authors community–authors helping authors–a new concept for a writing community. You will be...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” Part I

by Tom Blubaugh | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting, Writing

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” This is a partial quote from Charles Dickens a Tale of two Cities and sounds a lot like the world of authors today. On the one hand we have access to nearly the whole world through...

Why Story Telling is the Essence of Marketing.

by Tom Blubaugh | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting

Marketing is often the biggest roadblock for authors. Many of them have a story to tell, and they present it in a remarkable way. Yet, when it comes to sharing their story with the world, they balk. This is the reason many authors have a large inventory of books in...

Marketing to People Not Numbers.

by Tom Blubaugh | May 25, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting

Guest blog article by Jennifer L. Self. I recently attended a play portraying Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. The setting was 16th century England, right before the death of Henry VIII. His son, Edward, succeeded him to the throne but lived for a very short...

Does being a successful author have anything in common with becoming a Neurosurgeon?

by Tom Blubaugh | May 5, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting, Social Media, Video

YouTube is a HUGE resource for Internet knowledge–not just music, movies, cat videos, etc.. It’s an international university. If you want to know the purpose of a social media platform, you must study it. Not like you would study if you were working toward...

Do you have a team to help you succeed?

by Tom Blubaugh | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog - Main, book marketing, Marketing, Promoting

Writers are enigmas! Passion drives them to pour their heart out on paper. Then they realize that like the monarch in The Emperor’s New Clothes, they are standing in public in their birthday suit.  That’s why it’s imperative to have “good” team support when you...