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Tour Report: Cora Parks

BryceB — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:43:00 +0000

What is your name & website if you have one?

Cora Parks blog.taxtoday.info

What book did you take on virtual tour?

Your IRS Refund

http://www.taxtodaypublications.com

What is the main genre / category of your book?

Non fiction

How did you find the blogs where your book made a virtual tour stop?

Ok.

How did you approach the blog owners?

I used a blog tour specialist who contacted the blog and website owners.

Did you try to schedule the stops so they happened on consecutive days? How did that work out?

No. Depending on the service you choose, the professional schedules these tours a few days apart.

Did you see in increase of traffic to your website during/after the tour?

No.

Did you see an increase of sales during/after the tour?

No.

What did you learn from doing this tour?

That it is hard work and may not result in book sales.

Will you be doing another tour, either for the same book or a new one?

Yes, for a new book.

Tour Report: Hillary Peak

BryceB — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:06:00 +0000

What is your name & website if you have one?

Hillary Peak

www.hillaryepeak.com

What book did you take on virtual tour?

Wings of Hope

http://www.amazon.com/Wings-of-Hope-ebook/dp/B0058ORO0W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331752373&sr=8-2

What is the main genre / category of your book?

literary fiction

How did you find the blogs where your book made a virtual tour stop?

I emailed blogs under the fiction genre

(Here on BlogTour.org I’m assuming –Bryce)

How did you approach the blog owners?

I send a letter with a book summary and said I’d like to stop–do anything, a feature, a giveaway, a post, an interview, whatever.

Did you try to schedule the stops so they happened on consecutive days?

No, I just did what they wanted in terms of dates.

Did you see in increase of traffic to your website during/after the tour?

a little

Did you see an increase of sales during/after the tour?

Yes

What did you learn from doing this tour?

Book promotion is a lot of hard work! But I enjoyed "meeting" bloggers and learning about them.

Will you be doing another tour, either for the same book or a new one?

Definitely

Here’s a couple of her tour stops so you can see what she did.

-Bryce

Hillary Peak interview at StoryHack.com

Short article for HowToSelfPublishABook.org

BugFix

BryceB — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:03:09 +0000

I just fixed the bug in the browsing pages that would show all books/blog when you selected “Fiction.”

Also, I’ll be posting the first couple of Blog tour reports from folks who have gone on virtual tour next week.

Data Annihilation

BryceB — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:09:21 +0000

If you have lost data from your conversations, I am truly sorry.

There was a major bug in a new feature I just put up and it resulted in some catastrophic data annihilation. The worst part: I don’t know if I can get the data back.

The bug, however is now fixed, so this won’t happen again. And the new feature (deleting one of your blogs from your “my blogs” list) now works as it is supposed to.

Again, I know this is a pain in the keister, and I wish I hadn’t been such a moron as to introduce the bug.

I hope some day you can find it in your heart to forgive me and help continue to make this a valuable resource for authors & bloggers everywhere.

It won’t happen again, I promise.

BlogTour.org Updates

BryceB — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:11:29 +0000

Okay, as you may have already noticed, the main site just received a minor facelift to make it less, uh, gray.

Also, there’s a couple of new features. If you look in your right hand menu you’ll see two new options. “Browse Books” and “Browse Blogs”. Now you can search through everything. Let me know if you find any issues with this new functionality.

Also, what else would you like to see in BlogTour.org? How could it be more useful?

The 5 Commandments of Blog Tourists

BryceB — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:41:19 +0000

Are you going on a blog tour soon? I just had a guest post published over at The Creative Penn titled The 5 Commandments of Blog Tourists. It has, as you might expect, five tips for authors who are going on a blog tour. Go check it out.

First Couple of Tour Stops – Check

BryceB — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:07:44 +0000

Okay, this last week we had our first couple of tour stops that were arranged through BlogTour.org. Yes, I happened to be involved in both of them, but hey, I’m a blogger/author too, so it counts.

Interview with J. Dane Tyler. I interviewed horror author J. Dane Tyler using BlogTour’s messaging system. Then I made a machinima video of it.

The Problem of Writing Software. That’s “writing software” as in computer programs used by authors to write, not “writing software” and in application development. I wrote this guest post over at ByzantineRoads.info.

Anyway, the stuff that’s online appears to be all working now. We just need to get everyone we can to sign up and make this place useful.

I hate IE.

BryceB — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:23:37 +0000

For those of you who are using Internet Explorer and have been trying to log in and actually use the BlogTour system, I apologize. That’s right, I hereby apologize for Microsoft building such a crappy browser. And I apologize for not testing things in every browser.

Anyway, it should be fixed now. Go add your books.

Thanks to Kathy for pointing out the problem to me.

Notifications! Plus I need your help.

BryceB — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:04:13 +0000

There is now an automatic notification system. If you want to receive an email whenever anyone starts a conversation with you or sends you a message on an ongoing conversation, just go to your “settings” page and enable notifications.

We need a couple of more books added into the system, and then I need everybody’s help testing the conversation system.

Okay, for reals this time.

BryceB — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:06:39 +0000

Oh, do I have egg on my face.

I launched and I left a major setting unset. Nobody was able to get their initial email all weekend, you know, the one that’s supposed to contain your password. *Sigh*

The problem is now fixed. If you signed up and never received a password, go to the login page and use the “Forgot Password” form to get yourself a new password.

And just so you know, the next thing I’m going to add in is automatic notifications, so that when somebody contacts you, you’ll know about it via email. You’ll be able to turn it in in your settings page here within a day or two.