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B
ook Production and Promotion.
Online. Venues. Media.
Obie Joe Media finds audiences for your book.
Online: Content and coordination are key to maximizing the amount of time and creativity available for a campaign to build audiences online. We find your audience with innovative and relentless online marketing techniques, including author blogs and tours; book trailers; SEO optimization; e-mail newsletters; podcast syndication; and a few other tricks up the sleeve.
Venues: We’re renowned for finding the unusual, untraditional, and incomparable venues. Where most author bookings mark a 40% buy rate as successful, our creative venue bookings typically exceed an 80% buy rate. Some of our best ideas have found book clubs for churches, activity-driven YA book clubs; medical conferences, and author signing/town hall meetings.
Media: Because we bring 20+ years of national journalism credits, our contacts are unparalleled. Our clients have received coverage in TIME, NPR’s Weekend Edition, Martha Stewart Living, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Montel Williams Show, Philadelphia Daily News, Black Issues Book Review, The Today Show, and scores of radio programs as well.
We’re book publicists who to love to work well after the typical 45-day expiration period for books.
Partners Ellis L. Marsalis, III and Kelly AJ Powers offer several decades of experience in journalism, promotion, public relations, database design, web site and magazine development. We’re book authors, too, and understand the challenge and excitement in finding new audiences.
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