List Of Book Publishing Companies
How to Build your Own B2b Prospect List
Author: Steve Sellwoo
Much of B2B marketing takes place on a far more targeted scale than mass market consumer marketing. Rather than promoting your offer to millions of potential consumers you’re far more likely to be targeting a far smaller niche or potential business prospects.
These business prospects are companies who have the realistic potential to buy your products or services – not just a random collection of business names. Prospects are potential leads and customers who you can keep approaching over time, or prospecting, to provide a healthy supply of new custom for your business.
There are several proven methods you can use to help you create your b2b prospect database:
Field sales staff – If you have a field sales force out on the road, make sure they are trained in the importance of not just selling to leads or existing customers, but identifying potential new prospects as well. Your sales team could use down time between appointments to travel their area looking for potential new businesses on business parks, high streets and industrial estates.
Competitors – Take a look at who your competitors sell to, and see if these companies could potentially purchase form you as well (or instead). Many business websites show a client list you could work from.
Existing Customers – These can be a good source of referral and recommendation. Your contact in a larger organisation may be able to identify their opposite numbers in other departments or sites.
Enquiries – Make sure you track all of the enquiries which come into your office, no matter who receives them. Issue all staff with properly formatted message pads to make sure you collect all the details you need from enquiries, and set up ah efficient system of contacting and following up these valuable leads.
Trade Press – Read your trade press, or the publications your customers are likely to read, to find news of businesses on the up and changes in staff, which could turn into prospects for your business.
New & Changing Businesses – Identify and target new start-ups in your area, businesses that move premises or change in ownership, using a marketing service like www.selectabase.co.uk/startupsplus. All these events can stimulate purchasing and present a new opportunity for your business to become a supplier.
Because a prospect list is such an important tool for your business, you should invest time and effort in building the list. In fact creating your prospect list should become an everyday activity that’s contributed to by everyone in your business team.
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About the Author
Steve Sellwood is from www.selectabase.co.uk, a UK provider of b2b lists and databases for use in new business development and prospecting, including the Startupsplus database or new and moving businesses from your local area.
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try various websits like bloomsbury, pengiun , scholastic etc/. Try contacting these various publishers.
bE SURE TO COPYRIGHT YOUR BOOK or the publisher may reject your work and plagiarise it.
The ‘biggest’ companies are:
Simon & Schuster
Random House
Hachette
Macmillan
HarperCollins
Penguin
All of those houses publish…well, everything. It’s their subsidiaries that publish specific genres–for example, Tor Books is a subsidiary of Macmillan, and they publish science fiction/fantasy.
Macmillan is known for publishing more ‘literary’ books, while S&S and Random House are more ‘commercial.’
Take matters into your own hands instead. Try creating your own website to publish on. Learn a few techniques to draw people (including publishing companies) who would be very interested in what you have to say. Techniques like those outlined in detail in two (free) pdf files from this page.
http://www.stuffintheair.com/internet-business-leads.html
They’re called My Your Site Sell and Affiliate Masters Course.
Terrible answer by Dorrance, IMO. Paying to publish fiction is a lose-money proposition, and if you sell 50 copies, including the ones you buy yourself, you’ll be doing better than average.
If Dorrance chose the user name because they represent or own that particular vanity press, they’re simply spamming you.
At this point, it’s far too early to worry about contacting publishers and how. Concentrate on the step you’re on, writing the first draft of your book. Finish it, then start the rewrite. Seek qualified critique. Rewrite again. Critique again. Revise, rewrite, and polish until you cannot make it better. Seek beta readers who are well-read in its genre. Do one final revision.
*Then* seek information on publishers. Meanwhile, etch into your brain Yog’s Law: All money flows toward the writer.
Any time the writer is asked to spend money, that breaks Yog’s Law, and you should not do it–including paying to publish with Dorrance or any other vanity press.
Emo-Angel is correct about Writer’s Market. They also have a website, http://www.writersmarket.com, altho they charge a fee for access to their database. You’re looking for agents and publishers who handle your genre AND who are taking new clients. Some publishers do not deal directly with authors, only with agents, so you may need an agent for access to those publishers.
Each agent/publisher has submission guidelines. They usually include a query letter, a proposal (for non-fiction), or a synopsis (for fiction), plus the first 50 or so pages. For each agent/publisher, it is important that you follow their rules perfectly.
Good luck.
This is all the information you need:
http://www.publishers.asn.au/
Have fun!
Publishers pick up your book depending on its selling potential. I suggest you start simple. There are many simple ways to market your book. Building strong online presence helps. You can put up a blog, join social networking sites to establish a network with people who might be interested in buying your book.
It also helps if you join groups that can support your book marketing campaign, specifically those who are also promoting their book.
You can also talk to people about your book as well. It’s a great opportunity for you to use to your marketing skills.
More power!
For more information on marketing a book:
http://marketyourbook.wordpress.com/
You don’t want a publishing house, you want an AGENT. A reputable agent will be able to open doors for your work that you never thought possible. A press might be willing to take you on without one, but it will NOT be to your advantage. An agent knows the market and the lingo, and they are responsible for getting you the best deal and percentage for your work. You wouldn’t want to purchase a house without a real estate agent’s help, and the last thing you want to do is navigate the murky waters of the publishing world alone. Without an agent, you are more likely to lose money on advances, royalty percentages, you might not be given anything for foreign, film, or electronic rights (which are all big deals), and in extreme cases, you could lose all rights to your book should it go out of print or the house goes under.
If you care about your work at all, I suggest you rethink your strategy and start querying agents instead. Good luck!
1. Do not “send… chapters to Simon and Schuster” or anything like it.
2. Do read the first section of “The Writer’s Market” – “How to Publish” – and know it very, very well before moving on to the long lists of agents, editors and publishers in the same book – listed by genre and more – most in the U.S.
3. If you don’t learn the basics of How to “get your book out and known” – which is to know the section mentioned in “The Writer’s Market” – you Will get chapters or manuscripts you send out sent back to you Immediately – a waste of time and money.
4. If you can’t afford that book, suggest you read it in a public library – write a lot of notes and copy relevant pages there.
5. You’ll find all you need to know in it: including the legal copyright you already have and how to protect it; how to polish your work; how to write a great query (there are examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ plus tips by many in the business) and more to do first.
6. Remain optimistic even while you get rejection slips (all new writers get them).
Continue to do things you enjoy… to work on your book – to start another project – to read good books – to live life to its fullest.
Awareness and life are great sources of material for writers.
Good luck with all, be it a book or a short piece (often easier to place).
Maybe you would like to ask around and perhaps shop around. Many would also suggest getting an agent which could take SO long for them to sit down and actually notice what you have there and believe me, we are not just talking months here but years. Let me give you something to peruse at while you are at it and hopefully this will help in your ride to the wagon of success.
Now considering that there are so many publishers already always place in mind that your book is your work and that no one should be telling you what to do with – it should be up to your discretion how it should be published, printed and marketed.
I hope these help. 🙂
can someone list some fiction publishing companies where it is easy to get a good story published?
Can someone tell me the names of some publishing companies where it is easy to get a good fiction book published? I know like with Penguin, Random House, e.t.c. it is hard to get a book published because it is competitive, so I am looking for perhaps a smaller or less competitive company that would easily accept an exeptionally good story. I don’t care about how much I would get paid for the book deal, although I should hope to get as much as possible. Can someone list some smaller or less competitive companies where it would be easy to get an exceptionally good story accepted?
I need a publishing company for my book?
I do not want to self-publish. I am looking to apply to a publishing company with a query letter. I don’t need help with the query letter. I need a list of publishing companies and their sites/addresses/web addresses/anything you can give me. I wrote a book aimed for a preteen & teenage audience having to do with a teenage girl protagonist who had to defeat vampires. What companies should I attempt to apply to? Does it matter if I pick one with a local base? (I live in southern NH) I’m not quite ready at this exact moment to find a company to pick up my book, but I realize I need to be thinking about possible companies. Any help would be gladly appreciated!!
Can You Please Give Me A List Of Book Publishing Companies with The Address?
I am trying to publish a book. Please Help ME
Book Publishing Companies? (Please answer!)?
Hey I have a book, still editing it, and I want a list of good companies. Also NO SELF-PUBLISHING! Sorry I just want a good publishing company and also maybe a list of agents that have good rep.s
Thanks!
Can I please have a list or a link to a list of all the publishing companies in Melbourne Australia?
Like, book publishing or something…
Thank you!
Can somebody give me a list of publishing company in the Philippines whose willing to buy my book?
Its a tagalog romantic love story. I already asked Precious Pages. But do you still know some publishing house?
Do you also have an idea how much they will buy it?
What are the most successful book publishing companies?
What are the most successful book publishing companies?
I’m looking for information on the following – Please list…
The company.
What genre of books they publish.
What they are well known for/general reputation.
The size of the company.
And finally, which would be best to do a co-op work term at? And why?(As of today I am unsure what kind of job I would apply for – either editing, marketing or public relations)
Thanks in advance!
Can someone give me a list of legit publishing companies in Florida?
I need a mentor for my senior project and since I’m writing a book and have been unsuccessful in finding a published author who’ll be my mentor, I’m looking for maybe a publisher or an editor who could help me. Does anyone know of any good publishing companies I can try?
Book publishing companies?
I am writing a book and I am curious to know what are some of the most popular publishing companies…please list some of them and their mailing/e-mail address. Thank you sooo much =)
Big publishing companies–not online–and how to get your book out and known?? BEST ANSWER!!!?
I would love a list of publishing companies anywhere in the U.S……not online please…….and how do you get your book out and about??….in stores and known to the public…….Thanks!
Ps–I have gone to so many websites but they never say where I can email or send then a copy of my book