Choose Your Categories

Identify the categories below that describe your services, and notice that some of them appear multiple times in our list.

And please use this form or our Contact page to suggest categories we should add in which you — or colleagues you recommend we invite to be listed — offer services to executive authors.

Infrastructure

Book process
• Book project planners, strategists & publishing consultants
• Book coaches/shepherds

Business-related
• Book-business synergy advisors
• Thought leadership advisors & services
• Content marketing/repurposing advisors
• New business & product creation advisors
• Information product line advisors
• Internet business & marketing advisors
• Branding experts
• Project managers
• Virtual assistants
• Graphic designers
• Instructional designers
• PR agencies
• Offsite computer file backups

Website
• Website designers & webmasters
• Website developers/programmers
• WordPress website design & setup
• Webpage writers
• Website hosting
• Search engine optimization/SEO experts
• Search engine advertising/SEM/PPC experts
• Autoresponders
• Shopping carts
• Shopping cart experts/virtual assistants

Money
• Accountants, sales tax experts & payroll services
• Merchant accounts
• Payment gateways
• Shopping carts
• Shopping cart experts/virtual assistants

Legal
• General business attorneys
• Intellectual property attorneys
• Publishing issue attorneys

Audio
• Recording services
• Transcribers
• Teleconference services

Visual
• Stock & royalty-free images
• Photographers
• Illustrators
• Videographers
• Webinar producers & platforms

Book Creation

Words
• Writing
••• Writing programs
••• Writing coaches
••• Ghostwriters
••• Back cover copywriters
• Editing
••• Developmental editors
••• Content & substantive editors
••• Copyeditors
• Proofreaders
• Typesetters
• Glossary builders
• Indexers
• Transcribers
• Translations experts

Design
• Book cover designers
• Book interior designers
• Ebook creators & file converters
• Stock & royalty-free images
• Illustrators
• Advanced review copy/ARC creators

Other book creation
• Researchers
• Fact checkers
• Reference citation researchers
• Instructional designers
• Recording services
• Services to acquire endorsement blurbs
• Foreign rights experts

Production & Independent (Self-) Publishing

Production
• Printers
••• Print on demand/POD printers
••• Short-run digital printers
••• Offset printers
• Ebook creators & file converters
• Enhanced & multimedia ebook creators
• Videographers
• Instructional designers
• App creators
• Game creators
• Audio books
••• Audio book creators
••• Audio book voice talent
••• Audio book packagers
• CD/DVD packagers
• Mailing house & fulfillment services

Hire a publisher
• Hybrid publishers

Become a publisher
• Attorneys
••• Publishing issue attorneys
••• Intellectual property attorneys
••• General business attorneys
• Accountants, sales tax experts & payroll services
• Logo designers
• ISBN & barcode purchases
• Website
••• Website designers & webmasters
••• Website developers/programmers
••• WordPress website design & setup
••• Webpage writers
••• Website hosting
••• Search engine optimization/SEO experts
••• Search engine advertising/SEM/PPC experts
••• Autoresponders
••• Shopping carts
••• Shopping cart experts/virtual assistants

Traditional Publishing

Book proposals
• Book proposal strategists
• Book proposal writers

Agents
• Literary agents
• Events to meet literary agents

Distribution

Target research
• Mailing lists
• Association lists

Reaching targets
• Bookstores
• Non-bookstores
• Online stores
• Vertical market channels
• Mailing house & fulfillment services

Marketing

Amazon.com
• Amazon.com sales page setup
• Amazon.com reviews
• Amazon.com bestseller experts

Media relations
• PR agencies
• Media kit creators
• Press releases
••• Press release writers
••• Press release distribution
••• Press release outlets
• Media lists
• Media outreach
• Blogger tours, reviews & mentions
• Radio & TV resources
• Internet radio bookings
• Media trainers
• Advanced review copy/ARC distribution
• Acquire book reviews
• Articles
••• Article writers
••• Article placement & distribution
• Social media
••• Social media strategy, setup & planning
••• Social media training & coaches
••• Social media content creators
••• Social media advertising

Sales
• Affiliate marketing experts
• Volume/Special sales experts
• Non-bookstore sales experts
• Co-branded sales experts

Speaking
• Speechwriters
• Speaking coaches
• Speakers’ bureaus
• Spokesperson coaches
• Spokespersons’ bureaus
• TED Talk creators

Audio
• Recording services
• Transcribers
• Teleconference bridge lines

Visual
• Graphic designers
••• Book marketing printed material designers
••• Logo designers
• Stock & royalty-free images
• Photographers
• Illustrators
• Book trailer videos
• Videographers
• Webinar producers & platforms

Events
• Virtual book tours
• Author events
• Book signings

Other marketing
• Book marketing planners
• Content marketing/repurposing advisors
• Copywriters
• Printed promotions creators
• Mobile marketers
• Book displays
• Services to acquire endorsement blurbs
• Book awards & competitions
• NY Times, USA Today & WSJ bestseller experts

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