Not exact matches
In order to have the best possible chance of attracting media attention and
potential book buyers, authors need to consider
doing the following to set
books up for the greatest chance of success.
I mean, with
potential buyers getting involved with social networking sites — some of which have gone terribly mainstream in recent months, there's more of a chance that your
book will come to the attention of your
potential readers even if you don't land an appearance on a major television show.
That means you want to find a way to use your blog to test market your
book idea, preferably
doing so successfully by attracting many
potential buyers.
But
does any publisher, including self publishers, really expect
potential book buyers to start reading a
book — and to enjoy that
book — while glued to the Scribd site?
Each giveaway winner is a source of word - of - mouth promotion, and anyone who signs up to win but doesn't is a
potential book buyer.
Again it helps to remember that Twitter is a conversation — don't
do anything that might shut the conversation down: it could also turn off
potential book buyers and the goal, of course, is to engage them.
But
does one
potential book buyer deciding to not buy a
book constitute a boycott?
How
do you as the owner of a self published
book, draw
potential buyers to your store front in a cost effective manner?
This is your sales pitch to millions of
potential book buyers — don't make it boring!
So don't shortchange yourself by leaving out your «dry» publishing credits — but don't include so many that a
potential book buyer's eyes will glaze over.
Do you know how many
potential buyers there are for your
book?
Whether you're writing articles or
doing interviews, a virtual
book tour is your opportunity to shine in front of a targeted audience of
potential book buyers.
When you are
done with writing your
book and are ready to move on to the equally important task of marketing it, your top priority should be to create as many opportunities as possible for your
book offer to land squarely in the path of any individual who is a
potential buyer.
But I've found that if you're going to self - pub, and if you want to be taken as seriously as people who professionally publish via the traditional routes, then you're going to have to work as hard as the traditional publishers
do to make a
book present itself well to
potential buyers.
For some reason, this made me kinda sad, as it hardly seems like they're putting the Kindle's best foot forward with a display with a broken unit, which is not only useless (and ugly) to look at, but reminds
potential buyers that you
do have to be more careful with a Kindle than with a paper
book.
If your networks are stocked with the
potential buyers (or those who will help you network even more), what are you
doing to share useful information about your
book with them?
With hybrid cars sales seemingly continually on the rise, and hybrids infiltrating multiple facets of the car market, Kelley Blue
Book did a survey to determine what
potential hybrid car
buyers are really thinking about; CNN took the top seven questions and answered them.