We covered a few
essential author sales tools — website, blog, social media, and email — but there are tons of other ways publishers can empower their authors to boost book sales, such as:
Not exact matches
Instead, the
author of Beyond the Bake
Sale: The
Essential Guide to Family / School Partnerships, says open houses should be opportunities to share with families specific grade - level learning goals that have been identified for students.
She is the
author and co-
author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake
Sale: The
Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).
Worse, her
author website looked amateurish and lacked
essential marketing tools, which hurt her credibility and hindered her book
sales.
«
Author Marketing Club was recommended by BookBaby as an
essential marketing tool for successful exposure and book
sales.
• Cathey Armillas — How to Pitch, Prepare and Deliver a Killer TED Talk • Bob Erdmann — Build Your Foreign Rights Revenue Stream • John Lee Dumas — Podcasting for Promotion and Profit • Pam Lontos — Publicity Strategies That Get Results • Joanna Penn — How to Make a Living from Your Writing • Joel Friedlander —
Essentials for
Author Websites, Blogs and Book
Sales Pages • Dana Lynn Smith — How to Launch and Market Your Book • Amy Collins — Book Distribution 101: How to Get Into Bookstores and Beyond • Maria Nemeth — From
Author to Coach: Build a Thriving Coaching Practice Around Your Book • Roger C. Parker — Write Three Books This Year!
Author Platforms are
essential to building steady
sales, BUT they take time and effort.
If book
sales are part of your self - publishing
author goals, you'll need to know about this
essential piece of the self - publishing pie.
The topic was «
Essentials for
Author Websites, Blogs and Book
Sales Pages» and it was designed as a 40 minute teleconference presentation, so no visuals or slides like we would rely on in a webinar or live presentation.
So indie -
authors are forced to seek out alternative ways to get reviews, which are
essential to
sales.
Get social — It is
essential that
authors use their own networks (blog / website) to promote their book, as that is where most
sales come from.
I am certain Amazon has its reason for keeping
authors completely in the dark, shackling them to the bare
essentials of
sales reporting, but to be honest, I don't really see the point.
The
essential difference to traditional methods is that such a «submission» is accompanied with its own
sales chart —
sales the book enjoys as a result of
author's own promotional activities.
Dr. Mapp is the
author and co-
author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake
Sale: The
Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).
Hamilton is the
author of Real Estate Marketing and
Sales Essentials and the co-authored Real Estate Agency Law.