I'm working
on book promotion efforts until Santa Claws himself slides down my chimney and tells me to unplug my computer and take a break.
Not exact matches
This happens by focusing your initial
promotion efforts on readers who are most likely to purchase your
book and spread word of mouth.
This
effort to highlight new literary talent is another in a line of
book promotions, such as Apple's 2013 initiative to offer a special spotlight
on self - published
books in its Breakout Books section of the iBooks
books in its Breakout
Books section of the iBooks
Books section of the iBookstore.
But no
book promotion campaign is complete without a focused
effort on bringing visitors to your web site (and / or promoting your blog).
And, while your virtual
book tour is a big part of your
book promotion effort, keep working
on your traditional
book promotion efforts.
As a self - published author there's no way you can compete with huge publishing houses that have billions of dollars to spend
on marketing and
promotion in an
effort to launch, grow and maintain robust
book sales.
If you're
book promotion campaign is focused
on other parts of the country, then note that there's a heatwave in many major metro areas... and plan your
book publicity
efforts accordingly.
NovelRank offers authors the opportunity to get real - time feedback about their
promotion efforts towards
book sales
on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca (Canada), and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom).
If you don't have series, you can run discount
promotions on ONE
book in an
effort to introduce readers to you as an author.
Just as authors and publishers currently consider it critical to get their
books into the search engines, and to allow their
book discovery to happen both organically and through concerted
book promotion efforts, they may — according to ThoughtCatalog — soon be focusing
on book discovery through Trajectory.
Your
book marketing and
promotion success will depend
on your own networking
efforts, even if you're cruising
on an advance from a big NY publisher.
There are many authors and publishers out there (and you may be one of them) who believe the impact of online
book promotion efforts is negligible, and that the only
book publicity that matters is real - world buzz (that is, getting
book reviews in traditional magazines and newspapers, and scoring interviews
on radio and television shows).
We're all incredibly busy, so why spend valuable
book promotion time
on efforts with the least amount of pay off?
This
book offers ideas
on optimizing your
efforts when it comes to
book marketing and
promotion.
Like much else in life, your earnings are mostly (unless you get really lucky) going to depend
on the amount of
effort you put in, when and where you run your
promotions, building a fan email list (and putting the sign - up link in the back of your
books) and so
on, as well as how many
books you have available.
For Group B, write a brief, personalized note to each person about your
book promotion efforts, and offer 1 - 3 concrete ways they could help you — e.g., tweet about the
book on a specific day, excerpt the
book on their blog / site, run a Q&A, etc..
By then you should have a much clearer understanding of what you need to do to find your readers, get them
on your email list, sell more
books, and stop wasting time
on «
book marketing»
efforts or paid
promotions that just don't work.
That doesn't mean, if Google singles you out as the de facto expert
on your topic, that you can fire your
book publicist and cease all other
book promotion efforts.
Would an appearance
on National Public Radio help your
book promotion campaign
efforts?