Author book signings are hit or miss. Retailers spend time and money advertising. Authors spend time and money traveling to the store. Results are often less-than-successful.
If you are in sales, you have to keep selling through good times and bad. There are ways to find prospects with money, become a top priority for the money they have and close sales during tough times.
Writing a book is one thing. Publishing it is another. Promoting it is a whole new different ball game. Self-publishing your book entails a lot of effort, especially in the marketing stages, and Christian book promotion is no different.
Now that you have your eBook on Kindle and the Nook how do you go about selling it? That's where marketing comes in! No matter your feelings about marketing, it's just a process that has to be done for any product you want to promote whether the product costs money or not. Everyone has to market at some point! Marketing can be fun if you look at it the right way. Marketing is, in many ways a numbers game, but you can improve your odds by paying attention to specific aspects of marketing more than others. The following tips will help you market your eBook effectively.
This is one of the many questions I've had to answer since starting on my nationwide virtual book tour on November 1, 2006 - November 30, 2006 to promote my first self-published promoting eBook, "A Complete Guide to Promoting & Selling Your Self-Published eBook."
So, your book is finally published and available for sale. You've sent word to friends and family, talked up the book on your social media profiles, and have blogged excerpts and other interesting notes about it to interested readers. You may not realize it once you hold the book in your hands, but your work is only just beginning.
Authors who self publish sell, actually move books with social media like Facebook and a blog. I am and so can you. So forget about buzzing, engaging and "being more human" on social media and learn how to sell with it. Here are 3 things you can do tomorrow--to start making social media sell more books, speaking gigs and educational goods.
When you are writing content for your website or for another website and are able to add links, how well do you use these links? Your two goals are to (1) increase the number of people who will click on the link; (2) improve the odds of people online who are searching for your topic of information to locate you easily.
Once you have even the spark of a notion to market online, let that spark ignite thoughts of how you'll promote your site. Have the insight to know this means thinking imaginatively about two worlds.
The Association of American Publishers' monthly sales estimates come
with a number of caveats, the most important being the limited number of
companies that participate--85 in all, with participation among the
segments much smaller than that. Still, they have provided a useful tool
in gauging how e-book sales and print sales are faring among the major
trade houses (the big six all report).
