To maximize sales of your book, you’ll need a marketing strategy. here are six great tips for developing that strategy. Click the linked title for the full article.
• Start early on your book marketing campaign
All too often, marketing a self-published book comes as an afterthought. Only when a writer sees the page selling their book go up on Amazon.com – and usually after a week or two of nonexistent sales on that page – does an earnest effort to promote the title begin.
• Five magic words that sell more books
When writing a blurb for a nonfiction book, there are certain words that can be used to increase the odds of purchase. In fact, five words – you, free, instantly, because and new – have more sway than others, if used in the right context, according to a recent article in Copyblogger.
• Create book sell sheet for pitching book
Before attempting to convince a retailer to carry your book, you may want to create a book sell sheet (also called a “book one-sheet”). A book sell sheet provides quick facts to retailers aiming to convince them to carry and sell your books.
• Pitch book through Back of Room sales
One of the best way to sell your books is through Back of Room sales. This occurs when you give a presentation and have copies of your book(s) for sale on a table nearby – usually at the back or side of the room or just outside it.
• Market your book by spinning it for a holiday
One marketing effort you might want to consider is spinning it for an upcoming holiday.
• When is best time of the year to release a book?
Among the many questions an indie author faces is when to release a book. If not, your book will be lost among the hundreds of others published that day, simply because the potential interest for your book’s topic isn’t peaking.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional book editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of 80 books including the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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