Showing posts with label book marketing tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book marketing tips. Show all posts
This years Promo Day event will take place on Saturday 6th May at www.PromoDay.net. As always, the event is completely free to attend and everyone is welcome. Go to the website now and register.
I'm really excited about all the other webinars that will be taking place too. Not to mention the pitch sessions, giveaways, and all the live activities that happen during the event.
Hope to see you all there!
Oh and this year you get a free ebook about book marketing just for registering for the event thanks to the lovely people at Publishing Push.
Today is #PromoDay2016!
A special online event dedicated to promoting, networking and learning.
The big day is finally here and I'm buzzing with excitement! I'll be at Promo Day all day long (yes I am crazy enough to pull a 24 hour ;)).
Things are already underway but registration will remain open all day so those of you that only just found out about the event can still join in the fun. Everyone is welcome!
Once you've registered you'll have access to all the webinars, including my own "Blogging for Authors", and access to the pitch sessions with publishers, and much more...
I'm really looking forward to the live panel discussions later on today too. So much happening!
As I mentioned last week, I'm working on the new series of Quick Tips at the moment, and will be launching it soon. Last week I shared the complete collection of videos from the first series. Today I'm sharing a recap of the complete collection of videos from series 2.
Add subscribe options to your blog
Add a call to action in your book
Create a contest
Keep your website up to date
Reuse content to make G+ hangouts
Add a video to your Amazon author page
Register your hashtag
Add a testimonial page to your website
Add a call to action to your FB cover banner
Add a category to your Pinterest boards
Which of these tips did you find most useful?
Quick Tips For Authors
Quick Tips: Bringing you tips, tricks, and strategies in bite-sized format to help you build your author brand, and market your books.
This week's quick tip
This weeks "Quick Tip" is to send review copies to Bloggers. Bloggers work on building communities and s such tend to have a good reach. This makes them the perfect people to help spread the word about your book(s). Find Bloggers that fit the right niche for your book and ask them if they would be interested in/ send them a free review copy.
Bloggers that then post a good review to their blog are also likely to post the review to other sites too e.g. Amazon, Goodreads, etc...
Are you a blogger? Want to feature one of my books on your blog? Drop me an email and I'll be happy to organise an e-copy for review. I also have media kits for all of my books that can be used for book spotlights and features should you not have time for a review.
You can find a full list of all my published titles on the My Books page.
Quick Tips: Bringing you tips, tricks, and strategies in bite-sized format to help you build your author brand, and market your books.
This weeks "Quick Tip" is to create a newsletter with exclusive content. Newsletters should contain content that can't be found any where else. Readers are giving up their email address, and so you should be giving them exclusive content. If your content can be found on social media, your blog, etc... why would they bother signing up to have it sent to their email inbox?
For the same reason, you should never social share your newsletter. Keep it exclusive.
Do you have a newsletter? What kind of content do you include?
Don't forget to sign up for my monthly newsletter. It's full of exclusive tips and strategies, with behind the scenes info about what I've been doing, what works and what doesn't, and all the latest details about new releases and works in progress.
Become part of the exclusive tribe and sign up now!
This weeks "Quick Tip" is to make promotional materials for your book. A great way to spread the word without having to do a sales pitch. It's a good idea to put your website url on them so that people know where to go for more information.
There are loads of companies that offer services where you can upload your own images to be printed to order on t-shirts, caps, cups, and more. I personally like http://www.vistaprint.com but you can easily find alternatives by doing a quick search on Google.
This weeks "Quick Tip" is to identify your target audience. Not only will knowing who your book is for help when you have to market it, in some cases it can also help when you're writing it. You'll also need to know your target audience if you plan on approaching agents and/or publishers as they are sure to ask you.
This weeks "Quick Tip" is to create a media kit for your book.
A media kit is a great resource to have. One of the most useful files you'll create related to your book. It contains all the information that you, or anyone else, could want about your book.
- Your book blurb
- cover image
- author bio
- weblinks
- reviews received
- press release
- a sample interview
- links to places the book has been featured
.... the list goes on.
Basically anything anyone could possibly want or need to know about your book.
Do you have a media kit for your book? What did you include?
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Should you social share your newsletter? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In today's video I'll tell you why...
I send out a monthly newsletter on the 1st of every month with exclusive content. That's right, you won't find my newsletter content anywhere else. It's just for my subscribers.
I decided to keep it to just once a month because I don't want to fill up your inbox. I want to send you awesome content, with tips and strategies that can help you.
It also contains information about my upcoming releases, events, and projects.
Secret Tip For Making Time To Be Social
I'm a social media junky as you all probably know by now. I love it. I'm everywhere. What you might not know is how I manage to keep up such a regular presence across the board... and still make time for my writing, and other projects.
My top tip for social media time management
Well, today I'm going to share with you one of my top tips for social media time management. Watch the video below to find out how I make time to be social.
How do you manage to fit social media into your daily routine without it eating up too much of your time?
Yesterday marked the start of IndieReCon, an online conference organised by the Alliance of Independent Authors. And what a start it was! The live webinar events were packed full of great information and tips.
I'm still trying to catch up with all of the webinars but my favourite so far has been Content Marketing 101 with Jane Friedman. This webinar was a mother-load of information about content marketing! Here's a few bits that stood out (just click to tweet ;)).
This weeks Quick Tip is to organise a release party for your book. Everyone loves a good party and what better reason to celebrate than the release of your book! Whether you party in-person or do it online, having a release party can be a great way to create a buzz for your book and engage with your readers.
This weeks Quick Tip is to ask fans to share a photo of them with your book. It gives you some awesome marketing material but also gives you a way of connecting with your fans.
This weeks quick tip is to reply to comments left on your blog. In today's busy world, taking the time to leave a comment on someones blog is a big deal. Make sure you reply to all comments on yours. The post is just a launch point for engaging with your readers.
This weeks quick tip is to add a testimonial page to your website. Whilst you can tell people how great you are, having OTHER people tell people how great you are is much more effective. Create a testimonial page on your website and let others do the talking for you.
You can find this, and all my other Quick Tips videos on the Quick Tips playlist at
This weeks quick tip is to add a call to action at the back of your book. As the reader has just finished reading your book it's the perfect time to get them to post a review, check out your website, try some of your other books, etc...
Do you have a call to action in your book?
You can find my other videos on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/jolinsdell/. Don't forget to click subscribe so you can keep up with all the new uploads too ;)
This weeks quick tip is to add subscribe options to your blog. Having people subscribe to your blog is a great alternative if you don't have the time to put together a separate newsletter. It helps keep you in touch with your fans and makes is easy for them to keep up with your projects and news. Offering several different subscription options is a good idea as it means readers can choose how they want to follow your content e.g. via email or via a url feeder.
What subscription options do you offer on your blog?
You can find my other videos on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/jolinsdell/. Don't forget to click subscribe so you can keep up with all the new uploads too ;)
Promo Day 2014
The big day has finally arrived! Today is Promo Day!
It's been months of hard work organising this event but it's totally worth it. If you haven't registered yet it's still not too late. Go to The Promo Day website now and join in the fun.
You can also connect via social media using the hashtag #PD14
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