May 01 2008
A Dozen Low Cost or No Cost Ways to Market Your Book – Part 2
Part 2
4 Use Audio & Video to Entice Readers & Buyers
Add videos of you reading short passages from your book to your blog. Host the videos on YouTube. This will
1. Add interest
2. Increase your audience
3. Harness YouTube’s power to drive traffic to your blog for more sales
You don’t need to have the time, energy, or resources to travel the country promoting your book. Take advantage of technology! Do readings, promotions, etc online. You can reach hundreds of buyers.
Google “Virtual Book Tour” for many examples. Avoid sites that want you to pay
6 Create a Squidoo Lens About Your Book
After you create your blog, go to Squidoo and create a lens about your book. You can reuse the material from your blog, but mix it up a bit. Add an Amazon Plexo that links directly to your book on Amazon. Add an eBay Plexo that links directly to your book on eBay. Add your YouTube readings.
Make your content interesting enough – and browsers will become buyers.
7 Become an Expert – Post Articles to Ezine.com
Repurpose you blog posts by adding them to the store of articles on ezine.com. Rewrite them slightly, so the content is not identical. Always be sure to include information about your book – the title and where to buy it – somewhere in the article. Articles available through ezine.com are freely distributed. Read a few to see what others are doing and then begin submitting your own.
The Final 5 Tips will be posted tomorrow in Part 3
If you live in the Puget Sound region and you want to learn how to publish your own book – Dany Byrne, Publisher of Ghost Leg Press, will be teaching a one day seminar at Everett Community College on May 10. Register online at Everett Community College
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