Help with Getting Your Book Known.
- 08.13.12
- Book Marketing, book marketing, social media buzz
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One of the big issues with self-publishing is marketing. I know you’re and author not a salesperson but you do need to know how to best market your book or there will be no sales and that means no money.
It is pretty easy really, the Internet has made the job of marketing so much easier that it has been hammered and abused by millions. Done right though you too could be come a household name like what’s her name.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
The point though is that you don’t need, or want, millions of sales to be a successful self published author. A hundred or so raving fans can make your book sell it’s digital cover off.
Where do you get a hundred or so raving fans? This blog has over 9,000 followers on Twitter, mostly accidentally. While they are not raving fans, yet, they are there watching and that is a pretty good start.
We all need help to get our ideas and posts seen and read. Google say that all you need to do is write good content but that just isn’t enough. There are literally millions of good, well written articles, blog posts etc. online today and more pouring into the channels daily. There is possibly a hundred times that of mediocre to poor to absolute rubbish adding to the pile daily as well. Even the googlebots cannot search, identify, collate and store the volume of material in just the written word let alone the videos and images as well.
What you need is a little boost so people will come to your blog or wherever you have your book up for sale to give it a chance to attract readers.
To that end I have just signed up to what just might be an important tool in finding an ever growing fan base. This is still in Beta so it’s a bit rough around the edges but it is an excellent idea (and free at the moment). This is being promoted by a person I have never met but who’s emails I have been getting for several years now and I trust his judgement. One of the few people who’s emails I actually read the day I see them in my inbox.
If I have managed to set this up correctly you should be able to see the Internet face of the SocialBuzz network on the far right sidebar. It’s a bit ugly at the moment because I have a two column sidebar and the widget is clearly designed for a single column sidebar. Just means I have to do a little adjustment.
I did want to get this post out so you can get a chance at joining this network sooner rather than later. If you get to the site before they get the numbers they want for testing purposes then you can get started right away, if not you had better sign up to be notified when they do re-open.
Here’s the link http://www.socialbuzzwidget.com