Let’s face it. If you’re an author who has just self published your first book, you are completely, and I mean completely, on your own when it comes to promoting and marketing your book. Many first time self-published authors struggle for years trying to gain exposure for their book. If you’re like any newbie author, who’s green to the book marketing game (and believe me, it is a game) chances are the first thing you did was race down to the nearest bookstore, or goggle Amazon.com and purchased a few books on “how to market your book,” which is all fine and dandy, providing those techniques work. Here’s a few of the common book marketing tactics:
Sending out a Press Release
Purchasing Targeted Mailing List
Book Signings Sometimes these tactics work.
Sometimes they don’t. The big question is: Is there some trick to gaining maximum exposure for your book? Well, there is. And, it certainly isn’t the same run of the mill tactics you read in those marketing books.marketing books. As a self published Author, I’ve learned how to think “Way out of the box” while marketing my book for a year. Here are a few fun and creative tactics I pulled off to market my book...
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