Taking out an ad in a local newspaper encircles a large population but with scattered interests and the newspaper gets thrown out at the end of day. So the question becomes how do you get the maximum exposure to a captured audience that has interest in your work before they even see it. There are magazines for almost any subject that you can think of. There are web sites devoted to every subject you can imagine and especially for subjects you would never imagine.

Find your audience... focus on them... and get the biggest bang for your buck. My book Rigby's Roads involves multiple themes from suicide, to murder, FBI, terrorists, hackers, and mid-life crisis. But I have one common thread that runs through the entire book ... motorcycles.... Harley-Davidson motorcycles to be exact. I could have chosen to run my advertising in many ways but I needed an edge... I needed something unique that would have an impact and would remain with my potential readers for a long time.

Riding my Harley in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado is absolutely amazing. But during the winter months there are days when you just do not venture outside. And as most people in Colorado know there are days in every month of winter when the temperature can climb to a riders delight. It can snow on Tuesday and be 57 on Wednesday. I sat down and brainstormed to find a creative way to advertise my book without advertising it. How could I create a public relations ad that would remain with my potential book customer and they would show to others and talk about it. I needed to give them something they never saw before and my book ad would tag along for the ride.

On your local evening weather report they sometimes mention the wind chill factor. The calculation is a combination of temperature and wind speed. I came up with the idea of creating a wind chill factor for riding motorcycles in the winter. I found the NOAA weather site and used their calculator to find the wind chill for temperatures ranging from 50 to 10 degrees and tied that into wind speeds that a motorcycle would be traveling such as 30, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, and 70 mph. I created an easy to read chart that I could fit on one side of a business card and I put the plug for my book on the other side. I mailed them out to 150 Harley-Davidson dealers around the US.

Along with my mailing of the cards to the Harley dealers was a sales pitch that included how they could use the cards to give to their customers so it would be a natural conversation to lead them to their winter clothing specials. So I created a plug for my book that was secondary to the main focus that everybody would keep it for and I hand them out at motorcycle rallies. The reaction was fantastic and the card stays with them and is not thrown out.

The plug for my book on the reverse side of the wind chill chart is..... Rigby's Roads A story of love, murder, and restoration of life. What happens when a mild mannered man who is about to end his life, gets mixed up with motorcycle gangs, the FBI, and a chase for terrorist secrets? Buy Rigby's Roads at amazon.com, borders.com, barnesandnoble.com, visit authorsden.com/rigby I always hand the card to the bikers (estimated 6 million and climbing) with the wind chill chart in view. They stare at it and read it with interest ... and the best parts is that they KEEP it!!! I have perfected my advertising touch because the dollars are being funneled to my captured audience and I am getting the biggest bang for my buck.