Small Steps to Bigger Book Sales
Welcome to my latest HOW-TO book, written for authors who wish to better market their books, and for all those who use social media in some form or another.
Based on proven marketing methods, Small Steps to Bigger Book Sales is for every author with books to sell, or anyone who wishes to improve dramatically their participation in social networks.
Your 20 Tasks:
You will be guided to do 20 Tasks, over 9 months, as part of your very own Small Steps Plan to market your books.
You will start with the first 10 tasks over 3 months and the next 10 over the next 6 months. Then you will review and revise your next Small Steps Plan to cover the next 12 months.
Your Book Promotion Plan:
You easily-prepared book promotion plan will set out methodical, small steps every week to market your books where they stand the best chance of being bought by readers.
What you will learn:
You will learn how to:
1. create your Team of advisors to help you every step of the way;
2. define your Target Readers, so that you can persuade them to buy your books;
3. find and use many of top social network forums, where readers and writers mix, so that you can build your Clan, or team of supporters;
4. get reviews of your books;
5. use other social networks tools easily and effectively; and do all this at your own speed and in the free time you have.
Easy to use:
A revised, updated and slimmed down version of my earlier book, Your Purrfect Way to Publish & Promote your Amazon & Kindle Books, Small Steps has been changed to make it easier for an author to do what has to be done to promote books professionally.
It is very easy for you to start and to carry out your promotion plan, with most of the heavy lifting done for you.
How to start:
Your whole marketing plan is already prepared for you.
Chapter 25 has a detailed template for your own Small Steps Plan, of 200 small steps in 20 tasks. All you have to do is add the target starting dates for your many small steps on your road to success. You can easily make any tweaks to it that you and your Team want to.
How to make it work:
The easy way for you and your Team to carry out your plan is also provided.
Chapter 26 has a very detailed 120-item Weekly Engagement Checklist.
Each week you simply do those things that need to be done that week, confident that the Checklist will keep you on course.
I strongly recommend that every writer consider self-publishing if they cannot find a mainstream publisher. Forget about vanity presses: you can publish your eBooks or softcover printed books on Kindle and Amazon/Createspace for next to nothing, and get very professional products.
And I also recommend that you think again about promoting your books. Try a few simple steps and see if you like the results. You could start with my next article, with its 120-point weekly promotion plan. See how many of those ideas you have tried for your own books. You might be surprised at the results?
From what I read, you focus on social media. Social media seems to be the panacea for everything today because it's such a fad. The only social media site that I go to is Author's Den. And I devote too much time here.
I'm sure that marketing sells books just like Coca-Cola is one of the largest companies for selling carbonated sugar water to idiots. But are the books any good? Are they worth reading? The way that publishers are these days, most of them are vanity presses. They will publish anything you write as long as you pay for and promote it yourself. So, there's a lot of trash being promoted as good reading.
I'm glad I don't have to live from the sale (or marketing of) my books. I'm just pleased when someone tells me they like what I wrote.
Ron