15 Ten-Minute Free Book Promotion Ideas Using Your Phone

Are you a published author? Do you have a spare ten minutes? Yes? Here are some free book promotion ideas for you.

We all have a spare ten minutes somewhere in our busy days.

Perhaps when you’re waiting for a bus or train, for a meeting, to pick up the kids from school, or for the dentist or doctor.

Apart from waiting time, there are coffee breaks, lunch breaks, and, of course, the time wasted aimlessly surfing the Internet.

Free book promotion ideas with your phone

You’ve got a phone.

So think about how many ten-minute breaks you have in a day.

Then put them to good use by doing some quick free book and author promotion.

It can only help you find potential readers and sell some books.

It doesn’t take much effort or time to build your author brand.

But you have to get the word out about your books on Amazon Kindle, iBooks, or B&N.

Many authors have a mix of free and effective paid book promotions.

But you should always be on the lookout for free promotion opportunities that are quick and easy.

Have you published a book?

Try these 15 quick book marketing tips to help your book sales.

15 quick 10-minute free book promotion ideas

1. Claim your Author Profile on Bookbub and get your books listed.

Submitting your books to be added to your author page profile is free.

2. Publish one of your popular blog posts on Medium.

It’s a quick and easy copy-and-paste way to find new readers and extend your book promotion further than your author’s website.

3. Follow 40 people on Twitter.

On average, about 15 will follow you back. Do it regularly, and you will build a solid following to help your book marketing on Twitter.

4. Follow ten friends of your friends on Facebook.

You’ll be surprised how many will accept your request because they will see that you are in some way connected to them. You never know; you might be lucky and get a new Facebook fan.

5. Comment on a post on a popular blog or newspaper article.

Commenting is one of the most effective ways to get noticed as an Indie author. If you can reply to already posted comments, even better, as you will be entering into a conversation.

6. Come up with two new ideas for your next blog post.

Do you have a new book cover? What’s the difference between science fiction and space opera? What are the key elements of a good mystery thriller? Don’t forget to note them all down.

7. Share five posts of interest on Twitter, your Facebook Page, or any of your social media accounts.

It’s amazing how many people will notice and perhaps follow you back because you are sharing and not only repeatedly posting about your Kindle book.

8. Leave five of your author business cards in the dentist’s waiting room.

Or anywhere else, for that matter.

9. Google search ‘book marketing ideas’ and read two articles.

You never know what new ideas you might stumble upon.

10. Look at your blog or website and note down three improvements you can make.

Or, look at other authors’ sites and steal a few ideas. While you are there, why not ask if you can do an author interview to post on your blog? Leave the actual grunt work for the weekend, though.

11. Read up on SEO and learn to write your blog posts around keywords to increase visitor traffic.

12. Read your author bio on Amazon and social media. Spend five minutes thinking about how you could improve it and make notes.

13. Join a new writers’ group on Facebook. Sometimes other writers have good ideas you can steal, huh?

14. Find a popular author or two on Twitter or Facebook and look at what they are posting about to give you new ideas.

15. Read one more article on Just Publishing Advice.

Make your author and book promotion a habit

There are so many ways you can use your spare ten minutes each day to build your author platform and promote your books more effectively.

Spending hours a day on social media to promote ebooks is a waste of time, so ration it.

Instead, keep thinking about the little book promotion ideas you can do that will add to big things over time.

Have you offered any free Kindle books on Amazon recently? You can also offer free ebooks via Smashwords or Draft2Digital. There are hundreds of ways to market your book.

For years now, I have had the habit of doing a little Twitter following while I have my second cup of coffee in the morning.

Five minutes a day has added up to around 125,000 followers on my personal account. That is effective and quick book promotion.

I hardly ever answer emails during the day unless they are super urgent, but I do flag the ones I need to answer.

Then, when I have a spare ten minutes, I read through them and answer the few that need a reply.

Another habit has been to note down one or two blog ideas while waiting for my students to turn up for class.

I’m always early, and they are usually late, so there are almost ten minutes to use.

Come the weekend, I have all my blog post ideas well and truly formed, which are then very easy to write.

So, do you think ten-minute book promotion habits are a good idea?

More ideas for you

But there’s more!

Read our related article that gives you 20 more (mostly) free ways to promote your book.

It takes a long time to write a book. But after your book launch, you want to get people reading your book.

That sounds easy, but it is harder than you think.

The only way to do that is to promote your book as often and as best you can.

Related reading: How To Drive More Web Traffic To Your Blog And Your Books