Promote Your Writing

Promoting books with Tumblr is often overlooked by self-published authors. It’s an effective and easy way to extend your book promotion. Yes, you use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and your blog or website. But with Tumblr, you can use your existing book promotion posts and articles to reach a new audience. Tumblr is a very popular…

Did you know that you can promote your book with images? If you have a blog or website, it’s a quick and easy way to attract more readers and get more traffic. But surprisingly, it’s a book promotion method that doesn’t involve using your book cover image. You use images you already include in your…

A book sales funnel follows the same principle as all other commercial sales funnels. When a potential reader comes across your book, you have succeeded in attracting attention. But very few will jump immediately to the action of buying your book. For new authors, especially, you need to fill this gap with elements of interest…

The days when Instagram was a simple photo-sharing app are long gone. Did you know that you can use Instagram Stories to sell books? With over 1 billion monthly active users, Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social media networks with the most engaged user base. It’s no surprise that you may want to promote…

For self-published authors, book promotion is always a challenge, so you need a few essential book promotion tools. It takes time to plan your book marketing ideas before your book launch. Then you need to keep the buzz going after you publish a book. There are many ways to market a book, yet for an…

When you sell on Amazon, you can optimize your product by adding keywords to your Amazon listing. But do you know about the Amazon keywords character limit? You can use up to fifty characters for an Amazon KDP book keyword. Amazon keywords are often called hidden keywords. These words do not appear on your Amazon…

If you have ever played the 21-question game, you’ll know that people can open up when answering your questions. So why not use questions to sell books? Interesting questions make people think, funny questions make people laugh, and a good question demands a logical answer. By playing this game, you learn how powerful a great question…

You might think LinkedIn is all about job opportunities. But you can also promote a book on Linkedin. Many authors, writers, and bloggers use their personal profiles on LinkedIn for brand awareness and to market their books and blogs. While this is a very good idea, there is a better way to extend your reach to…

Have you considered how to use comments for free book promotion? There are hundreds of promotion services and ways to promote a book for indie authors. You can use free and paid book promotion sites, write a blog post every week, and offer free ebooks. Marketing your book to find potential readers is a non-stop…