Promote Your Writing

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…

For authors, learning how to promote your book for free or as cheaply as possible is one of the most challenging tasks in self-publishing. But promoting your book doesn’t need to take hours and hours of your time every day or break the bank. Let’s do a recap and define how to market a book.…

You know the importance of book launches, book reviews, and even business cards in marketing your book. But do you need new book marketing ideas? You have probably completed most of the basics by now. Are you looking for new ideas to build momentum for your book promotion? Book sales come from activity, so let’s…