1.Sell book on Web site and amazon.com.
2. Write articles
a. Have copy edited.
b. Set up article page on Web site.
c. Submit articles to on-line sites.
3. Increase presence on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.
4. Maximize presence on Amazon.
a. Post customer reviews on other people’s books.
b. End them with a blurb about your book.
c. Set up a reviewer’s profile.
d. Investigate Amazon Web 2.0 Interactivity.
e. Make friends on Amazon.
f. Sell products on Amazon’s WebStore.
g. Establish yourself as a true author presence.
5. Blogging
a. Visit blog directories and check out the top-ranked blogs.
b. Check out blogs on writing.
c. Comment; let the blogger know you have done so.
d. Answer questions you have been asked in the past.
e. Give brief reviews and recommend competitive titles on your subject or books you are reading now.
6. Internet marketing
a. Build list of contacts, and keep in touch with them.
b. Keep adding to Web site.
c. Make contact information obvious.
d. Include name, e-mail address, and phone number.
e. Make sure content is high quality and provides a benefit to readers.
f. Inform, educate, inspire, motivate.
g. Include lots of ways to do things associated with topic.
h. Don’t lecture or proselytize.
i. Be generous. Give stuff away, particularly information.
j. Demonstrate expertise.
k. Show, don’t tell, that you know your subject.
l. Identify your target market; if you have more than one, you need more than one Web site. Buy several domain names.
m. Hire a Web-marketing consultant.
n. Research and register with directories and search engines.
o. Create new links to your Web site by link building.
p. Use different delivery mechanisms for different audiences—blog, newsletter, e-zine, Podcasts.
q. Stay active in Twitter, Yahoo, Gather, Facebook, LinkedIn
r. Create name recognition by submitting articles on your subject to multiple article sites.
s. Be clear but subtle about having something to sell.
t. Make it easy for people to buy and pay for your book.
u. Set up a store through shopsite.com or some other shopping cart service; sign up for PayPal or get a merchant’s account.
v. Set up a media page. Include a press release that announces your book in a copyable format (Word or a text file), links to previous interviews in print and on-line.
6. Send Advance Readers Copies (uncorrected galley proofs) stamped “reader’s copy” to reviewers at trade magazines within the book industry.
7. See Literary Market Place in the reference room for magazine and newspaper book reviewers, book review syndicates, columnists, radio and television stations, book clubs.
8. Advertise in inexpensive newsletters and Writers’ Digest and The Writer.
9. Bookstores
a. Compile a list of local bookstores and visit them, book in hand.
b. Offer to do a workshop, a presentation, or a signing.
c. Help with promotion of the event,
d. Cooperate with the community relations person in any way you can.
10. Book clubs: Go to each Web site, and download guidelines for submission.
11. Elevator speech: be able to tell someone what your book is about between floors in an elevator: “My book is about (main point) in order to help the reader (main benefit).”
12. Articles
a. Make a list of print and Web publications that address writing.
b. Research writers’ guidelines.
c. Query the editors about writing free articles.
d. Learn what the editor is looking for to address the publication’s reader.
e. Use keywords so it will be found. Link to the appropriate page on your Web site.
13. Direct marketing
a. Consider hiring a knowledgeable professional to help you.
b. Develop a plan what you want to achieve, your target audience, the list, what you will offer, and designer; establish criteria for your target audience.
c. Build or buy a list of people who meet those criteria.
d. If possible, call those listed to determine if list is up to date.
e. Keep culling list; when a piece of mail comes back, remove the address from the list.
f. Track and measure results.
g. If necessary, mail to the same list several times.
h. Ask yourself: (1) what is the average order you will receive? (2) What will it cost you to mail each piece? (3) Can you generate enough money to pay for your mailing? (4) Will you make a profit? If the answers to questions (3) and (4) are no, rethink this as a method of reaching customers.
15. Networking
a. Join appropriate associations for self-publishers, marketers, professional speakers, and those that cater to people interested in your topic.
b. Get involved in the organization, talk about your book.
c. Network on-line.
16. Nontraditional sales
a. Think beyond the bookstore. Other places are called “nontraditional sales.”
b. Consider spin-off products.
c. Sell not just your book, but your message as well.
d. Send free books as review copies, three-dimensional business cards, gifts, or marketing materials to associations, organizations, meetings of any kind, and libraries.
e. Submit book for inclusion in catalogs.
f. Attend book fairs and special events (note prior caution).
g. Sell books in the back of the room when you give presentations or workshops.
17. Public relations
a. Prepare a professional-looking press kit. Paste the cover of book on the front of the pocket folder. Inside, put a press release, an information sheet about your book, an author’s bio and photo, talking points to be used in interviews, and contact and ordering information.
b. Give away premiums that display book’s cover.
c. Create your own audience.
18. Speaking engagements
a. Position yourself as an expert.
b. Line up speaking engagements at no charge.
19. Specialty retailers
a. Ask yourself how you will sell this kind of book? Where?
b. Research & visit stores and sites that sell special-interest books and related products.
c. Bring your own point-of-purchase displays.
20. Last thoughts
a. Go where the audience is. Network.
b. Be a walking/talking commercial for your book.
c. Remember, life is a marketing call.
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