As an indie author, there are so many tools and strategies you can employ to grow your audience and even monetize your work. Below are 5: videos, podcasting, merchandising, crowdfunding, and social media.
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Draft2Digital Announces New Author Referral Program
Draft2Digital is one of the largest independant self-publishing platforms and they have just launched a new affiliate program that is unlike anything else in the industry. With this new program, referrers can earn 10% of D2D’s cut of author royalties for Books sold through the service’s distribution network, for one year.
“We’ve always had excellent word of mouth promotion,” says D2D’s Director of Marketing, Kevin Tumlinson. “Refer a Friend is meant to reward those authors and industry influencers who are sending new authors our way anyway. We want to share the wealth, while encouraging people to help us grow.”
Referrers can earn 10% of D2D’s cut of royalties on individual books sold through their distribution channels, while the referred author keeps all of the royalties they would normally have earned.
5 Reasons Goodreads Giveaways are a Key Book Marketing Strategy for an Indie Author
Author Marketing Experts, Inc. by Penny Sansevieri /
Many indie authors turn their noses up at incorporating giveaways and discounts into their book marketing because it seems counter intuitive to making money.
But the numbers of readers interested in Goodreads giveaways are staggering.
#indieauthor tip: Skyrocket your book marketing exposure through this one little trick. via @bookgal
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Even this summer, we posted a book marketing guide infographic. Missed it? Click here to read and download!
The most entered giveaway at the time I’m writing this currently has nearly 20K people vying for just 4 copies of the book!
And if that isn’t enough to sway you, consider this: every time a person enters a Goodreads giveaway it adds that book to their “To Be Read” shelf, which adds it to their activity feed for their entire network to see.
That feature alone skyrockets your book marketing exposure!
So let’s look at maximizing this.
read more: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/book-marketing-goodreads-giveaways/
Ingram Spark Announces a new Landscape Trim Size
http://www.ingramspark.com/plan-your-book/print/trim-sizes
Children’s book authors who have been frustrated at the lack of ability to publish a book that is wider than it is tall can now choose the 11 X 8.5 trim size available at IngramSpark. Premium color and paper combined with the landscape size now allows children’s book authors and publishers to publish POD in a manner that competes more effectively with offset printing.
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How to Get the Most Out of SEO for Your Author Site on Blogger
Blogger may be leading the betting pool for the next Google product to be canceled, but there are still a lot of authors who have their site on the platform (so do a lot of blogs, some of which look quite good).
I would do my best to discourage an author from setting up a new site on Blogger (**), but if you have a site on that platform then it would be worth your time to spend a few minutes optimizing your SEO.
What would be a simple process in WordPress (install a plugin) is a little more complicated in Blogger. All of the changes will be made in your site’s settings pages, and it is a very short list consisting of 3 items.
Yes, that is a short list, but while there are guides that explain how to make a dozen or SEO tweaks to a Blogger blog, most of what they tell you to do is related to optimizing a single post or page rather than the entire site. I am developing a set of instructions on how to optimize the SEO on each post or page as you publish it, but as I see it that is a separate topic because it is focused on your day to day blogging activities.
This post focuses on optimizing the SEO for the entire site.
read more: https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/10/11/get-killer-seo-author-site-blogger/
How to Use YouTube to Sell More Books via #KindlePreneur
Learn how to use Youtube to sell your books. Includes instructions on how to select the right content, film and even edit your videos for cheap.
The post How to Use YouTube to Sell More Books appeared first on KindlePreneur.
35 Mind Numbing YouTube Facts, Figures and Statistics – Infographic @jeffbullas
It is not until you leap into a plane and fly half way around the world to distant places that you start to realize the size and scope of the planet we inhabit.
Recently the earth’s population passed the 7 billion mark and over 2 billion of those are connected to the internet and more than 5 billion have a mobile phone.
When you start connecting that many people with global social networks such as Facebook (with over 900 million users), then opportunities and access to markets that were local become global.
Markets for business that were measured in thousands and millions suddenly scale to billions.
It is not only the size that expands but the velocity of the market accelerates as information is transferred and shared at light speed on optic fibre and wireless networks.
Social Media is Unlocking Opportunities
21 Ways to Get More Followers on Twitter (and other social networks)
Here’s a wonderful infographic from Post Planner on how to get more followers on Twitter. Of course, many of the suggestions apply to other social networks as well.
5 Reasons Why You Should Podcast Your Fiction
Storytelling has gone hand in hand with the audio format since our ancestors told each other stories around the campfire.
I can remember lying in bed listening to Peter and the Wolf on tape, and before I wrote fiction, I listened to audio fiction podcasts like Scott Sigler’s Infected and 7th Son by JC Hutchins, early pioneers of podcast fiction.
Nowadays, we have super-professional podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale, as well as audio-dramas and radio plays. In today’s article, Matthew McLean from ThePodcastHost, talks about why you should consider podcasting your fiction.
Why do you write fiction? What’s your ultimate goal?
Is it to get published, and see your book proudly displayed on bookstore shelves?
Or is it purely as an outlet for your creativity, and for the love of reaching people with your stories?
Whatever your reason, the decision to podcast some of your work can be life-changing.
Many writers have made the leap into fiction podcasting over the years. Probably the most famous example is American sci-fi and horror author Scott Sigler, interviewed here on The Creative Penn podcast.
Back in 2007, Sigler went from giving away free serialised content, to hitting the Amazon best-sellers list with his book Ancestor.
And while starting a podcast certainly isn’t going to guarantee you the same levels of success, there are still many ways it could benefit you.
Here are the five main reasons why I’d encourage you to think about podcasting your stories.
read more: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2017/10/14/5-reasons-podcast-fiction/
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