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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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 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.
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/
How I Promoted a Preorder to Launch a Bestselling Book
Before I released Warwolfe, the prequel to my bestselling series de Wolfe Pack, I knew I wanted to aggressively promote this book because my readers had been waiting for it for years. As someone who releases a new full-length book about every seven weeks, I have an entire pre- and post-launch strategy I go through every time.
In this post, I’ll explain why I do certain marketing activities during the preorder period, what works for me, and what doesn’t. Thanks to this preorder marketing strategy, Warwolfehit the USA Today list at #110 on release week, and I was absolutely thrilled.
read more: https://insights.bookbub.com/promoted-preorder-launch-bestselling-book/
How to Start Guest Blogging When You Are Completely Unknown @jeffbullas
I’ve got some hard news for you…
It may come as a surprise.
If you’re getting less than 250 website visitors a day, your priority should be writing for other people’s blogs, not your own.
Why’s that, you say?
Well, because when you have low visitor numbers, writing for your own blog is like shouting in a vacuum – no one can hear you.
The benefits of guest posting are many – you tap into other people’s traffic, you cultivate relationships with other bloggers in your sphere, and you build a good reputation.
Most importantly, you get ‘DoFollow’ backlinks from various websites, all of which can help raise your domain authority.
In case you don’t already know, domain authority is a scale from 1 to 100 that predicts how likely it is that a website will rank on page #1 of the search results for any given keyword.
And here’s the bad news: if your domain authority is less than about 25 or 30, it’s going to be extremely difficult for you to get a page #1 ranking for any of your chosen keywords.
Blogging is a notoriously hard scene to break into. So here’s why guest blogging should be a priority of yours if you’re really serious about establishing a name for yourself.
read more: http://www.jeffbullas.com/how-to-start-guest-blogging/
Which Format Should You Publish Your Book In?
Which format should authors publish their books in – and why?
Many authors will simultaneously release a book in multiple formats. At the very least, they will have a print and digital edition published at the same time. Others will do an audiobook, perhaps a little later on. Some will publish hardcover and trade paper at the same time while some may only do a mass market paperback edition. There are also publishers who release a print-on-demand version while selling the digital and audio book editions.
What makes sense for you?
#Smashwords has a Podcast
Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble, ebook distributor Smashwords has launched a podcast. It is not called WordSmash (which would have been my choice) but Smart Author:
Whether you’re new to ebook publishing or you’re already a New York Times bestselling author, the Smart Author Podcast will help you reach more readers with your words. A short preview trailer launched this week. Give it a listen now at Apple Podcasts, or visit any of the links at the bottom of this post.
Next Friday, October 27, marks the official launch when we’ll release the first four episodes. Subscribe now at Apple Podcasts so you don’t miss a single episode!
You might wonder, does the world need yet another podcast on self publishing? I think the answer is YES!
read more: https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/10/20/smashwords-has-a-podcast/
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