Hope your week is going well! I hope your year is doing well so far.
We are about 6 weeks into the new year and by now 80% of New Years Resolutions have probably been broken. I don’t remember where I got this stat from it has been so long. Think it was in USA Today a few years back.
In the beginning of the new year I always make it a resolution to sell more books. It is a simple goal, but not having a solid plan for making it happen isn’t a good plan at all.
Posting your book on social media is a huge time suck, especially if you get caught up on reading other peoples post while you are there. It is easy to spend an hour on Facebook and not even realize it. That takes away from valuable writing time.
We have some regular authors that don’t post much to social media at all. They let our service be how they do their bulk of social media. Since every submission to our site also goes out to our social media channels it reaches a lot of readers. That is enough for them and they don’t have to focus their efforts on their social media and can write instead.
Are You Tracking Your Book Marketing Social Media Ads?
It is really important to have both writing goals and marketing goals. Many of our authors use us and a combination of other marketing methods.
Do you have any writing goals for the year? Leave a comment and let me know what they are.
Sept 2020 Awesome Book Promotion Free Featured Ad Contest
Are you an author who has a limited ad budget? We would like to help you out with a contest where you could win some book promotions. Our prize this month is a featured listing on AwesomeBookPromotion.com. This is a site I put together where you only fill out one form and it gets you a featured ad spot across all the Awesomegang family of sites. The current value for this is $65.
1) A Featured Ad on Awesomegang.com $10 value
2) A Featured Ad on Pretty-hot.com $25 value
3) A Featured Ad on Bookreadermagazine.com $25 Value
4) A Featured Ad on DiscountBookMan.com $15 Value
5) A featured Ad on AwesomeBookPromotion.com
Please share the contest with your author friends using the social buttons on the bottom of this post.
I also encourage you to join our authors newsletter. It contains tips about getting more readers and interviews with authors that share what they are doing to promote their books.
Book Covers That Sell Books
Writing a book is the easy part but authors are not marketers so they find marketing to be quite a challenge.
To market a book you need a couple things. One would be a good cover. Without a good cover your book will probably not get as many sales as it should. I can’t stress enough how many books I have seen that have a homemade cover from someone who is not really a professional Photoshop wizard. Just because you can make a design doesn’t mean that you should make the design. I know that sounds funny but it’s quite true. I tried my first time making a book cover and I thought it was really good, but it wasn’t it was horrible.
Of course my friends all told me that they liked the cover but then again my friends are not professionals so what do they know. (I don’t think a few can even read lol) They also wanted to make me feel good and won’t tell me criticism that I needed to hear. They would rather tell me they liked the cover than to mess up our friendship.
Every once in a while I will come across a new book cover it catches my eye and I stop I have to see the book is about. Most of the time is not even in the niche that I read. I end up buying the book most of the time.
My friend Ashton just put up a before and after of his latest clients book covers.
The before version on the left is ok but when you look at it you may say to yourself this looks like a swimming with dolphins book. The version on the right you know exactly what type of book it is. This is a great example of knowing what sells.
If you go on Amazon and look at the top selling books in any category you will see covers that are far superior to the homemade ones. Actually I doubt you will see any homemade ones at all. This is not a knock on people who do their own covers, because I know there is a lot of people who are talented and can make their own covers. But for the majority of cover designers that do it at home they are not skilled enough or more importantly don’t know what type of covers sell.
My favorite writer Wayne Stinnett’s “Jesse McDermott series” covers you will also see quality. Another thing you will also see is the author name is a little bit bigger than you expect. I love this as Wayne has branded himself so when you see his name you know exactly what type of book he has written.
I think that is a critical step that a lot of authors miss because they don’t brand themselves very well. Most home made covers put the title huge and usually have the authors name in a small font size.
Author Book Promotion Contest For May
Are you an author who has a limited ad budget? We would like to help you out with a contest where you could win some book promotions. Our prize this month is a featured listing on AwesomeBookPromotion.com. This is a site I put together where you only fill out one form and it gets you a featured ad spot across all the Awesomegang family of sites. The current value for this is $65.
1) A Featured Ad on Awesomegang.com $10 value
2) A Featured Ad on Pretty-hot.com $25 value
3) A Featured Ad on Bookreadermagazine.com $25 Value
4) A Featured Ad on DiscountBookMan.com $15 Value
5) A featured Ad on AwesomeBookPromotion.com
Please share the contest with your author friends using the social buttons on the bottom of this post.
I also encourage you to join our once a week authors newsletter. It contains tips about getting more readers and interviews with authors that share what they are doing to promote their books.
Author Book Promotion Contest For April
Are you an author who has a limited ad budget? We would like to help you out with a contest where you could win some book promotions. Our prize this month is a featured listing on AwesomeBookPromotion.com. This is a site I put together where you only fill out one form and it gets you a featured ad spot across all the Awesomegang family of sites. The current value for this is $65.
1) A Featured Ad on Awesomegang.com a $10 value
2) A Featured Ad on Pretty-hot.com a $25 value
3) A Featured Ad on Bookreadermagazine.com $25 Value
4) A Featured Ad on DiscountBookMan.com $15 Value
5) A featured ad on AwesomeBookPromotion.com
Please share the contest with your author friends using the social buttons on the bottom of this post.
I also encourage you to join our once a week authors newsletter. It contains tips about getting more readers and interviews with authors that share what they are doing to promote their books