How to Market Your Book

If you are thinking of writing an eBook, it’s important to know what to do to make sure your book gets read. The key to selling books online is making sure that people find your book and want to buy it. If you don’t know how to market your book then you won’t be able to sell many copies. Here are some tips for getting your book noticed by the right people.

1. Set up a website. You can create a simple one page website using WordPress or Blogger. If you are not comfortable with building websites you can hire someone to do it for you. It will cost you a few hundred dollars but it will save you time.

2. Create a blog. This is a good way to promote your book because it gives you a place to put information about your book. Your blog can also help you to get more traffic to your website.

3. Create a Facebook page. You can create a Facebook page with a cover image and write a short description about your book. It’s free and easy to set up so there is no excuse for not having a Facebook page.

4. Get listed in Amazon. You can add your book to Amazon by uploading a file called an XML file. There are sites like Smashwords and Lulu that will help you to upload this file to Amazon.

5. Join the Book Marketing Forum. This is a forum where you can talk to other authors about marketing their books. There are also groups where you can ask questions about writing, publishing and marketing.

6. Write articles about your book. Write articles and submit them to EzineArticles and ArticleBase. These sites allow you to write articles about anything and post them to their directories. Once your article is posted you can submit it to Google News to get even more exposure.

7. Create a video about your book. You can create a video about your book and post it to YouTube. This is a great way to promote your book if you have a lot of interesting information about it.

8. Create a podcast. You can record an audio version of your book and distribute it on iTunes. You can also create a podcast using Audacity and use it as an audio book.

9. Submit your book to Goodreads. Goodreads is a website where readers can rate books and leave comments. You can submit your book to Goodreads for free.

10. Create a Twitter account. You can use Twitter to announce new book releases and to give updates about your book.

11. Start a blog. You can start a blog about your book using WordPress or Blogger. You can also use Tumblr to create a blog about your book.

12. Create a Facebook fan page. You can create a fan page on Facebook to promote your book.

13. Create a YouTube channel. You can create a YouTube channel to promote your book.
14. Create a Pinterest board. You can create a Pinterest board to promote your book.
15. Write a guest post. You can write a guest post on other people’s blogs to promote your book.
16. Write a press release. You can write a press release to announce the release of your book.
17. Make a giveaway. You can create a giveaway to promote your book.
18. Use Google AdWords. You can create ads that promote your book using Google AdWords.
19. Write a review. You can write a review of your book to promote it.
20. Write an e-mail. You can send an e-mail to friends and family to tell them about your book.

These are just a few of the things you can do to market your book. Don’t feel overwhelmed. Pick one or two of these ideas and try them out. You may decide that you want to do all of these things. If you want to create a book and make money doing it, then you need to learn how to market it.