Do you have a nonfiction book to promote? Do you promote it through your own website? Why not offer something free at your website in order to get people coming there? I mean, if they don\u2019t come to your website, they may not become familiar with your book and they certainly won\u2019t buy it. <\/p>\n
Offer a free download and you receive the names and email addresses of those who are interested in the topic or genre of your book. So it\u2019s also a great way for you to build your emailing list.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been offering free ebooks that would be of interest to my audience for a couple of years now. Because of this, my emailing list has grown to around 300 or 400 names. Just this week, I have had over 100 people download my free ebook. The one I am offering now is \u201c50 Ways to Promote Your Ebook.\u201d Before this, I had one called \u201c50 Reasons Why You Should Write That Book.\u201d I am working on a new one with the title \u201c50 Ways to Prepare for Publishing Success.\u201d <\/p>\n
These are titles that would be of interest to someone who would purchase my books, \u201cPublish Your Book,\u201d \u201cPromote Your Book\u201d and \u201cTalk Up Your Book,\u201d as well as my older books on writing a book proposal, creating a freelance article-writing business and so forth. Some of these people might also be looking for an editor at some point, right? In other words, those who are interested in the free ebooklets are my audience.<\/p>\n
But if no one is coming to your website before you offer a freebie, how are you going to get them there after you start offering it? Good question. The answer is, you\u2019re going to spread the word through your Facebook page, at Twitter, in articles that you write for appropriate publications, in your blog and at popular blog sites that also attract your audience. If you can\u2019t get an invitation as a guest blogger, at least leave comments at other blog sites. I mean useful comments with a brief mention of your freebie and a link to your site.<\/p>\n
I have a wonderful client in Canada who is branding herself as an expert in a specialized type of education. She has followed this advice and has now written a couple of ebooklets to offer free at her site. Her ebooklets are enormously useful as they also include dozens of links to other resources for those who want to know more about some of the concepts she has included in her list of 50 reasons, tips, techniques. Of course, she also promotes her book in the ebooklet and her services.<\/p>\n
Are you stymied as to what to put in an ebooklet like this? Perhaps your book is on woodworking or quilting. How about \u201c50 Things You Can Make with Wood\u201d or \u201c25 Quilt Patterns for the Beginner.\u201d For a book on relationships: \u201c50 Ways to Surprise and Delight Your Spouse.\u201d If your book has a travel theme: \u201c25 Ways to Enjoy a Close-to-Home Vacation,\u201d or \u201c50 Ways to Bond as a Family While Traveling.\u201d <\/p>\n
Can you use this idea for a novel? Sure. My unpublished novel, for example, has a lot of cats in it. I might promote this book through an ebooklet titled, \u201c25 Unusual Things Cats Sometimes do,\u201d or \u201c25 Ways to Enjoy Your Cat,\u201d or \u201c10 True and Unusual Cat Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a Western romance novel, for example, how about ebooklets on \u201c25 Little-Known Facts About the Old West\u201d or \u201c25 Tips for Writing a Love Scene.\u201d For any type of novel, consider this: \u201c50 Examples of Character Development.\u201d<\/p>\n
While you\u2019re driving, taking a walk, working out at the gym or sitting in a boring meeting, you might start making mental notes for some of the ebooklet titles you could produce in order to entice more visitors to your website, thus let more people know about your book.<\/p>\n
For an example of one of these freebie ebooklets, download my latest one today:
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