89+ Book Marketing Ideas That Will…

By Guild member 

Diana McCollum

Increase your web presence:

1.     Create a testimonial page on your website

2.     Retweak the SEO on your site

3.     Ask fans to post their reviews on your Facebook page

4.     Ask fans to post their reviews on Amazon

5.     Ask fans to post their reviews on Goodreads

6.     Sign up for Twitter

7.     Clean up your social footprint

8.     Create an author FB page and use it instead of your profile

9.     Sign up for Google Authorship

10.  Offer bloggers advanced reading copies

11.  Go on an online book tour

12.  Create a book launch team

13.  Host Q+A sessions on Google+

14.  Create Facebook Friday videos

15.  Register as an author on Amazon

16.  Register as an author on Goodreads

17.  Create a book trailer

18.  Get a new Author Website

19.  Create a hashtag for your next book

Build your fan base:

1.     Start a FB campaign to increase your fans

2.     Start a Google Campaign to increase traffic to your site

3.     Start a controversial web series

4.     Link up with other writers for your controversial web series

5.     Start weekly twitter chats with readers

6.     Keyword your blog posts

7.     Create a monthly newsletter

8.     Create an affiliate program

9.     Host guest bloggers

10.  Become a guest blogger

11.  Create business cards with your web address on them and hand them out

12.  Put your photo on your business card for stronger branding

13.  Start commenting on other blogs (early and often)

14.  Host regular author hangouts on Google+

15.  Host regular author interviews on Google+

16.  Record your Google+ hangouts and put them on YouTube

17.  Get social media coaching

Cultivate Community:

1.     Create an online community with a forum

2.     Say thank you to readers with special incentives for being a fan

3.     Ask your reading community to design merchandise for your store

4.     Create a fan page for your main character (works well if they are in a series)

5.     Ask fans to create their own book trailers and post them online

6.     Offer core fans advanced copy of future books

7.     Ask fans to post pictures of “character spottings”

8.     Offer “extra features” on your website

9.     Use Twitter hashtags

10.  Poll your readers and listen to what they say

11.  Answer all your blog comments

12.  Engage with your fans on FB

13.  Ask your fans to post pictures of them reading your book

Make some extra money:

1.     Repackage old blog posts and sell them as an e-book

2.     Join an affiliate program

3.     Speak on the core topic of your book

4.     Become a content writer

5.     Host paid webinars

6.     Freelance with niche magazines

7.     Sell ads on your website

8.     Sell ads in your newsletter

9.     Write a new ebook tailored to your fans

10.  Mentor another writer

11.  Become an Amazon Affiliate (and use MyBookTable)

12.  Offer customizable ebooks for readers

13.  Sell your book on your site, not just Amazon

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Build your brand offline

1.     Write a Press Release

2.     Ask to be interviewed by your local paper

3.     Ask to be interviewed by the paper your book is set in

4.     Ask to be interviewed by the local radio host

5.     Ask to be interviewed on the local morning show (read this article first)

6.     Partner with a band that has the same cause as you

7.     Go on a physical book tour

8.     Start thinking local

9.     Sell themed merchandise (Think “Team Edward” shirts)

10.  Rent a billboard

11.  Host a book release party

12.  Link with an activity that supports your cause and sell your book there

13.  Create a viral video about a scene from your book

Find a Place To Give a Book Reading:

1.     Your local coffee shop

2.     A hospital

3.     A retirement community

4.     A rehabilitation center

5.     A local church

6.     A locally owned bookstore

7.     The library (try the five closest to your house)

8.     The local community college

9.     A school

10.  Wherever the main setting of your book is

11.  Google+

12.  Videos you upload to Facebook

13.  Goodreads

Discover where to donate your book (and make new fans):

1.     Women’s shelters

2.     VA hospitals

3.     Homeless shelters

4.     Children’s hospitals

5.     Retirement homes

6.     The five closest libraries to your house

7.     The library in your hometown

8.     Summer camp

9.     Community libraries at coffee shops

10.  The local community college library

11.  The libraries in the town where the book was set in

12.  BookCrossing.com

13.  Local B&B’s

14.  Local motels

15.  Prisons

16.  Church libraries

17.  Rehab centers

18.  Cruise ship libraries

19.  Doctor’s offices

20.  Community centers

21.  Senior Centers

Become an expert:

1.     Listen to the Novel Marketing Podcast.

2.     Become a HARO source

3.     Get active on LinkedIn

4.     Write Op-Ed pieces on the core message of your story

5.     Write freelance pieces on the core message of your story and pitch to niche publications

6.     Give lectures on the core message of your story

7.     Host webinars with other experts

8.     Create a series of web-videos interviewing experts on the core message of your story

9.     Make sure your author about me page is interesting and relevant

10.  Create a Meetup group

Have any book marketing tips you’d like to add to the list? Leave them in the comment section.

Need help implementing some of the ideas? Author Media can help.