Catapult Your Book Sales to Success Using Freebies
Believe it or not, book sales can be achieved by giving things away for free.
When it comes to book marketing online, your free offers are the best way to pre-sell your book.
After you’ve written a book, whether it’s an eBook or a print book, or whether you’ve used a traditional publisher or self publishing, you still need to promote it in order to make sales.
As an author, you want to make money writing. If you write and publish many books, this can become your home based business.
But first you have to let the world know your books are there. And giving away free reports and eBooks, that contain links to your book’s sales page, is the best online advertising there is.
Using free reports and free eBooks as online advertising has two main advantages:
~ It’s free
~ It’s viral
It’s free because, apart from the time it takes to write them, there’s absolutely no cost involved in creating free reports and eBooks. And as they are given away as an instant download, there are no printing costs either.
They then become viral once you offer them as a free give-away from your own web site, a free eBook web site, or by emailing appropriate email list owners and allowing them to also give your reports and eBooks to their subscribers for free.
Some of their subscribers will probably have email lists of their own, to whom they can also offer your free reports and eBooks. You can even more interests by advertising on other web sites or in ezines.
But you need to ensure that you use the content of your free giveaways to really pre-sell your books. State the problems that the reader may be experiencing and offer some solutions that may help them
For instance, if you’ve written a book about healthy diets, your free report or eBook could be about all the health problems associated with a poor diet and all the benefits of eating healthily. Then the last page could contain a short paragraph about how great your book is such as:
“John Smith is the author of ‘Eat and Be Well’, an amazing new book that will help you eat better, live better and feel great. Don’t let bad eating habits dominate your life any longer. Regain control of your health and your life with ‘Eat and Be Well.’ Available at (place your link here)”
If you’ve written your content in an upbeat and compelling way, by the time your reader gets to the last page, they’ll be dying to click on your link and make a purchase. Or how about doing a reading of your content and giving git away as a free audio download?
So once you’ve finished writing a book, don’t waste your writing talent. Use your skills to create an online viral marketing campaign to catapult your book sales to the best sell lists.
Ruth Barringham is succesful writer, author and publisher and runs two web sites for writers. Writeaholics.net is a web site for freelance writers and Self-Publish Worldwide is a website full of information on all areas of self publishing. So if your interested in writing or publishing, or both, visit these two web sites. You can also sign up for the free monthly newsletter at Writeaholics.net and receive the free eBook ‘Become a Freelance Writing Success’ when you subscribe, or download a free self publishing report at Self-Publish Worldwide. Or why not do both? After all - they’re free!