Once you have completed your work,
submitted it to dpdotcom and
published it on the dpdotcom website, how can you promote and market
it? How can you generate interest...and sales?
Here are some simple tips:
Create your own website for your book.
You can then direct customers to your website to buy your book
from you. The website address could be added to your business
card, or placed as a "signature" in the footer area of every
email you send out. That way, you spread the word about your
ebook with every email you send.
dpdotcom can help with creating
and setting up your own website. We offer some great deals to
register a domain name, host your site and design your site from
scratch.
Use email to contact people about your
book. Email is a digital format and so is totally appropriate to
use in the promotion of your digital book. You could use
something like the
"Express Email" service we offer.
Contact websites that have a
connection with the subject of your ebook - if your ebook is a
horror story, approach some of the big "horror" websites to see
if they are interested in featuring your ebook. If your ebook
deals with teenage life, contact one of the big teenage
magazines or websites to see if they would like to feature your
work.
Try your local newspapers to see if
they will feature your ebook in a story, or as an article on
their "Arts" page.
Try local magazines, especially the
free ones, who are always looking for interesting articles to
print.
Approach writers' groups or authors'
groups to see if they are interested in your book. Many will
have regular "reading evenings" when you can showcase your work
by reading selected extracts.
Try your local radio station to see if
they will feature your book on one of their arts programmes.
They may even be keen to broadcast a serialisation of your book.
Approach local Libraries to see if
they hold meetings for authors to discuss their work - make a
point of joining in.
And don't forget family and friends -
they will almost certainly want to support your writing by
spreading the word and downloading your book.
We can also produce
business card style promotional material
or A5 size cards if you
prefer....for just $10.00
The card will
feature your book cover, essential blurb, author details
and the web address of the page featuring you book. We
will work with you to meet your exact requirements.
For
just $10.00, the card design will be emailed to you as a
Microsoft Publisher file or as a jpeg, so you can print
them off yourself, or take the file to a professional
print shop and get them to run off as many cards as you
require.
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