Monday, October 28, 2013

Using Your Blog To Promote Your Book

If you are getting into writing, you will hear a lot of people talking about "promoting your book" - and the more you listen to people talk about this, the more you will realize that they often bring up "using your blog to promote your book." But once that point in time where you actually have to promote your book arrives, you will also find that there is more to promoting your book than simply talking about it on your blog, and in fact, if all you do is talk about your book on your blog (and try to push people to pick up a copy), your readers are likely to feel that you are simply trying to "sell" them something, and this will therefore be entirely ineffective - and it is for this reason that it is vital that you learn exactly how to promote your book using your blog.

Rather than using your blog posts to directly promote your book, you should continue to do what you can to make your blog posts as interesting and as helpful as possible, while also using the sidebar of your blog to promote your book; when you do this, people will continue coming to your site for the blog posts you write, but they will also see things about your book at the same time.

Providing a few sample pages of the book is another great way for you to use your blog to promote your book; make the sample short enough that it will leave the reader wanting more, and include the link to the sample at the bottom of every new post.

And while you will not have much success if you try to "sell" something to readers, most readers have no problem with you encouraging them to share; they understand that you are trying to get people to read your book, so let them know it will help if they help spread the word, and you will start to find that many of your readers are sharing your site with others, bringing them all your way!

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