Ten Reasons Authors Should Go On A Virtual Book Tour
1. Going on a virtual tour can help you network with bloggers, readers, reviewers, other authors and publishing professionals. You can build a professional network of contacts through a tour.
2. A virtual book tour can help build your author brand and platform.
3. An online tour can vastly expand your online presence and visibility as an author. The more you and your book are mentioned online, the more hits readers will find when they Google you.
4. You can target niche reader markets. Does your book feature food, crafts, or secondary topic that can be built upon for marketing purposes? Make sure that in addition to the normal book blogs and genre blogs that several of your tour stops are on targeted blogs for food, recipes, crafts or a side market that fits your niche. For instance, Juliette Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mysteries could be featured on sites that cater to vintage clothing or San Francisco because both of those feature heavily in her cozy mystery series. Melissa Bourbon’s Dressmaking Mystery Series could be featured on a sewing blog. Find your niche and target it.
5. A tour can build your mailing list and increase your social media following. Include links to your newsletter sign up page and all of your social media profiles so readers can easily follow you.
6. A virtual tour can direct traffic to your website. Make sure your website is up to date and full of content for readers to explore.
7. Expose your book to readers around the world. Many tour companies have book bloggers in numerous countries. Your book can be showcased around the world 24/7.
8. You will have the chance to interact directly with readers via live chats, Facebook events, and comments on blogs and websites.
9. Most blogs archive their content; this means it does not get deleted. Your tour stop will remain online indefinitely for readers to find.
10. A virtual book tour can increase book sales.
Secrets of Successful Virtual Book Tours
Quick Tips for Authors Guide
Roxanne Rhoads
Book Description:
Are you considering a virtual book tour?
Not sure where to start or exactly what an online tour will entail?
Roxanne Rhoads, book publicist and owner of Bewitching Book Tours, shares her virtual tour expertise in this Quick Tips for Authors Guide.
Secrets of Successful Virtual Book Tours will guide you in utilizing the best marketing tool available- a virtual book tour, which can create online exposure for your book, jumpstart your book sales, help build your author brand, and expand your network.
In this guide you’ll learn:
· what you should do before a tour
· the components of a great author website
· the best social media outlets for authors to utilize
· tips for building your author brand
· how to write great guest blogs
· what to expect from an online book tour
· the secrets of successful book tours
· how to schedule your own virtual book tour
And you’ll receive in-depth details about what to do during a virtual book tour to guarantee success.
Excerpt
The world of publishing is continuously evolving
thanks to technology and the Internet. It is now easier than ever to publish a
book. But with the growing number of new books being released every day it is
also harder than ever to get your book noticed in the crowd.
If your line of thinking includes- “If I publish it,
people will buy it,” think again.
Indie publishing requires a dedication to
self-promotion. Gone are the days an author hermits them self away to write,
then hands the book to the publisher who does all the leg work for promotion. Even
NYT Bestselling authors and those with contracts through the big publishers
still have to do a certain amount of self-promotion.
There are many ways to promote: social media, advertising on popular websites
and blogs, print advertising in trade magazines, attending reader oriented
conventions and events…but one of the best ways to get your book out there and
build name recognition as an author is through a virtual book tour.
In this Quick Tips for Authors Guide, you will learn
why a virtual book tour can be an author’s most effective marketing tool.
About the Author:
Roxanne Rhoads has been working in the world of online book promotion since 2005. She has worked as a freelance writer, author, book reviewer, book blogger, editor, self-publisher and book publicist. She has a unique advantage of knowing how multiple sides of book publishing and promotion operate.
Roxanne understands how book bloggers work and what they want to make their jobs easier while also understanding that authors need promotion to be streamlined, easy, and less time consuming.
Roxanne shares some of her knowledge in her latest release, Secrets of Successful Virtual Book Tours.
Bewitching Book Tours www.bewitchingbooktours.com
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Secrets of Successful Virtual Book Tours
by Roxanne Rhoads
Giveaway ends March 28, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment