Sep 09, 2011

Show - 350 How to Promote your Book

Show 350 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen for free, you don't need to download anything and all explained at the end of the post.

Patricia Fry joins Anna Farmery to talk about how to promote your book and the challenges which a budding author may face today. image from ecx.images-amazon.com

  • Is the book the new business card?
  • Is being a successful author about great content or the personality of the author promoting it?
  • Is it easier or harder to promote with social media - many tools to promote or self publish but easier means more authors?
  • How 76% of books fail - defined as sells less than 100 copies and why...
  • How successful promotion is based on knowing and writing for your audience
  • Should you write for a publisher or the end consumer.
  • Is it about quality or quantitiy of promotions and the importance of your personal brand, your platform.
  • Promotion through libraries, corporate offices and community auctions.
  • Is there one thing that makes a book great.

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