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by Samantha Palmer
Back in the days of paper-publishing, authors were hand-tied when it came to ensuring the success of their books. All they had was to depend upon the people and if they liked their books enough to buy them. This is why it wasn’t a stable source of income. However, nowadays, with the progression of technology and digital media, the odds are in your favour.
These days, publishing, marketing, and selling eBooks have never been simpler. While there is the general aspect of business competition, it is up to you and your marketing effort to make your eBooks successful.
You will require some tolerance, a game plan, and a couple of innovative thoughts to market your eBook business to success. So if you have been trying and failing in promoting your eBooks, the following tips and practices may help you accomplish this while ensuring your eBook business’s elevation in its online standing.
Promoting anything is all about catching the eye of your customers and keeping them engaged long enough until they buy your product. To do that, for starters, you must know your customer audience. Isolate your target audience by identifying your eBooks’ niche and genre. Once you do that, all your promotional practices will have double their effect.
After nailing down your target audience, all you have to do is bombard them with some clever marketing tricks that will get your eBooks out there. However, the 10 practices below are the best of the very best for you to follow:
They say the first impression is the last. And that applies to your eBooks as well. People are less likely to forget or ignore your eBooks if you make an unforgettable impression on them.
Post about your eBooks launches months before keeping your customers engaged with you. Send your target audience newsletters, promos, and notifications. Until the day of the launch comes, you will have enough people waiting for your eBooks that they will sell out on that very same day.
Digital marketing is very severely tied with social media. Why? Because all your target audience is there. Whenever there is an eBook launch or a sale, post about it on your social media platforms, you can also post tiny snippets of your eBooks with a link back to your site for them to sell fast. Your social media is your second eBook business outlet.
Don’t have that big of an audience to promote to? Fret not and just reach out to other neighbor eBook businesses to host collaborations with them. This can also work with influencers or bloggers as well. Hosting a collaboration will give you a chance to get your eBooks out to the other party’s audience and increase their exposure.
This is quite possibly the most remarkable pre-marketing effort you can do to ensure your eBooks’ success. Quite similar to hosting an eBook launch, this practice relies on building a fan base. To that, before the creation of your eBook starts, you need to get its synopsis of a little trailer out there for people to see.
This creates the element of excitement in people, and after a while, they will be coming back to your site or social media platforms to keep up with the eBook’s publication. This will create a fan following for your eBooks and your business, thus increasing your revenue.
Whether from Amazon, Kindle, other authors, or readers themselves, hoarding reviews is one of the best promotional tactics for an eBook. Because your customers rely on reviews left by other people to determine whether your eBooks are worth buying, having on them your site is very important.
You must remember that all your promotional efforts will go down the drain if the content in your eBooks doesn’t make up for them. To ensure the quality of your eBooks, have them written professionally. There are a lot of online book writing services in the USA that can get the job done for you. All you have to do is provide them with the guideline and instructions to follow, and they will deliver you your desired product.
The best medium for promoting products, services, or in your case, eBooks is a blog nowadays. You can ask blogs to publish your eBooks’ launch or their review so that the audience that follows those blogs can know about your eBooks and can turn into your customers.
To appear as a proper, established eBook business, you must have a site. This will help you have a platform to promote, post, market, and engage with your customers. Your site is where you announce discounts or promos and appear before your customers. Make sure to post engaging content on it to draw in customers and keep them engaged. A good business site must be interactive with its customers.
Marketing around the cycle of giving and take. Using this strategy, you can promote your eBooks via an affiliate program. All things considered, it is an ideal approach to get your eBook out there to a different and new crowd by focusing on your program at content distributors in your niche or genre. For the best outcomes, you can ask these content distributors or creators for some commission to your earnings so that they promote your eBooks to their very best.
It is very obvious that pretty much every business has a couple of online web forum boards where individuals share their thoughts about them on it. You can look up these web forums and contribute by offering guidance and contacting help from other people. This will give you a chance to share a link to your site or blog on a forum that is related to your eBook’s niche or genre.
When you complete writing your eBook, and it is ready to be published, don’t think your work here is done. All your writing and publishing efforts will go to waste if your eBooks are prompted to your target audience. You avoid that. You can make use of these promotional tips and practices that will ensure that you get a positive ROI on the time and exertion you exerted on your eBooks.
About the author
Samantha Palmer is a content writer and marketing consultant at EWritingPro. Love to writing my opinion on different topics like marketing, business, health, and writing.