1. Your Profile
Across all social media channels, a must do/have tip deals with consistency and expertise. As a nonfiction author, get your “expertise” up front and use at least one other keyword or phrase in the very visible and searchable Profile. As a fiction author, include your genre as well as a reader benefit. Make sure you add your website.
2.Brand YOU and use a Tag Line on your website and everywhere
You–your name–is the brand. That’s the Dot com you want. If it’s not available, add “author” or “books” after it. YourNameAuthor.com orYourNameBooks.com.
Buyers will be looking for you, not the publishing company and rarely the title. Next, create a tagline in less than ten words. Use keywords within it.
3. Create a website Opt In on your website
Gathering the names and emails of visitors to your website is a must do. Create a desired free informational piece that the type of individual you would like to work with or buy your book would desire. Simply by adding their name and email it becomes downloadable. Your system automatically captures the email and can then include them in future blogs or other communication pieces you send out. On www.TheBookShepherd.com, a visitor can get a 24 page PDF of Eight Publishing Essentials.
Your Opt In should be right under the banner with your tagline and name or adjacent to it. Make it easy and immediately visible
Judith Briles is a book publishing expert and coach. She empowers authors and is the Founder of AuthorU.org, a membership organization created for the serious author who wants to be seriously successful. She’s been writing about and conducting workshops on publishing since the ’80s. Judith is the author of 35 books including Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms (Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year), Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers and a speaker at publishing conferences. Book #35 was published in 2016: How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & Boo-Boos. Get your copy now.
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