What do you do to promote your books and eBooks? I am self-published through Amazon.
Good question. Mandi and I are both using CreateSpace by Amazon as well. I think she posted a blog about this topic. I'll go look.
We also help promote here when there are things we can cross promote. We promote to our facebook and twitter pages. I'll see what you've posted here and will promote it as well. I prefer to promote something that people need to come here to see though.
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs?search=promote&orderby=creation_date&show=1&category=0&page=&tag=&start_date=&end_date=&find= that search should help. I didn't find the one Mandi did yet.
THanks Donna
You're welcome.
I've learned to never put all my eggs in one basket. I use AuthorsXP for newsletter promotions. I do author takeovers when friends of mine are having book release parties. I run giveaways. I post here, so that it'll be shared to LitSocial's social media accounts. I also offer free Ebooks to people willing to write a review, (though rate of return on that is low and can be tricky) and generally just do my best to help other authors as much as I can.
The goal as a writer is to get people to remember your name. Branding is key. A logo that speaks to your work, that you use across all social media, the same usernames on all of them if you can. Friend and converse with other authors and readers as often as you can, and stay out of the indie author drama rumor mills. Make yourself visible, and that's most of the battle. People will remember you before they remember your books.
Some blogs to look through-
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/144/356/the-elusive-mailing-list-and-why-you-need-one
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/144/361/building-your-mailing-list
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/144/100/basic-book-budgeting
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/144/353/beyond-the-book-budget-part-2
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/144/98/teasers
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/2/14/promoting-your-books-in-blogs
https://www.literarysocial.com/blogs/1/16/promoting-your-books-in-blogs-part-2
Excellent, thanks