How to Sell a Self Published Book

Ok. You’ve written and self published a book (See resource links below for How to self publish a book). Now what? This article will give you some ideas.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. 
   Building a Platform

   BUILD A PLATFORM. Your platform is your venues and experiences through which you can sell your book. If you are a teacher, your platform is the students and parents at your school. If you are a stay at home mom, church and parenting groups could be your platform.

2. 
   Purchase a Website

   PURCHASE A CHEAP DOMAIN NAME OR WEBSITE FOR YOUR BOOK. Microsoft office live offers a FREE website or luckyregister.com gets you a domain that you can link directly to your book on Amazon.
   (EXAMPLE: Go to www.whyandhowresources.com to see my website or www.8trackparent.com as an example of how the domain name works.)

3. 
   Teaching a Seminar

   OFFER TO TEACH CLASSES OR SEMINARS ON THE SUBJECT. Community, Family and Charity groups are always looking for guest speakers on topics. Look in your local newspaper or your cities webpage for groups that meet and contact them to set it up.

4. 
   Public Relations

   USE THE SERVICES OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS COMPANY. I didn’t want to spend the money but found that I also didn’t have the time to research and contact radio stations and newspapers to tell them about my book! So, a friend of my (who is also an author) wrote up and sent out a nationwide press release. As a result, I’ve had interviews with radio stations, newspapers and bloggers about my self-published book. (Contact him at www.johnnemobooks.com)

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Tips & Warnings

• Nothing is a guarantee. Work at it with all your might and keep reminding yourself about why you got into writing in the first place.

Resources

• Why and How Resources
• An 8-Track Parent In An Mp3 World
• John Nemo Books
• How to Self Publish A Book