Tips for Self Promotion, Sales, and Advertising discussion

There's a great way to promote your book on Twitter. Just follow successbooks and they will follow you. Then send them a direct message with details about your book and website, and they will post a great blog and tweet it. They have about 18,000+ followers, so the potential exposure is massive. They've just done my book 'A Time to Tell'!! http://twitwall.com/view/?what=070E04...

Great info! Thanks. Best of luck with exposure for you book, too.

Michele

Nice!

Thanks Maria! Can't wait to see what happens!

Thank you Maria, I would have to say the (freely) sharing of knowledge is truly unique between authors.

Success one and all!

Yes, I think it's important that we all help each other, as authors. It's so hard to sell even one book, we could all use a little help!

Hi Maria, I tried this but for some reason I don't get the option to DM SuccessBooks. Any ideas?

Hi David, you have to wait until they're following you before you can DM them. Keep checking back. If you have any problems, let me know and I'll DM them for you.

Maria wrote: "Hi David, you have to wait until they're following you before you can DM them. Keep checking back. If you have any problems, let me know and I'll DM them for you."

Thanks Maria, they're following me now.

Thanks for the tip, Maria! It took me a wile to figure it out but my post is finally on their Tweet Wall today!
I had no idea what a Tweet wall is... but now I know;)
I'll hunt for your book and RT it as well.
Wendy
http://twitwall.com/view/?what=070F02...

Thanks Wendy! I've just retweeted your book's post!
Anyone else want me to retweet their one, just DM me on Twitter

Maria wrote: "There's a great way to promote your book on Twitter. Just follow successbooks and they will follow you. Then send them a direct message with details about your book and website, and they will pos..."

Thanks, Maria. I just followed them - and you!
Phillipa (twitter.com/pdmartin1)

Gosh I've missed this group...:0. Thanks for the tip Maria...:).

Jo

Oh, I should have left my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ppromotionals

Okay...I just deleted my twitter account. Ever have one of those days...:(. My new twitter account is: http://www.twitter.com/conquerall

Maria wrote: "There's a great way to promote your book on Twitter. Just follow successbooks and they will follow you. Then send them a direct message with details about your book and website, and they will pos..."

Thanks for the address.
I am on twitter and strated a blog. My user name, I thought was origional, 'Malika's secrets'. The title of the blog is The Secrets of the Unwritten Book. The address that I had coppied down did not work and I have had trouble figuring out how to send anyone to my blog. So, I tried 'every thing'.blogspot. I ended up finding a video that I would not watch the content, with the same name , but misspelled. OOps! My blog tells secrets about writing the book, The Secrets of the Unwritten Book.

I will be blunt and honest. I am not computer savy! I am learning.
I think that this is my blog address. http://secretsoftheunwrittenbook.blog... Would anyone please be so kind to check it out and while you are at it, read my blogs and tell me honestly what you think? I am pre-writing while I have a bit of time before I hopefully sell my first copy. No body has read my blog yet. Any suggetsions how to direct interested people to it? The book, I decided, is paranormal/fantasy. Thank you so much! Malika

ok everything is working. FB too. coujldn't find your twitter though. Im @jgvra follow and I'll get a message and return it.
So you wrote a book. good. And you got it pubbed. Author House? good luck. but that ain't the half of it. Now the work begins. you need to promote it. Goodreads is a good start. you need reviews, and eBook. Smashword it. Pays 85% royalties. You'll get plenty of help here. GR is the best writers site for that. Friendliest in the bizz. Just ask and someone or two or twenty-two will be right there. :)
congats
j

I've just read the latest of your blogs, Malika. You seem to be promoting your book okay on it. But it's like you say - getting readers to read your blogs is the problem. I wish you success. Laurel

Thanks for this - I've been off GR for a while, and it's nice to be back. I'm not clear on what info successbooks need exactly - Maria, did you provide the review and they post it? Thanks
Gregory

Thanks Maria for the details. I will stop by and leave a msg. for them!

http://twitter.com/bitsyblingbooks

Great tip, Maria, thank you.

Nothing to do with successbooks, but do be aware that anything you post on Twitter may get onto search sites.

A pirate hunter brought to my attention a site that posts all sorts of info about you, apparently culled from Twitter -- I don't know how else they might have obtained the impression that I was interested in gardening apart from a Twitter conversation I had with Deidre Knight about the best way to prop up wilting cucumbers!

http://www.spokeo.com/privacy

You will have to search spokeo (free) for your own name, and for that of your family members, and you will need to copy the url for "your" page.

Another site that reveals less, and is more cumbersome to work with is zabasearch.com You can get removed from there, too.


Best wishes,
Rowena Cherry

Thanks to Maria, I have now set up my own Twit Wall.

http://twitwall.com/view/?who=rowenac...

I see others of us have done so, too. How about all leaving comments for each other on each other's Twit Walls.

Do you think that would increase visibility and traffic? Anway, if anyone leaves a comment on my Twit Wall, I promise to reciprocate.

Thanks Maria, I will try DM'ing them soon ;)

Website: http://jesscscott.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jesscscott
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jesscscott

Hi! Thank you for this. I'm @TaniaLT or

https://twitter.com/#!/TaniaLT. Let me know you're from Good Reads and I'll follow you back!

Maria wrote: "There's a great way to promote your book on Twitter. Just follow successbooks and they will follow you. Then send them a direct message with details about your book and website, and they will pos..."

I'm following them but they request that you DM your book details. What does this mean?

Hi Tania and others...just a gentle reminder or tip - do NOT put a period after your twitter name because it will just show up as a nonexistent twitter account.

For example: Here's what Tania left us for a link (but as you can see) it is broken - https://twitter.com/#!/TaniaLT.

For a functioning link that makes it easy for us to click and then click FOLLOW you must NOT include the period after the twitter address - https://twitter.com/#!/TaniaLT
There, now we can simply follow...:).

Have a wonderful evening and feel free to follow me at http://www.twitter.com/conquerall

Doh! Realised in the middle of the night that DM means Direct message! - Me being very daft!

Thanks Maria, that's a useful thing to know.

Mel

Maria wrote: "Yes, I think it's important that we all help each other, as authors. It's so hard to sell even one book, we could all use a little help!
"

OK, DM is direct message? Do we send them the buy links to our books?

I just began twitting and I am getting addicted to it. Follow me on my twitter account and I'll follow you back immediately.

Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/#!/KelvinO_Ralph

Kelvin
http://icire.blogspot.com

Done deal...:)...have an awesome day!

>Hugs<

Jo

http://www.twitter.com/conquerall

Hello to all,

I had a look at this but couldn't find a user on twitter called @successbooks.

J.G.

me either, think site has been taken down maybe???

Yeah, I got "user does not exist."

Wow, very cool! Thanks for giving us this information.

While I'm a bit late to the party I have noticed that the user @SuccessAuthors Twitter account has been suspended...