Re: Hello, first time publisher here!

Wow thanks so much for all the tips guys! It really helps! 
I didn't think there was so much to it until I started out... It really is quite a challenge getting the sales and being recognized.. 

And I find that buying the $1000+ distribution packages of Lulu are not worth it... They even say that they can't guarantee the sales after they do the marketing package... Tsk tsk...

Alana

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lanarocksworld

--- In [email protected], Bill Janssen <bill@...> wrote:
>
> alanabarretto <alanabarretto@...> wrote:
> 
> > I don't really know the portals or forums where it is ideal to get
> > sales from and I could use the help...
> 
> Just some thoughts...
> 
> 1.  Get a good website for the book set up.  Point Google Analytics at
>     it so that you can measure how much people visit it.  Use some of those
>     full-color illustrations, if you have the rights to them.  Consider
>     putting a long passage from the book up on the web site.  Have a way
>     for people to sign up (name and address) for more info (like author
>     tours, new books, etc.).  Compile that mailing list.
> 
> 2.  Go to where your customers are, and sell the book to them.  Sounds
>     like fantasy conventions might be a good start.  Put up flyers, be
>     at the booth, and hawk autographed copies for a premium.  Find out
>     who the people are, and add them to your mailing list.
> 
> 3.  Set up a Twitter account and start tweeting.  You're nobody if you're
>     not tweeting, apparently.
> 
> 4.  Set up a game, or puzzle, on your new website, which can be solved
>     with clues found by reading the book.
> 
> 5.  Contact local radio and television stations; ask if they have any
>     programs where authors read their books to an audience.  Same for any
>     local colleges.  Not sure if bookstores would like this, but go ahead
>     and ask, if you still have any local bookstores.
> 
> 6.  Contact Books for the Blind and offer to read the book aloud for them.
> 
> 7.  Make a Facebook page for the book.  Put the Facebook link on your site.
> 
> 8.  Record a YouTube clip of someone (maybe you) reading a great piece from
>     the book.
> 
> 9.  Send review copies to folks who you think might mention your Web
>     site in print.
> 
> 10.  Start another book.
> 
> Bill
>




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