The art of marketing has taken multiple revolutionary steps with time and with the advent of internet technology and social media, it has finally reached the ultimate point where connecting with the target audiences can be done faster than before. From hiring an explainer video agency to teaming up with online marketing professionals, promoting any product has been simplified unlike before. Even the publishing industry is highly benefited by opting for the diverse marketing tools to reach out to their potential audiences with the aim of reaching their goals.
Promote your newly published book like a pro by following five secrets—
Create a book trailer
Your decision to go for book self publishing UK is a smart move indeed. It shows you don’t belong to the category to be dominated, but rather ruled. Like a boss, you have shown the guts to come forward with a manuscript that you wrote to publish as an eBook or a printed one with the help of a self-publishing agency like White Magic Studios.
Then in the next step of marketing- start with creating a book trailer. Yes, you got it right, like the movies- you can also create a meaningful trailer for your new book with the help of the book cover designers or any animation expert. To lure the attention of your potential readers, creating a book trailer and launching it like slowly revealing the suspense creates an incredible impact on the interested readers.
Passionate readers are fond of the trailer launch and often pre-book the copy before the release date. It’s pretty common for eminent contemporary writers from Stephen King to Lee Child and so on.
Utilize a website
Celebrated writers already have their own websites and blog sites where they regularly post to keep their audience updated with their upcoming ventures. They also talk about the next books and how they should be entertaining their audience with an excellent plot next time. Your website is also there as a crucial medium to create a strong bond with the readers who are already reading your books and would also love to read more from you.
Keep the rooms for newsletters or email marketing open for these fellows and
utilize it strategically to drive the attention of more and more readers who would happily purchase your new copy without remaining in the darkness of confusion.
Social media activities
This is the time of social media. Let your book cover designer and even the book cover illustrator help you create some nice cartoon figures or images that you can use for promoting the upcoming book on various social media platforms. Make sure you choose the right platforms to find the readers who will be interested in your book. Most importantly, go for Instagram, Pinterest and Tumbler. Recently many “bookstagrammers’ have been found online on Instagram sharing posts on books and reviewing them like a pro.
Target those communities to grow your readers’ strength unlike before.
Sharing blurbs in social media book clubs
Keep sharing blurbs on social media book clubs besides trying other forums. The critical analysis of the blurb will work excellently as a yardstick to understand how the readers will accept the book. You can do certain changes in the storyline if you want to for the sake of making the book reach the bestselling category. Sharing blurbs is an excellent way to rediscover the plot you have already written!
Team up with your book cover designer for multiple marketing activities
Yes, you need to team up with professional marketing agencies that are reputed for promoting books and making it a successful venture. You aim to become a bestselling writer and for that, proper professional marketing is highly recommended.
Team up with your book cover designer that can help you to create the trailer as well as quite a few copies of inserting posts for reaching out to the target audiences. For effective email marketing, you also need to work hard. Instead of writing cliché content, think creative and send the animated emails to the audience that will buy your book.
Try these ideas and you can do really well when it comes to promoting your new book.