6 Easy Ways To Self Promote

1. Make Amazon your friend. Have you ordered a book or anything at all from them? Write a review and post it on Amazon.

2. Add your URLs to your signature on your emails and forums, but make sure you follow the rules.

3. If you’re just getting into Internet promotion, start slow so you can get comfortable with it. Pick a discussion forum, and get acquainted with it by read what others say. Start commenting when you have something germane to add.  Once you’re comfortable there, find another blog, community, or social network and expand your efforts. Don’t go overboard. You still need time to write.

4. Practice talking about your book. Do it in front of the mirror. Set up a mock TV set in the den and have your kids interview you Oprah or Regis and Kelly style. Get comfortable talking about your book and yourself. This will pay off the next time you’re asked, “What do you do?”

5. Write articles and post them for free to some of the credible article sites online. You’ll have created an account there beforehand so you can write your bio and link to your website or blog, both if it’s allowed. When an article is used, your byline and linkage goes with the article.

6. Ask your friends to let you guest blog and set up your own blog tour. Take the readers from one blog to the next as you move through the day or the week.

Takeaway Truth

Get all the bang for your buck that you can. When you’re promotion budget is low or zilch, online promotion can make a difference.

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