Smart Online Business Leaders Have Realized That Knowing How to Market a Book Is a Good Investment Of Their Money

October 26, 2009
By Jay

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During a recession like this, learning about how to make more money is usually the highest reward experience for experienced entrepreneur.

How does this happen? Low and behold, it is no surprise that the absolute top way that is discovered for the entrepreneur improve the bottom line is to market a book and make it a bestseller.

Wonderful, you’ve made the decision to publish and market a book. Congratulations, success is in your future! A book can give you credentials and help you to attract higher numbers of clients to your business. And if those are your only goals, then it would be important to learn to market your book fast. But you might miss one of the best reasons for having a book if you just concentrate on getting it done fast. That reason is to make money

The quick and easy way to attract more recognition and clients is “slowing down and taking the time to create a bestselling business around your book”, says book business expert DrProactive Randy Gilbert. He says that you will be rewarded with a betterbook, higher profits, and a continuing stream of revenue far in excessive of what you would have otherwise made with just a book.

It can make you a bestselling author, and a millionaire at the same time, which is why DrProactive named “bestselling business”. Getting busy and starting to write and market a book that has a business created as an integral part of it, is crucial.

There are a number of components that can help market your book successfully, no matter what its subject. If you want to sell lots of copies and make it a bestseller, then some features are essential. For instance, it is common knowledge that you need to have an ISBN number and an EAN barcode, plus certain bindings and features, so that retail bookstores can sell your books for you.

However, there are several less known features you should add to expand the marketability of your book. Did you know that there are a few common features in almost every New York Times bestseller? You can take advantage of the marketing research of the giant publishing houses to help your own book sell more copies.

Below are 7 of the top book features that will make your book much easier to market and promote to bestseller status. When you design these features into your book (right from the beginning), you will market your book faster and better than other authors who fail to do so.

Feature 1 – Choose a powerful theme and build it out. {Give your book a zesty title that grabs attention}. Outline your book and be specific with what you want in it so you attract the right people. Don’t just grab a bunch of your best ideas and slap a cover on it. That will get you a book, but it won’t be a bestseller. You want something that you (and others) will be proud to promote.

Feature 2 – Become known as the top expert by collecting stories from others. Ask people in your field to share a personal story with a self-help element relating to something in your outline. You’ll reach a bigger audience if each story provides benefits and helps the reader to see how they could apply the lesson to their own situation. In every story, you should mix in Important resources, specific examples, strategies, tips, and insider secrets, whether they be from you or someone else.

Feature 3 – You can build in marketing value by quoting the top people in your field. Each quote should be selected to fit in the topic and message of that chapter. Consider using quotes from “live” people who might be flattered enough so that they tell others to buy it and help with promoting your book to their customer list. They may even purchase books directly for their special clients and colleagues.

Feature 4 – Proactively seek out interviews and testimonials, and find the right person to do the Foreword. Use interviews with experts to get topical examples for your chapters of the book, and get audio or video clips to use for promoting. Your book will have greater credibility by including interviews and testimonials from experts.

Feature 5 – Give credit to the individuals and groups who helped create the book. You can also try to find a company to cover the costs in return for notable attention in your book. And it is often very helpful to seek out a sponsor to partner with in your promotion.

Feature 6 – Add an index so that your book is easier to read and use. This feature will make your book much easier to sell to libraries which will enlarge your readership and help you draw more customers to your website. Yet this feature is often forgotten in the book writing process.

Feature 7 – Make a list of associations, organizations, services, agencies, and other professionsals in fields around the subject of your book, and include it in your book as a topical rolodex in the resource section of your book. This feature will help increase your audience, and give those listed in the rolodex a reason to help you distribute and promote the book.

Extra Feature – Include a bibliography. Many people want to buy copies of books that reference their own book in a bibliography. Also, it makes your book more attractive those doing research. Be sure to include the books from any experts who contributed stories, interviews, or examples.

ACTION STEP:

The more features above you can add to your book, the easier it will be to market and promote. Especially focus on the features that get other people involved in your book, because the more that you involve others and promote them, the more likely they will help you in promoting your book… it is called the Law of Reciprocity and it works like a charm.

If you want to find out more about how to market a book that produces revenue and makes you a bestselling author, then you must use the formula that top authors use to reach that goal. Choose to use the Key Factors outlined above and keep your eye on the ball, and you’ll knock it out of the park

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