Book Webcasts

In the last post we looked at creating a webcast event.

Now question number 1 is “If I am writing a book what do I create an event on?”

Here is a short list:

• An event to create buzz for your book
• Doing a virtual book tour
• Showing how you came up with the book
• Relating to current events

Here is a video where Isabolla Jade explains how she created some buzz and generated some press coverage.

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It has been a long break on holidays and now it’s time to get things going.

If you have been on a bit of a vacation as well (for real or mentally) it’s a good time to make things happen and start the ball rolling again.

So to get us back in the spirit of promoting our book(s) and building a readership, here is a link to some free pdf ebooks on creating a webcast event.

http://free-books-online.net/Event-Webcasting-pdf

Then we will look at webcasting as a powerful book marketing tool.

On the next blog I will show you how this applies to book promotion and audience generating.

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Bernie

Just a quick post as we are getting ready to move.

If you are looking for ideas to giveaway at a book fair, signing or convention to promote your book, go to the RT Book Reviews Forum.

Some obvious and some unique ideas in the post as well as in the comments.

Have any ideas of your own you’d like to share? Please comment

To attain some level of success with your book, you need to market and promote your book regardless of having a publisher or self-published.

It should be no surprise that you must start promoting before you have even finished your book.

So step one is do you have a list? (if you have at least 2 friends you have the beginnings of a list.

Where do you generate a list….

Social media is the easiest and best place to start.

When I was at a clients office the other day I was introduced to an associate of his that said, “Facebook. Twitter. That stuff doesn’t work. There’s nobody seriously using that for business!”

Think again…

Social media is becoming the preferred method of communicating. It is becoming a key part of the majorities life-style and it is pretty much universal.

So think of social media as you, an author, having a number of broadcast channels. (You know, radio, TV, etc.)

Now you have a book and what is it you want your future readers to know?

How will you interact with them?

More about list building in the next entry.