Tips of marketing your self published book

My community,

I know there are those of you who have self published and marketed their products. Any tips that you can share?. Has any you self published and done marketing of a spiritual book? What have been some of the marketing avenues?. I am talking about an environment where internet use and marketing is still very low, use of electronic payments limited.

Paul

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Permalink Reply by Rich Avery on August 17, 2012 at 7:43pm

Paul, last summer I attended the NAMS conference and got to hang out a bit with Kristen Eckstein, the Ultimate Book Coach. She helps people write, publish, and market their books and offers some great tips on her site, plus she sells some how-to resources at a reasonable price. Hope this helps!

Rich

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Permalink Reply by Paul Mayende on August 20, 2012 at 12:47am

Thanks Rich,

Will access Kristen's site for details and tips

PaulM

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Permalink Reply by Lee Smith, ND on August 20, 2012 at 6:16am

CreateSpace (Amazon) for sel-publishing will enable your new book to be printed on demand for bookstores and online sales through Amazon and a unique store that you can direct customers to...however, if you buy bulk copies the cost is lower. In your case this would make sense, because you can be everywhere and make more money when you sell face-to-face. I keep a few copies of my book on-hand but when I sell a case to a health-food store, I can just drop-ship from the Amazon back-office and the cost is much lower for me, and in-turn for the store who's selling them. {The back-office sales don't "count" for sales purposes, in fairness so that you can't creatively become a best seller by buying your own book and storing in your garage until discovered by a big publishing house...}