How To Promote Your Book On A Shoestring Budget
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Spoken Word Press Presents:
How To Promote Your Book On A Shoestring Budget Workshop
Oct 20 2012-Feb 2 2012St. Louis Public Library Schlafly Branch
225 No. Euclid St. Louis MO 63108
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Workshop Sessions & Dates:
• Session One- Free Websites & Blogs• Session Two-Using Social Media tools to
promote your book• Session Three-Free tools for author events• Session Four-Free marketing and promotional
tools from Amazon, the worlds largest book seller
• Session Five-Free reviews for your books
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Introduction
• You’ve published your book, now what?
• The objective of this workshop is to share inexpensive marketing techniques I used to promote my book.
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Free Websites:
• Webs.com• Weebly.com• Jimdo.com• Yola.com• 1&1.com• Wix.com• Why you need a website: Think of your website
as your online store where you can showcase your books for free!
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Free Blogs
• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Why you need a blog:
• One of the most popular platforms
• Great plugins
• Has a free content management system
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Part Two
• Adding Images and music to your website:
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Royalty Free images
• What is it? Refers to the right to use copyrighted material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalty fees each time you use it.
• Two companies I use:
• Dreamstime.com
• Shutterstock.com
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Dreamstime.com
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Finding images on Dreamstime
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How to purchase credits
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Screen shot of back office
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Adding images to your website
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How to edit your website
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Inserting an image to your site
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Check out my Kindle I just added
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Shutterstock.com
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Images for my new book
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Purchasing images from Shutterstock.com
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Adding music & sound to your website
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Using Widget Bank
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Thank you for attending the workshop.
• You can contact me via email: [email protected]
• My website:
• http:www.spokenwordpress.info
• To book a Live 15 or 30 minute interview to promote your book on Author Chat with Lynda D. Brown please log onto:
• http://www.authorchat.info
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• SWP Publishing