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
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
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.
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!
Free Blogs
• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Why you need a blog:
• One of the most popular platforms
• Great plugins
• Has a free content management system
Part Two
• Adding Images and music to your website:
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
Dreamstime.com
Finding images on Dreamstime
How to purchase credits
Screen shot of back office
Adding images to your website
How to edit your website
Inserting an image to your site
Check out my Kindle I just added
Shutterstock.com
Images for my new book
Purchasing images from Shutterstock.com
Adding music & sound to your website
Using Widget Bank
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
• SWP Publishing