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Vidaville :: Author Opportunities :: Resources :: Your Role in Marketing
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Your Role in Marketing

Once your book is available through the website you may think your job is done. While we have a diverse marketing plan that will increase the visibility of vidaville.com, it doesn’t stop there. You have a responsibility to increase your own sales by participating in marketing efforts promoting your books or reports.

Boost Your Sales Through Your Promotion Efforts.

Stimulate interest
Find speaking engagements and networking opportunities where you can speak about your topic of expertise. At the event take the opportunity to promote your book and send them to your web page.

If your subject is in health, can you be included in a seminar associated with your topic? At the seminar, obtain permission to send the participants an email by offering a signup sheet. Make sure you offer them a solution they can’t do without. Participants need a reason to want more email.

Highlight
Develop excerpts from your work and promote through vidaville.com’s advertising options.
See advertising for details.

Special Offers (currently under development)
Participate in our special promotion opportunities. It will boost temporary sales and provide an avenue for word of mouth.

Featured Author
Our homepage highlight area offers a front row seat, and ensures you will be seen by visitors on arrival. We offer this free at our discretion. We will inform you by email that you are being featured giving you the opportunity to promote yourself through eLaunch.

Personal eLaunch (currently under development)
Use our “eLaunch” and promote the launch of your latest published book/report. Promote it again if a news story breaks that is related to your topic. The relevancy will peak your readers interest and draw their attention to your book or report.

Email Signatures
Every time you send an email, include a signature consisting of your name, one sentence describing your book(s) and an invite to your page www.vidaville.com/yourpage. This is easily done by going to your page and copying the web site URL (http://www….) and pasting it into your email.

Link to us
Do you have your own website? Add a link to your website to vidaville.com. The association to a reputable website will increase your credibility.

Publish Free eBooks, Reports or Articles
Offering free material is an excellent way to promote the products you sell, and your affiliate programs as well. They should contain valuable information that is useful to the reader. Tactfully place ads or endorsements for products within the ebook content. Offer a free book with the one you are selling. Be careful not to add too much advertising: it will turn off your reader.

  • Allow anyone to freely distribute your ebook from their website.
  • Announce your free ebook to sites offering a related service.
  • Make your free ebook available to ebook specialty sites.
  • Write Articles for Other Ezines

 

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