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How to Sell More Copies of Your Book – Simple Marketing Tip For Writers & Authors

Here's some help on another way to get that book sold! Know much about joint ventures? You are about to find out how that can help you. :)

Rich writers understand that writing a book is only the beginning, not an end in itself. They are often marketers first and writers second. Marketing may sound like a dirty word especially to literary or academic writers. I understand that. I used to feel the same.

But let me ask you this. What’s the point writing a book if you can’t sell the darn thing?

If you really want to make a successful career as a writer, you can’t afford to ignore marketing.

What I recommend – if you haven’t done it already – is to think about ‘joint ventures’ to sell or promote your book. Don’t be put off by the business jargon – this just means looking for other people who can help sell and publicize your book for you.

So, for example, if you’ve written a book about childcare, are there any professionals who could promote you to their list of clients? If you’ve written a book about dogs, are there online vets or dog schools who could promote your book to their customers?

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Permalink Reply by Philip Nork on January 18, 2010 at 4:03am

I like this advice.

Although my narrative non-fiction memoir is based in Missouri, all my friends from Illinois can recognize the actual places and even some of the people. I was able to have the roller skating rink I talk about, the popcorn store and the little country store at the the lake that some of the stories take place at sell my book. I also am happy that those same friends pass the book on to others who went to our school and may like to read the stories about our little town.

I am now attempting to find some child psychiatrists to see if they want to use the book as a way for children of divorce to understand that there are many ways to "find yourself" and also to find the two desires we all share: to be accepted for who we are and to be truly happy.

Joint ventures bring people who have the same interests together and have been a key in my book taking off. I recommend it to all...and if you haven't written a book yet, make sure you write one where there are some joint venture possibilities.

Permalink Reply by Kay on March 30, 2010 at 8:06pm

Philip, apologies for missing your reply here before now. Do you have an update on how that's been working out for you with the psychiatrists? It's great to hear you're having such success with it. Congratulations!

Philip Nork said:

I like this advice.

Although my narrative non-fiction memoir is based in Missouri, all my friends from Illinois can recognize the actual places and even some of the people. I was able to have the roller skating rink I talk about, the popcorn store and the little country store at the the lake that some of the stories take place at sell my book. I also am happy that those same friends pass the book on to others who went to our school and may like to read the stories about our little town.

I am now attempting to find some child psychiatrists to see if they want to use the book as a way for children of divorce to understand that there are many ways to "find yourself" and also to find the two desires we all share: to be accepted for who we are and to be truly happy.

Joint ventures bring people who have the same interests together and have been a key in my book taking off. I recommend it to all...and if you haven't written a book yet, make sure you write one where there are some joint venture possibilities.

Permalink Reply by Larry A Cochran on June 28, 2011 at 2:15am

Very helpful.

Permalink Reply by Lori A. Moore on December 28, 2011 at 2:14am

The author of this article makes a good point. I had some success with this earlier this year with my children's book, "Grady the Gray Cat Gets Adopted" by working with the Humane Society (cat connection), maternity shops (kid connection) and school supply stores (teacher/kid connection). I hope to get a little more comfortable doing this in 2012 with my newest children's book coming out, "Hannah the Hedgehog Goes to Heaven," and make 10 calls per day.

Permalink Reply by Lori A. Moore on December 28, 2011 at 2:16am

Philip,

I tried that a little bit with my memoir, Missing Andy, dealing with grief after my husband died. I didn't have a lot of luck. But I'm going to try it again with my new children's book about grief after pet death with grief organizations as opposed to psychiatrists.

Lori

Philip Nork said:

I like this advice.

Although my narrative non-fiction memoir is based in Missouri, all my friends from Illinois can recognize the actual places and even some of the people. I was able to have the roller skating rink I talk about, the popcorn store and the little country store at the the lake that some of the stories take place at sell my book. I also am happy that those same friends pass the book on to others who went to our school and may like to read the stories about our little town.

I am now attempting to find some child psychiatrists to see if they want to use the book as a way for children of divorce to understand that there are many ways to "find yourself" and also to find the two desires we all share: to be accepted for who we are and to be truly happy.

Joint ventures bring people who have the same interests together and have been a key in my book taking off. I recommend it to all...and if you haven't written a book yet, make sure you write one where there are some joint venture possibilities.

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