- Joined
- Mar 4, 2009
- Messages
- 3
- Reaction score
- 0
Hi everyone! First post for me.
Here's the situation: First-time author, first book accepted by a decent publisher, scheduled for release in September. Obviously, I want to sell enough copies to quit my job and roam the house sans pants for the rest of my days, so marketing the book will be fairly important.
My strategy thus far has been to pre-promote the book by drawing people to my website. I hope this will serve to "brand" me to an audience, allow me to establish a mailing list, etc. I'm attracting traffic through a curiosity of my writing - much of my work includes true funny stories that most people find entertaining. I don't want to shill it here, but I'll post a URL if you'd like to see content. Thus far, I've relied on word-of-mouth advertising, and have gotten a good response from people who visit - 3-4 emails from "fans" per day, 500 unique visitors a day, etc.
My question: Since I think the approach works OK, I want to reach a large number of people. This means getting links to my site in highly visible places in a situation where someone would click for entertainment. How would I go about this?
Here's the situation: First-time author, first book accepted by a decent publisher, scheduled for release in September. Obviously, I want to sell enough copies to quit my job and roam the house sans pants for the rest of my days, so marketing the book will be fairly important.
My strategy thus far has been to pre-promote the book by drawing people to my website. I hope this will serve to "brand" me to an audience, allow me to establish a mailing list, etc. I'm attracting traffic through a curiosity of my writing - much of my work includes true funny stories that most people find entertaining. I don't want to shill it here, but I'll post a URL if you'd like to see content. Thus far, I've relied on word-of-mouth advertising, and have gotten a good response from people who visit - 3-4 emails from "fans" per day, 500 unique visitors a day, etc.
My question: Since I think the approach works OK, I want to reach a large number of people. This means getting links to my site in highly visible places in a situation where someone would click for entertainment. How would I go about this?