The Frugal Book Promoter

A title for many authors in their spare time is the frugal book promoter. Authors seeking ways to promote and market their books for free or pennies on the dollar. While free marketing is one way for a author to market and promote their books, a author must set aside a yearly marketing budget and find frugal ways to get the most for their dollars. Free marketing rarely proves to be successful.

A good starting point and budget for a year of marketing is between $500.00 and $1,000.00. If you want to sell books and find success, you must have a marketing budget and money set aside specifically for marketing. While running around to create book buzz at free sites is helpful, it's also time consuming and lacks greatly in true professional and targeted marketing.

Having no marketing plan and budget is like trying to sell something in the middle of the desert 100's of miles away from people. You can have the greatest book cover, story and book and if you don't market it, no one is going to buy it.

You can have your book listed on Amazon, Barnes, Book A Millions and if no one knows who you are as a author or the title of your book, who's going to find it among the millions of other books.
You must promote and market your book and you as the author.

If your looking for some great online marketing visit Author Media Blogs and Book Marketing. They have marketing programs that will help you get some great online marketing. You can contact them at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com. They also help authors create author sites and blogs.

Book Marketing Success Stories

The following is a testimonial about our author promotions and book marketing.

I recently had the opportunity to work with Smitty in regard to marketing my new release, Flaherty's Crossing. All I can say is every dollar has been well-spent. He is incredibly detailed, professional, and caring. My name, book, and trailer have appeared on hundreds of sites and the exposure has been unbelievable. As a direct result of his tremendous efforts, Flaherty's Crossing has become one of the hottest and most ordered items at Champagne Books.

I truly can't recommend anyone more highly.

Kaylin McFarren, Author
Flaherty's Crossing, Now Available
http://www.kaylinmcfarren.com
http://www.flahertyscrossing.com

Marketing Your Book Trailers

We are hearing more and more about book trailers all the time. I have ran into some great book trailers and some that needed some fine turning. Actually book trailers are really a wonderful way to share, promote and market your book. I feel the key is not how many YouTube hits you get, but that you utilize the book trailer to promote and market your book on various sites and through various means. You can even send these wonderful book trailers via email once you get it down.

Take a look at the following post which shares Kaylin McFarren's book trailer for her new book release Flaherty's Crossing. You will note that a visitor to this site doesn't have to leave the site to view the book trailer and that underneath the book trailer is a short content post with links that share Kaylin's authors site. Simple and affective. Also note the quality of the book trailer.

Author Kaylin McFarren's Book Trailer

KAYLIN MCFARREN - FLAHERTY'S CROSSING

Kaylin McFarren is proud to announce that 100% of her proceeds from the sale of her book Flaherty's Crossing will be designated to cancer research. Here's a perfect opportunity to read a great book and support cancer research knowing that 100% of the proceeds are going to a worthy cause. Join Kaylin's Cause. Together, we can all make a difference.