Tag: niche
Ready To Break Into Freelance Writing? Start With A Marketing Plan.
If you want to embark on a career in freelance writing, you’ll need to promote your skills and services. Developing a marketing plan is crucial to getting off to a good start.
Seven Secrets To Selling Books As Special Sales
Selling books as special sales — for employee perks, sales incentives, or add-on value — requires you adopt the seven "Cs" to find success.
How To Expand Your Market To Sell Your Children’s Books
This post lists examples of prospective buyers for children's books. This is by no means an exhaustive list but should stimulate your thinking to find new places in which to sell your book.
Alternative Ways to Sell Fiction
If you expand your marketing activity to include sales through venues other than bookstores, you are more likely to reach your target buyers where and when they shop.
Sell Your Book Through All Retailers… Not Just Bookstores
Expand your approach to book sales to include retailers other than bookstores (including online retailers). The more strategic you are about where your book is available, the more likely your target buyers will be to find and buy it.
Selling to Non-Bookstore Retailers
Creating a distribution channel through non-bookstore retailers is a good way to start your special-sales efforts because it is much like selling through bookstores.
Marketing Planning For First-Time Authors
There are two ways first-time authors can plan their book marketing activities. The first is discovery-driven planning, which evolves through trial and error. A second technique views planning as narrative, conducted as you would when writing a novel.