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January 28, 2017 By penny 1 Comment

Book Marketing: 4 Easy Tips To Sell More Books Using Images

Book Marketing: 4 Easy Tips To Sell More Books Using Images

The biggest challenge in book marketing is a simple one. How do you find the TIME to market your books (and ebooks too of course)?

One of the authors in our writing group ordered glitzy bookmarks and postcards to market her latest release. It was a great idea. However she’s found that marketing with them takes a lot of time.

She said: “I’ve given a talk at the local library, and to a book club. I distributed my cards — but I haven’t seen the results I wanted in sales. I know I should do more, but in the time it takes to find a group, then prepare the presentation and give it, I could be halfway through another book.”

Book marketing: where do you find the time?

Social media may provide a solution, even though it can be hit and miss for book marketing — and it still takes time. However, it takes a lot less time than some other marketing methods.

Members of our group have all been using social media to market, with varying results. We did get a very useful insight.

Here it is: images get attention, so you MUST use images in social media marketing. Some networks, like Instagram, Pinterest, and to a lesser extent Tumblr, are more image-focused than others. If you want shares however, you must include images in your postings.

Social media planning app Hootsuite offers An Epic Guide For Creating Social Media Visuals and suggests a reason images are vital:

… you’ve likely heard before that 65 percent of people are visual learners and 90 percent of the information we absorb is visual. Think about it, social media is now an integral part of our day-to-day lives. Visuals have become a vital component in engaging our audiences.

Let’s look at some tips for using images in book marketing.

1. Get the original PSD (Photoshop) file of your book cover: you can create additional images from it to use in your social media marketing

You love your latest book cover. It’s wonderful. Most designers however, and most premade book cover sites, only offer you a JPG file. There’s not much you can do with a JPG file. Yes, you can alter the size, and you can add it to other images, but to get the most use from your cover on the social media networks, you need the original PSD file.

Ask your designer for the PSD. You may need to pay a little extra, but it’s worth it. Most websites who sell premade covers don’t offer a PSD option, but some do. Ask on authors’ groups for links to premade sites which do offer you the option of buying the PSD.

2. Develop a style for your images, and include a watermark, to make YOUR images instantly recognizable

I use an easy style; I just watermark images with my website URL.

This blog post from Buffer offers lots of great ideas for creating good visuals.

3. Check the licensing on “free” and royalty-free images to avoid hassles

It’s best to assume that every image you see online is copyrighted to the creator. If you source an image from a site which offers free images, read their Terms of Use carefully — sometimes there are restrictions. An image may be offered for personal use only, for example. Using the image on social media would be considered a form of advertising, which is commercial use.

When you’re sourcing an image from a royalty free website, read the license you’re buying carefully, to make sure that you can use the image in the way you want to use it.

4. Get familiar with Picmonkey and Canva: both are easy to use, and free

You’ll want to edit, resize, and add text and overlays to your social media images. Both PicMonkey and Canva are free for basic use. You’ll master the basics of image editing in less than an hour. Be sure to read the Help files, and the sites’ blogs, for imaginative ways to use your images for book marketing.

Book marketing via social media: avoid focusing solely on your books

Social media networks are social, above all. Although you can advertise your books via these sites, do avoid focusing solely on your books. Engage. Post others’ materials too. Aim to form relationships.

A vital tip. You’re using social media to become known to readers, and selling more copies isn’t as simple as just posting to social media. You will make more sales of your books, but only over time. So grow your social media accounts with images, and have patience.

Time Travel Regency Romance Trilogy
Tara’s Enchantment – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 1

Tara’s Enchantment – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 1

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Series: Time Travel Regency Romance Trilogy, Book 1
Genre: Regency Romance

A Regency time travel romance... What if you could escape across time, and find your soulmate?

Pure evil dispatches gorgeous Tara Ballantine across the centuries, to Regency England. Tara lands on Adam Jervoise, Earl of Hillingworth -- literally -- as he's riding through a bluebell wood.

Hillingworth is handsome, rich, and kind. He's also set to propose to an heiress.

When Tara realizes that she's falling in love with the earl, she fights the feeling.

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Molly’s Magic – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 2

Molly’s Magic – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 2

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At 24, not only is Molly Ballantine stunning, she has two sisters she loves, and a wonderful career. Then her eldest sister Tara vanishes, and her life disintegrates.

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Priscilla’s Destiny: Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 3

Priscilla’s Destiny: Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 3

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22-year-old Priscilla Ballantine wakes up 200 years in the past, naked in the arms of handsome aristocrat, and master spy, Dominick de Roche, Lord Bellemieux. Priscilla's accused of spying, and is in danger of summary execution. She can't help thinking that she wouldn't be in such a mess if Dominick de Roche hadn't mistaken her for one of his contacts...

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