3 Keys to Self Publishing Success

Self Publishing success is attainable for anyone who takes the time to get educated and has the perseverance to walk the road to becoming a successful author. Self Publishing has become the largest sector of the book publishing industry and with the immergence of POD services, it’s become the best option for most authors.  

Everyone wants to know how to succeed as an author and there are 3 basic areas that you need to excel to reach your personal self publishing goals. You have got to excel in the areas of publishing which are: writing, publishing, and marketing your book. For some of you, this is basic information, but for the many beginning authors out there, this is very useful.  

But even authors who have been published need to be reminded of these things because as you walk the road of an author, you tend to forget where you are. These simple keys will bring the world of self publishing back into focus.

Writing 

Writing the very best book is the first thing that you need to do if you want to achieve great self publishing success. I don’t care if you’re a marketing genius, if you don’t write a great book, you won’t be known for writing great books-and that’s not good. Forget about the publishing and the marketing, if you gain a reputation for writing useless, hard to understand, non-exciting, non-inspiration, non-informative books, then you will never become a successful author.  

The best method for marketing is word-of-mouth and word travels fast than the speed of light about bad books! Enroll yourself into a writing class, get a ghostwriter, do whatever you need to do, because writing a great book is absolutely critical if you want to be successful in self publishing.  

Publishing 

The publishing aspect of the equation is important as well. Too many authors get pushed around by traditional publishing companies everyday. Don’t be one of these people. You need to learn the pros and cons of all the different methods of publishing your book.

Knowing this information can mean the difference in you spending $15,000 and having a garage filled with books, taking three years to get your book finally published, or entering your career at a very low price with a POD self publishing company and ordering books as you need them.  

Weigh all of your options and get educated. If you’re reading this right now, great job, you’re taking the time to get educated. We truly care about working with informed and educated authors, that’s why we have built this entire site and filled it with free information for you.   

We never want our authors to rule out traditional book publishing. Once you build your platform as a successful self published author, you will have the clout, the experience, and the record of sales to present to a traditional book publisher and command real attention and a real advance.

If you’ve sold 10,000-30,000 of your own books within a 1-2 year period, they will see you as a cash cow and treat you well. If you start your career trying to approach them you’ll get 100 rejection letters and sign on with a company 4 years later with a measly $7,000 advance. No thank you! 

Marketing 

Take your career into your hands through self publishing and learn how to market. There is so much to be said about book marketing as there are so many options. Still, the most important thing that you need to always remember is that word-of-mouth marketing is the very best form of marketing along with live events.  

If you can develop great presentations and speaking skills then you will do very well in self publishing because you will be able to take advantage of back-of-the-room sales. You can stage your own events, speak at others’ events, sign on with a speakers’ agency, do tele-classes, and whatever else you can do to breathe life into your book sales by speaking.   

To take advantage of word-of-mouth marketing you need to always remember the words FREE-Publicity. Paid marketing doesn’t work for book sales so don’t waste money on trying to pay people to do this or that for you; unless you’ve got plenty of it to though around.

Seek out free interviews on radio shows, TV shows, and other venues. Seek book reviews in niche publications, magazines, and other places. Free publicity is the best way to get that ‘buzz’ surrounding your book.  

Learning everything that you possibly can in these three areas are guaranteed to make a self publishing success out of you! 

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