Are you an author looking to promote your Kindle Book? It can be a frustrating process. At it’s core you want to follow the basics of digital marketing best practices. When marketing or promoting a book you will want to consider these tactics or channels:
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Social media marketing (SMM)
Content marketing
Email marketing
Online advertising
Landing page marketing
If building out the marketing and promotion for your book feels overwhelming, you might consider paying book promotion site to do much of the work. Sites such as bookbub.com and justkindlebooks.com and have taken the pain out of book promotion by providing all of the digital marketing services listed above and putting them into one package. They will also target your book to an audience of readers in your genre.
To get started with running a book promotion you’ll need your Kindle book ASIN. That’s 10-digit number can be found in your book’s url on Amazon. It’s begins with B00 or B01. You may also need your book description, your book cover as a .jpg file, the date you want to run your promotion and the price you book will be on that date. You will also need a Paypal account or a credit card to pay via Paypal’s guest checkout.
If your on a tight budget you can also try your hand at the free book promotion sites. These sites offer promotions at no cost, but are not as effective as the paid promotion sites.
