The Return of Marketing Mondays

For some time now, I’ve been struggling to be disciplined about marketing. My goal is to spend an hour a day promoting my books. This has been a challenge, since I’m an introvert and I would much rather be writing in solitude than hanging out on social networks. But since I’ve been dedicating my obligatory hour, I’ve learned some things and I thought I would share them.

My marketing mantra is give them what they want and then introduce them to something they didn’t know they wanted. My favorite marketing method is blogging. I try to be informative, helpful and then post a link to my informative, helpful blog on Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, the Marketing for Romance yahoo group (and if it’s relevant) the kindleboards writer cafe.

Here are the groups I belong to on Facebook. There are probably many more that I haven’t discovered yet.

Sweet / Clean Romance group

 Romantic Clean Reads

 Where Writers and Authors Meet

 The Unblocked Writers Group

  BOOK PLACE

  Authors

  Books Gone Viral

 Writers and Readers Unite

 Book Promotion

 Promote Your Book!

 Authors Incognito

Book Junkie Promotions

The GoodReads Clean Romances Group on FB

 Online Book Publicity Group

 Written a story, what's the next step?

 KindelMojo

 Writers who believe in supporting Writers

 Books, Books and more Books!!!

 Writers Group(This is for all of you writers out there)

 E Books Rock.

 Passion for Books

 Connecting Authors & Reviewers

 Mormon Mommy Blogs Network

Business and Blogging Success, Naturally Yours

There's an eBook in the Room

Hot Reads

Book promotions

Announce/Brag/Showoff

Authors and Book Lovers Discussion Group

 Book Lovers

 Review Seekers

Reviewers Roundup

Writers and Readers

Indie Author Book Promotion Page

LDS Authors, Writers & Readers

Writers Unite

A place to advertise books for sale

Ready to Read

Books

Romance Readers

AMAZON BOOKS, LIKES AND RANKINGS

Authors, Reviewers, & Book Lovers

Romance & Thrillers Group

Book Club

EbooksNBooksPromosGroup

Amazon Kindle Goodreads

Kindle Publishers

Fantasy Writers

BookGoodies Authors Group

     

 Because I don’t want to be spammy, I usually issue a call to action such as this one that I posted on The Authors of Main Street blog last Monday:

If you’re an author, please share the beginning paragraph of your favorite story. Feel free to post the buy link and a link to your website.

You can read the entire thing here. http://authorsofmainstreet.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/beginnings/

And here is the tweet I used for the same post: Share the opening paragraph of your book on the Authors of Main Street blog! Leave buy links! http://authorsofmainstreet.wordpress.com/  #bookpromotion

Here are the Linked-in groups I belong to. Again, I’m sure there are many more. I posted the same call to action to them.

Authors of Romance helping Authors of Romance

Book Marketing

Historical Fiction

NEW AUTHORS NEED MARKETING IDEAS

There are more places (and I belong to more Linked-In groups) to promote your blog posts, but my allotted hour is up! Next Monday I’ll return to share more of my marketing-finds. Do you have a favorite marketing tip? Please share. I’ll give a free e-copy of my book Beyond the Fortuneteller’s Tent (now a finalist in the I Heart Indies contest) for the tip I like the best.