How To Promote Your Book On A Shoestring Budget

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Spoken Word Press Presents:

How To Promote Your Book On A Shoestring Budget Workshop

Oct 20 2012-Feb 2 2012St. Louis Public Library Schlafly Branch

225 No. Euclid St. Louis MO 63108

Workshop Sessions & Dates:

• Session One- Free Websites & Blogs• Session Two-Using Social Media tools to

promote your book• Session Three-Free tools for author events• Session Four-Free marketing and promotional

tools from Amazon, the worlds largest book seller

• Session Five-Free reviews for your books

Introduction

• You’ve published your book, now what?

• The objective of this workshop is to share inexpensive marketing techniques I used to promote my book.

Free Websites:

• Webs.com• Weebly.com• Jimdo.com• Yola.com• 1&1.com• Wix.com• Why you need a website: Think of your website

as your online store where you can showcase your books for free!

Free Blogs

• Blogger

• Wordpress

• Why you need a blog:

• One of the most popular platforms

• Great plugins

• Has a free content management system

Part Two

• Adding Images and music to your website:

Royalty Free images

• What is it? Refers to the right to use copyrighted material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalty fees each time you use it.

• Two companies I use:

• Dreamstime.com

• Shutterstock.com

Dreamstime.com

Finding images on Dreamstime

How to purchase credits

Screen shot of back office

Adding images to your website

How to edit your website

Inserting an image to your site

Check out my Kindle I just added

Shutterstock.com

Images for my new book

Purchasing images from Shutterstock.com

Adding music & sound to your website

Using Widget Bank

Thank you for attending the workshop.

• You can contact me via email: spokenwordpress2010@gmail.com

• My website:

• http:www.spokenwordpress.info

• To book a Live 15 or 30 minute interview to promote your book on Author Chat with Lynda D. Brown please log onto:

• http://www.authorchat.info

• SWP Publishing