Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts

Sunday

Promoting a Blog Book Tour with Social Media

When I'm promoting a blog book tour for myself or another author, my social media procedure goes like this. It's  basically what I teach to my blog book tours classes:

1. First thing in the AM, go to the host blog and leave a comment
2. Click G +1
3. Share on your FB and Twitter (usually there are share buttons right at the blog)
4. Pin to Pinterest (I have the pin bookmarklet on my dash)
5. Go to the host's Twitter account and retweet other relevant tweets
6. At mid-day go to the Twitter account and retweet more
7. Go to host's Facebook account and share the book promotion
8. Rinse and repeat in the evening (by then, you should have a shortened URL from somewhere which is handy)
9. Share on any other social networks you use

A good blog will make this easy for you and you'll notice most of the share buttons I mention in the photo below:



I try to do this at least three times a day because as you know, with as many followers as some of us have, the scrolls roll pretty fast and posts can be easily missed. 

This procedure works very well for anything you're promoting, not just books. The important consideration is frequency over a long period of time - don't post everywhere twelve times in ten minutes! 

End your day by saying thank you to your host blogger! Everyone loves a little appreciation.

Wednesday

Happy New Year

After the holidays, we start a new blog book tour session at our YahooGroup, so if you have a book release in 2009, sign up to learn, plan, and launch your own blog book tour. We are a free peer support group, and our program runs for four months. Here is the plan:

Month 1 - Improving your blog and post-a-day challenge all month
Month 2 - Social networking, blog radio, book trailers, and other promotions
Month 3 - Finding great blog hosts
Month 4- Tours and supporting each other

Sound interesting? Sign up now as we limit our group to 150 members. If you're not quite there yet, be sure to click on previous tours and interviews in the right column, and bookmark us for updates on the current session. We'll feature some of our touring authors here, and share all the latest brilliant promotion ideas that come out of our discussions.

May 2009 be the year of publication and promotion success for your book!