With most of the book promotions becoming digital, social media engagement plays a crucial role in improving the book sales. The books with more social media engagement have the ability to entice the people to become readers and therefore many authors are now gearing towards increasing their readers’ engagement.
Why do you need to increase the engagement?
There are thousands of books released and hundreds of new authors introduced every day. In this swelling sea of books, you do not want your book or your author reputation, that you have built so dearly, to get lost. You need to maintain your presence and the connection you had developed with your readers to remain intact as ever. Only then will they come back for more when you release your next book or recommend your book to their friends and family. It will also increase your social media following and help you to get more readers too.
How can you increase the engagement?
Gone are those days where just posting a normal image or a single quote used to get more likes and comments. Now people want something that is interesting and makes them think. They need to see attractive images or graphics, but it doesn’t stop at that. As rightly said by Bill Gates, ‘Content is King’, the right content is what they expect. Be it a two-line quip or a lengthy incident, the content that rightly resonates with the audience brings out the expected behavior from them – the engagement. One ought to make sure that the content isn’t boring and is something that gels well with the readers.
What’s a better way to make your followers think than ask them questions? Interesting questions that stop them for a second and make them think will generate a good response from your followers.
What Kind of Questions Works Well?
In the thought of asking an interesting question, don’t go overboard and ask a complex question. The questions have to be in the right mix of intrigue, casual and less time-consuming. Your followers do not want to spend a whole ten minutes answering a question unless you have something in store for them, like some kind of goodies for the best answer which is a whole another topic.
If your main aim is to increase engagement, then keep your questions simple, but not so simple that they have seen such patterned questions many times earlier, but in the right amount of simple that makes them want to answer.
Keep the questions related to your book if you want to entice them about your works. Most of your followers will be bookaholics, hence you can play with the intricacies of the book plot, theme of the book and its characters. The more you get them involved with your book, the more they will form a connection with you.
20 Questions to Increase Your Engagement
- Comment and tell me! Which of my books have you read?
- Who is your favorite character from my books?
- Which of my book covers do you like the most?
- Which book’s ending did you like the most?
- If you were to recommend one of my books to someone who didn’t know me, which would you choose?
- Which book boyfriend did you like the most from my books?
- Comment and tell me! Which of my books have you read?
- Have you read all of my books? If not, check them out now!
- Tell me one thing that you liked from my books!
- Do you have any questions about my books? Shoot them now!
- Tell me a book that you couldn’t put down at all!
- What are the three things that you expect to feel when reading my books?
- Do you have a favorite quote from one of my books?
- Which book’s ending made you emotional?
- Did you meet any character from my books in real life? Tag them here!
- Tell me one thing that you liked in all of my books!
- Which of these books do you wish were real?
- Which character from my books resembles you?
- I wish I could live in ____. Complete the sentence with a book name!
- Which climax intrigued you the most?
AllAuthor’s Promotional GIF Banners – With Creative Questions Included
AllAuthor’s latest tool of Promotional GIF Banners combine the visual appeal with an interesting content and gives it to you all ready to share. This tool consists of 12 different customization themes with one interesting question each. Authors can choose a theme and pick the books that they want to display as a GIF and generate their own Promotional GIF in just 50 seconds.
You save the time you spend in creating creative images for promotions and instead use this tool to get your engagement soaring! You have the option of downloading it as a GIF or as a video and can share it in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and in all other social media platforms, blogs and websites, and also use it for email marketing.
Check out this video to see how easy it is to create a GIF Banner:
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