Have you ever been at a loss for ideas of how to promote your books?
We know how it is. We don’t always have the brilliant ideas to promote our books all the time.
So when you find yourself short of ideas, don’t get discouraged. It only means that you need some extra help to get you back your mojo!
If you are struggling to find ideas for promoting your books, these five ideas can help you generate more book sales much faster.
5 Quick Ways to Promote Your Books When You’re Running Out of Ideas
1. Conduct a Giveaway Contest
If you are an author who wants to increase your book sales but doesn’t have any new ideas, conducting a giveaway contest for your book is one of the most effective ways to do that.
The idea of conducting a giveaway contest for your book is to get more eyes on your profile and your book. To entice more people to participate in your giveaway contest, you will offer them the chance to win prizes.
There are two types of prizes you can offer:
1. Free copies of your book.
2. Other prizes you purchase.
If you’re choosing to give any prize other than your book, then make sure that it’s something your target readers would want. It can be bookmarks, coffee mugs, memorabilia of your book characters, a signed copy of your book or a bundle of your hard copies.
Why is it effective?
Hosting a giveaway is great when you’re running out of ideas because you only need to post about your giveaways for the coming days. This will give you time to unwind, relax and come up with new ideas to post while you’re hosting the giveaway.
2. Repost Your Glowing Book Reviews
This is one of the simplest ideas out there!
Don’t have any new idea to post? Create amazing GIFs of your best reviews and share them online! As simple as that!
You can use our Review GIF Maker to create these GIFs within a couple of minutes.
Why is it effective?
The best part about this idea is that you can use it again and again — whenever you find yourself against a brick wall with no idea of what to post.
You can even create these GIFs in advance and have them ready to post during the times you want to boost your sales and add to your credibility.
3. Share a Routine from Your Author Life
Readers love to know the person behind the book. So find a way to give a bit of a personal, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be an author and what the day-to-day of being an author consists of.
- Start by sharing something about your life as an author.
- What’s your writing schedule?
- What do you do when you get stuck?
- What would make writing easier?
- Does anything happen in your life that makes great writing fodder?
- Did something funny or ironic happen to you that day?
Dig around your daily life and share a few tidbits that your followers will find entertaining.
Why is it effective?
This is an evergreen way to dig into your personal life and share a snippet when you don’t have any idea to promote your book. As you share your personal life details, you can bring them back to your book by relating it to a character or sharing a past happening when you were writing a certain book.
If you give away useful information in an entertaining way, people will want to follow along and learn more about what you do. If they like what they see, they might read your book—or buy one for someone else who’d like it.
4. Share Posts from the POV of Your Book’s Character
Let’s say that there was a certain character that was a great hit among your readers. You can build on that by posting in the way the character would speak and behave.
You can create a post about an incident where a character would react in a certain way and keep your readers engaged. Encourage them to ask questions to you and you can respond as the character.
Why is it effective?
This is a smart way to get the word out about the book and get people interested. Even those who haven’t read your book yet may wonder what it’s about with your character portrayal. The better you do, the more exposure you’ll get.
5. Promote Your Books Together with Banners
When you’re at a loss for words, let pictures do the talking!
Instead of struggling to come with a great idea, you can instead promote your books together with attractive banners.
You can use AllAuthor’s Magic Tool to add two or more of your books in the same banner, add a few lines to your post about a common underlying theme in all of these books and post in on your social media pages.
Why is it effective?
Magic Tool takes not more than three minutes to use. You can add a suitable background for this image collage with our free Image Editor tool and you would have got yourself a new way to promote your books together!
