With Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas quickly approaching, it’s easy to be fooled into thinking there’s no time left to accomplish much of anything meaningful before the lighted ball drops in Times Square. Not so! A few short weeks is all you need to do big things, if you get the right help.
The harried hustle of the holiday season is where a Personal Marketing Assistant (PMA) proves his or her mettle. While you’re scouring the malls for the perfect gifts and gussying them up with a pretty bow, your PMA could be wrapping up your next interview or putting a shining star on your marketing plan. There’s a whole host of tasks you can hand off — so you can spend more time at those sizzling-hot holiday parties!
- Holiday marketing: A book marketing plan is a must-have for every author, and the gift-buying season represents a prime time to snag readers’ attention. It’s also the timeframe when most of us are least equipped to juggle the task. Your PMA can create a marketing plan for you, complete with valuable marketing information and suggested actions you can use to start selling more books before year’s end.
- Lead Follow-Up: Those valuable leads generated from that marketing campaign in the fall are by this time in need of attention. A Personal Marketing Assistant is trained to follow up on leads while they’re still hot. So, let your PMA do the grunt work so you can focus on other things — like holiday baking.
- Developing Your Author Platform: An author website and professional social networking accounts are vital aspects of your author platform. They support your writing by boosting your ability to properly market it to a modern audience. It can take an author many hours to set up an effective author platform. But it doesn’t take any time at all if your PMA tackles it for you.
- Book Signings: Your PMA can set up times, dates and locations for holiday book signings so you can get your name, face and words out there, just in time for gift-buyers.
Of all the gifts you can give this holiday season, the most impressive is giving yourself the gift of time. The services of a Personal Marketing Assistant is all that — and the peace of mind of knowing you’re one step closer to your marketing goals. Talk about comfort and joy!
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Successfully marketing a book can be a lot of work. A Personal Marketing Assistant (PMA) is ideal for authors who want marketing assistance that is personal and specific. Some things your PMA can assist you with include:
- Soliciting book reviews
- Contacting local bookstores
- Completing the verbiage on your author webpage
- Improving your Amazon tactics
- Scheduling/coordinating book signings
- And much more!
If your budget this month won’t allow the expense of a Personal Marketing Assistant, a book marketing consultation is a great start. With the consultation you receive the following:
- 30 Minute Phone Consultation – One of our Personal Marketing Assistants will contact you to schedule a one-on-one consultation call. During that time, your questions will be answered, and we will gather feedback from you to use in creating a marketing plan.
- Marketing Plan – After your consultation, you will receive a marketing plan with actionable items that can be used right away to get started selling more books. If you want to hire a PMA to help you with the task list, you’re more than welcome (but not obligated) to do so at that time.
Now through December 2, you can get 50% off a 30-Minute Marketing Telephone Consultation with a Personal Marketing Assistant. This great offer is only available until tomorrow, so get the assistance you need to boost those holiday sales! Enter the promotion code Cyber2013 during checkout.
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Robert Lovelle Rooks is a published writer from Central Texas. He’s been writing since he was in grade school. After being published in a youth showcase called Sparks, he went on to write and copyright all of his material until he found something he felt would be suitable for publication. He is a father of four who still holds down a full-time job, but claims to just want a simple life. “Best Broken Promise” is Robert Rooks’ 3rd book with Outskirts Press. He is also the author of “Truth’s At Distance” and “Personally Lucky”. Can a man ever overcome the foibles that haunt him? Meet Percy James, a man whose girl friend won’t give him what he’s always wanted, a child of his own . . . a man who flits from relationship to relationship, unable to find love. And then one day, Percy James finds himself in the same room with the one woman who carries a secret that can provide him with true happiness.
Robert Lovelle Rooks, author of Best Broken Promise
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