Amazon Book Marketing Deal: Save 20% Now

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You only have a couple more days to get the exclusive Amazon Launch Bundle from Outskirts Press at a deep discount. That’s right, April 30th is your last chance to save an additional 20% off the already-discounted bundle price on this “Amazon-ing” book marketing package! 

Here’s what you get and why you should take advantage of this great deal:

  1. We will add your Amazon Author Profile directly to Amazon, which includes . . .
  • Your entire bibliography of published books
  • All your available book videos and video teasers
  • A direct RSS feed to your author’s blog (if you have one)
  • Your author photo (if you supplied one)
  • Your author biography

2. We will submit your book to Amazon’s “Look Inside,” which . . .

  • Entices readers to flip through small sections of your book digitally
  • Empowers readers to take a closer look at your content
  • Encourages readers to make the purchase
  • Authorizes Amazon’s search engine to use content inside your book for its algorithm (resulting in better search results)

3. We will add Search-Optimized Content to your Amazon Product Page, so . .

  • Amazon’s search engine finds your page faster, easier, and more often
  • Your book gets the attention it deserves
  • Your browsers become buyers

The Amazon Launch Bundle is one of our most popular marketing bundles. You can save an additional 20% off the bundled price for only a few days more. Just enter promo code amzlchbd at checkout.


In order to massively launch your book on Amazon with this Outskirts Press exclusive, you need to have a book published with us first… So, do you have a manuscript that you’d like to publish with the #1-Rated Self-Publishing Company 8-years running?

Connect with a Publishing Consultant today to learn how Outskirts Press can help YOU publish YOUR masterpiece:

Outskirts Press stands behind our book printing and design services with the best 100% satisfaction guarantee in the self-publishing industry. Start publishing today.


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Don’t Miss the Last Book Marketing Deal of the Year!

As a self-published author, it is important to continually “relaunch” your book for weeks, months, or even years after publication.  No matter when your book was published, launching or relaunching a book is an important foundation to any successful book marketing effort.

That’s why we are thrilled to offer our unbeatable Book Launch Bundle at a 15% discounted price this month.

The Book Launch Bundle includes everything you need to launch or “relaunch” your book to troves of new readers, including a custom press release, a custom book video trailer, social media set-up, and expert marketing assistance from a Book Marketing Specialist.

To take advantage of this offer, simply go to http://outskirtspress.com/p/booklaunch and enter the promotion code bklaunchsave at check-out. Your 15% discount will be calculated instantly.

But hurry! This deal ends before the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.


Have you written a book that you’d like to publish?

Connect with a Publishing Consultant today to learn how Outskirts Press can help YOU publish YOUR masterpiece:

Outskirts Press stands behind our book printing and design services with the best 100% satisfaction guarantee in the self-publishing industry. Start publishing today.


Click above to watch the video. New authors, click here for your free publishing kit.

Get 3 Top Upgrades when you start Publishing

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What are the two most important elements to a high-quality, successful self-published book? Many readers would say professional copyediting and a professional custom cover. Both services help in securing stronger book sales and better book reviews. These are integral to every self-published author trying to get their book “out there.”

Your book cover’s importance cannot be stated enough. A custom cover allows a designer to create a completely unique cover that captures the essence of your book. Undoubtedly, this makes your book more appealing to readers (which equals more book sales). Your designer will create two covers for you, so you can choose and modify the one you like best.

Copyediting is a necessity, as any book with obvious spelling errors will be overlooked and your book sales may suffer as a result. With a full copyedit, your professional editor will conduct a thorough basic edit over your entire manuscript’s punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

When you start publishing today with the promotion code, we will edit the first 15,000 words of your manuscript for free to help you determine if a full edit of your manuscript is a worthwhile investment.  And since people DO judge books by their covers, you will also receive a free professional custom cover design (a $499 value).  By starting right now, we will also publish and distribute an Amazon Kindle eBook Edition of your book for free (a $299 value). That’s over $1000 of additional value to make your book the best it can be! Just enter promo code coverkdedi in your shopping cart during checkout.

For more information and help choosing the best self-publishing service, contact your Outskirts Press Publishing Consultant today. There are three easy ways to connect:

“Outskirts made the publishing process super easy for me and my Author Representative knew what she was doing and was very helpful!” — Katie Patterson, author of Ride.

Master the Market with the New and Improved Author Marketing Calendar!

Have you ever found yourself on the far side of a deadline with no idea how you got there, and what you may have missed in the meantime? This isn’t an unusual feeling, especially in a world where the burden of keeping track of these deadlines falls on the very people–self-publishing authors–who are inevitably too busy to keep track or who don’t have access to the necessary information in order to keep themselves organized. It’s easy to lose track of deadlines when literally every day of every week of the year is packed full of opportunities!

This is where our 2017 Author Marketing Calendar comes in. At Outskirts Press, we know that successful book promotion requires organization, dedication, and access to resources. You supply the dedication–in spades!–and we supply the necessary organization and resources to keep you on track!

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The Outskirts Press Author Marketing Calendar is a compilation of the most up-to-date, effective and actionable tactics available to help you market your book. It contains literally hundreds of promotional tips, advertising opportunities, important deadlines, social media recommendations, and information about marketing options and services available through Outskirts Press. It even includes photo opportunities for you to post to increase engagement on your social media sites and ideas on how to market your book when you’re on vacation! All of this information is organized in an easy to follow, month by month format including monthly marketing objectives and recommendations to help focus and direct your initiatives.

The Author Marketing Calendar is just one of many options that we offer to help our authors market their books! If you’ve published a book with Outskirts Press, you can purchase the new and improved 2017 Author Marketing Calendar for just $25 and it will become available for review and download immediately upon placing your order.

If you have any questions about the 2017 Author Calendar or any of our marketing options, please visit us online at www.OutskirtsPress.com, where you can view a complete list of our Marketing Services and engage in a live chat with our expert staff.

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Top 10 Self-Publishing Book Marketing Tactics for June 2016

Book marketing is one of the most important pieces of being a successful self-publishing author. Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors.

Your book is written. Your book is published. Now what? Our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Tactics can help you prioritize your book marketing efforts by providing you with excellent marketing and promotional tactics you should consider pursuing.

These are the marketing products and tactics determined to be most popular by our authors for the month of June 2016, listed below in random order:

Custom Press Release Custom Press Release:  Have our professional press release writer compose an original, unique press release for your book, submitted to you for your review/approval, and then distributed to our newswire service on your behalf.
Amazon Kindle Submission Service Amazon Kindle Submission Service:  Make your book available on Amazon’s Kindle ebook reading device. More formats on Amazon means more exposure on Amazon, and the Kindle is heavily promoted by Amazon.
Audio Excerpt option Audio Excerpt:  Recording a 3-minute audio excerpt is as easy as speaking into the phone. Read a passage or explain more about the book.
Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service:  Millions of books are available on Barnes & Noble’s NOOK. If your book isn’t one of them, you are missing out on tapping a very important, and growing, market of readers.
First Chapter Preview Library Distribution First Chapter Preview Library Distribution: Introduce your book to libraries, bookstores, media, reviewers, bloggers and readers by running a quarter page full-color ad along with a free preview of your first chapter in this catalog for three consecutive months.

Marketing Telephone Consultation (30 minutes)
Marketing Telephone Consultation (30 minutes): One of our Personal Marketing Assistants will contact you to schedule a one-on-one consultation. After your consultation, you will receive a marketing plan with actionable items that can be used right away to get started selling more books.
Amazon Author Sweepstakes Amazon Author Sweepstakes: This exciting marketing option combines “Amazon” with “Free” so you can offer your very own Amazon sweepstakes to attract more readers! Your free book giveway will be widely promoted and we handle everything for you.
Amazon Extreme Package Amazon Extreme Package: Save 25% on 3 of our marketing services focused on Amazon.com. This package includes a Kindle Edition of your book, participation in the Amazon Search Inside the Book and Amazon Cover Enhancement.
Google Books Preview Program Submission Google Books Preview Program Submission: An inexpensive and extremely effective way to get your book in front of millions of readers quickly and easily.
Personal Marketing Assistant Personal Marketing Assistant: Do you need help developing a book marketing plan? Arranging book signings? Establishing/developing your author platform? Hire your own Personal Marketing Assistant today!

Outskirts Press Published authors who are interested in any of these (or many of our other available services) can find further details and ordering information from the Marketing Options page of your author’s center.

Not yet published with Outskirts Press? Today is the perfect day to start and take advantage of our current publishing promotion.

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Top 10 Self-Publishing Book Marketing Tactics for May 2016

Book marketing is one of the most important pieces of being a successful self-publishing author. Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors.

Your book is written. Your book is published. Now what? Our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Tactics can help you prioritize your book marketing efforts by providing you with excellent marketing and promotional tactics you should consider pursuing.

These are the marketing products and tactics determined to be most popular by our authors for the month of May 2016, listed below in alphabetical order:

Custom Press Release Custom Press Release:  Have our professional press release writer compose an original, unique press release for your book, submitted to you for your review/approval, and then distributed to our newswire service on your behalf.
Amazon Kindle Submission Service Amazon Kindle Submission Service:  Make your book available on Amazon’s Kindle ebook reading device. More formats on Amazon means more exposure on Amazon, and the Kindle is heavily promoted by Amazon.
Audio Excerpt option Audio Excerpt:  Recording a 3-minute audio excerpt is as easy as speaking into the phone. Read a passage or explain more about the book.
Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service:  Millions of books are available on Barnes & Noble’s NOOK. If your book isn’t one of them, you are missing out on tapping a very important, and growing, market of readers.
Apple iPad iPhone Standard Edition Apple iPad/iPhone Standard Edition: Millions of iPads have been sold and iPhone revenues account for over HALF of all smart phone revenue in the United States. Is your book a part of this growing market? It can be, simply and conveniently, with iTunes distribution of an iPad/iPhone electronic edition of your book through Apple’s iBooks bookstore.

Marketing Telephone Consultation (30 minutes)
Marketing Telephone Consultation (30 minutes): One of our Personal Marketing Assistants will contact you to schedule a one-on-one consultation. After your consultation, you will receive a marketing plan with actionable items that can be used right away to get started selling more books.
Amazon Branded Featured Book of the Week Amazon-Branded Featured Book-of-the-Week: Get your book and cover, along with an easy way to order your book directly from Amazon into the inbox of a wide audience of literary enthusiasts.
Amazon Extreme Package Amazon Extreme Package: Save 25% on 3 of our marketing services focused on Amazon.com. This package includes a Kindle Edition of your book, participation in the Amazon Search Inside the Book and Amazon Cover Enhancement.
Publisher's Weekly Publisher’s Weekly Co-Op Advertising: Reach over 80,000 booksellers, publishers, public and academic librarians, wholesalers, distributors, agents and writers in addition to more than 360,000 unique monthly website visitors.
Virtual book tour in the Blogosphere and on social networks Virtual book tour in the Blogosphere and on social networks: A Virtual Book Tour is very similar to a physical book tour. However, instead of loading up copies of your book and driving from bookstore to bookstore and radio station to radio station to promote, you and/or your book can make “appearances” on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – while you stay put in the comfort of your own home.

Outskirts Press Published authors who are interested in any of these (or many of our other available services) can find further details and ordering information from the Marketing Options page of your author’s center.

Not yet published with Outskirts Press? Today is the perfect day to start and take advantage of our current publishing promotion.

Start Self-Publishing Now!

Top 10 Amazon Kindle Books from Outskirts Press Authors

Every published author knows the inexpressible sense of joy and accomplishment that holding a physical copy of their book in their hands can bring about. It is a tangible version of what was once a dream, an ambition, a deep-seated desire to bring your story to life. That all being said, there is a large growing audience of e-readers, i.e. potential fans, that may never have access to your book if you’ve only published it in print form!

This month, the Amazon Extreme package allows published authors to get their book into a Kindle edition, while simultaneously promoting their hardcopy edition via the “cover enhancement feature.” With the Amazon Cover Enhancement service, Outskirts Press submits an image of the front and back of your cover for your Amazon.com book listing, which makes your book much more attractive to potential customers.

Further, the Amazon Extreme package provides the Search Inside the Book program, which allow readers to get a glimpse of your book’s contents. Books that are part of this program are significantly more successful, on average, than books that are not.

There is really no substitute for walking into a bookstore, scanning the shelves, turning a book over in your hands, and eventually bringing it home to place on your bookshelf alongside the other authors who’ve made it into your home and your heart. However, we live in a digital age and an age of high-speed travel. Sometimes choosing just one book to bring for a plane-ride is a daunting task, and a library is far too heavy to lug around (unfortunately). Having a digital library is something that many bibliophiles are finding to be a practical option for convenience of reading on the go. Don’t have your book miss this very important customer base!

Our eclectic Top 10 list not only illustrates the broad interests of the e-book-buying public; it also demonstrates the breadth of diversity of modern independent authors, particularly those publishing with Outskirts Press.

Below we have a list of the top 10 Kindle Books published by Outskirts Press:

Want to give your book more exposure and a boost on Amazon? Get started with the Amazon Extreme package today!

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How to Sell Your Book on Amazon

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The Amazon Extreme marketing package from Outskirts Press gives self-publishing authors a triple advantage when it comes to promoting and selling their books!

Amazon, the largest U.S. online retailer, offers proven promotional functions like the popular Kindle edition, Search Inside the Book feature, and Cover Enhancement features. The Outskirts Amazon Extreme marketing package includes all three of these popular options — making it the perfect, economical way to launch your book sales.

  • An Amazon Kindle edition makes your book available to the growing audience of Kindle e-book readers. Because Amazon.com customers still love reading actual books, Kindle is an inexpensive way for them to sample a book before buying the paperback or hardback edition.
  • When you’re a part of the Search Inside the Book program, you allow readers to get a glimpse of your book’s contents. Books that are part of this program are significantly more successful, on average, than books that are not.
  • With the Amazon Cover Enhancement service, Outskirts Press submits an image of the front and back of your cover for your Amazon.com book listing. Books that have this enhancement are much more attractive to buyers.

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Combine this three-pronged marketing package with the valuable tips and strategies outlined in the brand-new book, The Book Marketing COACH, written by President and Chief Marketing Officer of Outskirts Press, Brent Sampson. This book compiles the best of the marketing advice given to Outskirts Press authors into one easy resource.

The Amazon Extreme marketing package is not available with any other publisher, so get a jump on the competition now. And don’t forget to check out The Book Marketing COACH to give your book every advantage and the ultimate marketing boost!

To get started with the Amazon Extreme package, click below:

TOP 10 DIAMOND BOOKS FROM OUTSKIRTS PRESS AUTHORS

Reach the Masses With An Outskirts Press Book Blast!

Navigating the world of book marketing can be a hazardous task, with many unmarked dangers–and shortcuts to safe passage–awaiting the self-publishing author. Over the last four weeks, we have introduced some fantastic marketing options that Outskirts Press offers. The good news is that they’ve bundled these options into their Book Blast package. The Book Blast package includes the features that guarantee you walk away with:

There’s one more important contribution to your publishing experience that the Book Blast package ensure you will benefit from, however, and it’s not one to miss out on! By investing in the Book Blast, you can emerge from your marketing campaign confident that you pursued every opportunity and option available to you in a methodical way. That confidence isn’t normally something a person can buy, but when you choose Outskirts Press, you choose to employ the full resources of a company known for its reliability, its advocacy, and its commitment to putting authors first.

Many authors forget or underestimate the value of a methodical marketing campaign, and as a result never reach their book’s full potential or their personal sales goals. But you don’t have to let this happen to you! You and your book know better–and deserve more–than settling for a lackluster attempt to reach new readers. Now that you have been introduced to several of the key offerings made possible by Outskirts Press’ Book Blast package, we’d like to make it easier and more affordable than ever to add the full complement of tools to your marketing toolbox.

Writing your book takes up about 20 percent of the time and energy you’ll dedicate to the publishing process. Where do you spend the other 80 percent? On marketing … if you let it. The 20/80 ratio applies to the average self-publishing author, but it doesn’t have to apply to you. You have the option of putting a solid book marketing plan into place–and we know just the plan for you!

The Book Blast package combines all of the tactics we’ve described over the last few weeks–book reviews, press release and PR Publicist, book video trailer, and five hours with a Personal Marketing Assistant–into a single bundle that makes crafting a complete book marketing campaign as simple as 1-2-3!

First, you will write, distribute, and promote your press release with the guidance of an expert PR Publicist. Second, you will create and distribute a book video trailer guaranteed to grab the attention of new readers. Third, you will submit your book to reputable book reviewers who will drive traffic and sales. At all points throughout this process, you will have access to the industry expertise and insight of your Personal Marketing Assistant, who will help guide you through the fine points of transforming your marketing campaign from good to absolutely fantastic.

Of course, one of the best features of the Book Blast package is its price! By combining its most popular marketing services, Outskirts Press is able to reduce the total cost by 25 percent to a single payment of only $999.

For more information about the Book Blast package, follow the link below.

The Right & Wrong of Book Reviews–And How to Get Them

What makes book reviews so important for the self-publishing author? Simply put, readers turn to the book reviews on websites like Amazon and Goodreads for assistance in choosing between the many possible books they might purchase. Looking at the hundreds of newly published books in the Biography or Romance genre each month, it’s easy to understand why a review of five stars on your Amazon book page might sway readers to purchase it over different book with only two or three stars. But how to get those reviews?

One possibility is to ask for them directly. There are a lot of benefits to making use of your existing social connections–on or offline–and contacting potential reviewers on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms. Some websites offer free reviews in return for copies of your book, as well, but how effective are they at reaching new readers? The answer, in most cases, is “not very.”

Many readers, however, are looking for something more reputable and more thorough than an anonymous two-sentence review on a website geared entirely towards sales. These readers are looking for reputability, reliability, and the kind of in-depth insight that only certain reviewers can offer. As a self-publishing author, nothing quite equals an impartial book review from a credible source.

That’s where the Outskirts Press Book Blast package can save the day–and save you untold time, effort, and potential disappointment in pursuing the right kind of reviews to boost your book’s visibility and drive your sales. The Book Blast package is designed to both put your book into the hands of ten credible, highly-rated reviewers who have a guaranteed interest in reviewing self-published titles–and to build your confidence as an author that your book will indeed find its audience.

Gaining reviews is just one benefit of purchasing the Book Blast package, but it’s a powerful one to have at your disposal as a self-publishing author. At Outskirts Press, the ultimate goal is to keep moving you along the path to publishing success–and a large part of that success can be defined as lifting the burdens that keep you from doing what you love most to do: writing!

For more information about the Book Blast package, click below:

TOP 10 DIAMOND BOOKS FROM OUTSKIRTS PRESS AUTHORS