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publishing promotions

Black Friday Publishing Deal: Get 3 Top Upgrades For Free!

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. And when you start today with the A+ rated and #1-rated self-publishing company, they can both be free!

That’s right, we’ll edit the first 15,000 words of your manuscript for free (which means many children’s books and volumes of poetry receive copyediting for their entire book free of charge, and everyone else gets a big jump on things). And since people DO judge books by their covers, you’ll also enjoy a free professional custom cover design (two actually, so you can choose and modify the one you like best).

That’s over $600 of additional value for free when you enter promo code CovEdKind in your shopping cart with the Ultimate Black & White or Full-Color package. When you start today, we will also publish and distribute an Amazon Kindle e-book Edition (a $250 value) of your book for free.

So, are you ready to publish your masterpiece with the A+ rated and #1-rated self-publishing company according to the Better Business Bureau and Top Consumer Reviews, respectively?

“Outskirts Press 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.

 

book marketing, Marketing Options, Uncategorized

Amazon-Branded Featured Book-of-the-Week Option Offers 3 Key Benefits to Self-Publishing Authors

One of the biggest marketing challenges for authors is generating awareness about their book. Readers have to know a book exists in order to buy it. Outskirts Press offers self-publishing authors a book marketing option that puts a self-publishing author’s book in front of thousands of potential buyers: The Amazon-Branded Featured Book-of-the-Week.

The Amazon-branded Featured Book-of-the-Week options is a direct marketing campaign to thousands of recipients, all readers, writers and professionals. The email features the featured book’s cover image and title as well as an easy to access link for readers to purchase the book directly from Amazon. In addition to the email, each featured book-of-the-week is featured on the Outskirts Press blog and broadcast to Outskirts Press’ social media community via Facebook and Twitter.

Getting your book in front of readers is an essential part of any book marketing strategy. This option provides authors with an easy and affordable way to do just that.

What benefits can a self-publishing author gain from signing up for the Amazon-branded Featured Book-of-the-Week?

  1. Increased Exposure – The Featured Book-of-the-Week is sent to thousands of email subscribers, over 12,000 Facebook users, and more than 4,000 Twitter followers.
  2. No Effort Marketing – All authors have to do is purchase this popular book marketing option. Outskirts Press handles the promotion from there.
  3. Effective Marketing Techniques – Social media and email marketing are two of the most effective marketing strategies in today’s technology-obsessed society. Not only does this option increase a book’s exposure, but it also provides readers with the convenience of online shopping and internet book reviews.

Are you ready to reserve your feature?

book marketing

Ways a Virtual Book Tour Can Promote Your Book

Gone are the days when a writer must pound the pavement, toting hardcopies of their book and media kits from one book reviewer to another, one bookstore or news outlet to the next in order to get exposure.

Things have changed when it comes to book marketing. As a published author, you would be wise to tune into the changing methods by which news outlets and bookstores are getting information and exploit these changes in your marketing efforts. This is where a Virtual Book Tour can help.

A Virtual Book Tour can give you an edge in gaining visibility for your book physical distance, and time and budget constraints, don’t allow for an actual physical tour. When you can’t travel from place to place, a Virtual Book Tour ensures you and your book are still making “appearances” on the blogosphere and social networking sites – appearances that live online and in search engines forever (much longer than any in-person event lasts).

Here are the top 6 reasons to hold your own virtual book tour:

  • Spread word quickly over a wide range of venues and sites
  • Make multiple “appearances” on the blogosphere and social media
  • Capture attention and set your tone instantly
  • Have your message available forever on the blogosphere
  • Reach new audiences with little to no effort
  • Open the door to follow-up book reviews and interviews

If you’re too busy to put together your own virtual book tour, or aren’t quite sure how you would begin, the Virtual Book Tour option from Outskirts Press can help you.

With the Virtual Book Tour through Outskirts Press, you receive the following:

  • Outskirts Press announces your Virtual Book Tour to the blogosphere.
  • You receive every inquiry in response to the announcement about your book.
  • Virtual Book Tour Packet, which includes all of the materials you need to follow-up with the bloggers quickly and easily in order to schedule your “appearance” on their blog, website, or social network.
  • In most cases your appearance may include a book review and/or an author interview.
  • Spotlight Appearance on the Outskirts Press blog, which receives its own announcements on Twitter and Facebook.

Don’t wait to promote your self-published book!

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Outskirts Press News, Promotions, self publishing news, Uncategorized

Last Chance! Last Day to Claim $300 of Mad Money for Self-Publishing Services

It’s not too late to make March your most productive month with $300 of Mad Money from Outskirts Press. It’s time to finish that book and decide how you want to spend that $300 in FREE big bucks from Outskirts Press!

  • Custom cover design?
  • Copy editing?
  • Custom interior formatting?
  • Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook edition?

Whatever production and marketing options you choose, the first $300 worth are FREE if you start publishing right now! Just order your ultimate Diamond or full-color Pearl publishing package and enter the following promotion code during secure shopping cart check-out: Promo code: MadMoneyMar14

You can apply your $300 of “Mad Money” toward any optional production or marketing option we offer during the pre-production process. And with many of our optional services beginning at just $99, you can get quite a few!

And when you combine this promotion with the $400 of FREE upgrades already included with the Diamond package (standard press release distribution, Spring Arbor Christian distribution, streaming audio excerpt on your author webpage, cover photo from our image library) you’re looking at $700 worth of stuff!

Get that book finished so you’re published by the busy summertime! Start publishing today!

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Outskirts Press News, self publishing news, Top 10, Uncategorized

Top 10 Best-Selling Books in Self-Publishing for 2013

Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, is pleased to announce its top ten best-selling titles for 2013, according to combined data from Ingram Book Wholesalers and Outskirts Press Direct via http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore. These authors have likely created a solid book marketing strategy and put it into motion either by themselves or with the help of a Personal Marketing Assistant.

In alphabetical order, the top ten best-selling books in self-publishing during 2013 were:










Congratulations to our best-selling authors for 2013!

How can you get your book on the bestseller list? While we can’t make any guarantees on sales success, many of our most successful authors invest time and money in marketing themselves and their book. Authors who are in need of a marketing boost often turn to a Personal Marketing Assistant for help.

All of these books (and other Outskirts Press titles) are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books A Million, and others, plus conveniently from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore for discounts ranging from 10% – 55%.

Are you ready to put a book promotion strategy in place for your self-published book?

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book marketing, Marketing Options

Register for Benjamin Franklin Awards Now!

Does your book have a copyright date of 2013? If so, now is the time to register for the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards.

As one of our published authors, we can handle all of the submission details for you! With your purchase of this option and your eligible book, we will handle all the details, including:

  • The award submission fee
  • Sending the necessary copies of your book
  • Completing all of the necessary entry forms
  • Selecting the most appropriate category for your book (if we’re not sure, we’ll ask you)
  • Shipping and handling costs
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