If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I meet with my goal buddy near the end of every year so we can celebrate (usually with cheesecake!) what we’ve accomplished, announce what we plan to accomplish, and discuss how we will reach our goals for the coming year.

My 2015 goal helps with your 2016 goals

I’m super pleased to announce that I’ve achieved one of my biggest goals for 2015: Creating a useful resource that will help you reach your book marketing goals in the coming year. The result is your new helper, 365 Daily Book Marketing Tips, which sends you one book marketing tip every day via email for one full year.

It’s that simple. Every day, you receive a tip that gives you ideas and information that you can act on immediately. And the price is so low — just 99 cents — that you can’t afford not to sign up to receive the tips now!

Email delivery eliminates any technology problems. We’ve even set this up as plain text messages — no bells and whistles  — to make sure that your daily tips stay out of spam folders or promotion tabs on Gmail. That’s the best way to make sure you get — and can use — every single tip.

You can get all the details at the product information page for 365 Daily Book Marketing Tips.

Sample tips you’ll receive

Curious about what information you’ll receive for less than a dollar?

Here are just a few of the 365 tips. Note that they’re short and to the point — and that many of them have links to more detailed information online.

1. Re-evaluate the categories your book is listed in on Amazon periodically because they change. You might need or want to change one of yours. https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A200PDGPEIQX41
2. When sharing a link to your blog posts, use the specific post link, not a generic blog page link. You want domainname.com/blog-post-title, not domainname.com/blog.
3. Want a book club to read your book? Get it into libraries. Many club members are borrowers, so library borrowing is often a prerequisite for a club selection.
4. When you find a website that reaches the same audience as yours, check the links on blog rolls, resources pages, etc., for more websites like it. Connect with the owners and comment on their blogs so you start building your network.
5. When you are offering your book for free or for a sale price, check out the list of 100 websites that will let you list and promote your book. http://bit.ly/1LVh5VI
6. Discover what other books were purchased by people who bought your book with the cool Yasiv tool. http://www.yasiv.com/

Every single daily tip gives you information you can act on immediately — and isn’t that what you need to market your book? Don’t you need lots of ideas and encouragement to take action?

Start receiving your daily tips on January 1

Because it’s so close to the end of the year, we’ve set this up so that the tips start getting delivered on January 1, 2016. There’s also an option for those who don’t want to wait until then — details for downloading all 365 daily tips plus 10 more tips right now are on the information page.

I know you’ll agree that the price — less than a dollar! — is more than fair. You will have me and all my years of experience looking over your shoulder, nudging you every day.

You owe it to yourself to get this daily help so that 2016 is the year that you sell more books.

Affordable gift idea

And what a great Christmas gift for you or an author friend, right? Nothing says “I care” more than a gift note saying you’ll start getting these action-generating tips at the start of the new year!

I’m really looking forward to coaching you by email every day in the coming year. If you think your author friends would also benefit from daily book marketing advice from a pro, please share this link with them.

To learn more or purchase, please visit the information page.

As always, if you have questions, just shoot me an email.

I’m looking forward to sending you a message every single day next year! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to provide this daily guidance.

Chances are, you’ll recognize it in the helpful article, “18 Book Marketing Experts Reveal Secrets That Boost Recognition, Get New Readers, and Increase Sales,” on the eReleases.com blog.

I’m one of the 18 surveyed for the article (scroll down for my input). I did my best to offer advice that I think will truly make a difference for your book’s success.

I hope you’ll read through all of the comments to find a gem or two that strikes a chord with you today. I particularly liked Penny Sansevieri’s distinction between “fans” and “super fans” and Louise Myers’ reminder to use visual images in book marketing (because it’s SO MUCH FUN!).

More than one said . . .

I spotted a few patterns in the responses, too.

• A few noted that you should publish several books before you start promoting any of them. While they didn’t say so, I believe this advice is targeted to fiction writers. The advice-givers noted that when someone loves one your books, they immediately look for more of what you’ve written. This happens less with nonfiction. It’s also less important with nonfiction, because with the right topic and the right author, you can build an entire career out of one nonfiction book when you factor in consulting and paid speaking engagements.
• Building an e-mail list is essential. For more on that, read “Building your author e-mail list.“
• You need to know your target audience — those people most likely to love your book — and figure out what they read, watch, and listen to as well as where they hang out online.

While seemingly geared to self-published authors, “18 Book Marketing Experts Reveal Secrets That Boost Recognition, Get New Readers, and Increase Sales,” offers solid advice for all authors. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read what the experts shared.

What “aha!” did you pull from the article? Please share it in a comment.