Article Marketing & Book Promotion: Promote Your Book To The Top of The NY Times Best Sellers List
By: Eric Gruber
Although, Mark Hyman, M.D, the New York Times Best Selling
author, and practicing physician, had a strong, multi-faceted
marketing and sales plan in place, the addition of an article
marketing strategy helped him in his successful quest to push his
book, UltraMetabolism The Simple Plan For Automatic Weight
Loss to the #2 spot of the NY Times Best Seller List. Dr.
Hymans article marketing campaign was only one piece of the puzzle,
but an important piece that helped him establish key relationships
with website publishers that will result in increased, targeted
traffic and stronger sales for many months and years to come.
By including a targeted article marketing program into your
marketing and sales plan, you too could achieve book-marketing
success. Doing this effectively requires planning and perfect
execution from beginning to end:
Step 1: Create An Article That Grabs Readers Interest
One of the most important parts of the article is the title.
Remember, the first 3-4 words of your article title have the most
weight with Google and other search engines. The point of the title
is to intrigue your audience to actually sit down and read the
article. You may even want to offer an outrageous proposition that
you can fulfill within your article body as we have with the title
of this article.
The articles that get the best results are the ones that provide
unique, high quality content that solve at least one piece of a
problem puzzle. However, to convert readers to buyers, you must not
give the reader all of the answers to the HOW to solve a particular
problem. Instead you want to tease them with some of the how and
top it off with the why its important.
Step 2: Turn Readers Into Prospects With A Strong Call For
Action And An Offer They Cant Refuse
You want to encapsulate the essence of what makes you and your
offering unique. This is your Unique Selling Proposition. Do this
by chiseling away the information that no one cares about from your
golden nuggets. Refine them into gleaming insights. Hammer them
into logical sequence. Fasten them to reader benefits. Then polish
and polish it until your fingers ache, to create a glittering
necklace of persuasion that seduces the eye, charms the
imagination, and dazzles the reader with so much human interest
that it is indeed much easier to click and go to your website than
skip.
If you add a free bonus offer, you will make it even easier for
readers to click to your website. You can offer a sneak preview of
your book, a free ezine subscription, or a free special bonus
report that further enhances your credibility as the expert.
Step 3: Maintain Reader Interest & Create a Squeeze
Page
Think of your article as a sales funnel. Your article title,
content, bio box and the link you send your readers to should all
flow right into each other. Including a link to the main page only
distract and frustrate readers. You will lose that sale
forever.
When you promote your book in your bio box, then take them to a
squeeze page within your site that convinces people why they should
either buy the book or why they should subscribe.
Step 4: Target Your Audience With Ezines & Websites That
Make a Difference
You need to find websites that are highly visited and ezines that
are the most read, but more importantly, you want to focus on
websites and ezine publishers within your specific niche that have
strong emotional connections to their audiences. Through our
research for Mark Hyman MD, we found information for a popular
About.com editor. About.com is among the top 50 sites on the net
today. This submission resulted in over 1,500 opt-in and new sales
in one day, not counting the successes from other credible
websites.
Step 5: Submit Your Article & Build Your Links and
Traffic
Now is the time to perform the tiring, boring and tedious task of
submitting your articles. But, as you completing this process, know
that there is light at the end of the tunnel. By using these
article marketing strategies, you can build a steady stream of warm
ready-to-buy visitors and substantially increase your book
sales
By including article marketing into your multi-faceted marketing
and sales plan, you too can achieve success in marketing your book.
You will then only be limited by your imagination and your time.
The question is, What is your destination?
Article marketing expert and award-winning public relations practitioner, Eric Gruber helped promote Mark Hyman MDs book to the top of the NY Times Best Seller List. For a free consultation on how to substantially increase your book sales using todays hottest Internet marketing strategies, email Eric@prleads.com or go to www.prleads.com/article.htm to have Eric manage your article marketing campaign.
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