Local Distribution.

For each venue, make sure to include ordering information such as your Web site URL, your company address, your toll-free 800 number, your local phone number, and an order page to fill out for fax or phone orders..

1.Distribute through Press.

-Create a "Power Press Release" (include tips and how-to's) -Get a Feature Story from Media -Write a how-to article and submit

2. Distribute through a local Talk Show-Radio and TV or guest speak for another person's teleclasses.

Just a phone call away you can reach 100's of people interested in your book's topic. Do some research on www.teleclass.com. From my guesting with other experts every 2 months, new clients come, new book and teleclass sales increase to make up half my income.

On talk shows or teleclasses, offer audience a free report to capture their email addresses. You can also send it through your host and she will distribute that information to her large email list. Of course you include your sales-pulling signature file at end.

3. Distribute at local talks to groups. Sell your print books at back of room. Take a clip board and capture everyone's email at talk. These people become your dedicated sales force and tell others. Word of mouth takes up to one or two years, so be patient for results. Check your library for Clubs who need free speakers.

Develop a selling two-sided flyer with testimonials, your book cover, excerpts, and an ordering coupon. Take books and flyers with you everywhere. Offer to all you meet, even your dentist!

Authors need to be proactive in book promotion because publishers won't do it for them. (Part 2 of this article is available)

How will you ask for sale? If you're selling your writing, then send out novel and non-fiction proposals, or proposals for magazine articles.

Keep in mind that "Ask for sale" means ask person who can buy your product to buy it. I approached editors at publishing houses who could buy my work. I didn't approach agents. As handy as literary agents are, an agent can't buy.

No matter what product you're selling, from apricots to zebras, you must ask person and/ or company with cash to buy your product.

It's worth mentioning here that you don’t need to follow any particular rules when you're asking for sale. For example, most writing books will tell you that to sell a novel you must write complete novel, then write partial, then get an agent and then wait while agent sells book. You can follow someone else's rules if you want to. Or you can choose your own route. Do what you intuitively feel is right for you.

=> Three: If it's not working, get feedback from others

You've set your deadline, you've asked for sale repeatedly, but no one's buying.

At this point, I need to tell you that everyone who's ever followed this process for selling their writing has sold their writing before deadline. So from long experience I know that this process works. If this process hasn’t worked for you it means that somewhere you've bumped into a wall, but don't see that is a wall.

You need feedback. Find someone's who's doing what you want to do, and ask them for help. You may need to pay for it, but it will be money well spent, because they'll be able to put you on right track. Don't ask for help from people who have never done what you want to do. If they haven’t done it, they may think they know how it’s done, but they don’t.

After you get your feedback, set yourself another deadline, and then ask for sale until you make sale. Try this simple process: it works.

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