Book Title Secrets To Selling More Books

Written by Jeff Smith


Your struggling to sell just a few copies of your book, ebook, report or other information-based product each month?

Are you stumped byrepparttar lack of response you are getting?

You are positive people want your information, yet no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to tap intorepparttar 128608 flood of demand with your infoproduct.

Happily, there is one simple, quick change you can make to your product that can make a massive difference to your results -- improve your book title.

Your book title is oftenrepparttar 128609 ONLY advertisement that stands between your bank account and your prospects wallet.

Why is that?

Your book title finds it's way to directories, onto bookshelves (inrepparttar 128610 case of a printed book), website titles, website links, email and forum signatures, business cards, topics of seminars, press releases, joint venture partner proposals and campaigns, interviews, and much, much more....

Here are 3 highly successful techniques for turning your mediocre book titles into sizzling, red-hot, money-making titles...

Book Title Writing SECRET #1: Grab Their Attention

It often happens that book writers have great content, even great sales letters and press releases, but their title is a dismal, limp descriptive bore.

This is notrepparttar 128611 place to "save your best" marketing forrepparttar 128612 press release.

You want your book title to reach out and grabrepparttar 128613 browser's attention instantly by being personal, controversial and knowing exactly what is "front-of-mind" for your market.

Use strong words, action words, and controversy (within reason) to capture your prospect's attention.

Book Title Writing SECRET #2: Tap Into Their Interest

Apart from what you may think, you will not create interest in your readers, what you can do is anticipate and tap into interests that already exist inrepparttar 128614 mind's of your readers.

How do you do this?

Simple, by identifying what that interest is and clearly communicating this in your title.

Marketing to Editors

Written by Terri Pilcher


How are you marketing your articles? As a writer prospecting potential clients, your query letter is your marketing tool. What does it tellrepparttar editor about you?

Show me...repparttar 128606 Market

Showrepparttar 128607 editor that you know his magazine. Jeff Peck,repparttar 128608 editor of Insider’s Journal, recently wrote, “...I end up rejecting fully 90 percent or more ofrepparttar 128609 submissions because would-be authors simply don’t takerepparttar 128610 time to understand what our publication is about.” Are you sending out random queries shotgun style or are you using laser targeting to pinpoint your target magazine? As published authors, it should berepparttar 128611 latter. Most editors recommend reading several back issues. Sending an article on living like a tightwad to an affluent parenting magazine won’t work. If you think a few hours learning about your market is a waste of time, then sending out queries wastes bothrepparttar 128612 editor’s time and your time.

Show me...repparttar 128613 Readers

Showrepparttar 128614 editor that you know who her readers are. Your query needs to show that you understand who will be reading your article. The Christian Librarian caters to librarians at Christian academic centers. Christian Library Journal meetsrepparttar 128615 needs of academic librarians, but is also read by homeschooling parents, church librarians, school librarians, and public librarians. These two magazines have similar topics, but address very different needs. Be specific when statingrepparttar 128616 planned content of your article. Whenrepparttar 128617 information in your article matchesrepparttar 128618 interests ofrepparttar 128619 readers,repparttar 128620 editor will give you a “go”.

Show me...repparttar 128621 Perspective

Showrepparttar 128622 editor that you know his magazine’s perspective. This is similar to understandingrepparttar 128623 readership. Focus onrepparttar 128624 Family provides articles to help families live out their Christian faith. Many other Christian magazines publish similar articles. What makes this magazine unique is their focus on offering only this type of article. From interviews to humorous anecdotes to serious topics, Focus onrepparttar 128625 Family only publishes articles that provide distinct methods families can follow to grow closer to Christ together. Every magazine has a unique perspective and focus. Many publications place mission statements on their website onrepparttar 128626 “About Us” page. Some even include it inrepparttar 128627 writer’s guidelines. Make sure that your query reflectsrepparttar 128628 fact that your article will mesh withrepparttar 128629 editor’s goals.

Show me...repparttar 128630 Theology

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