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Tips for Writing a Best Seller Book

February 10, 2016 By Sue Fleckenstein 4 Comments

Who doesn’t want to write that book that ultimately becomes known as a Best Seller Book? We all do and what we don’t realize is that marketing your book is entirely different to the actual writing. Many authors are able to write their books and then get it published on places such as Createspace and Kindle. But they become frustrated when it doesn’t sell. If you follow the tips below you should be able to see a good increase in your sales.

Tips for Writing a Best Seller Book

1. Make sure your e-book provides a benefit. The very first step, and often the step that takes the longest is the research phase where you analyze your audience and potential book topics. In addition to your book needing to provide a benefit to your audience, a bestseller provides a benefit that is in high demand, even though sometimes people don’t know they want it until they see your book.

For example, “how to win friends and influence people,” was a bestseller because it provided a very clear benefit – the ability to be liked. Make sure your book topic provides a clear benefit to your target market.

2. Make sure it has an attention grabbing, benefit promising book title. Your book title needs to accomplish many things because it is the first thing people will look at when visiting your website or considering a purchase. Your headline needs to appeal to emotions, provide a benefit, and grab their attention. Chicken Soup for the Soul is an example of a book title that tapped into emotions and aroused enough curiosity to get people to look further into the book to see what it’s about.

3. Make sure you have credibility. Credibility can be on the back cover, on the inside flap, on the cover with your name. It’s demonstrated in many ways. For example, if you have a forward by someone highly respected in your industry, several positive reviews, or even a short bio explaining your knowledge and experience, they all lend to your credibility and help prospects make a decision to become customers.

4. Find the right promotion strategy for your audience. Simply publishing a book won’t make it sell. You have to promote it. Here are just a few ways to promote your eBook:

Reviewsbest seller book
Social networking
Advertising Methods Below:
Banner
Text
Ezine
PPC
Affiliates
Joint Venture
Word of mouth
Selling via retail sites like ClickBank, eBay and Amazon.com

All of these marketing strategies may or may not work for you. Create a plan, set goals, and test and track your tactics for success.

#5 Finally, get some press! Press publicity are one of the best ways to grow a book’s sales into bestseller status. Submit press releases to local news outlets and online. Contact the media, get interviewed and connect with people online to help you promote your book.

When it comes to making your e-book a best seller book, putting together a great package is the first step. It has to be a book people will review well, one that looks professional and keeps its promise. Once that’s accomplished, it’s up to you to get the word out about your book. Create a marketing and promotion strategy and follow it through.

For those of you who are still trying to finish your first book, you may find this guide helpful. It is full of great tips on how to get that book written and they show you how you can achieve it in as little as 7 days.

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  1. Mike Gardner is The Time Doctor says

    February 11, 2016 at 10:19 am

    Some Good tips here Sue, I also found that because my book was written to be a printed version before the kindle version was available it had a lot more credibility and i’m convinced that is what made it a best seller
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  2. Helen Lindop says

    February 11, 2016 at 6:02 am

    Great advice, Sue. I must admit I totally underestimated the amount of promotion needed to sell my book when I tried it. (That was a few years ago and I’m older and wiser now!) This list would have been really helpful at the time though.
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  3. Sara says

    February 10, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    Sue, these are great tips. I have clients who struggle with promoting their books.

    A common problem is “I’ve written my book, I post to social media, I blog every day, and post to article directories, BUT still I don’t have any sales.”

    This post will be helpful for them.
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  4. Sarah Arrow says

    February 10, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    Thanks for sharing these tips Sue, I love the one about the press. This is so often overlooked yet it can be one of the things that sells you more books!
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