Increase Your Revenue and Book Sales
As an author, your main focus is most likely on your book. By developing additional income streams related to your book, however, you can increase your total revenue as well as increase your book sales with the publicity created through these income streams.
Using your book as the centerpiece of your platform, consider the following:
- Seek out lucrative public speaking assignments that are often available to published authors
- Create passive streams of revenue by selling related reports, CDs, DVDs, and other products
- Host a radio, podcast, or TV talk show
- Develop subscription websites or newsletters
- Become a spokesperson
- Host teleseminars related to your book
- Teach, coach, and consult–both online and offline
This list is just a small sampling of opportunities you can pursue as an author. Get creative and start generating both active and passive income streams that boost your bottom line and promote your book.
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Use Affiliates to Increase Your Sales
If you self-published your book or sell ebooks, special reports, or digital downloads from your site, you should take advantage of the free sales force that affiliate marketing provides. By offering your affiliates a commission on every sale they make, it’s a win-win situation. They make some extra money with minimal effort and you make a sale to a customer who may never have found you without the affiliate.
Most online shopping cart service, such as PayLoadz, ClickBank, and 1ShoppingCart.com, enable you to easily set up an affiliate program. PayLoadz is the service I’m currently using and it’s very easy to implement. After you set up your affiliate program, be sure to promote it and offer ready-made sales tools for your affiliates to use.
If you’re interested in becoming an affiliate for The Web-Savvy Writer special reports, visit The Web-Savvy Writer affiliate page for more details. Of course, you can also generate affiliate income from my traditional print books by participating in the ultimate web affiliate program, Amazon Associates.
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