But how do you use online video to market your book? Here are several ideas:
Book Trailer
A book trailer is like a movie trailer, but for a book. It is a commercial for the book that makes it sound so good people just want to rush out and buy a copy. Some authors do several versions in different lengths: a teaser before the book comes out and a longer one afterward.
Sample Book Trailer
Author Interviews
You can have someone interview you on video about your book. Or you can take an audio recording of an interview and turn it into a video with slides that illustrate what you’re talking about.
Sample Audio Interview Turned into a Video
Ongoing Tips
If your book is nonfiction, you can start a series of ongoing tips related to the content of your book. I’m doing that to help market my upcoming book, Public Speaking Super Powers. You can find the series here.
Sample Video Tip Based on Book Content
Video Blogging
Instead of writing about your process, why not create video entries? You can share things about your process, tips about writing … whatever you think will get people to become engaged with you and your work.
Sample Author Video Blog Entry
Be creative and then upload your videos to YouTube and Facebook and embed them on your website to help drive traffic to your website!
Thinking of self-publishing your book?
Want to make sure it gets on Amazon and the Kindle?
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