{"id":50,"date":"2017-01-13T16:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:46:21","slug":"life-after-kindle-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Life After Kindle Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to keep your book alive after your promotion on Kindle ends you could do quite a few thing. They all involve promotion. After all is said and done, if you don&#8217;t promote they won&#8217;t come, if they don&#8217;t come, they won&#8217;t see, if they don&#8217;t see how can they ever purchase? You have to accept the fact that you are changing your hat, so-to-speak. When you wrote your book, like I did, you were a writer. Then you changed hats the day your book launched and earned the moniker of Author. Now, you have another chapeau to wear, that of marketer.<\/p>\n<p>But what does that really mean?<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<script>\r\n\tfunction test() {\r\n\t\tvar tweetshare_url = document.getElementById('tweetshare-theme-btn').href;\r\n\t\t window.location = tweetshare_url;\r\n\t}\r\n\t<\/script>\r\n\r\n\t<div class='tweetshare-tweet1 tweetshare_tweetbox' onclick='test()' style='background:# !important;' data-value=50 data-value1=http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin.php>\r\n\t<div class='default-tweetshare-panels'>\r\n\t<div class='default-tweetshare-panels-body'>\r\n<span style='color:# !important;' class='get_text'>Do at least five things each day to keep your book in the pubic eye.<\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class='default-tweetshare-panels-footer'>\r\n\r\n    <a href='' target='_blank' style='padding-left: 15px;color:#000000;'><\/a>\r\n    \r\n    <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Do%20at%20least%20five%20things%20each%20day%20to%20keep%20your%20book%20in%20the%20pubic%20eye.&amp;via=gmarksfl&amp;related=gmarksfl&amp;url=http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/?p=50' target='_blank' id='tweetshare-theme-btn' class='' style='color:#;float:right;font-size: 18px;'><i class='fa fa-twitter'><\/i> Click To Tweet<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\n<p>Some of the things that I do\u00a0 are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Comment on blogs to create link backs<\/li>\n<li>Use Social Media to connect with potential readers<\/li>\n<li>Grow your contact list by connecting with other authors in your niche (they are potential partners, NOT competition!)<\/li>\n<li>Create and purchase ad space<\/li>\n<li>Search for podcasts that you could possibly be a guest on<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There&#8217;s five different things you could start with, but don&#8217;t limit yourself to these. There are a ton more you could benefit from sticking your toe in the proverbial water.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time, &#8220;Show you care before you share.&#8221; \u2014Ginger Marks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to keep your book alive after your promotion on Kindle ends you could do quite a few thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,17,8],"tags":[20,18,19,22,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gingermarksbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}