Reach more readers
GRIN promotes your eBook and book with a great number of marketing activities. For example, we publish your papers at Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon and thousands of book stores and online shops.
Become active yourself
On top of that you yourself can do a lot for the success of your publications. You know your subjects best and can market your papers with your specific knowledge to reach more buyers.
Especially many links to your documents and good reviews can lead to success in sales.
Here you find the most promising methods.
The social web
- Facebook is the world's largest social network. Click the "Share"-button on your texts at GRIN.com and show your publications to your friends. This can increase the search engine ranking of your texts and even more people get to see your works. The same applies for the "Twitter"-button.
- Twitter is a service to make your personal news public. You can type short messages and tell others about your texts. As you can only use 140 characters per message use our link shortener for having more space for your message: www.grin.to. This service shortens long links and forwards all users to the specified website.
- Make your texts known through websites on your subject or link and introduce them in forums. There are many specialized websites and forums on every subject. Just use them to make your texts known. You may have found a couple of fitting websites when researching for your texts.
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Submit your text to the most important social bookmarking websites: By that you can gain new visitors and attention in seconds and even improve your search engine ranking.
Social bookmarking sites are just like your browser favorites - but publicly available. You can tag your favorites with fitting keywords and other users can find and use them.
For example bookmark your text preview at GRIN.com:
http://www.grin.com/e-book/37962/hamster-test
These are the most important bookmarking sites:
www.delicious.com, www.mister-wong.de, www.google.com/bookmarks, http://bookmarks.yahoo.com, www.digg.com - Tell others about your publications on social networking websites like Linkedin or Facebook. On your personal page you can write something about your books - so your colleagues, friends and other users come to know your publications.
Homepage and blogs
Do you have a blog or a homepage? Then tell others about your publications and link to the previews at GRIN.com! With services like www.jimdo.com you can easily create your own homepage and present your publications.
Blogs are like a public diary or notebook. If you don't have an own blog you can start one at www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. Blogs are read by a great public. So the message of your book can spread swiftly!
You should submit your blog to RSS-search engines. RSS feeds are newsfeeds which you can subscribe to (e.g. in your browser): http://allrss.com/rsssearch.html
Don't forget to use our embed function: You can embed a flash preview of your document directly in your blog or website - and your visitors can read and flip the pages of your text on-site. You find the embed link on the bottom of your text preview at GRIN.
More tips
- When your friends have read your book then they should write a review of it at book shops like Amazon or comment it on GRIN.com. It can boost your sales if your text is reviewed positively.
- Order copies of your own book and send them to fitting professional journals or websites to get it reviewed there. Good press reviews can boost your sales to. You can order your own books in the GRIN login area.
- Use free press services to publish press releases about your book or e-book. This can increase your sales and attract attention for your books. Just search Google for free press services and get started!
- Try to organize readings of your books together with book stores, companies or organizations. At a reading you can introduce your writings to an interested audience and sell copies of your own book directly.