Boost Your Book Sales with a Virtual Book Tour!

Authors, are you looking for a way to get your book in front of a huge new audience?

Virtual book tours are a powerful way to get massive exposure for you and your book. Here are just a few of the many ways that virtual book tours benefit authors:  

You'll sell books not only during the tour, but afterward too. Most tour content stays online forever and can continue to bring website traffic and book sales long after the tour ends.

You have the chance to interact directly with readers and potential customers through blog comments, questions during interviews, and social media chats.

It's a great opportunity to develop relationships with key influencers in your field or genre. And when others host you on their blog or show, there is an implied endorsement that enhances your own author platform.

Potential book buyers following the tour can sample your work and share it with others through their social networks, multiplying your exposure.

Online author tours are sometimes called "book blog tours," but a virtual book tour can be so much more, incorporating interviews, how-to articles, social media chats, book reviews, and more. At each blog, podcast, radio show, or social media site that you visit during the tour, you and your book will be showcased to potential customers. And you'll conduct the entire tour from the comfort of home - no luggage required!

So, what's stopping you from profiting from virtual book tours?

• Are you unsure exactly how a virtual book tour works and what will be expected of you?

• Have you been too busy to do a lot of research and figure out how to plan a virtual book tour, or worse yet, learn by trial and error?

• Does it seem overwhelming to handle the details of organizing your own tour, or you just don't know where to start?

Virtual book tours are fun and rewarding, but they do require good planning and organization, along with an investment of time. The good news is that you'll save a lot of time and missteps when you have someone to guide you through each step of planning and executing your own virtual book tour. That's why I created a training program just for authors like you.

Virtual Book Tour Magic: The Secrets to Planning a Successful Book Promotion Tour

Let Virtual Book Tour Magic be your blueprint for success! Like all Savvy Book Marketer guides, this ebook is packed with practical how-to information, advice, examples, and checklists. It covers both fiction and nonfiction book tours, and includes more than 60 live hyperlinks to examples and resources. This is the most comprehensive guide you'll find for organizing your virtual book tour!

Even if you're thinking of hiring someone to organize your tour for you, read this book first to get a thorough understanding of the entire process and learn to work more effectively with your tour organizer and create terrific content for your tour. You'll even find a list of several tour organizers in the last chapter.

"I highly recommend this ebook."

"Virtual Book Tour Magic is a detailed guide that walks you step-by-step through the process of planning a virtual book tour on your own. Even the most hesitant author will find themselves feeling encouraged that they can succeed at planning and executing their own tour. I especially found the master planning worksheets of exceptional worth – they take all the guess work out of what needs to be done."

– Barbara Techel, author of Class Act, Sell More Books to Schools and Libraries Through Author Appearances 

"One of today's most powerful book marketing tactics."

"Dana Lynn Smith takes the mystery out of one of today's most powerful book marketing tactics, with a detailed step-by-step guide to successful virtual book tours. Dana's ideas, strategies, and tips replace "magic" with an orderly system that gets results."

– Roger C. Parker, Published and Profitable

Here's what you'll learn in Virtual Book Tour Magic:

• What exactly a virtual book tour is and 5 types of tours to choose from
• Why virtual book tours are a win-win-win for authors, tour hosts, and readers
• 15 ways that virtual book tours benefit authors

Steps for Planning a Successful Tour

• The exact steps that you need to plan your own successful virtual book tour
• 5 things to do before you begin planning your tour
• Tips for scheduling your tour dates
• 7 ways to get organized so things run smoothly
• Tips for sending books to your tour hosts
• Tools you'll want to put in place to measure the success of your tour

How to Research and Recruit the Very Best Tour Hosts

• 6 types of venues that are ideal for hosting virtual book tours
• 13 places to look for potential hosts (some may surprise you!)
• How to locate contact information for potential hosts
• 11 criteria to use in evaluating your potential hosts
• 5 tips for getting a high acceptance rate when you send out invitations to potential hosts

The Best Ways to Communicate Effectively with Tour Hosts

• 12 types of emails you may need to send your tour hosts
• An outline of what to say in each of these emails, to ensure a smooth running and effective tour

How to Create Killer Content for Your Tour

• 16 creative content ideas for virtual book tours
• Tips for creating terrific content that will wow your readers and hosts
• 4 things to send to tour hosts when you submit your content
• How to organize fun social media chats for your virtual book tour

Techniques for Building Buzz with Contests, Giveaways, and Special Offers

• 6 things to consider in setting up contests and giveaways
• 3 types of contests you can incorporate into your tour to build buzz
• How to avoid a potential pitfall in book giveaways (don't miss this tip!)
• 6 ideas for prizes to give away during your tour
• How to select and contact prize winners
• Tips for using special offers and discounts to motivate book buyers

How to Promote Your Virtual Book Tour

• 16 ways to promote your tour and attract tour followers
• How to create a Web page for your tour
• 3 ways to set up an RSS feed for your tour page
• 7 ways to encourage your hosts to promote the tour (this is key)
• A handy checklist for managing each day of the tour