Creating a Buzz For Your Book on Social Networking Sites

Social networking websites are one of the fastest growing areas on the internet (Myspace.com gets more than 220,000 new users a day!) Sites like Myspace.com, Friendster.com, Facebook.com and others are designed so people of like interests can catch up with friends, post pictures, and talk about their lives and experiences. Most people on these sites list their favorite types of music, books, food - you name it!

The explosive growth of these sites makes them a natural place for authors to create relationships with individuals already interested in the topics presented in their book. Successful book promotion on social networking sites is effective when you get people talking about your book, which is done by first cultivating a relationship with subscribers, and only then subtly pitching your book.

The pages you create on these sites can be found by people searching the internet. So a presence on one or more of these social networking sites will continue to drive potential buyers of your book to a page containing links to your book´s sales page.

Mill City Press is the only publishing company with a social network marketing expert, Karina Taylor. Karina is the author of Creating a Buzz for Your Band: How To Promote Your Music on MySpace and has helped many bands propel their cd sales and develop national fan bases, all through MySpace. Karina operates www.Online-Band-Promotion.com for Click Industries.

Not every social networking site is right for every book. As part of the free online book marketing plan Mill City provides, Karina analyzes which social networking site(s) will work best for your book.

MySpace.com Friendster.com
Facebook.com Xanga.com
360.Yahoo.com LiveJournal.com
Gather.com  

(To learn more about the specifics of each social networking site, and some of the successes our authors have had employing them, click on each site link above)

Cost: $399 for the first and/or second social networking sites you choose.
$199 each additional social networking site (after the first two)
$1499 for all seven (7) sites

What you get:

  • A custom designed and written profile created for you and your book
  • Page built with your book information
  • Links to your book´s website and/or Amazon
  • Getting hundreds of target members of each site talking about your book
  • 1 hour training session per site to teach you how to effectively communicate with the site´s user base.
  • Monthly maintenance packages available where we continue building your friends list, running promotions for your book, etc.

For more information about this service, contact Rosey Cashman at rosey@millcitypress.net  or 612-455-2294, ext. 204.