Twitter Marketing Tips for Self-Publishers: How to Sell More Ebooks Using This Social Media Outlet

May 8, 2012 - PRLog -- Twitter marketing helps me to sell more ebooks online – period. The reason I say it like this is, when I first signed up to this social media site, I didn’t take it seriously – not for a couple of years. But, once I started to realize that a lot of my ebook buyers first heard of me via Twitter, I got very serious about it.
How to Use Twitter to Sell More Ebooks: 4 Quick & Easy Things Every Self-Publisher Should Do

Following is some insight into how I grew my Twitter account to over 11,000 followers (as of this writing).

1. Get Your Twitter Profile Right: Twitter marketing is just that – marketing. This means you have to tell people what you do. Your profile is where you spell this out. Currently, my Twitter profile reads as follows:

Founder of an SEO Writing Company - I Help People with Freelance Writing, EBook Development & Self Publishing - I'm a Marathon Running Junkie - I Like to Travel
As you can see, I do several things. They’re all inter-related, but are spelled out separately in my profile so that people can see exactly what it is I do. I write ebooks about “how to write ebooks, and market ebooks, and self-publish ebooks.” So, prospects who use Twitter to seek out ebook experts can easily find me – and follow me (and I can then follow them), and retweet my links, etc.

2. Learn Who to Follow on Twitter: While I follow a lot of the obvious professionals in my niche, eg, other freelance writers, I also follow some non-obvious groups. For example, I follow a lot of “mommy bloggers.” Why?

Because a lot of them may blog for a hobby or be stay-at-home moms looking to learn how to earn money online. Well, I write ebooks about how to make money online (eg, internet/affiliate marketing and freelance writing). So, a lot of those in the stay-at-home mom demographic may be interested in checking out my products once I follow them and they check out my profile to see what I’m all about.

3. Promote Your Content Religiously: I have three newsletters that I publish regularly. I also have my own article marketing directory (YuwandaBlack.com). So, I constantly use Twitter marketing to promote all new content I produce; eg, every time I write a new blog post or a new article, I tweet it.

4. Twitter Marketing Tip about How Often to Tweet Your Own Links: Piggybacking on the last point, don’t go overboard in this department. Make sure you keep the “social” in “social media.”

The way I do this is to retweet the links of others – a lot. How much? About 75-80% of my tweets are retweets. I read somewhere once that this is about the range you should keep your RT percentage in, so I’ve just kind of consciously stuck to it. I’ve also noticed that if I “self promote” more than this, I lose followers. So, keep this in mind.

If you use Twitter marketing to sell ebooks online, like any other advertising medium, you must develop a plan of how to go about it. These tips are a great start. Add the obvious – eg, follow those in your market/niche, engage with your followers consistently – and before long you’ll not only get more Twitter followers, but sell more ebooks via this social media outlet as well.

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About the Author: Yuwanda Black has been writing and selling ebooks online since 2004. She attributes article marketing with helping her to keep her ebook sales consistent. Follow Yuwanda on Twitter at Twitter.com/InkwellEditor.

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