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:  

Arrow_blueYou'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.

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

Arrow_blueIt'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.

Arrow_bluePotential 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.

VirtualBookTourMagicSmallVirtual 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."

BarbaraTechel"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."

RogerCParker"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

What to Do After the Tour

  • Tips for expressing appreciation to hosts and wrapping up after the tour
  • Ideas for repurposing all the great content created for the tour
  • How to handle challenges in organizing your tour and dealing with hosts

"A must-have for the savvy author’s virtual bookshelf."

SueColler2"If you are an author planning your first—or fifteenth—virtual author book tour, this is an indispensable guide ensuring that your tour goes off without a hitch. Definitely a must-have for the savvy author’s virtual bookshelf."

— Sue Collier, co-author of The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, 5th Edition

"Full of specific instructions."

JanBearMarketYourBook2 "Virtual Book Tour Magic is a clearly written, no-fluff, step-by-step guide, full of specific instructions to get the results you’re looking for, from planning through execution to wrap-up and evaluation."

— Jan Bear, Market Your Book blog

Virtual Book Tour Magic is the ultimate guide to planning a successful and profitable tour!

This 73-page PDF ebook is filled with practical advice, real-life examples, how-to tips, and resources – and no fluff! You'll even get a case study written by an author who has been thrilled with the results of her two virtual book tours, along with examples from my own tours.

For a small investment of just $17, you can save hours of research and frustration and ensure a smooth running and successful tour to showcase you and your book!

"You should read this book."

Joel Frielander"I can’t believe there’s anything you would need or want to know about virtual book tours that’s not covered in this complete, easy to follow, practical guide to running your own virtual book tour."

– Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer

"Save money by doing it by yourself."

CarolynHowardJohnson"The benefits of online book tours are so much greater than authors suspect. Dana Lynn Smith will help you save money by doing it yourself."

– Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author the new edition Frugal Book Promoter, now a USA Book News award winner

Get these valuable bonuses when you order today:

1_blue Action Plan for Successful Virtual Book Tours - This handy checklist outlines each of the steps needed to plan your own successful virtual book tour. Print a copy and check off each item as you accomplish it. The checklist is in PDF format.

2_blueBook Tour Master Planning Worksheet - An essential tool for keeping track of the myriad of details in planning a virtual book tour, this worksheet includes eight different planning grids. You’ll get the worksheet in both Excel and Word format, so you can choose the format that works best for you.
 
3_blueTop 6 Ways to Get Your Articles Found and Read Online - This 13-page bonus report in PDF format outlines the best ways to get your articles discovered online and increase the odds that people will click through to read them.

"You need this book."

MaAnnaStephenson"As an author, I’ve been on virtual tours. As a marketer, I’ve worked as an intern for a tour guide. Even after being on both sides of the fence, I still learned new things in this book and will definitely apply them on my next tour. If you’re an author, you need to do a virtual tour - they work. And, you need this book, even if (maybe especially if) you plan to hire someone to run the tour for you."

— MaAnna Stephenson, owner of BlogAid.net, author of The Sage Age

"EXACTLY what I wanted."

ErinKurt"Your Virtual Book Tour Magic book was even better than I expected. The layout and step-by-step formula is EXACTLY what I wanted. Thanks so much!"

– Erin A. Kurt, author of Juggling Family Life: A Step-by-Step Guide to Stress-Free Parenting

Virtual Book Tour Magic will give you everything you need to plan your own successful virtual book tour and skyrocket your visibility.

Order now to download your ebook and bonus reports instantly!

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"The ultimate guide to a successful virtual book tour."

FionaIngram"Organization and planning are the keys to success in a virtual book tour, and this book takes the author through each vital step in the process. Virtual Book Tour Magic is the ultimate guide to a successful virtual book tour. Don’t go on tour without it!"

— Fiona Ingram, author of The Secret of the Sacred Scarab

"I was highly impressed with Virtual Book Tour Magic."

NickDaws"Following the guide's step-by-step advice should ensure you avoid the pitfalls and organize a successful, relatively stress-free, and ultimately profitable tour."

– Nick Daws, author of The 10-Day E-book and 80 other books

"Author U Recommends Virtual Book Tour Magic."

Judith-Briles"It will educate you in plain English, give you excellent “how-to” examples, and deliver step-by-step to-dos. Following Dana's advice will give you the heads-up you need to create, manage and implement a successful book blog tour. Your payoff? Book sales and decent Amazon rankings."

– Judith Briles, Author U, a community for writers and authors

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