{"id":10877,"date":"2014-07-22T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2014-07-29T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T22:57:42","slug":"giveaways-fun-book-marketing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/giveaways-fun-book-marketing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Giveaways are a fun book marketing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10878\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_8414.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10878\" class=\"wp-image-10878\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_8414.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Barany, excited about her July 2014 giveaways!\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_8414.jpg 480w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_8414-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Barany, excited about her July 2014 giveaways!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s me excited about the giveaways I&#8217;m running right now! More about giveaways and how they can help you market and sell your books below.<\/p>\n<p>Here at Writer&#8217;s Fun Zone and the accompanying newsletter, <a title=\"SIGN UP TODAY for Creativity Sparks A Newsletter for Writers, about monthly Get news on Beth's upcoming classes, workshops, and talks. And receive a 5-Day Writing Motivation Mini-Course designed to get you writing now. \" href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/contact.html#newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Creativity Sparks<\/a>,\u00a0we focus on creating and publishing fiction and sharing it with the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because when we travel into a novel we can come back home to ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because novels are our gift to the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I&#8217;m passionate about helping authors bring their gifts out into the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that you write fiction to be read. I&#8217;m also guessing that you&#8217;d like to get your books into the hands of as many readers as possible, and have lots of books sales.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about giveaways &#8212; a great way to bring your audience toward you and learn about your gifts &#8212; your book(s). Will giveaways generate sales? Possibly. But there is no guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I do know is that if no one knows about you, how can they buy your book?<\/p>\n<h2>A giveaway is just as the word says &#8212; you&#8217;re giving something away.<\/h2>\n<p>Now why would you want to do that?<\/p>\n<p>Because people like to get free things and people especially love to win things!<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t you like to win things?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like giving away things that relate directly to my books. I want people I attract to stick around because they like what I have to offer &#8212; my adventurous magical romance and YA fantasy. Essentially, I&#8217;m looking for a match &#8212; for people to be happy and excited that they have found me. I want them to think, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad I found Beth Barany&#8217;s books!&#8221; Ultimately, I want them to take action, either to friend and\/or follow me and also to buy my books.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want your ideal readers to think, feel, and do when they discover you?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10946\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screenshot-2014-07-29-15.54.15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10946\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10946\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screenshot-2014-07-29-15.54.15.png\" alt=\"3 Tips on Doing Book Giveaways by Beth Barany at writersfunzone.com\" width=\"218\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screenshot-2014-07-29-15.54.15.png 218w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screenshot-2014-07-29-15.54.15-113x300.png 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 Tips on Doing Book Giveaways by Beth Barany at writersfunzone.com<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>EXAMPLES<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few of my past and current giveaways that show how I&#8217;m giving something away that relates directly to my books.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a title=\"Elemental Storytelling with a focus on HENRIETTA AND THE DRAGON STONE by Beth Barany\" href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/2014\/07\/11\/elemental-storytelling-with-a-focus-on-henrietta-and-the-dragon-stone-by-beth-barany\/\" target=\"_blank\">in a recent giveaway I just ended featuring young adult fantasy novel Henrietta and the Dragon Stone, I gave away 1 necklace and 1 bracelet that resemble the dragon stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In another example, I&#8217;m giving away 10 copies of my sweet paranormal romance novella, <em>Christmas Fling<\/em>, during the <a title=\"Christmas in July Giveaway and Blog Hop\" href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/2014\/07\/21\/christmas-in-july-giveaway-and-blog-hop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas in July Blog Hop &amp; Giveaway.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I have done so in the past, I don&#8217;t like to give away gift cards anymore, especially because I have heard from other authors that Amazon will delete a review by someone who has purchased your book with a gift card you gave them. <a title=\"Other giveaways I've done as novelist, Beth Barany\" href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/giveaways\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more examples of giveaways I&#8217;ve done.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What can you give away? And how can you do it?<\/h2>\n<p>You can give away signed print editions of your books, other people&#8217;s books related to yours, and other tchotchkes.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend using online tool, <strong>Rafflecopter.com<\/strong> as a way to run giveaways online. This tool allows you to grow your social media platform and systematizes it for you. We like that! Yah!<\/p>\n<p>Because I like trying new things, I&#8217;m also running a special giveaway for my services. <a title=\"Enter this Giveaway to win an Author Coaching session with Beth Barany\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/enter-giveaway-win-author-coaching-session\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can enter to win a one-hour coaching session with me here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also check out how I run it and adapt any of these examples for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Beth Barany on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bethbarany\" target=\"_blank\">Post your questions about doing giveaways on Facebook<\/a>. Or reply to this newsletter with your questions.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to see if you&#8217;d like to get support from me: You can also schedule a Discovery session&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>:: I currently have 10 openings for complimentary Discovery sessions with authors in August. For new clients only.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"schedule a complimentary 60-minute Discovery session with Beth Barany ($225 value) here.\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AppmtWithBeth\" target=\"_blank\">If you&#8217;re ready, schedule your Discovery Session here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking with me is a great way to clarify your goals, get motivated, and discover if you&#8217;re ready to work with me. I&#8217;m invaluable &#8212; and so are you! &#8212; but to give you some frame of reference, I value these calls at $225.<\/p>\n<p>Once you schedule your hour-long phone appointment (yes, Skype is available), then I&#8217;ll send you a short questionnaire that you need to fill out and return to me. <a title=\"schedule a complimentary 60-minute Discovery session with Beth Barany ($225 value) here.\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AppmtWithBeth\" target=\"_blank\">Schedule your Discovery Session here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Spread the Love<\/h2>\n<p>Share this post via Pinterest by pinning the below image. \u00a0It will be automagically tagged to this post. <em>Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How can you use Pinterest to market your book?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10886\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10886\" class=\"wp-image-10886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways.png\" alt=\"That's me excited about the giveaways!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways.png 800w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Thats-me-excited-about-the-giveaways-720x720.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Share me on Pinterest and Facebook! And play with your own images and text for sharing around.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me excited about the giveaways I&#8217;m running right now! More about giveaways and how they can help you market and sell your books below. 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