Building Your Platform
You’ve heard the term. It’s the single biggest Must Do for authors today.
What is your platform? Just a fancy word for your community, the people who know and respect your name, your brand, your self. The larger – and more enthusiastic – your community, the more successful you are going to be as an author.
Building up your platform and cultivating it like a garden takes a lot of time. You manage to do it by working with your virtual assistant.
Producing Your Book
Setting out your ideas, your story, your instructions is just the beginning. Once your basic message is set down, it needs to be edited, proofed, illustrated, provided with a cover, formatted in any number of ways, and finally produced. All those steps between the writing and production can be more technical than you wish to deal with.
Get it done efficiently and right with your virtual assistant.
Marketing
Once your book is for sale, letting the world know that it is available is an ongoing activity. It’s a matter of establishing and maintaining your presence in a variety of environments in order to cross the maximum number of radars, and to activate conversions for the maximum number of visitors.
Let your virtual assistant show you how.
Expanding Your Reach
Your book publication is only the beginning. Re-purposing that content so that it is accessible via audio or video files, or in a course of study, or some other format will ensure that the maximum number of people are exposed to your message.
Your virtual assistant will explain your options and help you create strategies for increasing impact of your products and continuous growth of your business.
As a slightly amusing sample, I’ve provided a mock-up of an author’s website.
Every client is unique. Contact me to talk about your specific situation.
Here’s to your publishing success!
