Book Marketing Success Stories

[John Kremer]

This is a forum to allow people to showcase the things they've done that have worked well for them in marketing their books. Please share your stories here. Then we can all read them and learn from them. If we work together, we will all be much stronger and more successful in marketing our books.

[Emily Bryan]

The whole point was to give you hope! If I can do it, anyone can.

I guess MAC users have something called IMOVIE that will do the same thing as Photostory. I'm sure there are lots of fancy things that can be done, but this is an easy way to start.
Good luck!

[Theresa Chaze]

I use Windows Movie Maker. If you do it correctly you can have both voice and a music bed.

[Emily Bryan]

I bet your trailers are terrific

[Theresa Chaze]

You tell me.

[Dave Haslett]

Visually excellent, but your narration sounds a little hurried and breathless to me - as if you're nervous. My recomendation would be to try slowing down a little. You could also continue to narrate while the text is on screen at the end, as not much else is happening then and in my opinion (and it is just my opinion) it could do with livening up a little.

[Theresa Chaze]

It was my first one. I've gotten better control over the mic and my voice. The more I do the better they are--like most things in life.

[shirley dicks]

I thought it sounded all right. I had a trailer done a month or so ago and have put it on my websites, my space and utube but so far it hasn't done anything. I don't know if it's the way they did the trailer or what. It's also on this site so if anyone wants to see it and let me know what they think. I paid 150 to have it done, and can barely afford that. If it had worked, I'd of had one done for my motorcycle book, but since it hasn't , I don't think I'll waste any more money on them. Shirley

[Emily Bryan]

Do you have a link for your video? Where do you upload them?

[Theresa Chaze]

Here are the links to some of the videos I have produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RVwXT9RU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3E0NxMi-ms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPg7NkHR-mA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REDGsEif1zw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKFx3eSupfo

The last one is one I did for a client.

I have posted on YouTube, Aol, Yahoo, MySpace, Gather, my blogs, my page here, There are many places to put them, The key is to get the right SEO key words to draw traffic. I need to change mine to be more active.

[Dave Haslett]

Photostory creates a video file that is specially optimized for still photos. If you open that file in Windows Movie Maker and then resave it, it should convert it to a proper video format that YouTube will be happy with, although the size of the file grows considerably.

[Deborah Rummelhart]

Hi Emily:

Thank you for your awesome advice on book video trailers. I am just starting my internet marketing campaign, and will let you know if I find a way to get youtube to accept something.

Best wishes,

Deborah Rummelhart

[Deborah Rummelhart]

Hi Emily:

Thank you so much for this post. I have been exploring the idea of doing a book trailer, and will try out your method. If my techie husband can get it on YouTube, I will let you know.

Best wishes,

Deborah Rummelhart