Yesterday I read a post by Angela Ackerman entitled, 3 Ways to Use Pinterest to Promote Your Book. In it she discussed strategies to better use Pinterest that got me thinking. I thought I’d share some of my response today.
Angela’s post suggests adding visual content with quotes from your work. I envisioned this material being taken from clipped parts of a cover or related pictures from the my self-made trailer from last year. It should be rather easy to add quotes to pin. So here’s my plan of action:
1. Using Angela Ackerman’s post as a template, immediately create visual content with quotes from my book, The Black Bag. By pinning these, I have more content on Pinterest.
2. Next, I’ll link these back to other social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads and Google+. From there I’ll monitor to see what the impact is.
4. During the summer, I’ll increase my Pinterest activity with The Black Bag and What Is Needed but also prepare pins for The Bow of Destiny to make available increasingly as the launch date approaches and afterward.
5. I know several of my potential beta readers are on Pinterest so I can also ask them to re-pin my content on their boards as well as getting placed on that of the Rave Rreviews Book Club Pinterest board where I’m a VIP member. I think visual pre-advertising is important to the launch itself and this is one way of increasing my visual reach.
By the way, I’ve touted several of Angela’s books previously so definitely click the link to her author page on Amazon to see all she has to offer. She’s written some very helpful books for writers.
Reblogged this on The BiaLog and commented:
Some great advice! I really have to get into the Pinterest thing at some point. lol
Thanks for visiting, commenting and reblogging today, CP. Angela’s blog post really opened my eyes with some simple ways to leverage Pinterest.
You’re welcome. Oh yeah, I’ve been hearing a lot about Pinterest for awhile, but I haven’t done more than a couple of things there. Looks like we have some work to do. lol
Indeed, but it’s good work. I’m glad you’ve found the information helpful.
Definitely. Thanks! 🙂
I have been using pinterest heavily since last October I increased traffic to my site from 100 hits a month to 1000. It is worth the effort! Stay tuned to http://www.authorsarafhathaway.com for additional pinterest details coming soon.
Thanks for sharing your results, Sara. I’ll look you up on Pinterest and follow. I would love to see more of what you’ve done.
I finally put up a pin like this about The Black Bag today. I’ll write a follow-up regarding what I had to do to create it.