Day 2: Setting Up a Virtual Book Tour in 5-Days Challenge
Welcome to Day 2!
I’m going to cover a lot of information today. But first, I’d like to give you an idea of where we’ve been and where we’re going …
Today I’m moving from the planning stages - Steps 1, 2 and 3 - that I discussed yesterday, into the data gathering stage. I’ll spend today and tomorrow morning on data gathering - covered in Steps 4, 5 and 6. Tomorrow afternoon - in Step 8 - I’ll introduce you to my secret technique for evaluating a blog to determine if it would be a good stop for your virtual book tour.
In the videos that follow you’ll see that after you put Steps 4, 5 and 6 into place, the data we’ll be evaluating will be delivered right to our email inbox. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
This first video covers Step 4: Listing Your Book’s Keywords and Phrases. We’re going see how to use this list in Step 5 to locate blogs that our potential readers visit or blogs that are already discussing the topic of our books.
Get out your pen and paper for notes. Here we go …
That was easy, wasn’t it?
Now let’s see how to use our list of 20 keywords and phrases.
That’s it for today.
Oh, what about Step 7? I’ll cover that tomorrow morning … it’s what you should have in your media kit.
Until then …
No day without a line.
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Further to Step 5, I would suggest creating a filter or rule in your email program that puts your Google Alerts into a separate folder(s) so they are all together when you go to analyze them.
My question with using Google Alerts to find potential blogs to host your tour, do you then build a relationship with the bloggers before asking them to host?
Good point Glenda. I’ve set up filters on all my other email accounts, I don’t know why I didn’t think of them here? They’re a big time saver.
Ideally you would build a relationship with your potential blog hosts before contacting them. It can be as simple as commenting on their blog … You always get a better response from someone who knows you. Another good point.
Thanks for your input Glenda.