{"id":692,"date":"2006-08-27T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T08:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/book-promotion-50-ideas-for-under-50\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:42:01","slug":"book-promotion-50-ideas-for-under-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/book-promotion-50-ideas-for-under-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Book promotion: 50 ideas for under $50"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book publicist Penny Sansevieri, never lacking for a creative ideas, wants authors to\u00a0start promoting their books even if they’re on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n

She has 50 ideas for under $50. They include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Buy your domain name as soon as you have a title for your book. You can get domain names for as little as $8.95.<\/li>\n
  2. Head on over to Blogger.com<\/a> or WordPress.com<\/a> and start your very own blog (you can add it to your website later).<\/li>\n
  3. Set up an event at your neighborhood bookstore.<\/li>\n
  4. Write a few articles on your topic and submit them to the Internet for syndication.<\/li>\n
  5. Check out your competition online and see if you can do some networking.<\/li>\n
  6. Do some radio research and pitch yourself to at least five new stations this week.<\/li>\n
  7. Ready to get some business cards? Head on over to Vistaprint.com.<\/a> The cards are free if you let them put their logo on the back.<\/li>\n
  8. Put together your marketing plan.<\/li>\n
  9. Plan a contest. Contests are a great way to promote your book.<\/li>\n
  10. Google some topic-related online groups to see if you can network with them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For the 40 other tips, email Penny at fiftythings@getresponse.com<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Book publicist Penny Sansevieri, never lacking for a creative ideas, wants authors to\u00a0start promoting their books even if they’re on a shoestring budget. She has 50 ideas for under $50. They include: Buy your domain name as soon as you have a title for your book. You can get domain names for as little as\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,43,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-book-marketing","9":"tag-publicist","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41180,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}