Ceez Paul is a published writer and you can find her on the Dominican Diaspora social network here
http://www.dominican-diaspora.com/profile/Caesarina
I was listening to her poem ‘I am David’ which is on Youtube
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Ceez has done an excellent job at getting herself online. Here blog is here
http://ceezpaul.wordpress.com/
and on her blog you will see that she has promoted her book on Facebook and Twitter – as well as selling the eBook version of her book through SmashWords
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93862
She is doing all she can to promote herself and with consistent effort and continually connecting to people I have no doubt she will be able to sell them. The key is to do A LOT of work at the beginning so eventually you can slow down as the book sales start to come in but I am telling you it really is A LOT of work to promote yourself online.
I know people get online and think it will be easy because there are thousands of people but there is an old advertising rule that says people need to see something seven times or more people they take action so if you think of all those thousands of people you need to try and be in their mind and eye level at least seven times – that works out to be a lot of work on promotion!
Is it worth it – of course! When you receive emails knowing people around the world are buying your book one after another. You just need to be patience.
What can help is if you give a free copy to influencial people you know and ask them to write a review on their blog. Of course there is no guarantee they will do that but if they have a lot of people reading their blog already it can make a difference.
You can also think about trying to get yourself interviewed on online radio stations. People are always looking for material and it can really make a difference.
I will be promoting my own eBook soon which will be on Amazon Kindle. I already have one on their that covers the online marketing work I do but this one will focus on the work I do helping women raise their self confidence… will talk more about that soon.
In the meantime check out Ceez’s book
What’s On Your Mind – Diary of a self-esteemed woman
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93862
If you pay using paypal it doesn’t show you that you are paying for the book as you checkout but then you get taken back to the book once you have paid.
Marcia Charles
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MaDD