What To Do On Book Launch Day

All right, you're almost done your book, the ink is just starting to dry on the COVID design and you're planning your launch. What do you do the very single day where your book is live for sale? I got your back on that one today. Stick around. Hey there. I'm Julie the Book Broad, Award winning author and founder of Book Launchers, a professional self publishing team that will help you write, publish and promote a business building nonfiction book. Before I share this, can I tell you about two resources we have for download if you want them? This is our seven steps to write your nonfiction book. You can get that@booklaunchers.com 7Steps this is our Book Launchers game plan. It's your guide to selling books for little to no money. Grab those because they will help you a lot. Links are in the description below because let's face it, you don't need launch day tips if you don't have a book or a marketing plan. So what does happen on your launch day? Launch day is a day for hustling and hooray. You need to let everyone know they can buy your book. You want to start asking for reviews. If you haven't been asking for them already, follow up on some of the big opportunities. You may have already started soliciting with your advanced reader copies like blog posts and media interviews. So here is a list of things to do on launch day. Announce everywhere that you have an account that it's launch day. This is the day to shout it from the rooftops. Don't be shy. This is a huge accomplishment. And by the way, you've put tens of thousands of dollars of expertise and experience into this book to help folks. So so you're helping people a lot with your book. They need to know about it. Thank your followers. Ask them to purchase the book and ask them to leave reviews. Send reminders about your live appearances or signings or whatever's going on launch day and in the following days email to your launch team specifically they should be ready to go with reviews and post them on Amazon today. Email your influencers reminding any influencers who agreed to promote to send out to their social media to their newsletter to their audience to that your book is launched. Your social media Repost any media or podcast appearances around the book with thank you to everyone who supported you so far. Also social media if you've run any giveaways or contests pre launch, you need to announce the winners today and update social media headers or your website headers to include your book image and where to buy you're also going to double check your distribution. Make sure your book is live on all distribution channels and pricing is correct on your website. Make sure links to buy on your website are correct and add Buy now buttons or copy and update any copy to state that the book is on sale and available now. Finally, post any blog content promoting your book, launch or topic. And of course, if you've booked some media appearances, show up. And you may want to check out this video on 10 tips for authors Doing Media. But first, leave a comment below on what you do on launch day and make sure you've subscribed so we can be YouTube besties like I'm Besties with Sir Raymond Luxury Yacht, Keith Wheeler Books, Mandy Lynn, Kevin McGuire, Dale Rober and you. Right. See you on the next video. Go ahead. You can click it now. You can click this one, but I also thought you might like this one. See you over there. I'm waiting.