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6 Ways to Find Sponsors, Build Corporate Partners, and Engage Champions for Your Book

6 Ways to Find Sponsors, Build Corporate Partners, and Engage Champions for Your Book

6 Ways to Find Sponsors, Build Corporate Partners, and Engage Champions for Your Book

What if you could find sponsors and have other businesses pay for your book tour?

What if local businesses purchased your books in bulk for their clients to hand out at events or to gift to charitable organizations and people in need?

What if your book tour didn’t cost you more than the price of a grande latte?

One of the things we LOVE talking about is building a circle of corporate champions, partners, and sponsors… 

Professional speaker, bestselling author, and collaboration expert, Charmaine Hammond, has had books be optioned for movie rights, has presented to more than 400,000 people around the world, and has helped authors around the globe make their book a business.

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Turning Your Book into a Business: Systems, Mistakes, and Solutions

Turning Your Book into a Business: Systems, Mistakes, and Solutions

Turning Your Book into a Business: Systems, Mistakes, and Solutions

The fundamentals of turning your book into a business largely stem from systematizing everything you do, paying attention to what doesn’t work, and making long-term plans that will keep your marketing efforts always in gear. 

In this feature, we take a quick look at how these three elements can help make your book a success.

Repeat After Me… Systematize!

Whether you’re in book launch or long-term book marketing mode, if you develop templates and protocols that you can use repeatedly, your successes will not only come easier with time but with better results as you narrow your focus on what’s efficient and effective for your topic and audience. 

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Authors Raising Their Dreams By Selling More Books

Authors Raising Their Dreams By Selling More Books

Authors Raising Their Dreams By Selling More Books

Writing a book is a dream for so many people; however, the majority of people do not raise that dream.

If you have, congratulations!

How many books do you think the average author sells?

It always saddens me when I hear the statistics on book sales for authors. Publishers Weekly recently stated that the average author will sell 3,000 books in a lifetime, and in their first year, that is only about 250-300 books!  YIKES!

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