Book Promotion Using Your Own Quotes

What I’ll now do is scroll through a few pages of quotes tagged as Inspiration, and I’ll pick out some other applicable tags, the green text underneath each quote, I feel are suitable for the book I want to add quotes from. It’s a good idea to stick to your book’s genre for this starting point to gather more tags.

Once you have done this, and gathered some more tags, it’s now time to add the quotes. Staying logged into your Goodreads account, again click on the Community drop-down menu, and then click Quotes. This time we’ll now click Add A Quote, and you should see this screen:

Now it’s time to start adding your quotes. Paste your first quote into the Quote box. Unless the quote is dialogue you don’t need to have it inside quotation marks, as they’ll be added for you. Now, in the Author box, type in your author name. After you do that, you’ll see the screen alters slightly with the inclusion of the Book bar, to pick which of your books the quote is taken from.

One point I’ll make here, if there are other authors with the same name as yourself, you may find their books pop up in the Book bar instead of yours. If this does happen try and add another space between your first and last name. This is a way Goodreads differentiates between authors of the same name. After doing this the list of books in the Book bar should change, and hopefully now yours will appear.

After your quote has been pasted in, your author name selected, and your book picked out, you now add your tags. There’s no need to use an actual hashtag here, just type each tag in turn, separated by a comma. Goodreads allows ten tags per quote, and I’d recommend using all ten as it will give your quote increased exposure for each tag you use.

Repeat this process for each of your quotes until they have all been added.

Now take a short break. I’m sure if you haven’t gone through this process before it may have been challenging. After that come back and we’ll discuss what’s next.

Now your quotes are added, and tags applied, the next thing you need is to get some reader likes on your quotes. Each like clicked to one of your quotes will move that quote up in prominence on the list of each of the respective tags. The more likes, the higher up it is situated. By all means you can ask friends and family to give a little helping hand with this. But for the kind of exposure you’re looking for, we’ll need a lot more than that. I will make a quick mention that BeBookSharp have promotional packages available that can help with this in a big way! So, by all means drop me a line and ask about that.

Next, we’re looking to further promote your quotes on other platforms. This will help expand your reach even more, and also, with a little luck, also lead to you getting more likes on the quotes and furthering your popularity even more. Graphical posts on social media tend to do better than text alone, so if you have experience using packages that can generate images like that, then even better. What you will find, is that when your quotes become very popular, they tend to get picked up by a variety of quote websites. This type of website will automatically convert them into ready-made graphical memes, perfect for sharing on social media, but for now you will likely have to do that yourself, or stick to text-based posts.

If you haven’t checked out the BeBookSharp guides about promotion on social media now may be a good time to do so. I won’t go into too much detail here about posting to social media, as it’s already extensively covered in a couple of our other guides.

When crafting your Quote social media posts you may want to use some of the tags from when you added your Quote to Goodreads. I would also encourage you to include the link to your quote on Goodreads as well. This will provide a handy way for readers to leave their likes where it will really help.

It was mentioned in our other social media guides about building a network of friendly authors from within your genre of writing. By establishing this you can help out your fellow author by liking and sharing their quote posts, and hopefully they will reciprocate and do the same for you too.

Don’t bombard your social media following with a constant procession of quotes, but mix it up along with other content too. You could even feature a quote of the week. Sometimes making it a quote from a friendly author, and sometimes one of your own.

Using this exact process, we’ve seen author quotes go viral accumulating millions and millions of shares online, propelling the book to new echelons of success. Popularity is key here, and don’t forget, we can offer promotional packages to help you achieve your desired level of success.

What we can also do is take the pressure out of the quote adding process, so if that was a bit much for you, we’ll be happy to take care of it for you as part of one of our promotional packages.

So don’t delay, get in touch today to find out the details of our currently available packages.

Good luck with this, and always remember to BeBookSharp.

Warmest regards,

Kathy K.

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