Published Author? 5 Reasons You Must Have a Website For Your Book

Written by admin on October 27, 2011

If you have a message, invested the time and effort in writing it down, gone through the pains of finding the right publisher and having it published, then you deserve to have a platform that will help you to get your message out to a world-wide audience.

Do you have a website that is dedicated to your book? Do you have an online presence that you’d like to share your message with? Do you have any online presence?

If the answer is no, then this is even more pertinent to you. In this day and age, a website is a must if you’re a published author.

1. Visibility – If you’ve been spreading the word about publishing your book to family and friends, that’s finite. It’s also a very slow way of creating a business and the old way of getting your message out there. With a website for your book, people can find you no matter where they are in the world and you will put a great foot forward.

2. Credibility – Having a website is your online storefront. If you meet someone and you don’t have a website to send them to, you may have lost someone forever. But if you have a website to tell your story or to put on a business card, you are instantly seen as someone who is taking the book business seriously.

3. Authority - Having a great looking website also builds your authority in your industry. Instead of having a book that can only be found under the millions of other books on Amazon, you will stand out from the crowd and can build the authority. Because we’re in the information age where consumers are more educated than ever in history, people need to be able to find out more about you. A website gives you a platform for your voice because ultimately, without you personally networking, your book cannot speak for itself.

4. Leverage - This is where “making money while you sleep” can literally come true for you. Because you’ll have a worldwide audience, you can be getting orders from customers halfway around the world while you’re sleeping. There is no leverage like a website to share your message worldwide 24/7.

5. Business - Being a published author is a huge feat. It puts you in a different league. Building a business around your book will do that even more and will have the potential of touching even more lives. Isn’t that one of the reasons

you wrote your book in the first place? Having a website for your book is an absolute must when it comes to building a business with your book as the platform or part of the platform.

So if you’re in the Boise area and will be attending the Idaho Book

Extravaganza October 28th-29th, 2011, then get your website started today. Meet Mia DeBolt in person and get $100 your author website.