Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Marketing Our Way on to Amazon

Amazing Attributes of Aging; Silly and Sacred Stories of Blue Garter Friends has been on the market for a year. We are continually alert to new opportunities for marketing. Creativity and connections seem to be the passwords to more exposure for us. Taking on the challenge to be recognized by the manager of Garrison Keillor's Common Good Book Store last fall, we even tried limerick writing:

There is a Common good store
That is selling good books galore,
Please take a look
At this very fine book.
We'll be happy to bring you s'more!

It worked! Over time we have become comfortable presenting the story of our book to senior citizen's, church, and womens' service clubs all coinciding with book signings. Next we were approached by an alumni association which offered to print an excerpt from our book in their publication which is due to be mailed out shortly to 90,000 readers. This week our book moved on to Amazon where it is listed with a 5 Star rating! Perhaps Oprah will be next.

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