Sell more paperbacks at your live events with expert advice geared to help you succeed in face-to-face sales encounters.
Do you lack the confidence or the knowledge necessary to sell books at events?
Do you wonder where to even start finding conventions, seminars, conferences, and expos to sell your books at?
Have you tried this before and did not get the results you hoped for?
Christopher Schmitz sells thousands of paperbacks each year directly to avid readers and regularly teaches other authors best practices on how to do exactly the same. This number is not inflated by selling courses to other authors or with any sort of giveaway. Selling thousands of novels or nonfiction books is absolutely possible—and Schmitz regularly invites indie authors to work alongside him and learn his methods.
This book will show you how to confidently pitch your book, teach you how to narrow down the best places for you to sell at by finding your target market, and explain how to optimize your sales booth and author business for success. Additionally, you'll learn:
How link a sales dashboard to an inventory tracker and your website so you know how many books you have on hand at all timesHow to easily take credit cards and add manage sales taxManaging your live events so you earn profit instead of lossExpert sales tactics to make people excited to purchase your bookTips to immediately onboard new customers onto your newsletter and engage themStrategies to help you get hundreds of sales per live eventAnd so much more!
This book will show you the methods I use to sell thousands of paperbacks every year directly to readers at live events (mostly at conventions) and teach you how to replicate that success!
Christopher D. Schmitz is often mistaken for human and is an indie author from the fly-over states who also dabbles in game design. He has published award winning science fiction, fantasy, and humor and is a contributor to the expanded Firefly universe. He's written and freelanced for a variety out outlets, including a blog that has helped countless writers on their publishing journey. On any given weekend he can be found at pop culture and comic conventions across the USA or annoying people with his bagpipes.
