So, you’ve poured your heart, soul, and expertise into writing your business book. The launch was a success, but now what? If you think your job is done, think again! The real magic happens after the initial launch. Your business book is more than just a product; it’s a powerful tool that can continuously drive growth, establish your authority, and open doors to new opportunities long after the initial publication buzz has faded.
Imagine transforming your book into a cornerstone of your brand, a perpetual lead magnet, and a springboard for new ventures. Whether you’re looking to boost client engagement, secure speaking gigs, or create additional revenue streams, the strategies we’ll explore can help you maximise your book’s potential.
In this article, we’ll uncover practical, actionable tactics to promote your book beyond its initial launch. From leveraging digital marketing and building strategic partnerships to repackaging your content and engaging with your community, these insights will help you ensure your book remains a dynamic part of your business strategy.
Ready to turn your business book into an evergreen asset? Here are 17 ways you can promote your book beyond its initial launch:
Leveraging Your Book Within Your Business
There are several strategies to put your book to work within the inner workings of your business as both a stand-alone product and a tool to enhance your other product offerings or services.
#1: Workshops & Seminars
You can repurpose the content from your book as the foundation for an online course, in-person seminars, or one-off webinars. This not only positions you as an expert but also provides additional value to your audience. It also provides your audience with a way of engaging with you on a more personal basis.
#2: Client Engagement
You can offer your book as a complimentary gift to clients who purchase a high-value product or service from you, or use the content from your book as part of your onboarding process. This can further reinforce your expertise and enhance client relationships.
#3: Speaking Engagements
In many of my previous articles, I’ve discussed how your book can be a great tool to attract speaking opportunities. Event organisers often gravitate to speakers who are also published authors, as this not only proves their expertise but also indicates that they are trustworthy and dependable.
#4: Training Material
If the content of your book is centred around the foundations of your product or service, then you can integrate your book into your company’s training programmes – not only for your clients but for your employees as well. This ensures consistency in messaging and leverages your book’s content to educate your team.
Digital Promotion Strategies
Another way you can promote your book beyond its initial launch is through your digital promotion strategy. Your book can be a great tool to boost your digital marketing by providing you with extra content and reasons to engage with your followers.
#5: Content Marketing
You can repurpose content from your book to create blog posts, podcasts, and videos. This not only keeps the conversation going with your audience and attracts new readers, but it also ensures that your content has more chances to be seen by the people who it can help the most.
#6: Email Marketing
Developing an email series that delves deeper into the topics covered in your book is a great way to build an email list from scratch or provide additional value to an already existing email list. You can also use it to create engagement and encourage discussion if your list has started to go quiet.
#7: Social Media
Your book is an excellent source of content for your social media channels. You can regularly share excerpts, quotes, and insights from your book or showcase reviews or awards that your book has received. You can also engage with your audience by asking questions related to your book’s topics or use its content to answer questions posted in group chats and forums.
Building Partnerships
Using your book as a gateway to building strategic partnerships is another great way to promote your book beyond its initial launch. It is the perfect tool to open doors that would otherwise remain closed to you.
#8: Collaborations
Being a published author makes it much easier to form partnerships with other authors, influencers, or businesses for the purposes of cross-promotion. This can introduce your book to new audiences and help to further raise your profile and credibility.
#9: Guest Blogging
You can take these collaboration opportunities one step further by offering to write guest posts for industry blogs and publications. You can include references (and ideally links) to your book to further establish your credibility and attract interest from a wider readership base.
Utilising Reviews and Testimonials
One of the great benefits of promoting your book beyond its initial launch is that the results of that promotional work can be repurposed into additional promotional material for your book. This creates an ongoing cycle of content that helps ensure that you always have something to talk about when it comes to promoting your book.
#10: Book Reviews
Continuously seek reviews and testimonials from readers, clients, and industry experts. Share these reviews on your website and social media to further promote your book in a non-salesy way.
#11: Case Studies
You can develop case studies showing how your clients and/or readers have benefited from the insights in your book. This provides tangible proof of its value beyond you telling your audience that your book is great.
Repackaging Content
We’ve touched briefly on this method for promoting your book beyond its initial launch in the section on using your book within your business, but it’s worth exploring as its own tactic. Repurposing the content of your book is a valuable exercise because it allows you to create additional value for your audience with very minimal additional effort. You have already taken the time to gather your best material together to write your book; put it to wider use than just one purpose.
#12: E-Courses & Online Programmes
You can turn your book’s content into e-courses or online training programmes. This can add an additional revenue stream to your bottom line and provide more in-depth learning opportunities to your audience.
#13: Workbooks & Guides
You can also create supplementary workbooks or guides that complement your main book. These can be used in workshops, sold separately, or even bundled together with the book to create additional value for your readers.
Networking and Community Engagement
Creating a community around the subject of your book is a great way to not only promote your book beyond its initial launch but also further establish you as an expert in your field and position you as an ambassador on your subject.
#14: Book Clubs & Discussion Groups
You can start a book club or discussion group focusing on the subject of your book. This can create a sense of community around your book and its ideas, providing a platform for your book to have more impact on the world at large.
#15: LinkedIn Groups
You can also create or participate in LinkedIn group discussions relevant to your book’s subject. Share insights and engage with members to not only keep your book top of mind but also further establish yourself as the go-to expert on the topic.
Continuous Improvement
The great thing about books is that they are living, breathing things with the ability to evolve, change, and improve over time. Each iteration of your book presents new opportunities to revisit successful strategies from the past to promote your book beyond its initial launch and well into the future.
#16: Second Editions & Updates
You can and should plan for future editions or updates to your book. This will keep the content fresh and relevant and allow you to respond to changes within your industry or thinking.
#17: Reader Feedback
Having a strategy to release future editions or updates to your book allows you the opportunity to incorporate any reader feedback you receive from reviews and testimonials to further improve your book and its accompanying materials and marketing collateral.
Next Steps
Promoting your business book beyond its initial launch is not just an option—it’s a necessity if you want to maximise its impact. By continuously leveraging your book as a tool for engagement, growth, and authority, you can ensure that it remains a vital part of your business strategy. The strategies we’ve discussed, from digital marketing and partnerships to repackaging content and community engagement, are designed to keep your book in the spotlight and drive ongoing value.
But knowing these strategies is only the first step. The real challenge lies in implementing them effectively and consistently. As you reflect on these ideas, consider how they align with your current promotional efforts and where you might need to focus more attention.
Are you prepared to keep your book’s momentum going? Do you have a comprehensive plan in place to promote your book long after the launch? If you do, share some of your plans and/or results in the comments below.
To help you assess your readiness and identify areas for improvement, we’ve created the Business Book Readiness Scorecard. This quick quiz includes critical questions—like whether you have a plan to promote your book beyond its initial launch—that will give you a clear picture of where you stand and what steps to take next.
Take the Business Book Readiness Scorecard now and discover how prepared you are to turn your book into an evergreen asset for your business. Your journey to sustained book success starts here!
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