Promotion

As a writer, you need to know how to act and what to do in order to get more people to hear about your work and read your books. It's not enough for you to have brilliant books if no one knows about them. That means that you need to build a personal brand and become more active in showing it.

Neobook helps authors increase their recognition in the creative community and reach thousands of new readers.

Here are some tips for writer to build an audience:

• Build strong profile.

  If you want to become a popular author, make sure your profile is fully updated. Specify your real name or a pseudonym for people to recognize you. Upload a pretty profiel image of good quality. Tell more about yourself, your interests and inspiration sources. You can also leave a link to your website or social media page.

• Be active

  Reply to the comments, thank people for their nice words or support. Inspire people to talk to you. You can ask questions, ask them to leave a comment, and share their thoughts.

  Follow other authors and read their works. Write an other author's book rewiev. Most authors usually respond in kind to the interest for their work. The more attention you pay, the more attention you get back to your works and the better recognition you acquire.

• Publish contents regularly.

  Post regularly (at least 3-4 time a week). If you maintain a regular publishing schedule, your followers will know when they can expext new contents. So you will be able to get maximum response in the first hours after publication. That will help you to appear on feed more often and attract new readers.

• Specify genre and hashtags for your works.

  When specifying work category and hashtags your work will be shown to your target audience. Specify only those hashtags that are closely related to your works and can describe it. Don't use many tags in order to attract more people. It is more effective to find your target audience primarily.

• Use Neobook boosting tools

  All recomendtions listed above are quite effective but need a lot of time. On Neobook we offer some effective boosting tools to let you introduce your work to the world right now and attract more audience. You can read more about it in the next chapter.

Neobook offers a lot of opportunities for writers to expand their audience and become more recognizable. We have developed some effective promotion methods to get your work discovered by thousands of interested readers around the world.

Neobook offers the following opportunities of paid promotion (boosting):

• Post on the Main page (on web) / Main screen in the app

  Posting profile or content on the Main website page neobook.org and on the Main screen on Neobook app. This method helps to reach the maximum audience. It will suit you if your goal is to attract new followers or to boost a special work.
  After posting your profile or content will appear at the 1st place in section Boosted authors, Boosted books, Boosted poems on the Main page correspondently.
  The boosted content or profile stays in the corresponding section on the Main page as long as later works of other authors don't put it away.
  The duration depends on the activity of other authors using the promotion.

• Post on Authors page / Explore screen in the app

  This method suits perfectly to get more audience and followers.
  After posting your profile or content will appear on Authors page (on web) and Explore screen (on iOS/Android) at the 1st place in section Boosted authors.
  The boosted profile stays in the corresponding section in the Authors page as long as later works of other authors don't put it away.

• Post on pages 'Books', 'Poems', 'Blogs' / Explore screen in the app

  Do you want to share your new poem or book and get more readers discover it? Do you want to bring up an interesting topic and discuss it in the blog with other users? Then this method is for you.
  After choosing of this method your work will be posted on the page Books, Poems or Blogs according to the content type. After posting your profile or content will appear on the page Books, Poems or Blogs in section Boosted.
  The boosted content stays in the corresponding section as long as later works of other authors don't put it away.

To start boosting your profile to reach more audience:

• Go to your Profile by clicking on the icon in the top right corner of the page and by selecting in the drop-down menu My Profile (on web) or in bottom Tab Bar (in the iOS/Android app);
• Click Boost profile under followers/following counter (on web) or a blue round button with an arrow on your avatar (in the iOS/Android app);
• Select profile placement: on the Main page or on the Authors page. Learn more about placement options in the previous section;
• Opposite the option chosen click Boost, and a certain amount of NEO coins will be taken from your account, and your profile will appear in the place chosen;
• If you don't have enough NEO coins you should purchase a NEO coins package before payment. How can I purchase NEO coins?

Apart from your profile you can boost post from your blog.
To boost your post:

• Go to your Profile by clicking on the icon in the top right corner of the page and by selecting in the drop-down menu My Profile (on web) or in bottom Tab Bar (in the iOS/Android app);
• Go to the work you want to boost and click Boost publication at the bottom of the work;
• Select your work placement: on the Main page or on the Blogs page. Learn more about placement options in the section Ways to promote on Neobook;
• Opposite the option chosen click Boost, and a certain amount of NEO coins will be taken from your account, and your content will appear in the place chosen;
• If you don't have enough NEO coins you should purchase a NEO coins package before payment. How can I purchase NEO coins?

Apart from your profile you can boost your works separately. To boost your work (book or poem):

• Go to your Profile by clicking on the icon in the top right corner of the page and by selecting in the drop-down menu My Profile (on web) or in bottom Tab Bar (in the iOS/Android app);
• Go to the work you want to boost and click Boost publication at the bottom of the work;
• Select your work placement: on the Main page or on the Books page / Poems page. Learn more about placement options in the section Ways to promote on Neobook;
• Opposite the option chosen click Boost, and a certain amount of NEO coins will be taken from your account, and your work will appear in the place chosen;
• If you don't have enough NEO coins you should purchase a NEO coins package before payment. How can I purchase NEO coins?