Selling your own books on your own website might be ideal for those writers out there who don’t have an agent, are capable of treating their writing as a business, are able to market their own published works and really want to keep more of the money you make for your blood, sweat and tears. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that either. You will need to acquire some skills and be extremely organized and strict in your routine until you start to really make some sales. I mean, the main point of writing a great story is to have people read it and preferably have them pay something for the privilege. We cannot all be J.K. Rowling or Stephen King but there is a way for you to get your stories read and money rolling in.
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We are assuming that you have read about how to craft your stories, checked for grammatical errors, have your writer’s group friends help you edit your story and are finally satisfied that you have a great story and are ready to publish it to the world, right? Well, even if you are in between somewhere in here the following steps can still be done ahead of time to start getting interest in you and your writing. To start off with you really want to keep your costs down as much as possible so you might want to take a weekend to set up a few things such as a website and “Public or Business” social media pages. You can create a website either using the free services like Blogger, WordPress or even Wix. These services will allow you to create a website/blog in a couple of hours, upload some pictures, get your theme and colors the way you like but you will have to use part of their domain name along with your writing name as your internet address. There are tons of videos available online that you can watch about how to set up your website on each of these services.
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If you have a little money to spend and really want to start off with your very own domain address then you will need to signup for a web hosting account and domain at one of the website provider companies like GoDaddy, or IONOS formerly known as 1and1 hosting. I have used both of these companies and been satisfied with their service and their prices for years. They offer reasonable prices for web-hosting on and unlimited number of websites on one account and domain renewals that won’t break the bank. If you are going to be selling your book from this site you will also have to purchase a SSL Certificate for your website domain. You don’t really need to know why but for most of the search engines our there this will become a major factor when it comes time for recommending your website in searches. Both of these companies provide lots of Help pages and videos you can watch to help you set up your website/blog.
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Whichever service you choose from the above you will want to take a little time and prepare your documentation, pictures, videos and public social media account information into one folder. This way everything will be at your fingertips as you are creating. You will want to write a brief biography in Notepad for your “ABOUT” page, copy and paste all the links to your social media pages, copy over pictures into a folder on the desktop and copy the link to any videos you have uploaded to YouTube about you, your writing, your book or even your process that your readers might find interesting. These will be used to fill out your website’s pages and create your first posts on your blog. Each and every business or professional website must have what’s called a “PRIVACY POLICY” page to conform with International Internet Regulations set about by the EU and a “Terms and Conditons” page if you are selling anything from there. You can find numerous examples of these pages online that you can copy and paste into a Notepad document and revise with your information where needed.
We have created a “WritersGetAWebsiteBlogTipSheet” to get you started creating your website that you can download for free, print and fill out prior to getting to work.
FYI: Just for now you might want to copy and paste all your user ids, account numbers, and passwords onto a Notepad document and save it into the picture folder on your desktop. This will help you in the coming weeks to be able to find the sign-on information quickly to make changes to the look and feel of your website and to add more pages and posts in the future.
