Looking for a simple, but highly effective sales page to sell your book?
As a publisher, we’ve managed to increase our sales month after month. We are proud of this fact, and discovering an effective sales page has been one of the keys to our results. The optimized author webpage we’ve built for ourselves is now available to you!
It’s a simple, streamlined webpage that does one thing very well – sell more books. Less is more-we’ve learned this from Amazon. For years, we struggled with sites that either confused the reader, provided too much content (so they were satisfied), or simply failed to provide the right ‘buy now’ mindset.
A successful web page for an author consists of only a handful of elements. Add more than this and you’ll likely hurt your conversion. You can offer less, but you should avoid offering too much. Here’s what the page entails:
The key elements of an effective author page (click on image to see the live site)
Here are the key elements explained:
- Link to your blog or website (optional).
- About page (can also be called ‘Synopsis’ – which is a summary of your book (back of the book usually)).
- Reviews – Preferably, this will be a direct link to your reviews on Amazon.
- Excerpt – Provide a free preview of your book (you can collect email addresses here).
- Affiliates – If you offer an affiliate program, this will link to it.
- 3D thumbnail of your book, plus any headlines or taglines that serve to explain what the book will do for the reader (this is any single image you want to use, up to 745 x 273 pixels).
- Buy on Amazon button (links directly to your listing).
- Buy on Kindle button (links directly to your listing).
- Buy on nook (links directly to your listing).
- Buy on iBookstore (links directly to your listing).
- Link to your Facebook page (optional).
We can set up your domain on your server or ours. It’s built on WordPress.
In most cases, we will have you up and running within a week of receiving your artwork & links.
To get started, submit your $197 payment through the payment button below (you will be redirected through a paydotcom page to paypal):
Upon completion, you will be provided a series of short tutorials that will step you through how you can make changes to the site using the award winning simple admin back end controls within wordpress.
If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact me.