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Welcome to the AuthorTree Services catalog. Realizing that the Internet is just one (albeit vital) component of a book’s promotional strategy, we are happy to offer you the following services to meet your total marketing needs and maximize the opportunity your AuthorTree Web site provides.
For pricing information or for questions about our services, please contact AuthorTree support.
Book Signing Kit $299.00
This kit supplies you with everything you need to prepare for a book signing or event. Book signings are an excellent way to generate instant sales and increase public awareness and visibility of your book. You will be able to make personal, face-to-face connections with your readers and positively influence the spread of knowledge about your book by word-of-mouth. By sending invitations, displaying beautiful and eye-catching posters at bookstores and distributing flyers, you will increase your chances for a successful event!
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The Book Signing Kit is a complete package of collateral material perfect for book signings or other events including 10 posters, 30 flyers and 100 postcard invitations. Featuring the front cover of your book, the 11”x 17” posters are full-color and printed on glossy, high-quality paper. Single-sheet 8.5”x 11” flyers are custom designed and feature your cover in color while providing detailed book ordering information. The custom-designed postcard invitations are 5”x 8” and feature your book’s cover in color with a glossy finish on the front. The back is printed on white cardstock and includes a self-customizable invitation template, which can facilitate more than one event or signing. Completion and delivery of the Book Signing Kit is approximately four weeks from date of purchase.
Order: call 877-775-7543, email: customersupport@authortree.com
Bookmarks (1000) $399.00
Bookmarks are the perfect marketing tool for promoting and selling your work and are the perfect accessory for any book signing or selling event. Always keep a stock conveniently nearby to pass out to friends, acquaintances and associates. Bookmarks are a great way to capture your targeted audience's attention with something they can actually use!
Printed on high-quality paper, the front side of the bookmark displays the front cover of the book in full-color with a glossy finish. The back side provides ordering information including the title, author name, ISBN, the publisher name and AuthorTree Web site address. Additionally, up to 75 words of customizable text can be arranged with the ordering information to interest and entice book buyers and readers. You can expect to receive bookmarks in about four weeks from the time of purchase. After the initial order, you can order more to be printed and delivered in about two weeks.
Business Cards (1000) $249.00
Business cards are an instant hit. A valuable and effective marketing tool, the cards can always be conveniently nearby in your wallet, in your car, at work or at home. Pass out a card to friends, acquaintances and associates. Drop a card in your outgoing mail to spread the word – you never know who will be interested in buying your book!
The front of these high-quality, 2”x 3.5” business cards features a glossy, full-color, vivid image of your front cover. The back of the card is printed on white cardstock and supplies ordering information including the title, author name, ISBN, the publisher name and AuthorTree Web site address. There is also room on the back to include up to 25 words of customizable text to describe your book. You can expect to receive business cards in about four weeks from the time of purchase. If you wish to purchase more cards in the future after your initial order is complete, print and delivery time is about two weeks.
Domain Name $99.00
A domain name makes it easy for readers to find and remember your Web page directly without searching through a Web site to find it, which can help boost sales. An excellent marketing tool, a domain name can be added to business cards, postcards, posters or any other marketing products you purchase for your book.
A domain name is a registered Web address that, when entered in a Web browser, takes Internet users directly to your AuthorTree Web site. You submit your most desired domain name choices, and we will register your top choice depending on its availability. A domain name (for example, www.example.com) should be 30 characters or less (not including “www” and “com”) and easy to remember and spell, such as your book title, author name, or some combination of both. The domain registration typically takes about 2 to 6 days to complete. The registration lasts for one year, and you can opt to renew the registration at that time.
Expanded Book Marketing $599.00
Upgrade to the ultimate promotional package with our Expanded service. Especially effective when you follow-up with the media using the contact information we provide on your media list, the Expanded Book Marketing service increases the number of review copy and interview requests from media members, which ultimately increases sales. Concise and proficient, a press release is a useful tool to help spread the word about your book. You benefit from increased media visibility from this service when the press release is distributed to 300 media organizations in focused areas of your choice across the United States. You can relax knowing that your press release was written by a professional who is familiar with the rules and styles required in today’s news world. Additionally, you can confidently approach managers of local bookstores, organization leaders, and other professionals with a press kit handy to exhibit the interesting and marketable qualities of your book.
We will e-mail you a questionnaire to help us design the materials. Once we receive it back from you, a professionally written press release will be composed by one of our in-house press release specialists and distributed to at least 300 media outlets in cities of your choice. The one-page press release will be written in AP style to meet the standards of news professionals and will announce that your book is available, plus provide details about your book and how to order a review copy. Up to 10 review copies will be available for the media with this service. You will have the opportunity to review and approve the press release before it is completed. In order to help you to follow-up with the media outlets, we supply you with a “media list,” or list of contact information. Also included in this package are 30 Press Kits, which includes a full-color flyer with a picture of your front cover and information about your book, a second full-color flyer with information about you and an optional photograph of yourself, and a copy of your press release. This entire process is typically completed within a four to six week time period.
Marketing Kit $199.00
Word-of-mouth marketing is key to generating high book sales. Every day you meet people who are potential customers and fans of your book. Whether it's passing out business cards to acquaintances or sending postcards about your book, our Marketing Kit is a great first step in any marketing campaign.
Our Marketing Kit includes essential collateral material. Each kit contains 100 custom business cards, 100 postcards and 100 bookmarks. Each component features your book's cover on the front side, printed in full-color with a glossy finish. The back-side provides ordering information plus customizable text describing your book and is printed on white, matte cardstock. You supply the 25 words of text for the 2"x 3.5" business cards, 75 words for the 2"x 8" bookmarks, and 125 words for the 4"x 6" postcards. The process of producing your Marketing Kit will take about three weeks.
Newswire Plus $750.00
Benefit from increased visibility and interest from the media! The Newswire Plus Media Blast returns quick and long-term results, since press releases can be posted on individual sites for an extended period of time determined by that site. This is an excellent service to help your book get noticed by a massive and wide-ranging media circle across the entire United States. By increasing the amount of interest and interview requests you receive, you have more chances to spread the word about your book and increase sales.
We will email you a questionnaire to help us compose a professionally written press release. Once we receive your response, we will write the press release, which will be distributed through the newswire to thousands of media outlets across the United States. Distributed through PR Newswire™, the leader in newswire services, your press release will be available to more than 17,000 forms of media including book reviewers and organizations that also belong to PR Newswire, Web sites, online databases, news sources, blogs, and well-known sites such as Google™ News and Yahoo!™ News. The press release will be written in AP style to meet the standards of news professionals and will offer valuable information including, most importantly, the announcement that your book is available, and details regarding what it’s about, how to order a free review copy and facts to pique the interests of the busy media. You will have the opportunity to review and approve the press release before it is distributed. After the press release is sent out through the newswire, you will receive via email a list of at least 10 confirmed sites that are posting your press release. A complete media list is not available due to the volume of outlets that have access to the PR Newswire, but a list of the top 100 is available for download. The entire process is typically completed within a six-week time period.
Postcards (1000) $499.00
Postcards are an excellent tool to reach out and touch potential book buyers. In today’s busy, electronic world, receiving a personalized postcard in the mail makes a huge impression. You will benefit from using postcards to announce book signings, speaking events and book fairs or to simply spread the word about your book. With the front cover, book details, description and ordering details all included, postcards are the perfect tool to publicize your book.
These full-color, 4" x 6" postcards are printed on thick, high-quality paper. The front side of the postcard displays the front cover of the book and has a glossy finish. The back side is printed on white, matte cardstock and provides ordering information including the title, author name, ISBN, the publisher name and AuthorTree Web site address. Additionally, up to 125 words of customizable text can be arranged with the ordering information to interest and entice book buyers and readers. You can expect to receive the postcards in about four weeks from the time you purchase this product. If you wish to place an order for additional materials, print and delivery time is only 2 weeks.
Posters (Minimum 15) $7.50 per copy
Perfect for advertising the release of a book, a promotional event, or just to help spread the word, your posters will feature your book’s cover front-and-center and your AuthorTree Web site address. They will also include a space for you to add event details, so that one order can be used to promote multiple events.
Once we receive your cover artwork in a high resolution digital file, we will format it in poster form. AuthorTree’s 11”x 17” posters are full-color and printed on glossy, high-quality paper. Completion and delivery of your order is approximately four weeks from date of purchase.
Basic Web Copy Editing $.02 per word/ $35 minimum charge
Your AuthorTree Web site will the first impression of you and your writing that many readers have. In order to make the best impression possible, it needs to be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. With AuthorTree’s Basic Web Copy Editing service, you can be sure that your Web content is clean, coherent, and credible.
One of AuthorTree’s skilled copyeditors will read through your Web copy line-by-line to catch and correct any errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation and basic sentence structure. Using Microsoft® Word, your copyeditor will track every change and recommendation. You will then receive a review document and have the chance to accept or reject each suggested change – so you are always in control of what is displayed on your Web site. AuthorTree’s Basic Web Copy Editing service takes about one week to complete and is a great way to ensure that your Web site has a professional presentation.
Expanded Web Copy Editing
AuthorTree’s Expanded Web Copy Editing includes all the items of Copyediting, but adds constructive commentary from the editor, and goes further into structure and flow. This editing option will also touch on Search Engine Optimization, giving advice on how to increase the marketability of your Web copy.
A professional editor will carefully edit your Web copy for grammar, spelling and punctuation errors, in addition to evaluating the text for marketing impact. Your editor will make suggestions to improve Search Engine Optimization by using keywords and commonly searched phrases related to your book’s topic. You will have the opportunity to speak with your editor to receive general comments and useful recommendations to strengthen the book for your targeted audience. Using Microsoft® Word, your copyeditor will track every change and recommendation. You will then receive a review document and have the chance to accept or reject each suggested change – so you are always in control of what is displayed on your Web site. AuthorTree’s Web Content Editing service takes about one and a half weeks to complete and is one of the most valuable investments you can make in improving your online marketing efforts.
Custom Cover Design $999.00
If you’ve got a book in the works that’s just about ready for publishing, AuthorTree offers this service to help you attain striking, unique cover art. The Custom Cover Design is our premium package to fully take advantage of our professional design studio. Not only do you receive two hours of consulting time with the designer, but you are also guaranteed up to 14 hours of time invested in the design and creation of your cover. With a wide variety of styles and mediums, you and your designer can find the perfect genre-specific look. This intensive design process will give your cover the attention it deserves to create a cover as compelling as your book.
Work one-on-one with a skilled, professional graphic designer to create a custom designed cover. Utilize up to two hours of in-depth consultation with your cover designer to decide on an attractive and creative cover design. By relying on your direction, an original design will be created utilizing graphic design, photography, graphite, ink, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, collage or other digital media. Up to 14 hours of artistic development will be committed to your cover, including a concept proof and final proof for your approval. The first proof of the cover will be ready for your review within 30 business days, and once approved, you will receive the final artwork within an additional 30 business days.
Website Subscription Content Management
Do you think that AuthorTree’s promotional Web site service is right for you, but don’t feel comfortable enough with the Web to use the site builder tool on your own? Not to worry. In order to accommodate as many authors as possible, AuthorTree offers the Web site Subscription Content Management service. Opting for this service will entitle you to a one-time walk-through to populate your site with content and get it “on its feet.” You will then have the ability to submit subsequent edits or additions to your brand new Web site directly to AuthorTree support.
Once you purchase the Web site Subscription Content Management service, you will be contacted by AuthorTree support to set up an appointment for a phone consultation. During that phone call, we will assist you in the initial setup of your Web site pages. Once it’s active, you have the choice of either making your own changes via the site builder or submitting changes directly to AuthorTree for inclusion on the Web site. These changes will be charged on a per-update basis.
Personal Media Valet $4,000
Our Personal Media Valet services will help you implement your marketing plan and increase your chances of garnering media coverage. From drafting and distributing press releases to following-up with media contacts, an AuthorTree publicity coordinator will work with you to promote your book and generate media interest. With three targeted Personal Media Valet services available, we can help you successfully launch a regional, national or targeted non-fiction marketing campaign.
How do Personal Media Valet services help promote my book?
How Does the Process Work?
AuthorTree makes effective Web sites available to authors who seek to establish a powerful marketing presence on the Internet. With the intuitive AuthorTree Admin Wizard, an author can have a professional, easy-to-use promotional Web site online in minutes. With AuthorTree, any author can harness the digital energy to market their writing.