Emphasizing the Unlimited part of Shared Visions Unlimited Publishing, I encourage and help you to publish your book in multiple formats on multiple platforms, including:
- Printed Book and eBook through Amazon and IngramSpark
Put your book out far and wide forever and possibly make some money. - FlipBook
Easy distribution and support for multimedia elements. Help people, build authority, and increase influence. - Digital Experience Edition
Secure multimedia portal for your book content and support material. Great potential for direct sales. - Audiobook
A market for those who prefer to listen. - Video Versions
Illustrated readings, training, …
Today, I suggest adding a blogging website to the mix and possibly starting by writing and publishing your book on a blogging website.
Why You Would Consider Publishing Your Book As A Website
This is for you if your reasons to write and publish a book are along these lines:
- You have joy in the creating and writing process itself.
- You have insights or stories you want to share with the world.
- You want to increase your authority and influence.
- You may want to use a book as a lead magnet for your products and services.
- You want to engage your readers with your content and get feedback to improve the print book.
- You collaborate with an editor or writing coach.
This is not for you if you are a perfectionist who
wants everything perfect before sharing.
I build high-performing and search-engine-optimized WordPress sites for marketing and various other purposes. Here is why this approach can work for your book and why I am going to use this approach for my own books:
- WordPress provides a great platform for writing and collaborating on posts and articles.
- Attention to Search Engine Optimization and submitting to Google Search Console can boost your search presence.
- The pages can have rich multimedia content and links to related resources.
- WordPress provides a good search function for the site itself. This is fabulously useful.
- The Google Translate plugin can translate the site instantly. I still think this is amazing! Check out the language selector at the bottom-right of this window.
- You can invite feedback and comments for your content as you go.
- Sharing to social media platforms is easy.
- Linking back from social media platforms and YouTube is easy.
Writing Live and Testing Content
I have a few books in mind: The First Book of Lazy, All My Relations, Adventures in Moving, and The Golden Publishing Sales Machine.
I will create a website and start writing at least one of those books live soon.
Here is the plan:
- Register a domain name with the working book title.
- Create a website with key plugins, including Yoast SEO, Google Site Kit, and Ultimate Blocks.
- Create a home page with a book description and a working outline of topics.
- Write the first chapter.
- Submit the site to Google Search Console for indexing.
- Write a chapter regularly. I will aim for at least three a week.
- Post a link to each chapter on social media.
- Consider doing a broadcast for each chapter.
I use Grammarly to keep my writing somewhat under control!
If I get readers and interest, I will combine and publish in some or all formats such as a print book, eBook, flipbook, audiobook, and Digital Experience Edition.
At the very least, I will have fun writing and publishing the chapters:-)
Want to try it for your book?
Let’s chat about the possibilities.
Greg Dixon, Chief Cheerleader
Shared Visions Unlimited Publishing