We offer 3 Virtual Book Tour packages as well as a more affordable consulting services solution
A single-day intensive stop turns your book tour into a happening! You'll spend a full day blogging and getting interviewed at 10-15 weblogs. Each of the tour stops will have a minimum traffic of 500 visitors a day. At least 2 will have a readership of more than 1,000 visitors a day. Your book reaches thousands of potential readers. You never leave your house!
Cost of the One Day Invasion includes full administrative support from engagement until tour date, full promotion at Kevinsmokler.com and full administrative support throughout your tour day. Touring author, you must have uninterrupted Internet access and be able to supply each weblog with a new copy (no ARC's please) of your book.
Cost: $1500
An intense five days of blogging, excerpting, reading and interviewing across the blogosphere. The author contributes to as many blogs as they can over three days, usually topping out at around 30. This option includes set up, full promotion at kevinsmokler.com and throughout our publicity network, maintenance and continuous tech support for the duration of the tour.
Each of the tour stops will have a minimum traffic of 500 visitors a day. At least 5 will have a readership of more than 1,000 visitors a day. The author must have uninterrupted Internet access at home and be able to supply each weblog with a new copy (no ARC's please) of your book. The author must begin engagement at least one month before tour date.
Cost: $3000
Due to our expertise in online book promotion, the VBT has been brought in as a full-service media partner. This entails continuous creating, tracking and managing continuous promotional opportunities for an author and their book and may include website creation and development, podcast implementation, collateral and event management and speaking engagements.
Engagement must begin a minimum of 6 weeks before tour date. Tours may extend up to one month. Tour includes full administrative support and after-tour reporting and analysis.
Cost: $5000
Our experience is that many authors seeking a VBT have books that are simply not a good fit for the tour. Nonetheless they want and deserve to find online publicity avenues for their book. For the price-sensitive author, we offer two options.
We can match your book with just the right blogs, billable on a per-blog basis. Cost is $75 per blog, with a minimum of 3 blogs.
For our hourly rate of $100, we can have a phone or in-person consultation with you and develop an online publicity strategy for your book. This can include marketing plans, blog introductions, website advice and referrals or simply putting our heads together and strategizing.
Both options are excellent for books that may not be a perfect match with the audience of the Virtual Book Tour and are a cost-effective solution particularly for the self-published, small press, university press or aspiring author.
For more information, please visit our consulting services page.