Virtual Book Signings

Similar to Virtual Book Tours or Virtual Blog Tours (I have a previous blog about that one on this site) virtual book signings are an economical and comfortable way to sell and sign books.  You go online to your site, post the time and date you'll be online to all of those customers that bought your book through your shopping cart and have left a message stating they would like you to sign it IN FRONT OF THEM (they can always request a signed copy where you aren't online of course - more on that below) and then you pick up their book, sign it, hold it up for the customer to see that his or her name is on it and you just signed it and voila!  a successful virtual signing.  What could be easier (and cheaper).

Of course anyone who purchases your book through your website is going to want your signature on it.  As soon as you receive copies of your book from your publisher you are going to open the front cover and sign it right away with a nice little handle such as "Best Wishes" (yawn).  That way everyone gets a signed copy from you and that's good PR.  Don't forget to include your personalized bookmark that you had run up at a nearby copy store inside the book - another item you should slip inside your books as soon as you receive them.  Why, what is a personalized bookmark you might ask?  See my next blog!