An author’s assistant is another great niche for a virtual assistant!
Author’s assistants utilize the same virtual tools and methods but choose to focus on supporting authors in their efforts to publish a book. Writing the book is easy part; getting published and promoted is the hard part. That’s were a certified author’s assistant can come in handy.
Author’s assistants can provide the following support for authors:
- They understand the publishing process – all the steps, time, budget
- How to oversee the publishing process
- Managing a virtual team, working with other professionals, contracts
- Keeping a project on target
- Permissions – when you need them and how to get them
- Assisting with the book proposal
- Doing competitive research
- Doing audience research
- Self-publishing, step by step: including
- Getting an ISBN, bar codes, filing the copyright
- Pricing/Handling volume purchasers
- Selecting a printer
- Getting on Amazon.com
- Other products – ebooks, CDs,
- Marketing funnel/platform
- Distribution and shipping
- Executing a marketing plan and schedule marketing events
- Must have’s: web site, media kit, sales sheet
- Creating Amazon.com and other email campaigns
- Creating and expanding media and prospect lists
- Making follow-up calls
- Coordinating back of the room sales
- Coordinating book launch events around publication date
- Ecommerce (merchant accounts, shopping carts, etc.)
- Tracking publicity
Many coaches, speakers and trainer have a book in them to write but just don’t know where to start. If they can get the book written an author’s assistant can help walk them through the manuscript development through the publishing process and the promotional steps.
For more information about working with a certified author’s assistant please go to http://www.eOffice-VirtualAssist.com.
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