This cheap book market tip is another cheap way for writers to market their books. By turning a PowerPoint presentation into a YouTube video, you can market online and reach more readers.
1. Go to your PowerPoint presentation to embed the .wav file. You must first adjust the size of the sound files. To do this, click the Office Button in the upper left corner of your presentation. Click PowerPoint Options. Click Advanced and scroll down to Save. Please increase the file size to 15,000 KB and click OK to close this window.
2. Click the Insert tab. Click the Sound button and select Sound from file. Navigate through the dropdown menu until you find the .wav version of your song and double click on the title. In the pop-up window, select Automatically to have your sound start in the slideshow. Your options in the menu bar will change. Under Sound Options, click Automatically and select Play Between Slides. Also check the Hide during presentation box to hide the sound icon.
At this point, you can adjust the slide transition speed and timing to fit crucial points in the song, if you like. Save the presentation, and again remember to save it as a PowerPoint presentation.
3. Send your presentation as an email attachment to yourself or someone else. If you send it to yourself, you’ll have to open the message from a different computer. This is a test to make sure the song works properly with the slideshow and everything starts automatically. If the song works, go to the next step. If not, double check the steps above to make sure you did everything correctly. Just two more steps to our cheap market – a book tip.
4. Now that you have a slideshow with music, you need to turn it into a video. I suggest creating a FREE authorSTREAM account to convert your presentation to video. There are several other options online. Also note that authorSTREAM (as well as other companies) will place a small logo in the bottom left corner of your slides. Paying a small fee of $2 to remove the logo is optional.
Once you create the account, this process is simple and self-explanatory. Your presentation must be saved as a slideshow for the video to play properly after conversion. authorSTREAM will send you an email once the process is complete.
5. While you wait, create a FREE YouTube account where you will upload your video. After you receive the email that your video is ready, log in to authorSTREAM to preview and upload it to YouTube. Sign in to your YouTube account and add SEO (search engine optimization) tags. These will be title, description and keywords. Adjust the account settings to your liking and you’re all set! Congratulations, you now have a YouTube video advertising your book.
This is a viral way of marketing a book. As I mentioned before, there are tutorials on the internet to help you. Be patient and do your research. For just 99, you’ve just created a short online commercial for your book. Success will not fall into your lap, you have to capture it. For more ways to market a book, check back soon.