Revealed - Strategy to Sell Your Book Before Its Written, by Paul Godines

Well there is one strategy that nearly guarantees your ability to receive an advance on your next manuscript, begin by building a platform. The definition is;

"A comprehensive procedure that you follow to build a network of fans, adviser's, and resources, in which you communicate with to grow in your niche."

The Platform includes, tools such as blogging, social networking, web sites, speaking, teaching, products and other means for you to use to communicate with your network. Now each builder has a unique signature to its developer, for example an aspiring writer may use twitter, face-book, blogging and tele-seminars to build theirs.

While an engineer looking to step up from self-publishing to a major publishing house may use teaching, webinars, and email as their foundation. Each person will build theirs according to their natural likes or industry standards, which ever tool or service that's used it just needs to have the ability to connect and communicate with a mass audience of consumers and advisers.

For those looking to build their platform begin by understanding that in order to communicate with your audience regularly you need to have a way to capture email addresses such as with an opt in page on your website. Next you need to choose a tool and strategy that helps you generate new members to your audience such as twitter or face-book.

Then you need to begin communicating via tele-seminars, articles, blog postings, videos etc that generates and engages your audience, over a long period of time. That latter pert of this strategy is a critical key to your success, there is no such thing as overnight success ( for the regular person).