After yesterday’s post about why you need to write a book I’ve heard from attorneys who have written and published a book, are in the process of writing a book or are planning to write a book.
Bravo!
Your book can be one of your most valuable marketing tools, if for no other reason than it gives you the ability to tell people that you wrote a book.
Clients will be impressed. They’ll tell people that their lawyer wrote a book. Prospective clients will be more likely to choose you over the attorney who didn’t write a book.
So, yes.
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- Mention your book in your bio, About page, social media profiles, and introduction (i.e., when you are introduced as a speaker)
- Give print copies to new clients; they’ll see they made the right decision in choosing you. For extra credit, give them extra copies they can give to their friends.
- Give copies to professionals and influencers in your niche market; they’ll see you as an authority and be even more comfortable recommending and referring you to their clients and contacts
- When a prospective client wants to know why they should hire you, don’t explain, don’t try to sell them, just give them a copy of your book and let your book sell you
- Offer digital copies to people who opt-in to your email list; you’ll get more opt-ins and your opt-ins will be glad they found you
- Sell the book online and get traffic to your site; pre-sold traffic, traffic that PAID to hear what you say
- Promote the book on social and let the book promote you; you can say nice things about a book that you might not be comfortable saying about yourself
- Put the book in your “media kit” and get interviewed on podcasts, video channels, radio and TV shows, blogs, and to get booked as a speaker at local events
You can do all that, and more, even if your book isn’t a best seller. Â
Now, if you read yesterday’s post and haven’t started writing a book, or planned to do so, I’ll just say, do it. No really, just do it.
Imagine your name on the cover of your new book. Imagine your mom telling her friends. “Oh, your son’s a lawyer? That’s nice. Did he write a book? Mine did.”
And, if you have written a book, it’s time to write another one. Because being an author is great but being the author of two (or more) books in your field is even better.
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