Tour Consulting

Thank you for your interest in conducting a blog tour with the Blog Tour Spot to promote your upcoming book (or other product or service). Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have and to get started. I encourage you to check out this article first, and I will often request the answers to those questions before agreeing to continue.

Most tours are between one and two weeks, although the duration can be flexible according to your needs and goals.

Here is a sampling of the services I offer. I am open to discussing your publicity needs and tailoring my work to meet them.

GENERAL SERVICES

  • Help coordinate and/or write information needed for the tour website, as well as any emails soliciting participation that will be sent by the author
  • Coordinate schedule with participants and maintain contact information
  • Create a centralized set of web pages containing all tour information
  • Provide a list to publisher of names and address for mailing books
  • Communicate with participants, sending out reminders and follow up data
  • Track and analyze data to provide meaningful statistics and metrics
  • Send periodic updates throughout the tour, including direct links to tour posts

BLOGGING COMPONENT

  • Solicit bloggers to publish posts during the tour.
  • Research blogs whose focus pertains to the subject matter of the book, if applicable
  • Coordinate any personal interview questions and replies, if desired
  • Contest and/or giveaways can be added at the expense of the prize/giveaway

FACEBOOK COMPONENT

  • Solicit Facebook participants to publish notes during the tour.
  • Request participants to update their status at least once during the week to refer to the tour, the book, or their note
  • Create flair using the Pieces of Flair application.
  • Add book to the Bag of Books application (created by Coffee Cup Communications)
  • Add the tour as an event on the Coffee Cup Communications/Blog Tour Spot Facebook page
  • Encourage participants to add the author as a friend or become a fan, if applicable

TWITTER COMPONENT

  • Solicit Twitter participants to publish tweets during the tour
  • Encourage participants to follow the author, if applicable

FLICKR COMPONENT

  • Coming Soon

Additional services, such as audio interviews, book trailers, book cover photography, and custom social media publicity activities may be negotiated, if desired.

My fee is based upon the size and type of tour you want to conduct. Generally, the price runs around $500, with additional fees for custom services. Price does not include the cost of books, postage, giveaways, or prizes.

If you are interested in participating in future blog tours, email me with your blog address and a list of what types of books you are interested in hosting. Also, be sure to check out my discount and referral programs.

Feedback from previous clients:

Working with Tina on my blog tour was an experience I wouldn’t mind repeating. She was competent, professional, organized, and right on with all her ideas. And she made sure to keep me “in the loop” the whole time. During the tour, my website and blog hits jumped significantly, I had several people email me and tell me they purchased my book as a result of the tour, and my newsletter subscriber base grew. I consider all that a successful blog tour!

~Mike Dellosso, author of The Hunted

I wouldn’t hesitate to work with Tina again on any project. She is great with organization, details and follow-up. Having a new book release and a proposal to write, it was a huge weight off my shoulders to have Tina spear-head my blog tour. She did an amazing job and took all the work and stress off of me. I’ll definitely hire her for my next blog tour.

~Sherri Sand, author of Leave it to Chance

Tina’s blog tours are fun, innovative, effective, and easy-to-implement. She has a great system in place to make a tour beneficial both to the host and the author. I always recommend Tina to my blog-tour-needy author friends.

~Mary DeMuth, author of Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture