Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Recording Book Promotion Videos

Recoding and publishing book production videos is easy and actually a lot of fun once you get used to it!

Book promotion videos are one of the best ways to promote your self-published book.

Recoding and publishing book production videos is easy and actually a lot of fun once you get used to it!

How To Record Book Promotion Videos

If you're totally unfamiliar with recording videos, we recommend you start with Zoom.

It's free and kind of stodgy, which is perfect for beginners. You can practice as much as you want on your own, doing recordings and watching them back.

There are plenty of tutorials online on YouTube to learn the basics.

We recommend that you work recording book promotion videos into your regular schedule. Like a workout, it'll be painful at first, but after a while, it'll be quite the opposite.

Where To Publish Your Videos

You can upload and publish videos on lots of social media and similar channels, like Instagram and LinkedIn and TikTok.

We recommend you use YouTube as one of your channels. It is a bit daunting at first, but after a while you'll figure it out! Keep notes along the way and eventually it won't be a mystery.

Publishing Your Videos On Leanpub

It's easy to publish your YouTube videos on your book landing page on Leanpub:

I want to embed a video on my book’s Leanpub landing page. How can I do this? | Leanpub Help Center
Keywords: I’ve got a YouTube or Vimeo video introducing my book. What can I do with it on Leanpub?

You can also add a video on your profile page:

https://leanpub.com/account/settings

Apply For A Leanpub Launch Video

It's easy to apply for a Leanpub Launch video!

Just click the "Apply Now" button that you'll see when you publish the first version of your book.

You can also go to the current form here.

Here's a Lean Publishing Tip of the Day on this topic:

Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Applying for Launch Videos
At Leanpub, we record Launch videos with selected authors when they publish books or courses for the first time - and when they publish significant updates, too.

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