Easy Exercise to Catapult Your Book Marketing

A Fun Starting Point to Research Your Book Idea For Successful Marketing

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Fun Exercise

I took a yoga class from a 90-something year old woman named Mary. I am not kidding when I say that Mary was one of the first students of yoga in the United States offered at what was then Philadelphia Textiles & Sciences College, now Philadelphia University.  I’ll save the story about this amazing woman for another time. For this post, I want to focus on an aspect of Mary’s class.

In Mary’s class, our Hatha Yoga practice started with some very basic moves…one of those moves was to focus on wriggling every one of the toes on both feet. Toes! No downward dog start in Mary’s class.  We started with focusing on our toes. “There 28 bones in the toes of both of your feet,” Mary would enthuse,” I want you to move each and every one of them.”

Why the toes? 

There are physical reasons and benefits to the body for moving the toes but I believe Mary starts with the toes for an additional reason.  As an audience of writers, you may have already guessed that reason.

The toes are a starting point that literally signals “working from the ground up.” 

Likewise, I want to share a book marketing exercise with you that also starts from your proverbial toes!  There will be many uses for this exercise that span the breath of what you can do with book marketing and promotion but for now I want you to ignore all that and simply start the exercise I describe. 

Take some time to have fun with this exercise instead of focusing on how you will use it or what it all means for your book marketing, ok?

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The Fun Exercise – Book Marketing Starting Point (even if you have already started book marketing)

Oh, heck.  Let’s start with wriggling your toes.  Take off those shoes and socks, if you have them on at all, and set a timer for one minute.  (Btw, a fabulous online timer site is e.ggtimer.com – It is the perfect tool to set a timer for any project)

Back to the toes. 

Sit comfortably and start moving those 28 bones.  Move them up, move them down, then wiggle them around.  You have this amazing body and the feet that carry you around all day need some stretching. Those toes serve you well day after day, hour after hour.  Give them some freedom to celebrate.

“Release the toxins!” as Mary would say.

Ok, onto the fun marketing starting point exercise. 

I want you to go to your computer and hop on Amazon.