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If you have any questions, just reply to your order confirmation email or contact us through the Toolkit page.

🚀 SoldByAuthor Quick Start Marketing Guide: Your First Steps to Success

How to promote your book, grow your visibility, and stay in the game — all without paid ads

✅ 1. Overview: What You’re Part Of

Welcome to SoldByAuthor.com — a platform built for indie authors by an indie author who finally had enough of overpriced “marketing packages,” 70/30 splits, and false promises.

Here, you keep 100% of your sale proceeds. You also get a full system — a real, sustainable, grassroots engine — to grow your visibility without spending hundreds on ads that rarely work.

This Quick Start Guide will walk you through how it all works — clearly and simply — so you can hit the ground running, build your audience, and grow with the movement.

🎨 2. Order Your Custom Ads

Head over to the Author Toolkit to order your first set of custom-designed ad slicks. These are made to fit every major social platform and are a one-time charge of only $5 per ad, per size — use them forever.

Each ad will include:

  • ✅ Your book cover
  • ✅ Title (and subtitle, space permitting)
  • ✅ Your referral code, when possible
"Are you an indie author too?! Want to join our awesome movement?! Use my referral number, and when you join, you’ll get one too!"

🌱 3. How Our Grassroots Marketing System Works

You’ve probably seen authors spending hundreds — sometimes thousands — on book ads with little or no return. Why? Because the math doesn’t work:

There are over 20 MILLION books for sale on Amazon US, and over 44 million worldwide.
At any given moment, 20% of those authors are paying for clicks.

That puts you in direct competition with 4 million other books.

The typical public library has maybe 120,000 books and a far better discovery system — the Dewey Decimal System — not a giant monster named Algorithm standing between you and readers.

When millions of books are screaming for attention, they can’t all win. Grassroots isn’t just a buzzword — it’s survival. And it works.

Most indie authors make $3–7 per book. That’s not marketing — that’s self-sabotage.
We built SoldByAuthor so you could stop wasting time and money.

🗓️ 4. Your Weekly Posting Plan

📆 Post once per week using your custom SBA ad.
Use the Posting Tracker Tool in your Toolkit to rotate through 50+ high-member reader and author Facebook groups — totaling millions of combined members.

The key isn’t shouting louder — it’s showing up consistently.

📣 5. Post in the SBA Facebook Group — This Is Key!

🛑 Be SURE to post your ad in the SoldByAuthor Facebook Group.

Here’s why this step changes everything:

  • Author Members are encouraged to like and share fellow members’ posts to their own feeds
  • That simple act multiplies your reach
  • If your friends and followers share it too? Now you’ve got something viral

Ask them to join the indie author movement. Every share adds momentum. Every post fuels growth.

This is how real visibility happens.

↺ 6. Use Your Referral Code — Earn Free Months

Every time an author joins SoldByAuthor using your referral number, you get one full month of membership FREE — with no cap.

  • Include your code in captions, posts, group shares, and comments
  • Drop it in your onboarding promo video