Today I want to talk to you about how to make money with affiliate book sales (without doing a review).   Before I begin, let me tell you my little secret… I (Becky) really dislike doing reviews.  I guess it is because so many reviews are sponsored, so I have a hard time not feeling like I am trying to sell something to my readers.

If I have one that is really what I believe in, it would be easy to promote it, but it might be hard to get readers to read it.  (I don’t find that readers come for a straight-out review, compared to finding fun ways to include the product.)

Here are a few ways to ‘sell’ a book without coming off like you are ‘selling’ a book.

1- Include it at the bottom of a post.  I do this a lot!  Paula does this a lot, too!
Here is an example on my page:  Cleaning the house in a hurry! 
And an example on Paula’s page: Potty Training {Without Stress}

2– Include it as a “roundup” type of post.   In this post, I talk about how to stop sibling rivalry, but I am including a book that touches on the subject (ps- this is the best book I’ve read on the matter!).  Here is an example included in that post: http://www.yourmodernfamily.com/the-sibling-rivalry/

3.   Social Media- 
This is the easiest way to share a book!   You can pin it (I have a friend that pinned my book and she sells about $40 a month from that one pin, which is really $80 because I give my affiliates 50% of my personal books!)      Just edit the source of the picture on Pinterest to include YOUR affiliate link.
You can share it on Facebook.   One blogger shared my Potty Train book on their Facebook page and sold $800 in two days (again- this is really $1600 in book sales, then split 50/50).

Using my book as an example, it is best to give it a little “flair”, so I might say (on Facebook) :  “I LOVE this approach!    I trained our kids this way and it totally works!”

Or even “Wow!  I didn’t use this approach with my kids, but I think it would be great if you were trying to potty train quickly.  Check it out!”  (this is sort of what Paula did in her post that I mentioned above).

Speaking of books, here is one that would be especially helpful if you want to have the very best blog, no matter what your goals are… 

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