Need some help on marketing a self published book

You buy a portable table, a fold up chair and go to every flea market around your area. Go to your schools (the ones in your book's age range) and offer to read them a chapter or the whole book (if it's small). Go to every book fair you can afford a booth in. (Check with other self-publishers and go together to afford a booth.) You beg the book stores to take some of your books on consignment, planning to pay them a healthy portion of anything you make on each book. Most will turn you down, although they are becoming a little softer. Small bookstores are more amiable to giving you space for a book signing. Before you do the signing, make sure you have large signs made up with your book featured prominently on it and a table easle to hold it in place. Make up cards to give out. Maybe if folks don't buy now, they will buy later. Since you may be set up on the sidewalk outside the store, make sure your sign will not blow away. Be prepared to meet a lot of folks who will not look you in the eye because they don't want to buy your book, nor do they want to feel guilty for listening to your spiel and still not buying. Be prepared to sell three or four books in a day and consider that a good thing. Did you have a professional editor read it before you published? If not, be prepared to be embarrassed by the errors you did not find on your own, but every reader will. Plan to spend every moment of every day working to sell your book AND if you are really lucky, somewhere, somehow, sometime, a real publisher will see it, think it will sell under his auspices and demand to republish it under his contract. Be aware that most self-published books end up collecting dust in the writer's closet because no one can see your dream but you. Be proud that you had the stamina and guts to finish a book on your own. I personally think you are awesome. My self-published children's book moment came in 2004. I still have five books left after doing all of the above. Since then, I have had articles published in magazines and been a participant in two multi-author books. Good luck!