This is the show for novelists who hate marketing, but still want to become bestselling authors. Our goal is to make book promotion fun and easy for writers who would really rather be writing.
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150 – A Blueprint on How to Launch Your Book
In this episode, we talk about a new course we’ve release that will help you launch your book in a way that will rocket it to success.
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Announcement
This is our 150th episode!
Some show stats:
Novel Marketing started in October 2013.
270 Pages of Show Notes
52 hours 50 minutes of audio. (Not counting the 5 year plan course, or Patron exclusive...
149 – How To Set up Pre-Orders for Your Indie Book
In this episode, we talk about why and how to put your indie book up for pre-order. We also talk about when it would be a bad idea to put your book up for pre-order.
Lacy Williams is a bestselling author of over 30 novels, amazing entrepreneur, mom, wife, and friend, Lacy Williams. She is also the author of the The Smart Indie Series.
Questions:
Part 1: Why
Why is it a good idea to do pre-orders?
Is it ever a bad idea to do a pre-order?
How do ...
148 – How to Get Libraries to Buy Your Indie Book, with Lacy Williams
In this episode, we talk with Lacy Williams about how to get libraries all over the country to buy your indie books.
One of the best markets available to sell your novels into is one of the most overlooked: Libraries. So today we’re going to talk about how to sell your books into that market in ways that can be highly profitable for you.
And to help us with that, we have bestselling author of over 30 novels, an amazing entrepreneur, mom, wife, and friend, Lacy Williams .
Q...
147 – What We Can Learn from The Greatest Book on Marketing Ever Written
Announcements:
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146 – How to Spot a Publishing Scam
In this episode, we are going to talk about publishing scams and how to avoid them!
This episode was inspired by the Author Media blog post by Caitlin Muir.
Announcement:
We have a Facebook Group now! New location for episode discussions. You can also ask questions of the group.
What Makes Something a Scam
Over Promising, Under Delivering
Fraud
Unlawful
Unethical
Price Rarely Effects if Something is a Scam Or Not (Scribe Writing...
145 – How to Create a Reader (Lead) Magnet
In this episode, we talk about how to craft a reader magnet to get more email subscribers. A reader magnet is a prize your readers get in exchange for giving you their email. They can dramatically improve how fast your email list grows.
Back in episode 129, we talked about how Short Stories make the idea reader magnet for novelists. But we never talked about how to turn the short story into the lead magnet.
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144 – How to Build an Amazing Author Website for $423.20
The idea for this episode come from Mary Hamilton who told us about her marketing pet peeve. To quote Mary, My biggest peeve is my website. I’m not techy enough to understand how to fix any issues with it, and I hate spending the time it takes to learn it. Except for my blog, I’d rather just set it and leave it. Love your podcasts! They’ve helped me a bunch!”
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143 – Book Marketing 101: Author Advertising
In this episode, we talk about four advertising fundamentals that apply when buying ads on Facebook, Amazon, GoodReads, and more!
News
Thomas on Write From the Deep Podcast About Haters by Karen Ball and Erin Taylor Young
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142 – How to Develop Book Marketing Assets
In this episode, we talk about how to reduce book marketing liabilities and develop assets. The more assets you have, the easier books are to sell.
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Book Marketing Liability Examples
Other Priorities
Family, Netflix, job, friendships, garden … time on your Smart Phone
Fear
Debt (The more debt you are in, the harder it is to spend money to build assets)
141 – Amazon Books and the Future of Brick and Mortar Retail
In this episode, we talk about Amazon’s brick and mortar bookstores, the future of paper books, and how they affect you as an author.
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