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Email list conundrum and 7 tips for creating your email list
For Indie Writers, marketing series

Email list conundrum and 7 tips for creating your email list

A lot of people suggest gathering emails to build your author platform. (Your author platform is yourself as a brand and your vehicle to make sales). Those of you who have been following me awhile know I think you shouldn’t bother writing a newsletter. The data hasn’t changed since I wrote that. Open rates are still abysmal, and click-through rates are downright disheartening. However, you can still collect emails without writing a newsletter. Continue reading Email list conundrum and 7 tips for creating your email list

Marketing Series: Writing to Market
For Indie Writers, marketing series

Marketing Series: Writing to Market

I hear a lot of talk amongst my indie writer friends about writing to market.

What exactly is that? It’s when you figure out the trends of what’s popular so that you can write a book that fits into those tropes and ride the popularity wave to a nice profit. I have seen cases where a writer has hit the market at the right time, perhaps even by accident, and was able to build a nice-sized audience based on the incidental popularity of their first book. From there, the writer has been able to sustain a career, and many presume it’s because they write to market. Continue reading Marketing Series: Writing to Market

Marketing series: How to Grow Your Audience
For Indie Writers, marketing series

Marketing series: How to Grow Your Audience

I gained 1400 followers in eight months. And you can too. Today, I’m explaining my process in the hope that it may help clarify the mysterious numbers game that is social media. Social media is about being social. Not just delivering information. You want followers to interact not only with you, but the information you are providing. Going into the development of my public profile, I had a few things in mind from my days in politics. Continue reading Marketing series: How to Grow Your Audience