Author Networking: How to Partner with Other Authors
One of the best long-term strategies for an author, other than building an email list, is to build relationships with other authors in your niche or genre.
With this, you can promote each other’s works, do joint email blasts, help each other in your writing craft, and keep up to date with the latest on your genre or niche.
However, building such relationships rarely happens by accident. But at the same time, you can’t force it.
So, how do authors in the digital age get noticed? How do they build meaningful relationships with other authors without coming across as fake? Well, that’s exactly what I will show you.
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How Authors Can Grow an Audience Before the Book Is Written
When I tell authors that they need to start growing their audience as soon as they start writing their book, they look at me like I’m crazy.
They often reply with, “How can I do that when I don’t even have a book?”
We often just associate marketing with selling our book. But we can’t just appear out of nowhere online and expect people to automatically buy our book. We have to introduce ourselves and lead people to know, like, and trust us and what we have to say.
Modern marketing is simply connecting with people who are interested in the same things that we are interested in. The keyword here is connection. And you don’t need a book to sell in order to do that.
When you can connect with someone as another human being who has similar interests, life experiences, struggles, and hobbies FIRST, they will be much more attentive and receptive to learning more about your book.
When you already have someone’s attention and they know, like, and trust you, your promotions will be much more productive and successful.
So how can authors do that? How can we begin to build an audience even before the book is finished? Here are seven tips to get you started.
Seven Secrets To Selling Books As Special Sales
Selling books to non-bookstore buyers — for employee perks, sales incentives, or add-on value — requires you adopt the seven “Cs” to find success.
My recent post, “The Seven Steps Of Book Sales To Non-Retail Buyers,” described how the trek to special-sales success can be long, arduous and frustrating — and profitable, as well. Through it all, a strong and determined attitude can serve as your book selling GPS on your path to success. There are several basic axioms in book marketing in general — and special sales in particular — that may have a negative impact on your attitude. If you can know in advance that these are going to occur, that negative impact may be reduced.
7 Sales Funnel Best Practices That Will Transform Your Business
Are you finding it hard to create a sales funnel that works? Don’t worry, you are not alone.
According to some sales statistics, 65% of companies do not have a defined system or funnel for generating leads, 68% are yet to identify or measure their sales funnel, and 65% find lead generation as their biggest marketing challenge.
The challenge is real, so you aren’t in this alone.
Building a sales funnel requires more work than just using a funnel template. The whole process could be overwhelming.
And that’s why it’s the biggest challenge for most companies.
However, there are companies that excel with their sales funnel. They have successfully hacked the best practices.
According to ClickFunnels, only 1% of its customers have generated over a million dollars using a single sales funnel.
They’re doing something different than the remaining 99%.
In today’s post, I’ll uncover the best sales funnel practices that you can implement right away.
But before that, let’s look at some of the reasons your business needs a sales funnel.
How To Grow Your Platform With Podcasting by Thomas Umstattd
This episode is an interview with Thomas Umstattd on how to grow your author platform with podcasting.
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Notes from this episode:
We are thrilled to have Thomas Umstattd. He has helped authors for over a decade as a literary agent, marketing director, and radio show host. He started his first podcast in 2007 and currently hosts the Novel Marketing and the Christian Publishing Show.
10 Things Authors Need For Do It Yourself Book PR
Can authors do their own publicity – and not depend on a publisher or professional publicist?
Well, it depends on the book’s content and subject matter, the author’s credentials and personality, and the goals involved, but absolutely an author can promote his or her brand and market a book.
So what does a DIY author need in order to be successful?
Embrace This Book Marketing Mindset Now
“I just want to write – -and not worry about marketing my books.”
“I have no interest in being on Twitter, but my book deserves attention.”
“I don’t enjoy public speaking. My books speak for themselves.”
“I wish the media discovered my book. It’s great.”
These are things authors have said. They love to write and are good at it. But they either don’t understand book marketing, don’t feel capable even if they are, lack the time, actually fall short on the skills to promote, or have little interest in marketing. Excuses? Reasons? Doesn’t matter. Aut5hors need to make sure their books are promoted and marketed often and well. Either they do it or outsource it. There’s not room for sitting on the sidelines and being book promotional agnostic.
The best way to market something is to do it often, which means the more you think about, discuss, and take part in marketing, the better you will be at it. You cannot just turn it on and off – marketing is something you are always doing.
How Authors Should Build A Platform
Writers must be tired of hearing they need a platform. Literary agents and publishers are quick to tell promising authors that it is not enough to pen a quality book, on a timely and interesting topic, that appeals to a large pool of people. Writers need to understand that they have to clearly show how they plan to sell a book, which will come mainly by relying on their brand or platform. They must exhibit a commitment to dedicate time, money, and energy into securing book sales.
Authors fully know they need to have higher visibility, a bigger network of connections, and third-party validation in the form of testimonials and a media resume. So how do they go about getting or building a platform?
read more http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-authors-should-build-platform.html
Authors, What Do You Want From Your Network?
Networking is one of the most important things authors can do to advance their career, grow their brand, and sell more books. Many stink at it — or simply don’t invest as much time as they should. Regardless of whether you like to network (you have to do it), the key ways to network are many, including:
Building connections on social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc.
Having visitors to your website sign up for something: free downloads, blog, newsletter, podcast, etc.
Schmoozing at in-person events and grabbing business cards
Asking your existing connections and relationships to introduce you to other people.
Have a networking mindset. Be where others are, whether online, by phone, or in person. Think always to introduce yourself – and ask people who they know and what they know. Keep notes. Never be afraid to ask for a favor or to tell people what you do, what you know or what you need.
read more http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/authors-what-do-you-want-from-your.html
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