Tag: #selfpublishing
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Measuring success
As authors, we need to market for ourselves. But how do you know if your marketing was successful. There are generic trends that follow every publication (not low-content books). The generic trend for fiction from debut authors is as follows We read somewhere that over 50% of marketing did not work. And after almost a…
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Face to Face selling
Authors sell books face to face because of the relationship they establish with their potential readers. Think about walking into a market and seeing someone selling soap or something similar. You think “oh that’s nice.” and then the seller engages you in conversation about almost anything and you walk out with a bar of soap.…
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Marketing Goals
Time, we all need it and as a company where we also have day jobs, time is very important. When K J started on her quest to publish, she knew nothing about marketing. If you ask her, she’ll say “I don’t know what I don’t know, but I do know, I don’t know much.” We…
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The Importance of Book Marketing
It’s been awhile – I’ve been busy. I wanted to touch on book marketing. It is a bigger topic than publishing but (depending on the stats you read), most self-published authors sell less than 100 copies of their books. 33% of self-published authors make less than $500 per year. Anyone wanting a get quick scheme…
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Using Grammar Checkers yet keeping author voice
Many people talk about using or hating to use AI (Artificial Intelligence), but have no problem using a package such as ProwritingAid or Grammarly. Both of these packages are AI-based packages, and few writers would produce something without running it through their preferred package. Sure, some people are incredibly good at grammar and great, but…