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  • #MagicalMarketing,  Marketing

    Five MORE Ways Marketing Your Books Is Like Exploring A Jungle

    October 26, 2020

    (Last week we presented Five ways Marketing Your Books Is Like Exploring A Jungle. Here are ways 6-10!)

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    Five Ways Marketing Your Books Is Like Exploring A Jungle

    October 19, 2020

    No matter what you think about selling your book, if you are going to have readers, make any kind of money, you're going to have the face the jungle of marketing.

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    Marketing Your Book is Like Flirting, Dating and Getting Engaged

    October 12, 2020

    This post examines stuff not in your book. It is a look at the cover: the front and back of your book. It describes marketing in terms of what people see when they pick up the book or scroll through a pile of possible reads on Amazon or Goodreads. This is often your first contact with readers outside your mom and a close circle of friends.

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    How My Marketing Week Got The Yes!

    October 5, 2020

    This spring I came up with a new strategy to meet my marketing goals. None of this is rocket science and none of it guarantees success. But this strategy keeps me focused.

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    What A Hard Sell Communicates To The World

    September 14, 2020

    Through attunement, buoyancy, and clarity, we are touching on the humanity of our readers through conversations. We're seeing them as real people, not as numbers.

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    Why Is Marketing Such A Dirty Word For Writers?

    September 7, 2020

    If writers' only marketing strategy is to lambast the world with "buy this" tweets or auto DMs or any other annoying, repetitive, empty hard sell strategy -- one that ignores who their readers are as humans -- then they will be disappointed in the results.

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    Nine Things I’ve Learned About Book Marketing 

    August 31, 2020

    No one successfully markets the same way. The path is self-discovered. You can't market the way I do and expect the same results. Every marketing plan should be individualized for the author and the book.

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    How Good Marketing Is Like Good Parenting

    August 24, 2020

    The writing of the book was the pregnancy. You conceived the idea in a romantic, intimate moment. You developed it secretly in the dark. You wrote while stuffing your face with all kinds of snacks. You tried to explain your characters and your plot to others and they just didn't understand. And the length of the ms got bigger and bigger. And you wondered will I ever get this done? Will I be waiting for the arrival forever?

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    Ten Local Resources That Could Help You Sell Books

    August 3, 2020

    Selling books is hard. But assuming that your book is an excellent one, it's free of grammatical and artistic errors, it has a nice, professional cover and you've done all you can do to make it a great book then you can sell it.

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    Five More Reasons You May Hate Marketing And What You Can Do About It

    July 27, 2020

    If we are to have readers, we have to go find them, convince them that our stories are worth spending money on and do it in a somewhat civilized way.

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    Five Reasons You May Hate Marketing And What You Can Do About It

    July 20, 2020

    We'd rather not market at all. We'd rather hide behind our computer screens and only have the kinds of relationships that require us to type words.

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    How Book Marketing is Like Flirting, Dating, and Getting Engaged

    February 2, 2017

    By Rebecca Waters You’ve written a book. You may have a publisher or agent. You may have decided to publish the book yourself. Whatever path you take, there are marketing decisions you will make that will help or hinder book sales. This post examines stuff not in your book. It is a look at the cover: the front and back of your book. It describes marketing in terms of what people see when they pick up the book or scroll through a pile of possible reads on Amazon or Goodreads. This is often your first contact with readers outside your mom and a close circle of friends. Marketing is like…

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    Top 10 Ways Marketing Your Books Is Like Exploring A Jungle

    December 5, 2016

    by Katharine Grubb, 10 Minute Novelist Some authors would call marketing an adventure. Yet other authors would call marketing a long, torturous, mosquito ridden trek full of disease, peril and snakes. In some ways finding buyers for your books is easier than exploring the Amazonian jungle. If you have studied, worked, created, drafted, revised, edited and completed a novel, it’s unlikely you took the time to learn the skills to sell it. And because it seems hard, as hard as hacking your way through a rain forest, you may have a negative opinion of it. You may think that to sell, then you may have to be annoying to buyers, like…

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  • #MagicalMarketing,  Self Talk

    Top 10 Ways To Get Your Readers To Fall In Love With You

    August 8, 2016

    According to an interesting article on WikiHow, “How To Fall In Love” you can find yourself in a satisfying relationship in a few not-so-easy steps.  I’d like to suggest that authors follow their advice to be “in love” with their readers. And hopefully, readers will fall in love with them too! Boost Your Self-Esteem. For those looking for romance, this means exude confidence, know who you are, and stop comparing yourself to others. This will make you attractive to others. Writers should do the same thing. Take the time to make yourself into a good writer.  That means that you need to seek out challenging mentors and coaches that can push…

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