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Marketing sucks
I’m a woman under the whip! Candy Korman is my mentor on this marketing learning curve, and she is [very kindly] keeping my nose to the grindstone. I’d be lost, not to mention a lot lazier, without...
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KDP free promotions
I didn’t really have a marketing plan when I published Vokhtah, and to be honest I still don’t. I know what I should be doing – blogging, tweeting etc – and I am doing my best, but I have a very low...
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Earning Your Place – reblogged from CaressingTheMuse
This post by Stephanie Allen Crist really hit the spot for me today. I’ll comment at the end. Earning Your Place Posted on April 20, 2013 by Stephanie Allen Crist “In most people’s minds, marketing is...
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Email lists – yes? no? maybe?
After reading this post on Indies Unlimited, I started wondering whether I should start using email lists myself. The first question that popped into my head though was – ‘why bother’? I already blog...
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I’ve just had a ‘duh’ moment.
You know how sometimes your left hand doesn’t seem to know what your right hand is doing? And then something happens, and you go ‘Duh, I have two hands, why don’t I use them?’ Well, I’ve just had one...
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Latest Wildstar video clip
I’ve posted about Wildstar before, but this latest video clip was so good, and so fiendishly clever, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you. Even non-gamers should appreciate the artistry, and Indie...
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3-part article on reviews and reviewers
I woke this morning to find that Indies Unlimited had posted the first part of a three-part article I recently submitted. Damned timezones! Anyway, Part two comes out tomorrow, and Part three the day...
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List of book promotion sites
Apologies to all my non writer friends. Today’s post is to share info. about this very handy list, and save it somewhere safe for my own use. Believe it or not, I’ve actually gone back to some of my...
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List of book promotion sites
Apologies to all my non writer friends. Today’s post is to share info. about this very handy list, and save it somewhere safe for my own use. Believe it or not, I’ve actually gone back to some of my...
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List of book promotion sites
Apologies to all my non writer friends. Today’s post is to share info. about this very handy list, and save it somewhere safe for my own use. Believe it or not, I’ve actually gone back to some of my...
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‘Free’ doesn’t sell books – and here’s what does — Matthew Wright
This is one of the best articles I have ever read about marketing. https://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/free-doesnt-sell-books-and-heres-what-does/ cheers MeeksFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged:...
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Weeding my #Reader list
Dear Everyone, Please don’t worry, 98% of my Reader list remains unchanged, which means that I’m still following you, still popping in whenever I can, still enjoying your content. The 2% of blogs I...
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The Innerscape Post Mortem
Apologies for the misleading title – I haven’t killed off Innerscape. The post mortem is actually about the lessons I learned while publishing Innerscape last year. You thought it all went smoothly,...
View ArticleOnline Privacy, Security and Newsletters
I’ve just come from Indies Unlimited, one of my favourite websites because of all the free information they provide to Indie authors. The article that prompted this post concerns the new EU regulations...
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I finally went and did it!
This one’s for Frank Prem who’s been hounding strenuously encouraging me to try and interest a bookshop in my books. Well, today I walked into the independent bookshop in Eltham and asked if I could...
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Blog vs newsletter
One of the Ten Commandments of marketing is ‘thou shalt have a newsletter’. The idea behind it is that people who subscribe to a newsletter automatically care about you, your product or the service you...
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Indie Book Month — Promote Your Books
I met a lot of my closest online friends via books. I’ve also read a lot of wonderful books through my friends. Here’s hoping that Charles French’s generous initiative helps us all find new books, and...
View ArticleMore Plotagon and welcome back Classic!
I can’t tell you how good it feels to see the Classic toolbar, all in one, neat place at the top of the post. It’s like the blinkers have come off! To celebrate, I’ve made a new Plotagon video starring...
View ArticleRecord Label fakes Golden Hour
I love music. I particularly love piano music, so I’ve been obsessing about a song called Golden Hour by JVKE. It’s all over Youtube, and the hype is immense, but today, I stumbled across proof that...
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