In this episode Chris and Becca tackle appropriate and budget-friendly marketing strategies for authors at various stages (or platform levels) in their author careers.
Show Notes & Links:
-Review of the platform levels for fiction and nonfiction authors.
-Introduction of the proper book marketing strategies for levels one and two fiction writers.
-When you need to start spending money on marketing
-What are the two things you need to spend money on before marketing?
-What does your skill level have to do with how you can market your books
-Why authors at all levels need to network with other authors and why you should start early in your career
-What if you're a tweener? You have skills at two different levels. How should that change what you do?
-Why appropriate marketing strategies give you more time to write.
-Link to Chris' free email marketing class (you'll have to set up a free account on Teachable to take the class: http://chris-syme.teachable.com/p/how-to-build-an-email-list-that-sells-more-books
-Link to the graphic tool on platform levels from last week's episode
-Link to vetted book marketing resource for authors
-Link to Becca's Write Better Faster class
-Last week to get Chris' new book Sell More Books With Less Social Media plus free online class for just 99 cents. Click here.
Question of the Week: Go to cksyme.com/episode31 and give us a piece of your mind on the following question: What platform level are you and which of the marketing suggestions at your level are you struggling with?