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Yep, it’s true.
But I’m going to fix that. Here’s the story. I’ve recently become converted to the idea of self publishing as being a strategically beneficial choice. I know a lot of you others are indies or wannabe indies. Now I just happened to stumble across this book on amazon that was written by the author of another book I read on book marketing. That book was really helpful to me. This new book of her’s is on self publishing. The title is “successful self publishing”. Now here’s the super good news. This book is totally free as an ebook. Although I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, based on how helpful this author was last time, I am sure this new book will be equally good. For some reason I just went ahead and downloaded it without telling all the rest of you. If you are planing to self publish, I would highly recommend getting this.
And if you don’t have a kindle (I don’t) you can just download the kindle app for any device you have and read it there.
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Well Daeus. We forgive you.
Sounds like a really, really helpful book. Thanks for sharing! I would love to self-publish… but so many times I’ve heard that self-publishing is a no-no for an author who doesn’t already have a wide reader platform. Maybe that’s not quite as true as it sounds…
It is not at all as true as it sounds. Intact, most traditional publishers will tell you that you should still have a platform before you even publish with them. But how does one build a platform from scratch?
It’s actually surprisingly simple. While you’re at it, get that other free book on kindle, “reader magnets”. It will explain in very clear terms how to grow a huge reader platform almost entirely from scratch from scratch. All you really need is at least ten people who will review your book to get started. It works like this:
.Get your book as visible on amazon and the other book realtors as possible. (Book: Let’s get visible) Make sure that everything about your book (the cover, description, the first pages of the book that people can read on amazon, the reviews) are all professional and communicate “book worth reading”.
.Now you need to get as many people who are seeing your book as conceivably possible to buy it. How? Make it attractive and make it permafree. Permafree books sell consistently about 100x more copies than a 99 cents book.
.Now convert as many of those readers as possible into fans, people who subscribe to your news letter. (Book: reader magnets)
.Now, get as many of your readers and fans to share the book as possible. (Book: book launch blueprint)
.Next time you release a book, get as many of your subscribers to buy it as possible. (Book: book launch blueprint)So actually, while you’re at it, get three books. Let’s get visible, reader magnets, and book launch blueprint. Every dedicated writer should own those three books.
(Disclaimer: I have not red “Let’s get visible” yet, but I hope to start in a couple days. I have however read about many of its principals in other books and know that they work.)
And that is really all there is too it. There are plenty of tricks, but I’ve been reading a lot of book marketing books recently and they all add up to create this (nearly) invincible strategy. It is really excitingly simple and the statistics are highly encouraging.
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I should probably add that what converted me to the idea of self publishing is that it gives me more freedom to do what I just described. I’ll never have to worry about anybody getting in the way of this strategy because I will be the only one who has a say in it.
…plus the royalties are a lot better.
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Okay, wow, thanks for the info. So much of the research I’ve done on indie publishing has come out gloomy and negative, but maybe I just didn’t search deep enough. I’ll definitely keep those books in mind.
I’m becoming convinced that that is because most authors don’t really have a good plan and so they blame their failure on being an indie. My strategy is to hunt down successful authors, copy what they did, and then add my on twist to make it even better. I don’t really care what unsuccessful authors have to say.
I’ll try to publish a case study when I finally get publishing and am able to evaluate exactly how well this strategy works.
By the way, I you didn’t sign up for goodriter (You really really should), the guy’s having a training course on building a super ginormous and effective email list. He’ll talk about how he went from getting 800 email subscribers a year to over 800 a day!
I haven’t signed up yet, but I’m really hoping to. I’m not sure if this link will work, but check it out and watch the video if you’re interested. http://quitn6.com/email/
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All of your resources have been fantastic Daeus! I look forward to looking into this newest book you’ve suggested.
I’ve already done some self-publishing, but I haven’t yet taken it very seriously. (such as marketing and gigantic email lists, etc.) :pI think now is a good time to start!
https://rolenahatfield.com/
Thanks for posting this! I downloaded it on my sweet little Kindle (Christmas gift…yippie!!!) and have begun reading it. Awesome resource! Thanks so much! 🙂
@rolena-hatfield Go for it! No time like the present for anything. There is also no reason you couldn’t take an old book and re-boost its sales. People do that all the time.
@ivy-rose Glad you’re liking it. I am too. Did you get Reader Magnets?🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
@Daeus no, I didn’t get Reader Magnets, but I will. 🙂
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