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Mark Dawson with James Blatch: Best-Selling Indie Author and Rookie Novelist team up to talk Self Publishing with key players in the industry.

Oct 27, 2017

This week’s highlights include: The basics on how BookBub ads work and how to split targeting Getting on the wait list to use BookBub ads Differences from the Facebook and AMS ads platforms The superior reporting of BookBub ads Using BookBub ads for picking up sales at vendors other than Amazon Resources mentioned in...


Oct 20, 2017

This week’s highlights include: • Using Facebook Messenger to boost launch sales • On the excellent response rate of Messenger • Calculating ROI for ads based on sell-through rates, rather than just sales of one book • Different ways to calculate read-through • Why it makes sense to run ad campaigns at a...


Oct 13, 2017

This week’s highlights include: The misconception that the first draft is the finished book The overwhelm that can occur when revising a novel, and how to tackle that Breaking the revision process into smaller chunks to deal with overwhelm On Joan’s online courses about revision and their flexibility for different...


Oct 6, 2017

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Oct 6, 2017

This week’s highlights include: The challenges Chris faced when sending ARCs to his readers How Booksprout addresses those challenges Why having advanced readers matters Price points for new authors and also those with larger review teams How Booksprout reduces follow-up time for authors Discoverability for readers...