Sentences with phrase «thought about their author platform»

There's always the big thoughts about author platform and branding circling my campfires.

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And then for a third thing, I think content strategy, which we kind of touched on at the very, very beginning — content strategy is something that a lot of authors don't have a lot of knowledge or experience about, but I think is really important for long - term platform building.

Penguin, thought to be the second largest trade publisher in the world, is now also one of the largest self - publishing platforms in the world: Author Solutions has published about 190,000 books by about 150,000 authors.

I think we hear too much about «platform» and «author branding».

If an agent is thinking about representing you, you'll be contacted by phone, email, or mail with questions about your book and «author platform» (informal «interview»).

Ten Marketing Questions Authors are Asking Thinking about your author «platform»?

I think authors should remember that platform building isn't about helping yourself by selling your work, but about helping others through your work.

So when an author sits down to make this difficult decision [of where to publish their book], they have to weigh the pros and cons of that decision... I think it's very disruptive to an author's career to go exclusive anywhere, because it really takes years for an author to establish a readership and platform... One of the problems with exclusivity is, it forces authors to make this artificially imposed either - or situation about their distribution.

I've been thinking over the break about some of the key things independent authors and publishers will need to do this year to take their author platforms to the next level and make more sales.

If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100 sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a large enough author platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100 sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).

I think it's helpful for authors to think about a platform not as a way to push sales of your book, but as a way to have a conversation with your readers.

So if you want to grow your author platform, if you want to expand your audience, if you want to connect with your current readers, you need to think about how you can be creating video content to include in your current book marketing mix.

-LSB-...] January 8, 2013 in Self Publishing A recent article on The Creative Penn called «Divide and Conquer: Building an Author Platform by Proxy» got me thinking about the idea of enlisting an intern, or several interns, to help with some -LSB-...]

An Author Blog is still one of the best ways to build platform By Anne R. Allen If you tell your non-writing friends you're thinking of starting an author blog, you'll probably hear some noise about how blogging is «totally over.&Author Blog is still one of the best ways to build platform By Anne R. Allen If you tell your non-writing friends you're thinking of starting an author blog, you'll probably hear some noise about how blogging is «totally over.&author blog, you'll probably hear some noise about how blogging is «totally over.»

Have you thought about your Author and Book Platforms?

Though the basic concept of all these platforms is the same, there are some key differences to consider if an author is thinking about crowdfunding.

I hope this post, which was originally written for authors and publishers, gets readers and creators thinking about the platform's potential.

Far too many authors don't start thinking about building their platforms and promoting themselves (and their books) until the day their book releases — or even months later, when they've sold nothing and are wondering why!

Your points about the diversity of platforms smart authors need echoes what Victoria is writing, and I like your point that there's a question of investment here — the technical detection systems required to prevent such a scenario from recurring require more money and I think we need to encourage the platforms to spend it.

-LSB-...] Jane Friedman: Your Homepage Is Not As Important As You Think Author platform is about more than your homepage.

Well, much in the same way the hybrid author doesn't limit herself to one sort of publishing platform or program, and thinks strategically about when and where it makes sense to publish digitally for one project, publish traditionally for another project, self - publish another project, and so on, all with the same level of professionalism and personal branding.

While many legacy publishers may not like to think about how large the self - publishing movement is (Smashwords alone, has announced that writers have self - published more than 250,000 books on its platform), it appears that making money off self - publishing authors is just fine by the traditional houses.

Nick contacted us awhile back after discovering the BW blog and asked to share some ideas and resources he thought would be helpful to indie authors confronting the digital aspects of their platform (you know, all that fun stuff we're always writing about, websites, SM, etc.)... [Read More]

Nick contacted us awhile back after discovering the BW blog and asked to share some ideas and resources he thought would be helpful to indie authors confronting the digital aspects of their platform (you know, all that fun stuff we're always writing about, websites, SM, etc.) especially their author blog.

If you are serious about your writing career, if you think in long term and you see your books and author platform as an ASSET, then choose WORDPRESS!

Authors are being encouraged to write fast, write as many books as they can, pile them up as high as possible before even thinking about doing any «platforming,» or promotion or marketing or audience - building.

Perhaps it is because of this that she has more than 650 reviews of her book posted on Amazon (a 4-1/2 star overall rating) or perhaps this success is due to our curiosity about the niche topic she so readily and easily explains with her insider knowledge, but I'd like to think that Caitlin is a perfect example of an author with an extensive author platform, established long before the launch of her book.

It's always good to be thinking about how you can strengthen your author platform as a means to sell more books, because your platform can either thrive or fail based upon how well you promote your book and market it to readers.

This book has really helped me clear my thoughts about short term marketing, long term marketing, creating an author platform (and why do you need one), using social media, making audio podcasts and videos, and finally going beyond the Author Platform towards becoming an «Author Entrepreneur,» as she procauthor platform (and why do you need one), using social media, making audio podcasts and videos, and finally going beyond the Author Platform towards becoming an «Author Entrepreneur,» as she prplatform (and why do you need one), using social media, making audio podcasts and videos, and finally going beyond the Author Platform towards becoming an «Author Entrepreneur,» as she procAuthor Platform towards becoming an «Author Entrepreneur,» as she prPlatform towards becoming an «Author Entrepreneur,» as she procAuthor Entrepreneur,» as she proclaims.

I'm thinking about pulling the plug, since I don't really want to offer book marketing services unless they will earn a return every time, and that's hardly possible without building up a long term author platform.