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    MyClipboardIsMyViolin replied to the topic Platform Building and Marketing Stuff in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 5 months ago

    Quick answers are okay, but ah, me getting stuck is getting a bit deeper than that.

    Step one. Build a large email list. Why? Because it will help you sell 1,000+ books with the click of a button. It will also give you the opportunity to…

    And how does one build this magic email list? I mean, I can sit down and crank out a website with an email signup form, but that doesn’t build anything. I can crank Twitter for followers, but I have no success at getting them to actually even view my website (s), let alone sign up for anything.

    I could list more, but the last thing you need is shiny object syndrome. If you want to do some reading by authors who are experts in this niche, I would probably recommend Tim Grahl and David Gaughran. Your first 10,000 readers, the book launch blueprint, let’s get digital (haven’t actually read that one, but I think it will be helpful for you), and Amazon decoded (check David’s website for that one).

    Thanks for this, and for responding to my thread. I’ll keep these book recommendations in mind.

    *laughs at being called an “expert,” even in quotes* Dude, I’m 100% making this up as I go. Or at least 99.99%. I have done some marketing research, and my granddad does marketing stuff professionally and recently went back to college for business and I’ve talked with him some, but mostly it’s trial-and-error. That said, I think I’m decently good (with what knowledge I have) at grasping marketing concepts, if not applying them to my own work.

    Are you looking for just site-related advice at the moment? (That’s probably where my knowledge is weakest, unfortunately. :P)

    I tagged you because I recalled that you had work published. It’s not site advice that I’m looking for as much (I [i]probably[/i] have that square, if my praise from my web design profs is anything to go by), it’s the “where are all my readers coming from” stuff that I seem to know nothing about. That and this weird place called Amazon where some authors are #1 and apparently that is a big deal in Cloud Author Land.

    By the way, if anyone wants site-related advice, I’ll be happy to answer questions about that, but that would be another thread altogether, I would think – probably similar to Daeus’ recent conundrum. In the meantime, thank you both.

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