Building Your Author Platform: A Step-By-Step Guide

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How to Build Your Author Platform will help you learn more about finding and connecting with new readers
"The Author with the biggest email list wins!"
There’s a lot left to do after you’ve hit the publish button on your first book. You can rely completely on Amazon and the other retailers to sell your book for you, but if you do that, you’re missing out on hundreds to thousands of readers who discover authors through other channels. In this book, we’ll give you a step-by-step guide to these channels like email, social media, websites, and podcasts to help you to find and direct readers to your work. ˃˃˃ Why build a platform? When you spend time building up your reach outside of your Amazon listing pages, you can actively guide readers to your books. Amazon and the other book retailers have amazing book discoverability technology, but they're serving thousands of authors and millions of readers at once. ˃˃˃ Connecting with readers directly through your platform increases the number of eyeballs perusing your work Building a platform also helps you connect with fans and peers. A reader who loves your work and wants to follow everything you do is a fan. When you start building up more fans, they'll want to follow you and spread the word about your books on various social media channels. These channels also enable you to make contact with other authors. When you join up with your peers, opportunities open up for collaboration or the sharing of knowledge on publishing. Many authors have accelerated their success by learning from and working with other writers. ˃˃˃ Here’s what you’ll learn We'll talk about email marketing and why it's the number one part of any successful author's platform. The course includes examples about what you should send to your subscribers and how to set up a multi-part autoresponder campaign. You'll also learn the basics of social media as an author on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. We'll help you set up your accounts for success and provide you with some tips to connect with potential fans. Lastly, we'll teach you how to create a website and a podcast. Websites serve as a strong base of operations for your platform, while podcasts have become the new blog posts, helping you to connect with readers on a personal level.
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