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Author Brand Strategy
Pull together the visual, written and in-person brand elements that support your brand story, the needs of your readers, and your personal objectives for your writing career.
Build your platform. Engage your fans. Sell more books.
Author Brand Strategy
It’s not enough just to be good at what you write. You need to be able to create an emotional connection with your reader – often before they’ve had a chance to read your book. How you position your work, how you distinguish yourself from others in your field or genre, as well as how all your efforts are perceived or interpreted by your readers, can be the difference between a brand that’s fab, or one that fizzles.
FREE STEP-BY-STEP ADVICE
An Essential Guide to Brand Strategy
Author Brand Strategy Scorecard
It’s hard to overstate the value of a strong author brand. Beyond its immediate impact on building a strong platform and community around your writing, strengthening your brand maximizes your reach, your engagement, and your book sales over the long run. And when your brand is cohesive and well-articulated, your marketing initiatives will be too.
Use this Author Brand Scorecard to evaluate your current author brand strategy (or lack thereof).
COURSES
Courses to Guide
You Through the Process
Define and Build your Author Brand (And Why You Need To)
Whether you’re actively building your personal brand or not, it’s happening. So, why not be deliberate in shaping the direction it takes?
Your brand doesn’t have to feel cheesy, packaged, or restrictive. In fact, if you’re purposeful in your brand planning from the beginning – even before you publish your first book – you can frame yourself and your work in a way that is satisfying to both you and your future readership.
In this online training, you’ll learn about ‘brand storytelling’, as well as two important branding fundamentals: brand identity and brand awareness.
Brand Strategy for Authors [COURSE]
Building an author brand is not about logos, colours, or fonts; it’s about influencing the perceptions of readers to make you and your writing stand out. The only way to do that successfully is by developing a brand strategy.
Effective branding is foundational to the development of your writer platform and audience-building efforts. The author who can tap into what their readers yearn for – and construct an entire experience around what they crave – is the author that earns the devoted fan base.
If you want to build brand strategies that connect with readers (and grow your author business) then this in-depth brand strategy course will show you how.
MORE ON BRAND STRATEGY
FOR AUTHORS
Additional tutorials and case studies to help you develop your author brand.
Personal Branding for Authors: What It Is And Why It’s Essential
by Kimberley Grabas
Building Your Author Brand: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make
By Kimberley Grabas
Brand Strategy for Authors: How to Truly Stand Out From the Crowd
by kimberley grabas
Build An Epic Visual Strategy for Your Author Brand
by Kimberley Grabas
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