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Efficient Author Marketing: Streamlining Your Promotional Efforts

by Kimberley Grabas Leave a Comment

Welcome back to our five-part blog post series, “The Balanced Author: Nurturing Both Your Business and Your Writing”.

In Part 1, we explored the importance of prioritizing your writing in a busy schedule.

Now, in Part 2, we’ll delve into author marketing and how to efficiently manage your promotional efforts without sacrificing your precious writing time.

Tactics for Optimizing Your Marketing Efforts

Marketing your work is essential for gaining visibility and building your readership and community.

Given today’s exceedingly crowded literary landscape, where countless books compete for attention, strategic promotion of your brand and your work as an author is one of the primary ways to stand out. It involves more than just creating compelling content; it’s about ensuring that your target audience (i.e., your ideal reader) knows about it.

Marketing serves as the bridge between your creative work and potential readers.

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Filed Under: Author Business, Blog, Marketing & Promotion, Platform Building Tagged With: book promotion, content marketing, email marketing, personal branding

Master Your Marketing Without Relying on Social Media

by Kimberley Grabas

Marketing is an essential part of any business, and it is no different for authors. 

Writing a book is just the beginning of a long journey that requires detailed planning and a targeted marketing strategy to get it into the hands of readers. 

But with the challenging risk/reward ratio of social media and the somewhat unpredictable trends of both the industry and reader interests, it can be overwhelming and exhausting for authors to keep up. 

That’s why it’s essential to master your marketing without relying solely on social media or chasing fluctuating trends. 

In this article, we’ll explore some practical tips to help you create a sustainable and effective marketing plan for your author business.

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Filed Under: Author Website, Blog, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing & Promotion Tagged With: author brand, author website, content marketing, email list, paid advertising, target audience

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