Ep 44 Email Secrets for Indie Authors with Carla King!

The Pen to Profit Podcast: Fiction Writing Tips

Episode title: Email List Secrets for Indie Authors with Carla King!

Welcome back! Today, we're diving into the depths of authorship and self-publishing with Carla King.

Whether you're a rookie writer or a seasoned scribe, this episode packs a punch with actionable insights and expert advice to catapult your writing career to new heights.

🌟 Why You Should Care:

- Get the Inside Scoop: Learn from Carla King, a guru in self-publishing, who turns the daunting into the doable.

- Avoid Common Pitfalls: Sidestep the usual blunders most budding authors make with Carla's sage wisdom.

- Marketing Mastery: Discover innovative strategies to market your book before it even hits the shelves.

🔍 Problems We're Solving:

1. Navigating the perplexing world of self-publishing.
2. Crafting a compelling marketing strategy from day one.
3. Building and leveraging an email list to amplify your book's success.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

1. Start Marketing Early: Engage with your potential readers long before your book launch to build anticipation and create buzz.
2. ISBN Insights: Learn why snagging your own ISBN is a game-changer for tracking book sales and achieving bestseller status.
3. List Building for Authors: Carla breaks down why an email list is your most potent tool and how to cultivate one effectively.
4. Creating a 'Street Team': Utilize your email list to form a dedicated group to turbo-charge your book launch.
5. Avoid Freebie Follies: Discover why your free content needs to be more innovative than just a sample chapter to capture interest.

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🔗 Discover More:

The Free Self-Publisher’s Toolkit: free with email signup [web page]

Destination Published Author Success Program [website]

WritingGroups.com [website]: Seeking founding members and moderators now!

Carla’s website www.CarlaKing.com

Free Discovery Call with Carla [Schedule it from this web page]

Why it’s essential for authors to own your ISBNs (and not the free Amazon ISBNs) [blog post with video]

Carla’s book: The Publishing Workbook for Independent Authors: Your Step-By-Step Guide and Activity Tracker to Professional Book Publishing Marketing and Promotion [purchase on Amazon]

Free Writer’s Tech Hub, includes The Consumer’s Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers and discussion group [free membership site, registration required]

This is where you can find out things like whether to choose MailerLite or MailChimp. BookFunnel or StoryOrigin. IngramSpark or Draft2Digital.

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