The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 22 Results Same old success, as usual. People still coming in and leaving, overall improving trends on subscribers. More improvements as the tests continue... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 16478 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 4886 – paid – 0 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 352, MailChimp: 3, Total – … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 21 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 21 Results Still regular. People coming in and leaving, overall improving trends on subscribers. Some breakthroughs this week... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 18055 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 4124 – paid – 1657 Subscribers Mailerlite: 154, MailChimp: 1, Total – 155 Instafreebie – … [Read more...]
Email Marketing: Giving Away Free Books, Opt-in’s, and GDPR.
Email Marketing: Giving Away Free Books, Opt-in's, and GDPR. Why This Came Up Yesterday I was reminded how the GDPR deadline was coming up. And Instafreebie was not going to recommend any giveaway or book on their web sight that was still "mandatory opt-in" in order to download a free book. Frankly, this was a no-brainer to me, as I explain below. I then communicated this … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 20 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 20 Results Regular progress. Things getting down to a dull roar of regular subscribers - and, hopefully, regular sales. Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 7121 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 5952 – paid – 15764 Subscribers Mailerlite: 166, MailChimp: 1, Total – 167 Instafreebie – … [Read more...]
Self-Publishing: How to Build A Buyer’s Journey Road
Self-Publishing: How to Build A Buyer's Journey Road More commonly known as a "sales funnel", that's both inaccurate and pretty crass. Your buying readers are on a journey. You want them to buy more from you regularly, so you build a road for them. Both non-fiction and fiction have a road to build. Fiction has a "sales funnel" of their back list. This isn't really laid … [Read more...]
Publishing: Building Audience With Wattpad Syndication
Publishing: Building Audience With Wattpad Syndication Reference: http://livesensical.com/writing-publishing-building-audience-avid-readers/ This is a deeper dive just into Wattpad. I've distilled their recommended articles to pull the key startup actions you should be taking on that platform. It has its idiosyncrasies, but the point is finding your audience(s) and letting … [Read more...]
Publishing: How to Publish Paying Fiction on Medium
Publishing: How to Syndicate Paying Fiction on Medium After some months working at this, and finding no real answers, but a lot of restrictive dead ends, here is my conclusion: Just publish. Publish as syndication from what you already published, or before you hit "submit." You can publish stories too short to get above Amazon's arbitrary 2500 word limit. Normally, you'd … [Read more...]
Publishing: The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 19 Results
Publishing: The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 19 Results Writing this between storms, while the Internet is out temporarily - you gotta love satellite broadband... Meanwhile Instafreebie continues to impress. Metrics Published Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – Published Non-Fiction: – free – – paid – 0 Subscribers Mailerlite: 94, MailChimp: 1 Total – … [Read more...]
Giveaway: Would You Like a Mini-Firehose of Free Books?
Giveaway: Would You Like a Mini-Firehose of Free Books? Just asking for your help. This is a copy of an email I sent out today to those who are on my list and said it was OK for me to contact them. (Of course, I've tweaked it for you.) And then I thought - hey, there's probably other people who want to hear about this who read my blog. You probably know me by now, … [Read more...]
